CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Women's Swimming and Diving released its 2025-26 schedule today. The slate features four meets at Blodgett Pool, including the annual HYP (Harvard-Yale-Princeton) meet to close out the regular season.
 
Harvard will have a warm-up meet on Oct. 24, when it travels to MIT to face the Engineers and Northeastern in a 6:30 p.m. scrimmage. The tri-meet will also feature the Harvard men's swimming and diving team.
 
The Crimson officially opens the season on Halloween, Oct. 31, as it welcomes Brown to Cambridge for a 4 p.m. contest. The Ivy League lidlifter also doubles as the program's Breast Cancer Awareness Meet. Harvard enters the date having won 22 straight head-to-head matchups with the Bears.
 
Two weeks later on Nov. 15, the Crimson will hit the road to face Dartmouth and Cornell in Hanover, New Hampshire. The 11 a.m. meet is the first of two straight on the road for the Crimson as it will face Columbia in New York City on Nov. 21. The meet with the Lions is also scheduled for 11 a.m. Harvard has enjoyed considerable success against all three teams, boasting a 44-3 mark against the Big Green, a 38-2 record vs. the Big Red and a 38-1 showing vs. the Lions.
 
The Crimson will step out of dual-meet action in December to compete at the Minnesota Invitational. Harvard returns to the Twin Cities for the sixth straight season after finishing in second place a year ago. The high-level invitational is set for Dec. 3-6 at Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis.
 
Following a break for the holidays, Harvard returns to action on Jan. 10, under expected sunny skies and warm weather at Florida International. The Crimson will also face Miami in a tri-meet slated for noon.
 
When the calendar rolls over to 2026, Harvard will put its road schedule behind it and finish the regular season with two straight home contests (over three days), with the first coming on Jan. 17, when Penn and Boston College visit Blodgett Pool at noon. The Crimson is 35-3 all-time vs. the Quakers and 12-4 vs. the Eagles. The second home meet is HYP from Jan. 30-31. Harvard swept the annual meet last year for the first time since 2013-14, and secured the conference dual-meet title for the first time since 2014-15.
 
The month of February is reserved for the Ivy League Championships, which are scheduled for Providence, Rhode Island. The meet will run from Feb. 18-21.
 
The NCAA Zone A Diving Championships will be next up on the schedule, with the regional get-together slated for March 9-11 at Navy. The NCAA Championships, meanwhile, are set for March 18-21 at Georgia Tech.
 
Harvard last season went 10-0 (7-0 Ivy League) during its dual-meet season before it finished in second place at the Ivy League Championships. The Crimson went 10-0 for the first time since 2006, finished first or second at the Ivy event for the 22nd straight time and appeared at the NCAA Championships for the 13th consecutive season.