ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy swimming and diving teams will travel to New Jersey this week to compete against Princeton and Kenyon in a two-day meet at DeNunzio Pool. The teams will square off Friday at 5 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m., with the respective dual meet scores from Friday carrying over into Saturday.
The Navy men's team has posted a 9-3 record and the women's team enters the meet with a 7-4 mark. Each Princeton team is undefeated in dual meets with the men having a 5-0 record and the women a 6-0 record. The Kenyon men's team is ranked sixth in the latest NCAA Division III National Poll and has posted a 1-1 record, while the school's women's team is ranked second nationally and has compiled a 2-0 record.
There will be an ESPN+ video stream of both days of competition, with separate cameras each day for the swimming and diving events.
Navy
The Navy men's team opened the 2025 calendar year by posting a 158-125 victory over Towson on Saturday. The Mids won all 16 events against the Tigers. Swimmers
Everet Andrew and
Ben Irwin each won a pair of individual events and diver
Blakeman Shaw swept the two boards.
The Navy women's team has been off from competition since facing Army on Dec. 5.
Princeton
The Princeton teams have only faced Ivy League foes this season.
Last season saw Princeton men's team post an overall record of 8-3 and finish in second place at the Ivy League Championship. One of the team's wins was a 199-154 victory over Navy as part of a two-day meet between the two teams plus Notre Dame.
The Princeton women's team compiled an 11-1 regular season record a year ago on its way to winning the Ivy League Championship. The Tigers, who placed 20th in the final national ranking of the 2023-24 season, defeated Navy by the score of 295-58.
Princeton leads the men's series with Navy by the count of 72-25 and the Tigers have won each of the previous women's four meets against the Mids.
Kenyon
The Kenyon swimming and diving teams are the most accomplished programs of any sport on any NCAA level. The men's team won a record 31-straight NCAA titles from 1980-2010 and the women's team has won a record 25 national titles since the 1983-84 season. The Kenyon men have placed first, second or third at seven of the last eight NCAA Championships and the women's team has won the NCAA title in two of the last three years and has placed no lower than third at the last seven NCAA meets.
This is the first time Navy and Kenyon will meet.
