Penguins Announce Busy 2026-27 Swimming & Diving Schedule

Youngstown, Ohio — Youngstown State’s swimming and diving groups have a packed 2026-27 slate with greater than a dozen regular-season occasions main as much as the Horizon League Championships. First-year head coach Hannah Saiz introduced the schedule on Wednesday, 9 days earlier than the Penguins open the season in Indianapolis.

On the lads’s crew, 4 Penguins return who positioned among the many prime eight in particular person occasions on the 2026 Horizon League Championships. There are 13 returning student-athletes general from final 12 months’s squad that positioned third, the best end in program historical past on the convention meet. Olivia Sweetman, the Swimmer of the Meet on the Horizon League Championships in 2026, leads a ladies’s squad that returns three top-eight finishers on the convention occasion and 13 returning swimmers general.

Youngstown State will start the season with a two-day meet on the IU Natatorium as IU Indy hosts the Penguins and fellow Horizon League member Cleveland State on Sept. 11-12. The fall slate will proceed on Oct. 2-3 with a two-day twin at convention member Oakland, and Akron’s Zips Classic will comply with on Oct. 16-17. YSU’s divers will then compete towards Clarion and West Virginia at Clarion on Nov. 6.

The Penguins’ first house meet of the season would be the three-day YSU Invite within the Beeghly Natatorium on Nov. 21-23, with a morning session at 10 a.m. and a night session at 5 p.m. every of the three days. The fall slate will conclude the primary week of December with the Toyota U.S. Open Swimming Championships on Dec. 2-5 and a twin at Kenyon on Dec. 5.

Youngstown State’s ultimate house occasion will open the spring portion of the schedule because the Penguins host Cleveland State on Jan. 9 at 10 a.m. The twin towards the Vikings will begin a stretch of 5 straight weekends with meets as YSU competes at Pitt on Jan. 16, at Niagara and Purdue on Jan. 23, on the Ohio State Winter Classic on Jan. 29-30, and at Ohio on Feb. 5-6. The Penguins may also compete towards Miami (Ohio) within the meet at Ohio. The meet at Niagara can be simply swimming, and the divers can be YSU’s rivals at Purdue.

The Horizon League Swimming and Diving Championships can be held on the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis for the seventh straight season in 2027, with 4 days of competitors beginning on Feb. 17. The NCAA Zone C Diving Championships can be hosted by Purdue on the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Ind., on March 8-10, and the NCAA Championships can be hosted by Texas on the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas. The ladies’s occasion can be March 17-20, and the lads’s championships will comply with on March 24-27.

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