ANNAPOLIS, Md. –– The Navy swimming and diving teams will resume their respective seasons Saturday when the Mids play host to Towson in an 11 a.m. meet in Lejeune Hall.
No fans will be allowed to attend the meet. However, the meet will be streamed through ESPN+. A subscription to the platform is required to view the stream.
Men's Meet
Navy holds a 5-0 advantage in the all-time series with Towson. All of those meetings have occurred over the last five seasons.
Navy and Towson met last year in Lejeune Hall as part of a meet that also included Johns Hopkins and George Washington. The Mids posted a 185-108 victory over the Tigers in the head-to-head competition between the teams.
Navy won 13 of the 16 events contested against Towson.
Individual event winners from the meet returning for Navy are
Ryan Waters (Sr., Basking Ridge, N.J.), 500 free, 1000 free;
Daniel Cook (Sr., Virginia Beach, Va.), 200 free;
Dominick Wallace (Sr., La Jolla, Calif.), 100 back, 200 back;
Dean Nguyen (Sr., Seattle, Wash.), 100 breast, 200 breast;
Micah Oh (Sr., Kent, Wash.), 200 fly; and
Ethan Tack (Jr., Dix Hills, N.Y.), 400 IM.
Matt Essing, who graduated in 2020, won the two sprint freestyle events for the Tigers a year ago. Towson also won the 400 freestyle relay last season.
Towson would go on to post a 5-4 record over the entire 2019-20 regular season and place fourth at the Colonial Athletic Association Championship.
Women's Meet
Navy has posted a 17-0 record against Towson. The teams have met in each of the last five seasons, but prior to that 2015-16 meeting the teams had not competed against one another since the 1998-99 campaign.
The Mids, Tigers, Blue Jays and Colonials along with Miami (Fla.) took part in the same meet as the respective men's teams a year ago. Navy would defeat Towson, 218-81.
Navy recorded 13 victories on the afternoon, which included wins in both relay events.
Returning individual event winners for Navy are
Ashley Boddiford (Sr., Oviedo, Fla.), 100 back, 200 back;
Sydney Harrington (Jr., Fairfax, Va.), 100 fly, 200 fly;
Katie Corbi (So., Waxhaw, N.C.), 50 free; and
Hannah Montau (Jr., Germantown, Md.), one-meter diving, three-meter diving.
Jacki Schoening won both breaststroke events for Towson last year and teammate Annemarie Schnoor won the 100 freestyle during the meet. Both swimmers were seniors last season.
Towson compiled a 7-4 record during the 2019-20 regular season and went on to finish in third place at the CAA Championship.
2020-21 To Date
Navy has competed in just one meet thus far this season, and that was back on Oct. 31 when the Mids played host to Virginia. The Cavaliers won the men's meet by the count of 181-117 and the women's meet by the score of 188-104.
The Navy men's team totaled six event wins, with Waters touching the wall first in the 200 and 500 freestyle events. In the women's meet, Montau claimed two of the three victories for Navy on the day as she swept both diving boards.
Virginia is ranked 10th in the latest men's national poll and second in the most recent women's voting. Each Navy team received votes for the same top-25 poll.
Looking Ahead
Navy's abbreviated season will continue Saturday, Feb. 13, when the teams play host to George Washington. The annual Army-Navy meet will be contested Feb. 27 at West Point in what currently stands as Navy's last dual meet of the year. The NCAA Championship meets are slated to be held in their usual spots in the calendar (women: March 17-20, men: March 24-27) in Greensboro, N.C., then Bucknell will play host to the Patriot League Championship April 21-24.
