EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville Swimming and Diving squads have announced the schedule for the 2017-2018 season, with competition beginning later this month.
 
"I'm super excited about this season's meets, I think we have some great meets lined up," said head coach Rickey Perkins. "With SIU it's always a fun competition to have them here at the beginning of the year, and to meet them again at the end of the year. I'm especially about the women's quad meet. We have Butler, Indiana State, and Little Rock coming; two of the three teams are in our conference, so we can see where we're at with them."
 
Then going into House of Champs, which is our mid-season meet to see where we're at. I think we have the possibility to be much, much faster than we were last year at this meet. So far practices have been great. I'm very excited to go back to Iowa for the women's championship meet, and the men's meet in Oxford at Miami of Ohio's pool, which is a very fast pool. I think it's going to be wonderful for us."
 
Evansville will begin their season with a home duel meet against Southern Illinois, with diving taking place Friday, September 22^nd and swimming competing the next morning.
 
On October 1st, the team will take to the road for the Butler Quad meet in Fishers, IN. At that event, the Aces will compete against Butler, Xavier, Saint Louis, Indiana State, and Valparaiso.
 
UE will close out the month of October on the 21st with another road invitational at the annual Indiana Intercollegiate meet at Purdue.
 
The women's team returns to Wyttenbach Pool on November 4^th for the UE Quad meet, joined once again by Butler and Indiana State, with Little Rock joining the mix as well. The Aces hit the road for the annual House of Champs meet, hosted by IUPUI on the weekend of November 17.
 
Rounding out the fall slate is a road matchup at Missouri State on December 1^st.
 
After the break and a challenging training trip in Florida, the Aces return on January 13^th for a home matchup against Eastern Illinois. Less than a week later on the 18^th, they travel to Saint Louis to face the Billikens.
 
Senior meets will split the weekend of January 26^th as the women take on Illinois State Friday night while the men face Ball State Saturday morning.
 
Sticking to tradition, the final meet of the regular season will be at Southern Illinois on February 3rd, with half distance events slated for the women to prepare for their upcoming conference competition.
 
For the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Championships, the women will return to the University of Iowa for the second consecutive year. Competition will run from February 14^th to the 17^th.
 
On February 28^th to March 3^rd, the men will travel to Oxford, OH to compete in the Mid-American Conference Championships hosted by Miami (OH).
 
 
 
 

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