NEWARK, N.J. - Villanova men's swimming and diving kicks off its 2026-27 season on the road Saturday, Oct. 10 against NJIT. The meet will be broken up into two sessions, with the event getting underway at 10 a.m., followed by the second session at 1 p.m.
This is the second year in a row that the men are opening their season in Newark. The Wildcats placed third in last season's meeting, scoring 849.5 points.
A handful of Wildcat event winners from last year return to defend their title.
Hugh Boris opened his college career winning the 200 breast (2:00.32). He finished just 0.06 seconds short of the program record that he would soon take down. Boris also won the 100 breast, swimming 56.27. Villanova swept the podium in the 400 IM last year.
Max Kunisaki led the pack in first (4:00.10), followed closely by
Max Christensen (4:01.70) and
Carter Gray (4:03.88).
Owen Nye returns for his junior season, looking to follow up his 1650 free win from last season (16:02.33).
A live stream of the meet can be found
here, and live results can be found on MeetMobile.
