California Baptist Drops Men’s Swimming and Diving

California Baptist Drops Men’s Swimming and Diving in Restructuring

California Baptist on Friday announced that it’s going to discontinue its males’s swimming and diving program amongst three sports activities being dropped.

The college introduced the discontinuation of wrestling, males’s golf and males’ swimming and diving on the conclusion of the 2025-26 seasons. Women’s swimming and diving will proceed.

The strikes are related to the Lancers’ transfer into the Big West Conference after the 2025-26 educational yr.

“We have closely monitored the shifting landscape of intercollegiate athletics that has affected institutions across the nation,” Vice President for Athletics Micah Parker mentioned in a press launch. “While we had hoped to continue offering our full slate of athletic programs in this new environment, it has become clear that changes are required to realize the university’s goal of achieving greater competitive excellence that the new Division I era demands.”

The college has pledged to help affected athletes by honoring athletic monetary help packages to stay on the college or serving to these wishing to switch.

The program is forsaking a wealthy historical past at quite a lot of ranges. California Baptist is competing within the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation this yr after being a member of the Western Athletic Conference from 2018-25, ending second within the convention final yr and no worse than third every of the final three years on the boys’s aspect. The Lancers despatched Remi Fabiani, now at Arizona State, to NCAAs in 2025. The males have earned 58 All-American honors from 12 people on the CSCAA National Invitational Championship meet because the elevation to Division I.

Cal Baptist was an NAIA college till 2011, successful 4 males’s nationwide titles and three ladies’s crowns with 12 mixed runner-up outcomes. It rose to Division II, then elevated to Division I in 2018.

The Lancers have a full roster of 24 male athletics. Jim Bossert is the top swim coach of each the boys’s and ladies’s crew, whereas Miranda King is the top coach of males’s and ladies’s diving.