A new documentary explores Morgan State’s historic swim program, highlighting eight titles from 1952–76 and preserving the legacy of the HBCU team. Stock photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
A new documentary titled “Against the Tide: The Story of the Morgan State Swimming Program” recently made its debut on April 15, covering a widely unknown story of a dominant swimming and diving program, produced by several swimmers from a successful era of Morgan State Swimming, which, from 1952 to 1976, won a combined eight Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) championship titles.
Morgan State is a historically black college and university (HBCU) in Baltimore, and has not sponsored either a men’s or women’s swimming and diving program since the 1970s. Part of making this documentary was preserving the history of this since-discontinued program’s success…