In the Big East championships last year, respectively, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are aiming to improve their performances after historical seasons.
The men, who took the Big East crown in 2018 to become back-to-back conference champions have only eight swimmers on the roster from their championship unit. That’s the same amount of freshman who will race for the first time this year for the Pirates. The surplus of youth has the squad leaning on captains Liam Cosgrove and Josh Tosoni to direct the underclassmen.
“(The underclassmen are) looking at them as far as setting the tempo and tone of everything and having a positive outlook every day,” said coach Derek Sapp.