UMass Men's Swimming & Diving team to the MVC

[LS71]

The University of Massachusetts men's swimming and diving program will be joining the Missouri Valley Conference as an affiliate member, beginning on July 1, 2025. I haven't seen anything about the women's program.

https://umassathletics.com/news/2025/5/ ... conference

[runner_bric]

The MAC has Women's swimming and diving, just not men's.

[Old Cage]

^ That makes at least five different conferences that we will play in next year - Big East, A-10, Summit, Missouri Valley, and MAC.

Are there more?

[m626t]

^
Guess you meant Hockey East?

[Old Cage]

Thanks. An ultimate Freudian slip!

[LS71]

The University of Massachusetts men's swimming and diving program will be joining the Missouri Valley Conference as an affiliate member, beginning on July 1, 2025. I haven't seen anything about the women's program.

https://umassathletics.com/news/2025/5/ ... conference

Correction: The women will compete in the MAC.

UMass will compete in the Mid-American Conference in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, field hockey, football, men's and women's indoor/outdoor track & field, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and rowing (announced on July 19, 2024).

What I don’t understand is why UMass, Ball State and Miami (Ohio) swim in the MVC when the MAC competes in men’s swimming and diving .

[Steve81]

The University of Massachusetts men's swimming and diving program will be joining the Missouri Valley Conference as an affiliate member, beginning on July 1, 2025. I haven't seen anything about the women's program.

https://umassathletics.com/news/2025/5/ ... conference

Correction: The women will compete in the MAC.

UMass will compete in the Mid-American Conference in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, field hockey, football, men's and women's indoor/outdoor track & field, women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis and rowing (announced on July 19, 2024).

What I don’t understand is why UMass, Ball State and Miami (Ohio) swim in the MVC when the MAC competes in men’s swimming and diving .

The other MAC affiliates were from the MVC and the conference decided to restart the sport.

The MVC first sponsored men's swimming a century ago, with the first championship in 1924. Prior to reintroducing men’s swimming and diving for the 2024-25 season as a league sport, the MVC had not sponsored men's swimming since 2002-03. The MAC sponsored men's swimming & diving from 1953-2024. Miami enters the 2025-26 campaign having won five-straight conference championships in men’s swimming & diving (four in the MAC and one in the MVC in 2025).

https://mvc-sports.com/news/2025/5/12/m ... iving.aspx

[LS71]

^ So given that UMass is a new member of the MAC and they’ve restarted the sport, why join the MVC for men’s swimming?

[mdogt12]

MAC transferred sponsorship of men’s swimming to MVC after 2024. MVC just restarted Men’s swimming sponsorship