Swimming & Diving Open Marketing campaign With Fairfield Invitational

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Fairfield University males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving applications will open their 2025-26 season this weekend by internet hosting the annual Fairfield Invitational on the RecPlex Pool. The Fairfield Invitational begins a regular-season slate that features meets in opposition to 10 colleges in addition to the Terrier Invitational in November.

Fairfield will welcome Manhattan University, Southern Connecticut State University, and the University of Bridgeport on the boys’s facet whereas these three colleges will be a part of Sacred Heart University on the ladies’s facet. The divers will begin the occasion on Friday night at 6 pm earlier than the swimmers take to the pool on Saturday at 12:00 pm.

The Stags have opened the yr by internet hosting the Fairfield Invitational because the 2018-19 marketing campaign. Last yr, the boys’s and ladies’s groups mixed to win 26 occasions throughout the two-day competitors with the ladies successful 14 occasions and the boys including 12 victories to the staff whole.

Both applications completed the 2024-25 applications with 5-3 total information in twin meet competitors along with competing in numerous Invitationals and Championships all through the marketing campaign. The season culminated with sturdy runs on the 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships wherein the ladies’s staff completed second place within the 12-team subject and the boys secured third place within the nine-team competitors.

This yr, each the boys’s and ladies’s groups have been chosen first within the 2025-26 MAAC Preseason Coaches’ Poll with each groups incomes first place votes. The males’s staff collected 74 factors, 4 factors higher than runner-up Niagara University, whereas the ladies’s program secured 134 factors, three greater than second-place Niagara.

Fairfield will spend most of October in its house pool with three house dates on the docket. Following this weekend’s Invitational, the Stags will wrap a pair of house twin meets round an away meet, starting with a date in opposition to Bryant University on October 11. The groups will take to the street for the primary time on October 18, heading as much as Providence College for an 11 am begin with the divers. The Stags return house for one more twin meet, welcoming Marist University on October 25.

The applications won’t return house once more till their senior day on January 17 when Iona University will compete in opposition to Fairfield.

The Fairfield Invitational and all Stags’ house meets shall be streamed by means of LiveBarn whereas outcomes shall be obtainable from SwimNerd.live.