Swim-Dive Slates Unveiled: Purdue Internet hosting Males’s Big Tens, Diving Zones – Purdue Boilermakers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A pair of multi-day co-ed twin meets at house plus the return of the boys’s Big Ten Championships and the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships to the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center headline Purdue Swimming & Diving’s 2026-27 schedules.

The Boilermakers have six house meets (5 co-ed) on the schedules. Purdue hosts each Indiana and the two-day Big Ten Triple Duals (vs. Minnesota and Northwestern) over consecutive weekends in January for the primary time since 2017. With the Boilers additionally internet hosting each males’s Big Tens and the co-ed Diving Zones, the Purdue males’s solely meet away from West Lafayette through the spring semester would be the NCAA Championships.

The Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center opened in August 2001 and is about to host Big Tens and Zones in the identical 12 months for the fourth time. The males’s Big Ten Championships have been additionally contested on the Burke Aquatic Center in 2004, 2009, 2016 and 2022. Diving Zones have been additionally held in West Lafayette in 2005, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. The earlier double-duty years have been 2005, 2010 and 2016 partly to the ladies’s Big Ten and NCAA Championships additionally being held on the Burke Aquatic Center in 2005 and 2010.

The three-day NCAA Zone C Diving Championships serves as diving’s NCAA Championships qualifier for student-athletes that compete at universities based mostly in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.

The house opener is as soon as once more the Dan Ross Indiana Intercollegiate – set for Saturday, Oct. 24 this 12 months. Annually held on a Saturday in October, it options groups of all NCAA divisions from throughout the state as the biggest house meet of this season. It was renamed in honor of Purdue’s longtime head coach in the summertime of 2023, a couple of month after Ross retired and closed out a 42-year teaching profession.

The Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center is slated to host each nationwide championship meets – with comfort finals returning to the meet program following a one-year hiatus in 2026. Texas additionally hosted each the boys’s and girls’s championships in 2019. The NCAA Championships are additionally returning to Austin in March 2028 and it was introduced this summer time that the boys’s meet will probably be contested first for the primary time in 2028. The genders then will alternate “up first” with a rotation within the years to observe – ladies first in odd-numbered years, males first in even-numbered years.

Purdue is slated to compete in Columbus for its midseason showcase for the second 12 months in a row, returning to the Ohio State Invitational. It’s a Tuesday night to Friday format once more this 12 months whereas mirroring the occasion schedule on the Big Ten Championships. Last season’s discipline on the Ohio State Invitational additionally featured Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Penn State, Cincinnati, Yale, the UCLA ladies & host Buckeyes.

The Boilermakers have one other two-day meet scheduled for Halloween Weekend, internet hosting Horizon League champion Oakland for co-ed twin meet motion. Sessions are set for five p.m. on Oct. 30 and 11 a.m. on Halloween.

The annual two-day Big Ten Triple Duals additionally return to the Burke Aquatic Center for the ultimate weekend of January. Purdue’s Senior Day ceremony will probably be held earlier than Saturday’s 11 a.m. session of the meet. The Boilermakers additionally hosted the co-ed Big Ten Triple Duals on the Burke Aquatic Center in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020 and 2024.

More twin meets vs. Big Ten opponents consists of an Oct. 23 ladies’s triple twin vs. Iowa and UCLA in Iowa City. The Boilermakers will get a possibility to compete on the website of the ladies’s Big Ten Championships; Iowa’s Campus Recreation and Wellness Center will host for the primary time since 2020. The Purdue males return to Wisconsin for a twin meet in December and the ladies open their season with an Oct. 2 twin at Illinois.

Selected males’s swimmers will open their season on the Seminole Fall Classic in Tallahassee for the second 12 months in a row. The two-day meet is about for Oct. 9-10 this 12 months.