Males’s & Girls’s Swimming and Diving Take Prime Spots In MAAC Coaches Polls

FAIRFIELD, Conn – The Fairfield University males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups swept the highest spot within the 2025-26 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) coaches’ polls because the convention launched the rankings on Wednesday morning.

The males’s group garnered 4 first place votes which helped it tally 74 factors within the ballot, edging previous Niagara University’s second-place complete of 70 factors and Marist University’s 69 factors. Niagara and Marist picked up the remaining first-place votes within the ballot with two and three, respectively.

The ladies’s group additionally secured the highest spot in its respective ballot, gaining 5 first-place votes which helped the Stags gather probably the most factors within the ballot with 134. Niagara was second with 131 factors and 4 first-place votes whereas Marist took third with 125 factors and two first-place votes. Sacred Heart University additionally earned a first-place vote within the ballot, ending fourth general with 107 factors.

After the highest three within the males’s ballot, Iona University adopted with 49 level which was barely higher than Mount St. Mary’s 43 factors and Rider University’s 41 factors. The the rest of the ballot included Canisius University (20 factors), Saint Peter’s University (19 factors), and Manhattan University (11 factors).

The ladies’s ballot noticed Iona fill the fifth slot within the preseason coaches ballot primarily based on its 92 factors, adopted by Mount St. Mary’s (86 factors), Siena College (65 factors), Canisius (64 factors), Rider (56 factors), Merrimack College (39 factors), Saint Peter’s (20 factors), and Manhattan (17 factors).

Last season, the Fairfield ladies’s group completed second whereas the lads’s squad took third place on the 2025 MAAC Swimming and Diving Championships. Both groups completed 5-3 in twin meet competitors through the 2024-25 marketing campaign underneath Head Coach Jake Lichter who will start his second season because the Stags’ head swimming and diving coach.

The Stags open the 2025-26 season this weekend by internet hosting the Fairfield Invitational on the RecPlex Pool on the University’s principal campus. The divers will begin the occasion on Friday night earlier than the swimmers take to the pool on Saturday morning. The Invitational will function Manhattan University, Southern Connecticut State University, and the University of Bridgeport on the lads’s aspect whereas these three colleges will be a part of Sacred Heart University on the ladies’s aspect.