GROVE CITY — Two non-conference games against national powerhouses and a rugged eight-game Presidents’ Athletic Conference slate comprise the Grove City College football team’s 2025 schedule.

The 2025 schedule features an even split between home and away games as the Wolverines will begin and end the season on the road this autumn. Grove City’s first three games will be against teams that competed in the NCAA Division III playoffs last season.

The 131st season of Grove City football begins Sept. 6 when the Wolverines visit Cortland, N.Y. It will be the first regular season meeting between the programs. Cortland edged Grove City, 25-24, in the second round of the 2023 NCAA Division III playoffs on the way to the national title.

It will also be Grove City’s first regular season game in New York since a 14-6 win Nov. 11, 2006 at Kings Point.

The Wolverines open the home schedule Sept. 13 when defending national runner-up Mount Union makes its first trip to town since Sept. 29, 1979. Mount Union finished 14-1 in 2024. It will be the ninth all-time meeting between the regional foes. Grove City faced Mount Union eight times during the 1970s, with the Purple Raiders winning seven of the eight games.

Following an open date, the Wolverines open conference play by hosting Washington & Jefferson in the annual night game at Robert E. Thorn Field. The teams shared the conference title last season with both squads advancing to the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs.

That will be the first of two straight night games for Grove City. The following Saturday, Oct. 4, Grove City visits longtime rival Geneva for a 7 p.m. kickoff in Beaver Falls.

The College will celebrate Homecoming 2025 the next weekend as Waynesburg University comes to Robert E. Thorn Field for a 2 p.m. kickoff Oct. 11. Due to various schedule quirks and changes to the conference schedule format over the years, this will be Waynesburg’s first trip to Thorn Field in seven years.

Grove City’s lone late afternoon kickoff will take place Oct. 18 as the Wolverines journey to Allegheny. It will be Grove City’s third trip to Meadville in the last four seasons.

The Wolverines conclude their home schedule with back-to-back games at Thorn Field against Westminster and Saint Vincent. Grove City hosts local rival Westminster in Week Eight on Oct. 25 before welcoming Saint Vincent for Senior Day seven days later. Both games kick off at 1 p.m.

Consecutive trips to northeast Ohio conclude the regular season. Grove City will visit Case Western Reserve at 1 p.m. Nov. 8.

The following Saturday, the Wolverines visit Hiram for the first time since the 2022 opener. Hiram has rejoined the conference after competing in the PAC from 1971 to 1989. Grove City’s first-ever PAC game came against Hiram in 1984.

Grove City will not play Bethany or Thiel this year due to the conference’s unbalanced schedule format.

The Wolverines’ series with Westminster dates back to 1892. The series with Geneva and Washington & Jefferson both began in 1893 while the Grove City-Allegheny football series started in 1899. Grove City first played Waynesburg in 1903.

Head coach Andrew DiDonato and his staff will welcome approximately 140 hopefuls to preseason camp August 13.

SWIMMINGGROVE CITY — The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) recently honored the Grove City College swimming and diving teams with Scholar All-America recognition.

Grove City’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams both earned Scholar All-America for the spring 2025 semester.

Additionally, rising senior Caleb Einolf captured CSCAA First Team Scholar All-America on an individual basis.

Programs achieving a combined grade-point average of 3.00 or better for the spring semester qualified for the Scholar All-America team award.

The 23 members of the Grove City women’s swimming and diving squad combined for a 3.55 GPA during the spring semester. Meanwhile, the men’s team posted a 3.12 team GPA. Twenty-seven men comprised the 2024-25 roster.

Student-athletes must have earned a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and participated in their respective national championship to qualify for First Team Scholar All-America.

Einolf earned Division III All-America honors in both the 100 breaststroke and 100 butterfly at the 2025 NCAA Championships in Greensboro, N.C. He finished sixth in the 100 breaststroke and took 13th in the 100 fly. He also finished 24th in 100 freestyle in his first trip to the national championships.

Einolf has compiled a 3.74 cumulative grade-point average at Grove City while majoring in computer science.

Both the Grove City men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams won the Presidents’ Athletic Conference title last February. Each program also earned CSCAA Scholar All-America team recognition for the fall 2024 semester.

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