This Week in ACC Swimming & Diving

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The 2025-26 Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming & Diving season kicks off this weekend as three league applications hit the water on Friday, September 26.

Florida State will host Purdue, Tampa, West Virginia and Rice this Friday and Saturday, September 26-27, within the FSU Invite. The Seminoles are coming off a season the place they completed in seventh place within the 2025 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships on each the lads’s and ladies’s facet, and 18th (males’s) and thirty sixth (ladies’s) on the 2025 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships.

The Seminoles welcome again reigning males’s 100 again ACC Champion and 2025 All-ACC workforce honoree in each the 100 again and 100 fly in Michel Arkhangelesky. Arkhangelesky was named to the 2025 CSCAA All-American workforce together with returners Tommaso Baravelli, Sam Bork, Logan Robinson and Max Wilson. The ladies return Alice Velden, who was named to the 2025 CSCAA All-American Second Team within the 400 medley relay.

Duke will host Marymount, East Carolina and convention foe Boston College on Friday in Durham, North Carolina. Last season, Duke completed eleventh on the ladies’s facet and twelfth on the lads’s facet within the 2025 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships.

The Blue Devils return senior Kaelyn Gridley, the reigning ladies’s 100 breast ACC Champion and 2025 All-ACC choice. Gridley completed fourth within the 200 breast on the 2025 NCAA Championships and was named to the 2025 CSCAA All-American First Team for each the 100 and 200 breast.

North Carolina will host Queens in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Friday. Ben Delmar returns for his junior yr for the Tar Heels after the 2024-25 season the place he earned two ACC Men’s Swimmer of the Week honors and a spot on the 2025 All-ACC workforce within the 400 IM. Sebastian Lunak (2025 All-ACC Team – 200 fly) additionally returns for his junior season. The Tar Heels completed in fourth place on the ladies’s facet and sixth place on the lads’s facet within the 2025 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships.

Weekly Schedule

Friday, September 26

Queens at North Carolina | All Day

Marymount, East Carolina & Boston College at Duke | All Day

FSU Invite | Tallahassee, Florida

Florida State, Purdue, West Virginia, Rice & Tampa | All Day

Saturday, September 27

FSU Invite | Tallahassee, Florida

Florida State, Purdue, West Virginia, Rice & Tampa | All Day

Noting ACC Swimming and Diving

• Notre Dame enters the 2025 season below the brand new management of Head Swimming and Diving Coach Michael Norment.
• The Stanford ladies’s swimming & diving program enters the 2025 season below the brand new management of Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming Chris Lindauer, former Notre Dame head coach.
• Stanford ladies’s swimming & diving holds the title of the one program within the nation to complete Top 10 in each NCAA Championship relationship again to the 1975-76 season, most just lately ending because the runner-up within the 2025 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships.
• Virginia has gained the final 5 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship titles.
• Virginia is about to take part within the 2025 CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge, which boasts every Power 4 convention’s top-performing workforce, November 21-23, 2025.
• The 2026 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships will happen February 15-21, 2026, on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility may even host the 2026 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Championships.