Wednesday, February 12, 2025-Saturday, February 15, 2025
MAAC Championships
Location: Geneva, OH
Championship Central: MAACSports.com

 
What You Need To Know
- All sessions of the 2025 MAAC Swimming and Diving Championships will be broadcast on ESPN+
- The Bronc men were picked to finish third in the MAAC Preseason Coaches Poll.
- The Broncs top returners this season are Maxwell Connelly (Kinnelon, NJ/Kinnelon), who won the 200-breast at the ECAC Championships a season ago in addition to fourth and fifth place finishes in the 200- and 100-breast respectively at the MAAC Championships, and Stavros Xantheas (West Orange, NJ/West Orange) who earned a silver medal on the 1-meter and bronze medal on the 3-meter in the diving events at the MAAC Championships in 2023.
- Xantheas has been named MAAC Diver of the Week twice this season.
- Connelly, who won MAAC Swimmer of the Week after his performance against Villanova, ranks fifth in the conference in the 200-breast and sixth in the MAAC in the 100-breast.
- Tivon Benjamin (Palm Bay, FL/St. Anthony's Secondary School) ranks fifth in the MAAC this season after swimming 51.58 in the 100-fly against Seton Hall.
- Billy Ruddy (Newton, NJ/Kittatinny Regional) won two individual events against Lehigh to secure MAAC Swimmer of the Week honors earlier this season. He currently ranks second in the MAAC in the 100-breast, third in the MAAC in the 100-free, and seventh in the MAAC in the 50-free.
- Cesar Alvarez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/The Ashton School) ranks seventh in the MAAC in the 100-free.
- Derek Fantano (Morris, CT/Holy Cross) ranks fourth in the MAAC this season in the 100-back, fifth in the MAAC in the 200-back, ninth in the conference in the 1,000-free, and tenth in the MAAC in the 500-free.
- Nicholas Lane (Hackettstown, NJ/Lane Academy) sits eighth in the MAAC in the 100-back.
- Ethan Rogowski (Waterford, NY/Shenendehowa) ranks fourth in the MAAC in the 100-fly and fifth in the league in the 200-fly.
- Tivon Benjamin is currently eighth in the MAAC in the 100-fly.
- The Rider women were picked to finish eighth in the preseason coaches poll.
- Hannah Yemec (Bluffton, SC/May River) will lead the women's effort in the pool this season after earning a silver medal in the 100-fly along with two other B-Final performances at the MAAC Championships last year.
- In the season opener at Seton Hall, Maiti O'Connor (South Plainfield, NJ/The Wardlaw-Hartridge School) won the 1-meter diving event with a score of 230.02 and took third in the 3-meter with a score of 203.70 to earn MAAC Diver of the Week honors. She followed up that performance with a win in the 1-meter against Lehigh, scoring 245.10, along with a score of 254.63 to take second on the 3-meter to earn MAAC Diver of the Week honors for the second time this season. She has claimed a total of three weekly awards on the year.
- Casey McLaughlin (Ramsey, NJ/Ramsey) ranks eighth in the MAAC this year in the 1,000-free.
- Casey Morgan (Sewell, NJ/Washington Twp.) ranks eighth in the 100-back after her swim against Lafayette.