This Week in ACC Swimming & Diving

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Week 4 of the 2025-26 Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming & Diving season begins this weekend, October 17-18, as six league applications compete.

Georgia Tech will host the inaugural Dual Meet Tournament on Friday and Saturday, enjoying host to seven groups, together with Auburn, Florida State, Georgia and NC State, that are presently ranked. It would be the first occasion on the McAuley Aquatic Center this season, residence of the 2026 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships, in Atlanta, Georgia.

North Carolina will journey to Durham, North Carolina, to tackle in-state foe Duke on Friday, and Boston College will head to Hanover, New Hampshire, to face Dartmouth on Saturday.

The ACC had seven groups within the CSCAA Division I Women’s Preseason Top 25 Poll, headlined by Virginia within the No. 1 spot, Stanford at No. 3 and California at No. 5. In the CSCAA Division I Men’s Preseason Top 25 Poll, the league featured 9 groups with California main the best way at No. 4.

Weekly Schedule

Friday, October 17

North Carolina at Duke | All Day

Georgia Tech Dual Meet Tournament | Atlanta, Georgia

Army, Auburn, Florida State, George Washington, Georgia, Minnesota, NC State | All Day

Saturday, October 18

Boston College at Dartmouth | All Day

Georgia Tech Dual Meet Tournament | Atlanta, Georgia

Army, Auburn, Florida State, George Washington, Georgia, Minnesota, NC State | All Day

Noting ACC Swimming and Diving

• The ACC had seven groups named to the CSCAA Division I Women’s Preseason Top 25 Poll, headlined by Virginia at No. 1. Stanford (No. 3), California (No. 4), Louisville (No. 7), NC State (No. 8), North Carolina (No.14) and Duke (No. 19) helped fill out the Top 25.
• The ACC had 9 groups named to the CSCAA Division I Men’s Preseason Top 25 Poll, headlined by California at No. 4. NC State (No. 7), Stanford (No.8), Louisville (No. 12), Virginia (No. 13), Virginia Tech (No. 17), Florida State (No. 18), North Carolina (No. 19) and Notre Dame (No. 25) additionally landed within the ballot.
• Notre Dame enters the 2025 season underneath the brand new management of Head Swimming and Diving Coach Michael Norment.
• The Stanford girls’s swimming & diving program enters the 2025 season underneath the brand new management of Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming Chris Lindauer, former Notre Dame head coach.
• Stanford girls’s swimming & diving holds the title of the one program within the nation to complete within the high 10 in each NCAA Championship relationship again to the 1975-76 season, most not too long ago ending because the runner-up within the 2025 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships.
• Virginia has received the final 5 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship titles.
• Virginia is ready to take part within the 2025 CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge, which boasts every Power 4 convention’s high performing crew, November 21-23, 2025.
• The 2026 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships will happen February 15-21, 2026, on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The facility additionally will host the 2026 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Championships.