INFO | GVSU Invitational schedule
 
Wingate, N.C.----The Wingate University men's and women's swimming teams begin their 2026-27 season Friday and Saturday, October 9-10, venturing to Holland, Michigan for the Grand Valley State University Invitational. The GVSU Lakers are hosting this five-team event at the Holland Aquatic Center.
 
Both Wingate teams are top 10 in CSCAA preseason rankings …
 
The Wingate men are No. 5, while the Bulldog women are No. 10 in the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Division II preseason top 25 national rankings for the 2026-27 season.
 
Both Wingate teams are picked to win the 2027 Conference Carolinas championship meets. Wingate and four other South Atlantic Conference schools are new to the Conference Carolinas this year as associate members in men's and women's swimming. Wingate won eight-of-eight SAC championships (four men, four women) while the SAC sponsored swimming.
 
Looking at the 2026-27 schedule …
Complete 2026-27 #WUSWIM schedule
 
- The GVSU event begins a busy year for #WUSWIM
- Wingate opens its home schedule Friday, Oct. 16, hosting Catawba
- The 'Dogs visit Queens Oct. 24 with Florida Gulf Coast
- The fall semester includes three multi-day meets
- The Emory Fall Invitational is Oct. 30-31
- The Queens Fall Frenzy is Nov. 19-22
- Wingate travels to Carson-Newman for a two-day dual meet Dec. 11-12
- Wingate ventures to Florida for training trip in early January
- The Bulldogs visit Tampa for a dual meet on Jan. 9
- Lenoir-Rhyne visits Wingate for a Friday, Jan. 15 dual meet
- The next Friday, Wingate entertains UNC Pembroke
- The Friday, Jan. 22 UNCP meet is Senior Day for Wingate
- Post-season begins with the Conference Carolinas championship meet Feb. 2-6
- The Kingsport (Tenn.) Aquatic Center is hosting this year's CC meet
- The Emory Last Chance Invitational is February 19-20
- NCAAs are March 9-13 in Indianapolis, Indiana
 
Looking back at 2025-26 … 'Dogs take both SAC titles for fourth year in a row
 
- The Bulldogs swept the SAC championships for the fourth time, winning both titles
- WU head coach Kevin Hennessy earned SAC men's swimming Coach of the Year
- The Bulldog men took seventh of 31 teams who tallied points at the '26 NCAAs
- The WU women finished 11th of 35 schools who scored points at the '26 NCAAs
 
Wingate Swimming quick facts
 
- Wingate has 45 NCAA national championship swims lifetime (31 women, 14 men)
- At NCAAs, the WU women have earned second place once (2016) and third twice
- The 'Dogs have earned fifth place at NCAA men's meet once with five sixth-place showings
- WUSWIM student-athletes have earned Academic All-America® honors 41 times
- WU won 11 Bluegrass Mountain Conference crowns (seven men's, four women's) while BMC members
 
Wingate University
 
Wingate University is a lab of difference-making that serves more than 3,600 students in North Carolina and offers 60 degree pathways, including 37 undergraduate majors, 10 pre-professional tracks and five dual-degree programs. Graduate students choose from seven master's and five doctoral programs. The University is home to the Cannon College of Arts and Sciences, the Levine College of Health Sciences, the Byrum School of Business, the Thayer School of Education and the School of Sport Sciences.
 
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a leader in healthcare education where nearly one in five undergraduate students is preparing to be a pharmacist, physician assistant, physical therapist, occupational therapist or nurse. Student-athletes on Wingate's 30 teams compete in NCAA Division II and have brought home the SAC Echols Athletic Excellence Award the past 18 times it has been awarded. The University's motto is "Faith, Knowledge, Service." View current news and videos at www.wingate.edu.
 
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