Jackets Set to Open 2026-27 Season

THE FLATS – The Georgia Tech swimming and diving groups are set to open the 2026-27 marketing campaign with its annual white versus gold intrasquad meet on Friday, September 18, from the McAuley Aquatic Center earlier than taking part within the Atlanta Open Water Swim charity occasion as a part of Swim Across America on Saturday, September 19, from Lake Lanier Olympic Park.

White vs. Gold Meet

Atlanta Open Water Swim

• Saturday, September 19
• 8:45 a.m.
• Lake Lanier Olympic Park (Gainesville, Ga.)

Friday will characteristic a full slate of motion with the diving occasions starting at 2 p.m. earlier than the total swimming order opens at 2:30 p.m. The white group pulled out a 409-372 victory over the gold group within the 2025 meet, the groups evenly break up the 28 swimming occasions with extra factors earned for setting intrasquad data.

Phoebe Wright broke three whole data within the 200 IM, 200 again, and because the anchor of the profitable 400 free relay group. Robin Yeboah, Zara Masud, and Tobin Uhl received a number of occasions ultimately yr’s meet and can return for 2026.

The Jackets can even return to the Atlanta Open Water Swim charity occasion on Saturday morning, competing for the seventh time within the final eight seasons. The swimmers will race in Lake Lanier with the rolling begin set to start at 8:45 a.m. Swim Across America has hosted charity swims that fund most cancers analysis and affected person applications since 1987, for extra info, click on HERE.

Max Fowler is about for his senior season following a record-breaking junior marketing campaign. He shattered each the 1-meter and 3-meter program session data and have become a four-time CSCAA All-American following his third consecutive journey to the NCAA Championships. He was named the 2026 ACC Men’s Diver of the Meet after defending his 3-meter convention crown, securing silver within the 1-meter finals, and was the one ACC diver to succeed in all three finals.

Georgia Tech returns six swimming finalists from the 2025 ACC Championships and completed ranked contained in the top-50 of Swimcloud’s closing 2025-26 twin rankings for each males’s and girls’s groups. The males positioned thirty ninth total with the ladies slotted in at forty eighth.

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to realize Georgia Tech athletics’ aim of competing for championships on the highest stage within the subsequent period of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative initiatives for Tech athletics, together with renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic dwelling of Georgia Tech soccer), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the apply and coaching facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable dwelling of Yellow Jackets volleyball), in addition to extra initiatives and initiatives to additional advance Georgia Tech athletics by means of program wide-operational assist. All members of the Georgia Tech group are invited to go to atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full particulars and renderings of the renovation initiatives, in addition to to study alternatives to contribute on-line.

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