Six issues it’s essential to know concerning the 2025-26 Males’s Swimming and Diving Team

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The RIT males’s swimming and diving crew opens the 2025-26 season on Saturday (Oct. 11) with a house meet in opposition to RPI. Here are the six issues it’s essential to know concerning the Tigers.

FOURMIDABLE FORCE

RIT claimed its fourth consecutive Liberty League title final season whereas setting seven program information on the championship meet.

The Tigers completed the 2024-25 season ranked No. 19 within the Division III CSCAA Top 25 Poll after compiling an 8-1 twin meet report.  

Senior diver Gellert Kish was named the Liberty League Diver of the Year for the fourth straight 12 months. Kish swept each championship diving occasions for the primary time since 2023 and the third time in his profession (2022, 2023, 2025).  

Graduate scholar Drew Scheib was named the boys’s Swimmer of the Meet after profitable three particular person occasions and swimming legs in 5 profitable relays.

NCAA QUALIFIERS

The Tigers despatched 5 swimmers and a pair of divers to the NCAA Division III National Championships final season.

Graduate college students Mike Atanasoff and Scheib, senior Ben Sippel, junior Ryan Clancy, and sophomore Eric Noga will swim for RIT, with senior Gellert Kish and sophomore Luke Albanese all participating within the nationwide championship.

Kish earned First Team All-American honors in each diving occasions, coming in sixth place within the 3-meter dive (492.65) and seventh within the 1-meter dive (476.10).

The 200 Free relay crew of Noga, Clancy, Atanasoff, and Scheib took seventh (1:21.05) to earn First Team All-America.

ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Six members of final season’s crew had been named College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-Americans. Atanasoff, Clancy, and Noga had been second-team honorees, whereas Scheib and Sippel had been first-team choices.

 

To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes should have earned a GPA of three.5 or increased and took part of their nationwide championship. Second-Team choices should have additionally earned a 3.5 GPA or increased and met a “B” time normal for the nationwide championship or certified for a diving zone qualification meet.

WELCOME BACK

RIT brings again 18 members from final 12 months’s crew. Sophomores Josh Berty, Jack Dollyhigh, Thomas Eppich, Jackson Frazier, Finn Hilliard, Sam Martin, Lucas Peterson, Jacob Winfield, and Colin Zhao, juniors Luke Albanese, Kamden Keyes, Eric Noga, Leonid Pozhenko, and Nathaniel True, seniors Stephen Graver and Miles Lim, and graduate college students Flynn Lundeen and Sam Sokalzuk all come again for the 2025-26 season.

NEW FACES

There shall be 5 newcomers to this season’s roster. Aiden Agostini, Griffin Messenlehner, Brayden Pyott, Griffin Tomsheck, and Bernardo Valente will all look to make an affect for the Tigers.

2025-26 SCHEDULE

The Tigers open the season at dwelling on Saturday (Oct. 11), internet hosting RPI. They’ll hit the highway the next week for a Friday evening matchup at Alfred (Oct. 18) earlier than heading to Chicago for the D3 Shootout (Nov. 7–8).

November continues with a tri-meet at Geneseo in opposition to the host Knights and Trinity (Texas), adopted by a house meet in opposition to Ithaca (Nov. 22). The fall portion of the schedule wraps up with the Don Richards Invitational on Dec. 5–6.

After winter break, RIT returns to motion with a highway meet at Hamilton (Jan. 10), then hosts Rochester the next week (Jan. 17). The Tigers will face Geneseo once more in a two-day dwelling meet on Jan. 23–24, earlier than closing the common season at Hobart on Jan. 31.

Postseason competitors begins with the Liberty League Championships (Feb. 18–21) in Ithaca, adopted by NCAA Diving Regionals and the NCAA Division III National Championships (Mar. 18–21) in Evansville, Indiana.