UMass men’s swimming and diving head coach Russ Yarworth announced today the program’s 2015-16 schedule as the Minutemen look to capture their 16th Atlantic 10 Championship title this year. The season will begin on Oct. 9-10 at the Colgate Invitational and is also highlighted by a pair of home meets at the Joseph R. Rogers Pool in Boyden Gymnasium.
The two home meets will be against Boston University on Saturday, Oct. 24 (1 PM) and against Fordham on Saturday, Jan. 30 (1 PM) which will also be Senior Day.
UMass will compete in five dual meets this year including three on the road at Army (Oct. 16), at Brown (Nov. 14), and at Bryant (Jan. 16).
Along with the Colgate Invitational, the Minutemen will also compete in multi-team events at the Boston University Terrier Invitational (Nov. 20-22), the Dartmouth Invitational (Jan. 22-23) and the UConn Invitational (Feb. 6).
Diving head coach Mandy Hixon has also slated several top-flight events to challenge one of the Atlantic 10’s top squads. The divers will compete at UConn on Nov. 7 and will take part in the Tennessee Invitational on Nov. 20-22 in Knoxville, Tenn.
The Atlantic 10 Championships (Feb. 17-20) will be hosted in Geneva, Ohio at the SPIRE Institute which is one of the top natatoriums for collegiate competition. The NCAA Zone A Diving Meet will be hosted from March 8-10 in Annapolis, Md., where the top rated divers will then qualify for the NCAA Championships.
The Minutemen feature a veteran corps for the upcoming season with six seniors and eight juniors returning. Senior Alessandro Bomprezzi was the Atlantic 10 Most Outstanding Performer last year, while diver Trent Kindvall was one of the top divers in the league.
