Swimming & Diving Groups to Compete in Final Twin Meets of the Season this Weekend

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Navy swimming and diving groups will each be in competitors this weekend as the boys’s workforce (11-1) is slated to play host to Columbia (2-3) Friday in Lejeune Hall and the ladies’s workforce (7-4) will faces James Madison (2-3) Saturday in Harrisonburg, Va.

Live outcomes from Friday’s midday males’s meet might be discovered on NavySports activities.com and the Meet Mobile app, whereas a video stream of Saturday’s ladies’s meet (diving 10 a.m., swimming midday) might be seen on ESPN+.

Navy Men

The Mids enter their last twin meet of the season after they posted a 2-1 report two weeks in the past in a two-day prolonged twin meet towards Delaware (W, 266-87), Kenyon (W, 290-62) and No. 22 Princeton (L, 202-151).

Navy final tallied 12 wins in a season in 2015-16 when it completed the 12 months with a 12-1 report.  Since then, the Mids have received 11 meets in a season in 2018-19 (11-3), 2019-20 (11-3) and 2024-25 (11-4).

Columbia

The Lions have solely confronted fellow members of the Ivy League this season.  One of these losses was a 225-75 defeat to Princeton on Nov. 14.

The Mids maintain a 69-26 benefit within the all-time collection with the Lions, which dates again to the 1914-15 season.  The applications met yearly from the 1926-27 by way of 1969-70 seasons and, aside from the 2020-21 COVID season, have confronted every yearly because the collection resumed beginning with the 1977-78 marketing campaign.

Navy recorded a 158-142 victory over Columbia final 12 months in Lejeune Hall.  Each workforce received eight occasions throughout the meet, with Navy putting first in each relay races.  

Back for the Mids are Ben Irwin, who received each backstroke races; Juan Mora, the winner of the 100 breast and 200 IM occasions; and Anthony Sciulli, who received the three-meter diving board.  Returning for the Lions are Stephen Zhukov, who received the five hundred and 1000 free races; Sam Eckert, winner of the 50 free; Joseph Corn, who received the 200 breast; and Joseph Nicol, the winner of the one-meter diving occasion.  

Navy Women

Navy was final in a meet two weeks in the past when it defeated Kenyon (187.5-165.5) and misplaced to Delaware (201-152) and Princeton (268-84).  Saturday would be the final twin meet of the 12 months for the Mids.

James Madison

The Dukes will compete at Richmond Friday earlier than they play host to the Mids on Saturday.  

James Madison received the Sun Belt Conference Championship in each 2024 and ’25.

Navy holds an 11-9 benefit within the collection with James Madison.  The groups met yearly all through the Nineteen Eighties and into the early Nineteen Nineties as every have been members of the Colonial (now Coastal) Athletic Association on the time.

The Mids have received the final two conferences, a 151-149 highway victory throughout the 2023-23 season and a 157-129 win at dwelling throughout the 2023-24 marketing campaign.