Mids to Play Host to 4-Crew, Two-Day Swimming & Diving Meet

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Navy swimming and diving groups return to Lejeune Hall this weekend to play host to Delaware, Kenyon and Princeton in a two-day prolonged twin meet Friday (5 p.m.) and Saturday (11 a.m.).

Attending the Meet

Fans with out prior accredited automobile entry wishing to attend must park exterior of the USNA and stroll via the gate one guests middle. Those 18 and older should current both a government-issued passport or a state-issued drivers license with a REAL ID and people 17 and youthful with out a type of IDs should be accompanied by an grownup.

Only accredited service animals are allowed in USNA athletic services.

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Live outcomes will probably be obtainable via each NavySports activities.com and the Meet Mobile app.

Navy (9-0 males; 6-2 girls)

The Navy males’s staff improved its file in twin meets this season to 9-0 with a 175.5-119.5 victory over Towson Saturday.  The Mids put collectively a run of 11-straight occasion wins to take management of the meet.

The girls’s staff is competing in a meet for the primary time because it rallied for a 152-148 victory over Army on Dec. 6.  The Mids by no means led till the tip of the ultimate race after they positioned first and third within the 400 free relay to beat the Black Knights for the thirty sixth time within the final 37 seasons.

Delaware (1-1 males; 3-1 girls)

Delaware’s males’s staff has break up its two twin meets this season, defeating Old Dominion, 201-83, on Oct. 4 and dropping to West Virginia, 162.5-137.5, on Oct. 18.  The Blue Hens additionally positioned second in a area of seven groups on the Bucknell Invitational in late November.  That was the latest competitors for the staff.

Delaware ended final season with a second-place end on the Coastal Athletic Association Championship.

The girls’s staff opened the 12 months with wins over Old Dominion, 240-54, and West Virginia, 209-91, then dropped a 175-118 choice at Penn.  Delaware additionally registered a 135-127 win over Florida Gulf Coast on Dec. 31.

The Blue Hens completed in third place on the 2025 CAA Championship.

This weekend marks the primary time the Navy and Delaware males’s groups will compete towards each other, whereas the ladies’s groups are assembly for the primary time because the 1988-89 season when the Mids gained a 181.5-116.5 choice to take a 5-3 lead within the collection.

Kenyon (3-4 males [No. 6 DIII]); 5-2 girls [No. 3 DIII])

The Kenyon swimming and diving groups are probably the most completed packages of any sport on any NCAA degree.  The males’s staff gained a file 31-straight NCAA Division III titles from 1980-2010 and the ladies’s staff has gained a file 25 nationwide titles because the 1983-84 season.  The Kenyon males have positioned first, second or third at seven of the final 9 NCAA Championships and the ladies’s staff has gained the NCAA title in two of the final 4 years and positioned no decrease than third on the final eight NCAA meets.

The faculty’s males’s staff has posted a 3-4 file this season and is ranked sixth within the December NCAA Division III National Poll.  Kenyon’s girls’s staff has compiled a 5-2 file this season and is ranked third within the nation.  The groups final competed on Dec. 6 when every defeated Ohio Northern.

Navy defeated Kenyon final season, 178-175 within the girls’s meet and 285-66 within the males’s meet, in what was the primary twin between the groups.

Princeton (5-0 males [No. 22]; 6-0 girls)

The Tigers swept the staff titles on the 2025 Ivy League Championship and every ended final season ranked twenty fifth within the remaining nationwide polls.  This 12 months, Princeton’s males’s staff is ranked twenty second nationally and the ladies’s staff obtained votes for the December top-25 ballot.  

The males’s staff has solely confronted Ivy League packages this season in Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Cornell and Penn.  Princeton’s girls’s staff has defeated those self same 5 Ivy League groups and in addition has recorded a further victory over Rutgers.

Princeton holds a 73-25 benefit within the all-time collection with the Navy males’s staff.  This features a 246-107 victory final season.  The groups have confronted one another in all however six seasons because the 1935-36 marketing campaign, considered one of which was the 2020-21 season by which no Ivy League sports activities had been contested as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.  

The Tigers have gained all 5 earlier meets between the ladies’s groups.  Princeton defeated Navy final season by the rating of 249-104.  

Meet Order

Friday / 5:00 p.m.

3M girls’s diving

1M males’s diving

platform diving

200 freestyle relay

10 minute break

400 particular person medley

200 freestyle

100 backstroke

10 minute break

100 breaststroke

200 butterfly

50 freestyle

1000 freestyle

400 medley relay

Saturday / 11:00 a.m.

1M girls’s diving

3M males’s diving

platform diving

200 medley relay

10 minute break

100 freestyle

200 backstroke

200 breaststroke

500 freestyle

10 minute break

100 butterfly

200 particular person medley

400 free relay