Terriers Sweep PL Women’s Coaching Awards; Kennedy Named Diver of the Meet

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – After a 187-point improve from final 12 months’s Patriot League Championships and two golds from freshman diver Alayna Kennedy, the Boston University swimming & diving workers swept the PL teaching awards and Kennedy was named the Diver of the Meet, as introduced by the league workplace on Monday following a vote of the top coaches.

Head coach James Sica and his assistants have been voted because the PL Women’s Swim Coaching Staff of the Year, marking the primary such honor since 2008 within the America East. Led by Brad Snodgrass, BU earned the PL Women’s Diving Coaching Staff of the Year award for the third time in 4 seasons.

Kennedy had an ideal debut on the PL Championships, successful the 1-meter competitors on Thursday earlier than finishing the sweep on Saturday in thrilling trend. She posted season highs in each occasions, scoring a 300.5 on the 1-meter earlier than successful by simply 1.25 factors on the 3-meter with 127.4 of her 321.3 factors approaching her fourth and fifth dives.

Kennedy is the primary BU freshman to brush the diving occasions at a convention meet since Melinda Matyas in 2010 on the America East Championships. 

BU had the most important enchancment on each side with the lads securing the most important level bounce of any group on the meet, as their whole of 936 was 309.5 increased than 2025. The girls went from 727 factors final 12 months to 914, shifting up one spot to fourth within the course of simply as the lads did.

All six girls’s divers earned factors on the meet with three freshmen – Kennedy, Emily Moh, Kaelyn Katchuk – reaching A finals. It was the third time in 4 years that BU swept the occasions as Sumi Cameron ’24 (1-meter) and Sophia Souza ’25 (3-meter) went back-to-back in 2023 and 2024.