Huskies Start 2026 With Win over UMass

Saturday, January 10

Storrs, CT

1:00 PM

University of Connecticut

Massachusetts

1/10/2026 10:45:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

STORRS, Conn. - The UConn women's swimming and diving team dominated in a over the UMASS Minute women at the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium Saturday afternoon.

Starting the new year off with a bang, but it was still the same Huskies in another overall team win with a score of 170-119. With 11 of 16 1^st place finishes, the Huskies came out of their long break rested and ready to go and took control from start to finish.

"Pleased with our efforts and attitudes," said head coach Chris Maiello on the performance. "They trained hard both at home and on campus and today has been a long time coming, we got a couple more weeks of it but today was a good day for us."

Of one of those first-place finishes was from junior swimmer Olivia Herbert, who placed first in the 200-yard butterfly and helped propel the Huskies to victory.

"I was really pleased," said Herbert. "More of how it felt and less of what place I came in. I'm really happy that it felt smooth."

The Huskies start 2026 off with a win and have a quick turnaround where they are set to face New Hampshire next Saturday in Durham.

"We're in a good position, said Head Coach Chris Maiello on the upcoming meets. "Today was a good see at our racing skills, we certainly got a lot of things to clean up but we got some great racing coming up and hopefully we'll be a little better."