Swimming & Diving Opens A-10 Championship on Wednesday – Fordham University Athletics

Hampton, Va. – (February 20, 2024) – For the first time in 12 years, the Atlantic 10 Swimming & Diving Championships will be held at a new location, as Fordham and 10 other schools venture to the Hampton Aquaplex in Hampton, Virginia for the four-day championship.
 
All the teams will be attempting to knock off George Washington, who had won six of the last seven men’s championships, including the last three, and three of the last four women’s championships, which includes the last two.
 
Fordham has won the conference championship once for the women in 2010 with the Rams’ best finish for the men is a third-place finish at the 2002 Championship.  Last season, Fordham took fifth in the women’s competition as the Rams finished only one point out of third place.  The men’s team was also fifth in the team standings, which was their best finish since 2017.
 
Action at the championship begins on Wednesday afternoon with the men’s one-meter dive, followed by the finals for the 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay.  Thursday will see competition in the 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley, 50 freestyle, women’s one-meter dive, and 200 freestyle relay, while Friday will have the 100 butterfly, 400 individual medley, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, men’s three-meter dive, and 400 medley relay.  The championship concludes on Saturday with the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, 1650 freestyle, women’s three-meter dive, and 400 freestyle relay.
 
The preliminaries and finals of each day of the championship will be streamed live on ESPN+ with those links on the A-10 Championship Central page.