SOUTH BEND, Ind. — After a schedule full of trips away from Notre Dame last year, this year’s swimming and diving schedule keeps the Irish at home much more often. On Thursday, the team released its 2023-24 slate just under a month before the Irish will begin formal competition.
Following the annual Blue/Gold/Green Intrasquad Meet on Sept. 30, Notre Dame will head to Madison to take on Wisconsin. The one-day meet begins at 4 p.m. Both the Badger men and women went 6-2 last year and finished fourth in the Big Ten.
The Irish then come back home for a pair of meets to end October; Purdue will visit on Oct. 13, and Pittsburgh and Penn State will come to South Bend for a two-day meet from Oct. 20-21. Both Irish teams topped the Panthers and the Nittany Lions last year when Pittsburgh hosted the tri-meet.
An away date with Louisville is up next, as Notre Dame will head south to visit the Cardinals on Nov. 3 at 4:30 p.m. It will be Peterson Family Head Coach Chris Lindauer‘s first trip back to his alma mater as the Irish head coach. Of course, Lindauer also spent 13 years as an assistant at Louisville prior to making the move to South Bend.
The team will split up just before Thanksgiving, as the swimmers head to the Ohio State Fall Invitational in Columbus while the divers travel to Indianapolis for the 2023 House of Champions Invitational at IUPUI. Both meets will run from Nov. 16-18, and more details will be shared soon.
This year’s U.S. Open will be held in Greensboro N.C., and a collection of qualifying Irish swimmers will head to North Carolina for an early-season look at the nation’s best from Nov. 30-Dec. 3. Nine student-athletes went last December, and Chris Guiliano and Tommy Janton stole the show with multiple school records and Olympic Trials cuts. They’ll look to replicate that success this year.
Training camp in Naples, Fla., is up next for the swimmers, while the divers will take advantage of Christmas Break to train back home. The 2024 portion of the schedule opens with Princeton and Navy at home. Navy hosted the tri-meet last season. The Irish men went 2-0, while the women handily beat Navy but narrowly fell to Princeton.
Notre Dame’s final home contest of the season will be the Tim Welsh Classic. The two-day meet will take place at the Rolfs Aquatic Center from Jan. 26-27. There will be two sessions on Friday — one in the morning and one in the evening — and an 11:00 a.m. session on Saturday.
The Ohio State Winter Invitational will be a final meet for some, and that will take place from Feb. 16-18 in Columbus.
Championship season begins with ACC Championships in Greensboro. The Feb. 20-23 event will feature the top swimmers from across the conference, and Guiliano will look to defend last year’s 200 freestyle title. In 2023, the men took fifth, while the women were eighth.
The year will close out with NCAA Championships for both the men and the women. The women will go first, traveling to the University of Georgia from March 20-23. The men’s meet will be held just down the road in Indianapolis the following weekend, March 27-30.