After Report Setting 12 months, Wheeling Males’s & Girls’s Swimming Unveil 2026-2027 Schedule

Wheeling, W. Va. – The 2025-2026 season noticed the Wheeling University Men’s and Women’s Swimming applications undergo a youth motion, and people younger swimmers took this system to new heights. On Thursday, the group launched their 2026-2027 season schedule, with one in all their largest rosters in program historical past. The Cardinals look to take final season’s success even increased, as they give the impression of being to guide swimmers to make nationwide cuts for the primary time for the reason that 2016 season. 

In 2025-2026, each the boys’s and ladies’s rosters featured 11 freshmen mixed between the boys’s and ladies’s rosters. Both groups would end over .500 via their twin meet schedule, with the boys making historical past as a bunch. Of the 11 freshmen, seven of these could be on the boys’s aspect, with all seven making important contributions all through the season. The males’s program set the single-season win document, going 10-2 total and ending second amongst Mountain East Conference (MEC) groups on the 2026 MEC/Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Swimming & Diving Championships. By season’s finish, the Cardinals set a program document with 11 All-MEC honorees on the occasion, together with three first-team honors for freshman Segmen Duygun.  

On the ladies’s aspect, the Cardinals had their very own share of success, ending 8-4 total and 1-3 in MEC competitors. Mixed in there was a third-place end on the WVU Games and a third-place end on the Malone Midseason Invitational, and the group carried that momentum into the convention championship occasion. Across the three days of competitors, the Cardinals would rack up 495.5 factors, ending third amongst their MEC competitors. They would end with eight All-MEC honorees throughout the 4 days, together with two first-team All-MEC honors from Giulia Liberti. Along with their success within the pool, each groups would excel within the classroom, incomes The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Spring 2026 Scholar All-America award. 

As they head into 2026-2027, the Cardinals will begin issues off with two event swims within the northern a part of West Virginia. The schedule kicks off at Salem University on September twenty sixth, with the group swimming within the Salem Relay Invite. They will make their method again all the way down to Salem only a week later, swimming within the West Virginia Small College Invitational on October 4th, earlier than heading into their twin meet schedule. The Cardinals may have the luxurious of swimming of their residence pool to begin the twin meet schedule. They will host Frostburg State and West Virginia Wesleyan within the first tri meet of the season on October tenth, and two weeks later will herald Lenoir Rhyne and Fairmont State on October twenty fourth. The group will host an Alumni meet on Homecoming Weekend sandwiched in between, as they put together for the midseason schedule. 

November kicks off with a highway twin meet in opposition to IUP on November seventh, and the ultimate of three first half residence occasions brings Wheeling again to the Alma Grace McDonough Center Natatorium on November eleventh in opposition to Salem. The ultimate midseason tune-up will come in Steubenville, Ohio, the place they’ll meet Franciscan and Allegheny College on November 14th, earlier than heading to the Malone Midseason Invitational, operating November nineteenth – twenty first. The group will then head on their winter break, the place they’ll recharge for the ultimate push to the MEC/GMAC Championships. The break will finish with a winter coaching journey down south, the place the group will kick off the second half of their season in twin meet motion in opposition to Catawba College on January ninth. 

The Cardinals’ ultimate residence occasion of the season will come on January sixteenth, after they welcome in Shawnee State for the primary assembly between the 2 groups. It will likely be a particular evening for this system, as they honor their seniors of their ultimate swim of their residence pool. They wrap up the common season schedule on January twenty third, after they journey to Fairmont State for his or her ultimate convention meet of the 12 months. The season wraps up with the 2027 GMAC/MEC Conference Championships on Wednesday, February tenth as they compete over 4 days. The Cardinals will look to deliver residence their first-ever MEC title and set themselves up for fulfillment on the nationwide stage. 

The Wheeling University Men’s and Women’s Swimming groups start the 2026-2027 season on Saturday, September twenty sixth, after they compete on the Salem Relay Invitational.