Males’s and Ladies’s Swimming Picked Second in Preseason Coaches’ Poll

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Announced its 2025-26 Preseason Coaches’ Poll Wednesday morning. The Purple Eagles had been picked second to defend their championship for the lads’s and girls’s swim championships. Fairfield was picked first on each the lads’s and girls’s aspect recording 74 factors with 4 first place votes and 134 with 5 first place votes respectively.
 
The males collected 70 factors, incomes two first place votes. In the 2025 the lads’s staff recorded (653.5 factors) for his or her first MAAC title since 1994, edging out runner-up Marist by 32 factors. Lance Cruz received the MAAC Swimming Rookie of the Meet.
 
On the ladies’s aspect, the Purple Eagles earned 131 factors, incomes 4 first place votes. The ladies recorded (766 factors) to seize their second straight championship and third in 4 years. The ladies dominated the championships beating second place Fairfield by 169 factors. The Purple Eagles quartet of Natilie Killion, Megan Jackson, Claire Gorton and Mary Carl broke the MAAC’s Record for 800 Freestyle Relay (7:23.19). Killion additionally broke the five hundred Free with a time of 4:48.18, 200 Free (1:48.20) and 200 Back (1:55.90). Alaina Pitton broke the 200 Breast with a time of two:14.42. Killion received MAAC Most Outstanding Swimmer and Martina Divis co-won the MAAC Swimming Rookie of the Meet.
 

The 2026 MAAC Men’s & Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships is a four-day meet that may happen February 11-14, 2026, and can be hosted at SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio. 2026 will mark the third straight yr the championships are hosted at Spire. For all info relating to the 2026 MAAC Men’s & Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships, please go to maacsports.com/swim.