MILWAUKEE — Marquette is launching a ladies’s swimming program, marking the primary time it has added a varsity sport since 2013.
College officers have launched a nationwide seek for somebody to teach this system, which might start competitors as early because the 2025-26 faculty 12 months. Marquette plans to compete within the Huge East championships in ladies’s swimming, nevertheless it will not have a diving program.
Huge East colleges that have already got ladies’s swimming embody Butler, UConn, Georgetown, Windfall, Seton Corridor, Villanova and Xavier.
“Including ladies’s swimming will enhance gender fairness in athletics and supply a income era alternative for the college, whereas providing a aggressive Division I expertise for our student-athletes,” athletic director Mike Broeker stated in an announcement. “It is a win-win for our division and college.”
The group will practice and compete within the lately renovated Wellness + Helfaer Recreation facility, which features a six-lane, 25-yard pool plus seating for almost 150 spectators and a devoted group locker room. The ability would be capable of host twin competitions, although any bigger meets would happen off campus.
Ladies’s swimming turns into Marquette’s seventeenth varsity sport, which incorporates 9 ladies’s applications. Marquette final launched a brand new program in 2013, when it added males’s and girls’s lacrosse.
