By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
Texas has announced its swimming and diving schedule for the upcoming 2025-2026 season. The team will host eight competitions in Austin during the season.
The programs will open their season at home on September 26th for the Sam Kendricks Dust Off Your Boots Classic. They when will travel to Alabama on October 10th for their first dual meet of the season.
The team’s only “dual” meet at home, a meet with one other team, is on October 24th against Tennessee. That looks to be a competitive dual meet as Texas captured the 2025 SEC titles on both the men’s and women’s sides while Tennessee was 3rd on both sides.
In November, the Longhorns will host the Texas Diving Invite from November 13-15 a week before hosting the Texas Swimming Invite as midseason from November 19-21.
Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, the home of the Longhorns, will be home to two national level competitions this winter as it is set to host the US Open from December 3-6 and the first stop of the Pro Swim Series for 2026 set to take place from January 14-17.
At the end of January, Texas will host the Eddie Reese Showdown. Last year, the meet featured Texas, Arizona State, Virginia, and NC State.
Texas will travel to Texas A&M for the final dual meet of the season on January 30. The Texas women defeated Texas A&M 197 to 102 last year while the Texas men won 218.5-80.5. A day later, Texas will host The Sterkel Classic which featured TCU, SMU, and Rice this past season.
The 2025 SEC Championships are set to take place at the University of Tennessee from February 17-21. The women will travel to Texas A&M for a last chance meet at the end of February before the team’s divers go to Texas A&M for the Zone ‘D’ Championships.
Georgia Tech will serve as host to both the women’s and men’s NCAA Championships. The women’s meet is scheduled to run from March 18-21 while the men’s meet is from March 25-28.
The Texas men captured the 2025 NCAA team title under Bob Bowman while the women finished 3rd at 2025 NCAAs. The women were only 23 points behind 2nd place Stanford.
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