Males’s Swimming and Diving Opens Season Friday at UMass

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Men’s Swimming and Diving opens its season on Friday when it competes at UMass. The motion in Amherst is ready to start at 6 p.m.

What to Know

• Harvard enters its lidlifter coming off a 2024-25 season that noticed it end 7-2 general and 5-2 within the Ivy League. The Crimson additionally completed in second place on the Ivy League Championships, falling in need of its eighth straight convention title.
• Harvard returns a number of of its All-Ivy performers from a season in the past. Back this yr from that group are second-team alternatives Sonny Wang (50 free, 100 fly) and David Schmitt (200 fly) together with the complete 400 free relay (Wang, Marre Gattnar, David Greeley, Evan Croley). The Crimson additionally returns three-fourths of its 200 free relay (Wang, Gattnar, Greeley) and 200 medley relay (Joshua Chen, Wang, Gattnar).
• Harvard had three of its relays compete on the 2024 NCAA Championships (200 free, 400 free, 800 free), with Schmitt showing as a person (100 fly, 200 fly). Each of the Crimson athletes who competed at nationals are all again this season (Schmitt, Wang, Gattnar, Greeley, Croley).
• The Crimson enters the season as a top-25 candidate within the CSCAA ballot, having acquired 4 votes within the October ballot. Based on level complete, it’s successfully No. 28 within the nation.
• Harvard, which will likely be led by staff captains David Greeley, David Schmitt and Raphael Tourette, has received on opening day 4 straight years. In these seasons, the Crimson swept each Dartmouth and Cornell. This yr marks the primary marketing campaign Harvard has not opened with the Big Green and Big Red since 2019-20, when it confronted Duke and No. 7 Texas A&M.
• Friday’s matchup with the Minutemen will mark the primary between the 2 faculties.
• UMass, in the meantime, is 0-1 on the season, falling to Boston College on the highway, 197-99. The Minutemen, nonetheless, received the Justin Jennings Invitational at Colgate (Oct. 10-11).
• Harvard competed in a scrimmage on Oct. 24, at MIT and received, 216-79. The Crimson took first place in 15 of 16 occasions.

Up Next

Harvard will open Ivy League motion on Nov. 14, when it competes at Dartmouth with Cornell. The motion in Hanover, New Hampshire, is ready to start at 3:30 p.m.