February 24, 2026
For the ladies’s workforce, that is its first NEC title. For the lads’s workforce, that is its second straight championship, third in 4 years.
Howard University has captured each males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving championships for the Northeast Conference. The wins make Howard the standard-bearer for Black swimming packages.
The college excelled on Feb. 20, to take dwelling the Northeast Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. For the ladies’s workforce, that is its first NEC title in program historical past. The males’s workforce received its second straight championship, the third in 4 years.
“This second is about greater than profitable championships. It’s about exhibiting younger swimmers and divers — particularly those that might not see themselves represented — that they belong on this sport and may excel on the highest degree,” mentioned Nic Askew, director of Swimming & Diving and Tennis, in a written assertion.
The NEC Championships happened on the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, Feb. 17-20.
Along with bringing dwelling the workforce championships, people had been additionally honored, together with Zion Wilson for NEC Most Outstanding Diver, Zuilda “Zuzu” Nwaeze for NEC Most Outstanding Swimmer (the third straight yr she has received this honor), and Courtenay Miller for NEC Diving Coach of the Year. Both groups additionally received the NEC Coaching Staff of the Year award.
History was made this previous season with each ladies’s and males’s groups.
“Watching these groups come collectively and attain a lot actually has been historical past within the making,” Askew mentioned. “Never earlier than has a ladies’s workforce from an HBCU received a convention title, and by no means earlier than has an HBCU received back-to-back swimming and diving convention titles. These wins communicate volumes in regards to the expertise and aggressive nature of our program and what’s attainable for scholar athletes contemplating attending an HBCU.”
Howard University is the only HBCU with a Division I swimming and diving workforce.
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