VMI Swimming and Diving 2024–25 Season

Regular Season

• VMI men went 5-3, achieving the most wins in a season since 2018–19.
• VMI women went 2-8 and tied with the 2020–21 season for the most wins in a single season.
• The Keydet women defeated Southern Virginia at home, 148-101, for the first female dual meet win at Goodall Pool in program history.
• The Keydets broke a total of 75 records in rat, team, and relay records, with 40 total team records shattered.
  76 program top-10 times were set.
• Four national invitational relay qualifying times, 14 individual qualifying times, and nine individual national invitational qualifiers for the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America.
• Both programs were named CSCAA All-Scholar teams.
• Jack Mills ’28 was sensational in his first season, breaking 16 records between rat, team, and relay in the regular season, including one at the 2024 U.S. Open in December.
• Mackenzie Byrne ’28 was quick in short-distance freestyle, breaking four 50- and 100-meter freestyle records.
• Emerson Cosner ’28 had a strong start to her collegiate debut, breaking two 200-meter butterfly records.
• Stephen Russell ’28 had the strength to go the distance, setting two new 1,000-meter freestyle records and contributing to two relay records.
• Isabelle Haer ’28 has been improving meet by meet, setting a new rat 1-meter dive record in the process.
• Lane Jones ’26 posted the top scores for the Keydets on both 1- and 3-meter dives.
• Three 1st Class cadets—Morgan Burd ’25, Ethan Griffith ’25, and Craig Swain ’25—were honored before the Keydets’ final home meet.
• Matthew Picard ’27 and Sam Castle ’27 were named to the America East All-Academic Team.
• Since 2023, the women have recorded 67 individual top-10 times, while the men have achieved 88, bringing the total to 154 individual program top-10 times, which accounts for 58% of all top-10 performances. The men broke 36 team records, shattering all men’s varsity swimming records and all but two rat swimming records. The women broke 18 team records, which accounts for 66% of all team records.

2025 America East Championships

VMI men’s swimming and diving made waves during the 2024–25 campaign, shattering 40 team records, earning three medals at the America East Championships, and showcasing the raw talent and work ethic of their newest 4th Class cadet-athletes.

• VMI men finished in fifth with a team score of 378.
• VMI women closed out at seventh with 112 points.
• The Keydets secured three medals—two bronze and one silver—and totaled 11 top-five marks.
• There were 26 records broken during the meet.
• Matthew Picard ’27 earned bronze in the 100 freestyle, Sam Castle ’27 nabbed silver in the 100-meter backstroke, and the men’s 800-meter freestyle relay team took home bronze.