By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
Princeton swimming introduced the addition of Joe Acquaviva, the Franklin & Marshall head coach, as an assistant for the 2025-26 season.
Acquaviva will be part of the teaching workers after three seasons at Franklin & Marshall the place he recorded a 35-24 mixed twin meet report throughout the boys’s and girls’s program and the place his athletes totaled 50- All-Centennial Convention honors.
He would be the 2nd new assistant coach for Princeton this season after Emmett Adams was employed in July, following the departure of David Cooper. The opposite assistant from final season, Kelsey Reott resigned on the finish of August to pursue a profession outdoors of swimming, and Acquaviva will take her place on the roster making him the sixth assistant coach within the final three years at Princeton.
This can be head coach Abby Brethauer‘s third yr with this system, and he or she introduced in an extremely robust recruiting class for the 2025-26 college yr that options the #16 ranked recruit together with 4 BOTR recruits.
Brethauer stated “I’m thrilled to welcome Joe to the Tiger household and may’t look forward to him to get began with us. Having had the privilege of working with him at Tufts, I do know firsthand the eagerness, intelligence, and power he brings to the pool deck and I’m excited for our ladies to have the chance to work with him.”
Brethauer and Acquaviva coached collectively at Tufts throughout the 2021-22 season that noticed this system win its first-ever NESCAC Championship.
Acquaviva was a four-year swimmer and workforce captain at Johns Hopkins the place he was a 10-time All American, a CSCAA Cholar All-American and an NCAA champion as a member of the 800 freestyle relay in 2014.
Princeton’s first meet of the season is Friday, November seventh (diving) and Saturday, November eighth (swimming) vs Dartmouth and Brown.
Franklin & Marshall nonetheless have Acquaviva listed as the top coach on their roster as of publishing, and they’re going to swim their first meet on Saturday October twenty fifth towards Swarthmore, Ursinus, and Dickinson.
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