SAA Releases 2025-26 Swimming and Diving Preseason Polls

CANTON, Ga. – The Millsaps males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving applications need to enhance within the pool after each groups have been chosen seventh within the 2025-26 Southern Athletic Association Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving preseason polls. Both have been voted on by league coaches and introduced by the SAA workplace on Wednesday.

On the lads’s facet, Trinity University was chosen first within the 2025-26 preseason ballot with 47 factors and 5 first-place votes. Rhodes College took the second spot with 43 factors and two first-place votes. Centre College secured third place with 37 factors.

Millsaps will look to show issues round below new head coach Andrew Foltz. The Majors was predicted to complete seventh whereas incomes 18 factors.

On the ladies’s facet, Trinity was additionally picked first with 48 factors courtesy of six first-place votes. Centre positioned second with 40 factors and one first-place vote and Rhodes was tabbed third within the 2025-26 preseason ballot with 39 factors.

Millsaps completed seventh with 18 factors and can look to proceed setting the tone excessive within the convention.

The Majors will open their 2025 fall marketing campaign by touring to Cleveland, Miss., the place they’ll compete within the Magnolia Invitational, hosted by Delta State University, on Sept. 19. Millsaps will compete in 9 regular-season meets and host two foes.

Millsaps will then flip their consideration in the direction of the 2026 SAA Swimming and Diving Championships, which shall be hosted at Centre College inside Champions Hall for 4 days, Feb. 11-14 in Danville, Ky.

Hopeful qualifiers will then journey to Indianapolis, Ind., and compete in the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships, slated for March 18-21.

2025-26 SAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Preseason Poll

1) Trinity	47 pts (5)
2) Rhodes	43 pts (2)
3) Centre	37 pts
4) Berry	31 pts
5) Southwestern	28 pts
6) Sewanee	27 pts
7) Millsaps	18 pts

 
2025-26 SAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Preseason Poll
 

1) Trinity	48 pts (6)
2) Centre	40 pts (1)
3) Rhodes	39 pts
4) Southwestern	32 pts
5) Sewanee	29 pts
6) Berry	25 pts
7) Millsaps	18 pts

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