PISCATAWAY, N.J.- Rutgers swimming and diving has announced its schedule for the 2025-26 campaign, which begins this October. The Scarlet Knights, who saw two student-athletes in swimmer Ana Hazlehurst and diver Bailee Sturgill named to the Big Ten's Preseason Watch List this week, start competition on October 11. 
 
Rutgers is at home at Sonny Werblin consecutiv home meets to kick off the season. On October 11, RU hosts Fordham and St. Bonaventure. Then on October 24 and 25, the Scarlet Knights welcome in ACC foe Miami and the University of Arkansas from the SEC for a two-day meet.
 
RU is on the road for three competitions in the month of November, starting with a trip to Charlotte to swim against Queens University (Nov. 7-8). The team then competes the following weekend (November 15) just down the road at Princeton in the annual "Battle For The Cannon Trophy". Finally, on November 20-22 the divers will head down to Annapolis for the Naval Academy Invite.
 
The Scarlet Knights head back to the Minnesota Invitational on December 3-6. Diving will also be in action at the USA Diving Championship in December.
 
The team will take its annual training trip in the month of January prior to the start of the spring semester.
 
The final home meet comes at the beginning of the spring semester when RU returns from its training trip. Rutgers welcomes in La Salle on January 23 for Senior Day.
 
The team will be in action the next two weekends ahead of the Big Ten Championships. On January 30-31, RU competes at Big Ten foe Nebraska.

On February 7, the divers will compete at home against Princeton in the Rutgers/Princeton Platform Invitational.
 
This year's Big Ten Championships will be held in Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota hosts the league-wide event on February 18-21.
 
Scarlet Knights will make one last push for NCAA qualifying cuts at the ECAC Last Chance Meet on March 6-8. Following that, the divers will be in Annapolis for the NCAA Zone Championships.
The NCAA Championships this year will be held in Atlanta. The NCAA meet is from March 18-21.
 
RU also has two events slated after the NCAA Championships. Swimmers will head to the TYR Pro Series in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in April. Divers also have the USA Diving Championships in May.
 
 
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