Metro Conference Broadcasts Three-12 months Extension with SPIRE Academy for Swimming and Diving Championships

EDISON, NJ (August 19, 2026) – The Metro Conference has introduced a three-year extension of its partnership with SPIRE Academy to host the Metro Conference Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. Under the prolonged settlement, SPIRE Academy will proceed to function the championship host by means of 2029. The convention’s Swimming and Diving Championships have been held at SPIRE since 2024.

Under the brand new settlement, the Metro Conference Swimming and Diving Championships will transfer from the second week of February to the third week of February, with the championship scheduled to happen through the third week of the month for every of the following three years.

The upcoming Metro Conference Swimming and Diving Championships will probably be held on the next dates:

• 2027: February 16-20
• 2028: February 15-19
• 2029: February 13-17

One of the biggest indoor, multisport coaching and competitors services on this planet, SPIRE’s rising 800-acre campus options greater than 850,000 sq. toes of world-class services beneath one roof. The Aquatics Center is highlighted by a 10-lane, 50-meter Olympic Myrtha pool, which has been dubbed by some as “the fastest pool in North America.” The facility recurrently hosts main collegiate occasions, camps and an academy program for student-athletes seeking to take their abilities to the following stage.

“We are thrilled to extend our partnership with SPIRE Academy through 2029. SPIRE has been a tremendous host for our student-athletes, coaches and fans, and its world-class Aquatics Center is an outstanding venue for the Metro Swimming and Diving Championships,” mentioned Metro Conference Commissioner Travis Tellitocci. “We look forward to continuing to build on this partnership and creating a first-class championship experience for our student-athletes.”

“SPIRE, and our pool in particular, is one of the best facilities in the country, and we are proud to share it with the best young athletes and the partners who bring them here. The Metro Conference is exactly that kind of partner, and this extension lets us keep doing what we do best: hosting the biggest events in college athletics. We’re excited to keep building this with them through 2029.” mentioned Jonathan Ehrenfeld, Managing Member of the SPIRE Academy.

The males’s championship options 9 groups: Canisius, Fairfield, Iona, Manhattan, Marist, Mount St. Mary’s, Niagara, Rider and Saint Peter’s. The ladies’s championship options 12 groups: Canisius, Fairfield, Iona, Manhattan, Marist, Merrimack, Mount St. Mary’s, Niagara, Rider, Sacred Heart, Saint Peter’s and Siena. Fairfield captured each the lads’s and ladies’s championships in 2026, whereas Niagara swept the convention titles in 2025.