Swimming & Diving Season in Overview

The 2025-26 Boston University swimming & diving season has come to shut with each the women and men posting the largest level enhancements of any faculty on the Patriot League Championships. 

The twin season was aggressive all through as each groups went 6-3 and however each a type of mixed six losses was a aggressive meet that might have gone both method.

 

The nineteenth annual Terrier Invitational was an enormous success to wrap up the autumn, because the males’s workforce closed the hole on BC by 300 factors from final 12 months to complete second by solely 140 factors, and our girls’s workforce gained the meet title for the primary time since 2018.

 

One of the highest highlights of the 12 months was freshman Alayna Kennedy being named the Patriot League Diver of the Year after turning into first freshman to brush the diving boards on the Patriot League Championships, and the primary Terrier to do it at a convention meet since 2010. 

The males had their first relay podium end since 2019 with a bronze and faculty report within the 800 freestyle relay and junior Zein Mahana was the primary males’s diver to achieve the PL podium in 10 years, taking bronze within the 3-meter. The girls’s 400 medley relay had the best end ever, taking silver. 

In all, there have been 12 podium finishes resulting in eight All-Patriot League honors, essentially the most since 2017. BU scored 187 extra factors on the ladies’s facet in comparison with final 12 months and had a rise of 309.5 factors on the boys’s facet. The employees swept the ladies’s teaching awards with each the swimming and diving Coaching Staffs of the Year.

 

Throughout the 12 months there have been 10 new faculty information, 3 new pool information and a mixed 50 new program top-10 instances (33 males’s, 17 girls’s). 

 

Fourteen of the 17 girls’s instances have been first-years or sophomores, and 24 out of 33 of the boys’s instances have been first-years or sophomores. Two girls’s relay faculty information have been fully made up of first-years (200 free and 400 medley relay). Eleven of the brand new top-10 instances have been the second quickest in program historical past, and everybody who recorded a type of instances is returning subsequent 12 months. 

The workforce collected weekly PL awards all through the season with 18 whole awards (3 Women’s Swimmer; 5 Men’s Diver; 2 Women’s Diver; 2 Men’s Rookie; 6 Women’s Rookie). Only a type of awards went to a senior.

 

Below are all the brand new faculty and pool information thus far this season, together with the 5 divers who certified for NCAA Zones.

 

10 NEW SCHOOL RECORDS

Women’s 200 IM – Haley Newman – 2:01.11

Women’s 100 Fly – Kiki Rampersad – 53.04

Women’s 200 Free Relay – Molly Barber, Danka Ndubuisi, Kiki Rampersad, Lily Osborn – 1:31.78

Women’s 200 Medley Relay – Abby Han, Hadar Miller, Kiki Rampersad, Molly Barber – 1:41.05

Women’s 400 Medley Relay – Danka Ndubuisi, Hadar Miller, Kiki Rampersad, Molly Barber  – 3:39.42

 

Men’s 200 Back – Tony Ponomarev – 1:43.33

Men’s 1650 Free – Giovanni Sullo – 15:17.84

Men’s 200 Free Relay – Henry Dvorak, Ben Cho, Jinu Hong, Hugh Harrison – 1:19.79

Men’s 800 Free Relay – Giovanni Sullo, Nathan Lee, Jonny Farber, Charlie Nenchev – 6:30.38

Men’s 200 Medley Relay – Tony Ponomarev, Ethan Huynh, Henry Dvorak, Ben Cho – 1:28.09

 

3 NEW POOL RECORDS

Men’s 800 Free Relay – Nathan Lee, Jonny Farber, Giovanni Sullo, Charlie Nenchev – 6:34.84

Men’s 200 Back – Tony Ponomarev – 1:43.33

Men’s 1650 Free – Giovanni Sullo – 15:17.84

 

DIVERS QUALIFIED FOR ZONES

Alayna Kennedy

Ethan Wong

Kaelyn Katchuk

MollyEllen Crowley

Zein Mahana