Liberty, James Madison, and Marshall College will all be part of the American Athletic Convention subsequent season as affiliate members in girls’s swimming and diving. The transfer turns into efficient July 1, 2025.
The additions convey the convention to 9 members subsequent 12 months. Full members with girls’s swimming and diving packages are East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, and Tulane, whereas Florida Worldwide, a former CCSA compatriot, is already an affiliate member, becoming a member of the convention for the 2022-2023 season.
“We’re excited to welcome JMU, Liberty and Marshall to The American in girls’s swimming and diving,” AAC Commissioner Tim Pernetti mentioned. “All three packages are on the high of the game and can improve our power in girls’s swimming and diving and our philosophy of offering the very best degree of competitors and expertise for our student-athletes. This growth will higher place The American for much more participation within the NCAA Championships.”
James Madison gained the 2024 Solar Belt Convention championship of their first season within the league, whereas Marshall completed 2nd. Liberty, in the meantime, has gained six consecutive convention championships within the CCSA and the ASUN.
Liberty’s major convention membership is in Convention USA, which has no swimming & diving championships.
The extra peculiar addition is James Madison and Liberty: two colleges which might be major Solar Belt Convention members. A supply confirmed to SwimSwam what that transfer implied: {that a} 12 months after including a swimming & diving championship, the Solar Belt is now not inquisitive about internet hosting one.
This leaves Georgia Southern and Outdated Dominion (which additionally has a males’s program) again available on the market for a convention championship meet. Each have been members of the CCSA, which has primarily change into the ASUN league in swimming & diving.
2025-2026 AAC Girls’s Swimming & Diving Discipline
In parenthesis is final 12 months’s convention end.
- Florida Worldwide (1st – AAC)
- SMU (2nd – AAC)
- Rice (third – AAC)
- East Carolina (4th – AAC)
- Florida Atlantic (fifth – AAC)
- Tulane (sixth – AAC)
- North Texas (seventh – AAC)
- Liberty (1st – ASUN)
- James Madison (1st – Solar Belt)
- Marshall (2nd – Solar Belt)
Convention realignment has resulted in these colleges bouncing round a number of occasions in the previous few years, with James Madison even having to make use of the ECAC Championships as their end-of-season meet one 12 months after being barred from competing on the CAA Championship.
2026 Championship
In lockstep with the brand new groups, the convention introduced that the 2026 AAC Championship will likely be hosted on the Greensboro Aquatic Heart in Greensboro, North Carolina. The host of the 2015 AAC Championships, 2015 Girls’s NCAA Championships, and 2021 Girls’s and Males’s NCAA Championships, the GAC is among the largest aquatic facilities (by water and spectator depend) in the USA.
The AAC sponsors solely a girls’s championship.
