Butler Head Coach Maurice Stewart released the 2026-27 Bulldog swim schedule today. Highlighting the slate will be the 18th Annual Butler Invitational on Jan. 31 and the BIG EAST Championships Meet on Feb. 17.
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The Bulldogs will be in Fishers to host their invitational for the 18th-straight year. Ball State, Bellarmine, Green Bay, Marquette, Valparaiso, and Xavier will be in attendance for an event that will also serve as BU's Senior Day.
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The BIG EAST Championships will be held in Ocala, Fla., this year. The four-day event will start on Feb. 17 and end on Feb. 20.
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Building up to that point, BU will officially open the 2026-27 season with a "Swim Across America" event in Crawfordsville, Ind.  
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While technically listed as an away event, Butler's first real competition will keep the team in Indianapolis. The Bulldogs will participate in the IU Indy Double Dual on Oct. 3. The Indiana Intercollegiate meet is the following weekend in Lafayette and the team will shoot over to Evansville at the end of October to compete against Bellarmine and Southern Indiana.

BU will then compete in the House of Champions Invite, which gets underway on Nov. 19. Butler will then travel to Valparaiso to square off with Valpo, Lewis and Marquette. The Dawgs' will be off until January after that meet and will begin to prep for the 2027 slate with a Winter Training Trip just four days into the New Year.

UIndy will host the Bulldogs and Northern Kentucky on Jan. 16 and IU Indy will give BU one more chance to compete on Jan. 23 before the Butler Invitational and the conference championship meet.
Coach Stewart saw the Bulldogs record 581.5 points at the BIG EAST meet just one year ago, their highest-ever total at the conference championship. BU also had its best finish in program history finishing fifth overall at BIG EAST.