Tennessee Swimming & Diving Announce Schedule for 2026-27 Season

Courtesy: Tennessee Athletics

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — After securing a pair of high 5 finishes on the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive yr, the Vols and Lady Vols are poised for one more profitable marketing campaign in 2026-27. On Wednesday, the Tennessee swimming and diving program introduced its schedule for the 2026-27 season.

“We are really excited about the competitive schedule for this year”, mentioned Director of Swimming and Diving Matt Kredich. “Tennessee Swimming and Diving will once again be competing with some of the best teams and athletes in the country in a number of different formats. The schedule gives us some great opportunities to learn, grow, and have a lot of fun as we prepare for championship season.”

The season will get underway in Knoxville on Oct. 9, as Tennessee hosts a meet within the inaugural College Swimming League. The College Swimming League (CSL) will characteristic 12 applications competing in six matches throughout the nation, aiming to qualify for an look within the Wild Card and Championships in Indianapolis. UT will host the fourth match within the sequence and welcomes Louisville, Michigan and Virginia to the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. Following this match, Tennessee competes in its second CSL match of the season, occurring the street to Athens, Georgia on Oct. 23 for an all-SEC twin that options Alabama, Auburn and Georgia.

Top groups within the College Swimming League will then journey to Indianapolis for the Wild Card and Championships Nov. 5-6. Each match will characteristic 15 occasions, with every program represented by 14 males and 14 ladies.

After its stint within the College Swimming League, the Big Orange returns residence as they host the annual Tennessee Invitational, that includes a few of the greatest applications throughout the nation. The meet will span three days, happening Nov. 18-20. The competitors routinely hosts most of the high swimmers and divers all through the nation.

Tennessee will cap the 2026 portion of the schedule with a twin meet at Kentucky. This marks the fourth consecutive season that the 2 applications have met through the common season. In the 2025 matchup, the Vols and Lady Vols swept the Wildcats in each twin meets.

2027 begins for Tennessee because it hosts the UT Diving Invitational Jan. 7-9. Tennessee hosted the occasion final season, with a number of divers incomes podium finishes all through the competitors.

Conference meet motion continues Jan. 16, with a house twin meet in opposition to South Carolina. It is adopted by one other twin meet in opposition to a convention opponent on Jan. 23, with Georgia coming to Rocky Top. The common season closes as Tennessee travels to Durham to tackle Duke. The two groups met final season to shut out the common season in Knoxville, with the Tennessee taking each duals on the boys’s and girls’s sides.

This yr’s SEC Championships will get underway Feb. 13-20 in Austin, Texas, because the Vols and Lady Vols look to proceed their latest success on the convention meet. At the 2026 convention championships, the Lady Vols led the way in which for Tennessee, incomes a second-place end. The males’s facet additionally picked up a high three end on the 2026 championships, with the Vols inserting third general. More particulars relating to the SEC Swimming & Diving Championships will come out at a later date.

UT will as soon as once more host a Last Chance Meet, happening Feb. 26 & 27, for athletes trying to safe their spot at NCAAs. The divers return to competitors March 6-10, as Tennessee hosts the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships.

The NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships get underway later in March, starting March 17 and working via March 20. The males’s championship follows, slated for March 24 via March 27. Both meets will happen on the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on the campus of the University of Texas.

The males’s roster options the return of a number of high performers from a season in the past, together with Koby Bujak-Upton, Bennett Greene and Gabe Nunziata. Bujak-Upton is coming off a redshirt freshman marketing campaign that noticed him end second within the 200 freestyle on the NCAA Championships. The Australian additionally posted the quickest time within the 200 free final season with a time of 1:29.79. Greene returns for his junior season after incomes the bronze within the 1-meter on the NCAA Championships. Greene led all divers on the NCAAs with 38 factors and was the lone diver in Division I to succeed in all three championship finals. Nunziata enters his second yr at Tennessee after a powerful freshman season, highlighted by top-10 finishes in each the 100 and 200 breaststroke at NCAAs.

The ladies enter the 2026-27 season coming off their third straight top-five end at NCAAs. Camille Spink leads the cost, successful three particular person gold medals at SEC Championships, and two high 5 finishes at NCAAs within the 50 Free (third) and 100 free (fifth). Spink seems to be to proceed her dominance at SECs, the place she has gained gold three years in a row in each the 50 and 100 free, whereas sweeping the 50, 100, and 200 free occasions every of the final two seasons. McKenzie Siroky heads into the season after a formidable summer time, which noticed her win the gold medal within the 100m breast on the Pan Pacific Championships. Siroky achieved success final season as effectively, taking the silver within the 100 breast on the NCAA Championships. On the diving facet, Desharne Bent-Ashmeil returns for her sophomore marketing campaign after incomes high 5 finishes in each the 1-meter and 3-meter eventually yr’s NCAA Championships.