Marquette to Add Varsity Girls’s Swimming Program
Marquette introduced on Wednesday that it’s going to add varsity ladies’s swimming as quickly because the 2025-26 season.
Marquette, a Division I Jesuit establishment in Milwaukee, would add swimming as its seventeenth varsity sports activities providing. It’s at the moment at seven ladies’s groups, seven males’s and two spirit groups. It will not embrace the addition of diving.
Marquette is a full member of the Huge East Convention. It will develop into the eighth member of that convention to supply ladies’s swimming and seamlessly combine into its championships.
“Marquette Athletics is uniquely positioned to supply ladies’s swimming student-athletes a transformative expertise, combining high quality coaching and competitors with a confirmed historical past of educational achievement for our student-athletes,” Vice President and Director of Athletics Mike Broeker mentioned in a college assertion. “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. It’s a win-win for our division and college.”
The Golden Eagles have a brand new on-campus facility to coach in, with the Wellness + Helfaer Recreation facility opened in January. It features a six-lane pool, house for 150 spectators, locker rooms and places of work. The college will start a seek for a coach.
“As we implement our sustainable, mission-aligned, multi-year enrollment technique, Athletics has been a key accomplice in serving to show how Marquette’s transformational instructional expertise could be accessible to a broad vary of scholars, together with our Division I student-athletes,” mentioned Brian Troyer, vp, enrollment administration.
It’s the primary addition of a sport for Marquette since males’s and ladies’s lacrosse in 2013. It isn’t planning to discontinue any sports activities, the college saying that girls’s swimming “strengthens our dedication to gender fairness in athletics” and can assist “align athletic alternatives extra carefully with the make-up of our undergraduate scholar physique.” Marquette’s major sports activities are males’s and ladies’s basketball, which determine to attract nearly all of funding in a post-Home settlement panorama, in a Huge East that’s largely composed of basketball-first colleges. Marquette hasn’t fielded a soccer group since 1960.
