The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) men’s swimming & diving season has been put on pause.
The NCAA Division III team, which competes in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), is under review after CMS Athletics became aware of “concerning behaviors” within the program, the school told SwimSwam on Thursday.
“CMS Athletics became aware of concerning behaviors within the Stags Swim & Dive program and, as a result, paused athletically-related activities to conduct a thorough review to ensure alignment with our community values and expectations,” CMS Athletics said in a statement.
“Before returning to the pool, we are currently allowing time for guided, intentional reflection on the responsibility, both individually and collectively, to meet those expectations and to maintain a positive team culture. The CMS Men’s Swim & Dive season has not been cancelled.”
The Stags have raced twice so far this season, edging out Simon Fraser (103-101) and falling to UC San Diego (125-72) on Oct. 18, and then contesting their annual alumni meet last weekend.
Although the school said the team’s season has not been canceled, it seems unlikely they’ll be in attendance for their scheduled meet on Saturday at Chapman University, where Whittier College and the host Panthers will be in action.
This is the second time in six years the CMS swim & dive program has gone under investigation. In November 2019, the team was assigned mandatory education programming after three senior women quit over a document produced by senior members of the men’s team entitled the “Stag Survival Guide,” which team members said included racially and sexually inappropriate language. The school said an investigation found the behavior justified the assignment of mandatory education programming for members of the men’s and women’s teams, and some members of the men’s team were given additional education requirements, though no athletes were suspended from competition.
Based in Claremont, Calif., the CMS swim & dive teams represent three of the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges: Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College and Harvey Mudd College.
Unfortunately, this type of behavior is extremely prevalent on many other teams. Some still haven’t tried to fix their cultural issues and that is only a ticking time bomb for most. Speaking from experience if they don’t try to fix their culture issues, then CMS and most other teams with similar issues will not survive in the current state of the NCAA. It doesn’t matter if they are DIII it’s all a ticking time bomb.
I was on the team when the three out of four senior women quit over similar issues back in 2019. really disappointed to see this stuff still happening and I truly hope Charlie can discipline the men’s team and make sure this never happens again.
knowing some of the swimmers on the team, this is not surprising news
“The Stags have raced twice so far this season, edging out Simon Fraser”
HMMMMMMM……..
This is disappointing. My oldest was considering this school. My youngest is a swimmer who would’ve considered Harvey Mudd. Unfortunately, this will have to be something to consider.
When I see these articles, I always say, “Do the football team next.”
I certainly don’t need a college administrator to tell me when, where, and why behavior is unacceptable. STOP being the morality police!
Aren’t you literally the morality police?
Not to do with this but Hastings (NAIA) has added mens and womens today
Yup yup
The problem with people like them is how much hypocrite they are but they can’t even see it because they lack self awareness.
No. . . .
Have you guys ever played the gandalf battle with balrog drinking game
Wizard staff!