Men’s Swimming & Diving Start Season Ranked No. 21 – UK Athletics

LEXINGTON, Ky. – On Thursday, the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) launched the October version of the Division I Top 25 twin meet ballot. The first ballot of the 2025-26 season contains the boys’s workforce, coming in at No. 21 after ending final season at No. 20.

The Kentucky swim program is comprised of 29 returners and 21 newcomers for the 2025-26 season. The males’s workforce particularly had a file 12 months final 12 months, ending as excessive as No. 20 on the 2025 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship, their finest end in 15 years.

The males’s squad returns three of the NCAA qualifiers from final season in junior Carson Hick, senior Ryan Merani, and senior Levi Sandidge. With all now holding management roles of their very own, they are going to lead a younger squad in hopes to raised final 12 months’s historic end.

Throughout the common season, the No. 21 males’s squad will tackle seven high 25 groups (No. 2 Indiana, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 11 Ohio State, No. 12 Louisville, No. 14 LSU, No. 23 Texas A&M, & No. 25 Notre Dame). The girls will tackle six high 25 packages (No. 4 Tennessee, No. 7 Louisville, No. 9 Indiana, No. 11 Ohio State, No. 21 LSU, & No. 25 Texas A&M).

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The Kentucky swimming and diving program will open the season taking over the boys’s No. 2 and ladies’s No. 9 Indiana Hoosiers on October 22 at 10 a.m., on the Lancaster Aquatic Center. Fans are inspired to attend, freed from cost, and cheer on the Wildcats in opposition to a high ten opponent.