By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Less than six years after cutting the program, UMass Dartmouth will bring back its men’s swimming & diving team for the 2026-2027 academic year.
UMass Dartmouth, an NCAA Division III school (not to be confused with the Ivy League’s Dartmouth College), was one of a number of schools to eliminate its swimming and diving programs amid the financial crunch of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the summer of 2020, the school announced the elimination of men’s and women’s swimming & diving, women’s equestrian, men’s golf, men’s lacrosse, sailing, and men’s and women’s tennis. In total, the moves impacted 94 student-athletes and dropped the school from 12 men’s sports and 13 women’s sports to 8 men’s sports and 9 women’s sports.
Less than a year later, the school reinstated the women’s swimming and diving and tennis programs after a review of the athletics program’s overall strategy as it relates to Title IX and the proportionality test.
That left the school with 11 women’s teams and 8 men’s teams.
Because the school sponsors varsity football, though, there were 271 male varsity athletes and 153 female athletes in the 2023-2024 season, according to federal data. That implies only a 36% opportunity rate for women, whereas approximately 51.5% of the student-body is women.
The school simultaneously added varsity programs in men’s lacrosse and women’s flag football. Those programs typically carry about 35 and 25 players, respectively.
Women’s flag football will begin as a club sport in 2026-2027 and build toward varsity competition the following year. The NCAA D3 membership to recognize women’s flag football as an Emerging Sport at the 2026 NCAA Convention.
Current women’s swimming head coach Mike Kroll has been named the men’s swimming head coach.
The school currently lists six athletes on its women’s roster.
The program finished 10th out of 11 teams at the 2026 Little East Championship. The team was led by 43 points from Ky Winer, who placed 5th in the 100 breast (1:12.04) and 200 breast (2:37.96) and 4th in the 200 IM (2:22.60).
The Little East currently has six men’s programs.
UMass Dartmouth previously competed at the New England Swimming and Diving Championships, where in 2020 the women finished 6th out of 21 teams and the men finished 5th out of 14 teams.
In the season before the program was cut, the women’s team listed 15 members, almost all of them local to the region.
UMass Dartmouth is a rare small college that is reporting enrollment growth. The school currently lists 5,731 undergraduates on its website and a total enrollment of 7,968. A public school located in Dartmouth, Massachusetts on the state’s south coast, tuition for Massachusetts residents is about $16,000 per year, for New England residents is about $22,000 per year, and for out of state or international students is about $34,000 per year.
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