Ritchie’s current best times in the 400 IM and 200 fly would have won the CCIW title at this past season’s conference meet.
Houpt is from Mason, Ohio, where he recently graduated from Mason High School and is a current member of the Mason Manta Rays.
Aaron Thomas, a US Paralympic team hopeful, will swim for Hope College starting this fall after competing at the Paralympic Trials in June.
Oppenheim will arrive in Maine this fall with school-leading times in the 200 breast and 400 IM—times that would have made the A-final at NESCAC Championships.
Commonwealth Swimming’s Sarah Bernard will join the Engineers with times that would have scored in the A finals of the 100/200 breast and 400 IM at NCAAs.
Owen is already familiar with coaching in the NEWMAC conference after spending the last five years on the coaching staff at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dill returns to Wellesley after spending the 2023-24 season as an assistant coach at Harvard University.
To qualify for Scholar All America status, teams had to earn a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 during the Spring 2024 semester.