Terrier Twelve – #9: Swimming & Diving Continues Upward Pattern

Coming in at No. 9 on this yr’s Terrier Twelve is the swimming & diving program, which loved spectacular enhancements throughout each the lads’s and girls’s groups with contributions from all 4 lessons. 

The Terriers broke 10 college information and three pool information over the course of the season and set a program finest with 5 divers qualifying for NCAA Zones. 

At the Patriot League Championships, BU had the largest level enhancements from the earlier yr on each side and recorded a mixed 12 podium finishes. The group collected a complete of eight All-Patriot League honors, probably the most since 1997, and swept the convention teaching awards for the ladies. 

Leading the way in which on the PL Championships was Alayna Kennedy, who turned the primary freshman in convention historical past to brush the diving occasions en path to Women’s Diver of the Year honors. Senior Haley Newman turned the primary Terrier to medal all 4 years in the identical occasion on the PL meet with one other podium end within the 400-meter particular person medley.  

The males had their first relay podium end since 2019 with a bronze and college file within the 800 freestyle relay and junior Zein Mahana was the primary BU males’s diver to succeed in the PL podium in 10 years, taking bronze within the 3-meter. The girls’s 400 medley relay, comprised of 4 freshmen, had the best end ever, taking silver. 

BU scored 187 extra factors on the ladies’s aspect in comparison with the 2024-25 season and had a rise of 309.5 factors on the lads’s aspect. The employees swept the ladies’s teaching awards with each the swimming and diving Coaching Staffs of the Year.

Throughout the yr there have been a mixed top-10 program instances and 38 of them had been recorded by underclassmen. The group collected weekly Patriot League awards all through the season with 18 complete awards (3 Women’s Swimmer; 5 Men’s Diver; 2 Women’s Diver; 2 Men’s Rookie; 6 Women’s Rookie) and solely a type of awards went to a senior.

Senior Tony Ponomarev went on to obtain the E. Ray Speare Award, given to BU’s prime male scholar-athlete within the senior class, turning into simply the second swimmer previously 15 years to earn the glory.