The men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams are looking forward to their final home meet this Friday at 6 p.m. against Duke and Maryland. The meet, along with another stint of matchups against the same teams Saturday in Durham mark the end of the regular fall season. Both teams have been successful in the fall season, with the men achieving two wins and one loss and the women having three wins and one loss. Both teams lost to Virginia Tech.”This past weekend was an eye opener for a lot of people,” junior captain Mason McGee said. “We didn’t do as well as we feel we should have, and I think it will motivate us for this weekend.”The swimming & diving teams are confident heading into the weekend’s matches as the men beat both Duke and Maryland last season and the women took down Maryland in January and narrowly lost to Duke in December.”We swim really well in November and hopefully that will help us carry some momentum into training in December and regular season competition in January,” Associate Head Coach Jacqui McLaughlin said.The women are seeing success with eight freshmen swimmers, an encouraging sign going into the very busy spring season. “Hopefully we’ll win on Friday and head to Duke on Saturday on top. I think with the new freshmen swimming well, we will come out of Friday’s meet with two wins,” senior captain Kathryn Pegg said.After this weekend’s meets, State will compete in the Maryland Invitational Nov. 20-22 to conclude the fall season. The spring season beings Jan. 9 with a home meet against Michigan State. From that weekend on, both teams have meets almost every weekend until the ACC Championships Feb. 18-21. Both teams and coaches are looking forward to the all the competition next semester.”We have a road trip in November to the Maryland [Invitational] and that’s always a good meet for us,” McLaughlin said. “In December we go down to Florida to train for a week. With that training we should be ready to come back and be as competitive as possible in January.”