Swimming & Diving Season Begins Saturday for Mids

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Navy swimming and diving groups (0-0) will open their respective 2025-26 seasons Saturday when the groups make the brief drive to Baltimore to face UMBC (males: 1-0, ladies: 0-1) and William & Mary (0-0) in an 11 a.m. meet on the UMBC Aquatic Complex.

A hyperlink to free stay video of the meet could be discovered at NavySports activities.com.

These three groups met final season in Annapolis.  In the boys’s meet, Navy defeated each UMBC, 161-125, and William & Mary, 153.5-113-5, and the Tribe beat the Retrievers, 189-105.  The ladies’s outcomes noticed Navy put up wins in opposition to each UMBC, 162-123, and William & Mary, 170-124, whereas the Tribe received a 204-90 choice over the Retrievers.

Navy – Men

The Mids return 28 letter winners from final 12 months’s staff that posted an 11-4 file in the course of the common season and positioned second on the Patriot League Championship.  Included among the many returners are 13 of the staff’s 15 all-league performers from final season.  Back for the Mids are first-team all-league honorees Lachlan Andrew, Ben Irwin, Ben Mauldin, Michael Phillips and Benjamin Stankovich.

Navy – Women

Navy’s 2024-25 staff compiled a 9-5 file in twin meets and received this system’s thirteenth Patriot League Championship in a row.  Returning from final 12 months’s staff are 27 letter winners.  Among these are 10 of final season’s 14 all-league recipients, together with first-team performers Elsie Delacruz, Sarah Eldridge, Mackenzie Kim and Lauren Walsh.

UMBC – Men

The Retrievers started their season final weekend with a 220-79 victory over American.  

UMBC compiled a 4-3 file final season and positioned second on the America East Conference Championship.

Navy has posted a 28-3 file in opposition to UMBC.  The groups have confronted one another annually, aside from the 2020-21 COVID-abbreviated season, because the first assembly in 1993-94.

UMBC – Women

UMBC misplaced a slim 155-147 choice final week at American.

The Retrievers posted a 3-4 file in the course of the 2024-25 season and ended the marketing campaign with a fourth-place end on the America East Conference Championship.

Navy holds a 26-5 benefit within the all-time collection between the groups.  The inaugural assembly of the groups befell in the course of the 1989-90 season.  Since then, the groups have confronted one another yearly, aside from in the course of the 2020-21 COVID-abbreviated season, beginning with the 1993-94 marketing campaign.  

William & Mary – Men

The Tribe concluded final season with a 5-4 file in twin meets and a fifth-place displaying on the Coastal Athletic Association Championship.

Navy and William & Mary have met on simply two prior events.  In addition to final season’s twin, the groups additionally met within the fall of 2018 when the Mids received a 181-119 choice over the Tribe.

William & Mary – Women

William & Mary posted a 7-3 file in the course of the 2024-25 common season and positioned second on the Coastal Athletic Association Championship.

Navy holds a 9-6 lead over William & Mary within the collection because the groups first met in the course of the 1978-79 season.  The groups have met simply twice since Navy joined the Patriot League for the 1991-92 educational 12 months (2018-19, 2024-25).