Males First, Girls Fifth in AE Swimming & Diving Polls

VESTAL, N.Y. – The America East has launched its first-ever preseason swimming & diving polls and the Binghamton males’s squad has been picked to seize its third straight convention championship. The Bearcat girls’s workforce, in the meantime, has been chosen to put fifth. 

The voting was finished by the seven convention head coaches, none of whom have been permitted to vote for their very own workforce. This yr’s America East Championships will happen Feb. 18-21 with VMI because the host faculty.

On the boys’s aspect, the Bearcats completed with 24 factors within the preseason ballot, forward of UMBC (21) and Bryant (18). More essential, nevertheless, Binghamton earned 4 of the six first-place votes. NJIT (12), VMI (8) and Maine (7) rounded out the boys’s voting.

Binghamton earned 16 factors within the girls’s ballot, ending behind New Hampshire (35), Vermont (28), Bryant (27) and UMBC (24). Completing the ballot have been Maine (11) and VMI (6). The Wildcats earned 5 of the seven first-place votes.

Binghamton opens its 2025-26 season on the Le Moyne Invitational on Sunday at midday. 

Men’s Preseason Poll

1. Binghamton – 24 (4)

2. UMBC – 21 (1)

3. Bryant -18 (1)

4. NJIT – 12

5. VMI – 8

6. Maine – 7

Women’s Preseason Poll

1.  New Hampshire – 35 (5)

2. Vermont – 28 (1)

3. Bryant – 27 (1)

4. UMBC – 24

5. Binghamton – 16

6. Maine – 11

7. VMI – 6