2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships
- Dates:
- Diving: Sunday, February 15–Tuesday, February 17
- Swimming: Tuesday, February 17–Saturday, February 21
- Location: McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending champions: UVA women (6x); Cal men (1x)
- Live Video: ESPN+ ($)
- Schedule of Events (PDF)
- Championship Central
- Pre-Scratch Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Recaps
- Teams: Boston College, Cal, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami (women swimming & diving/men diving), NC State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Virginia, Virginia Tech
The scratch report is in for day five of the 2026 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships and there were a few major scratches from some big name swimmers, including Louisville’s Anastasia Gorbenko.
Gorbenko came into the meet entered in six events over the meet, and scratched both of her entries for Thursday. She was originally entered in the 400 IM as the 9th seed (4:06.52), and the 200 free as the 6th seed (1:42.96), but she dropped both events and will not be racing at all on Thursday.
She has been on fire so far this meet, and has swum some monster relay splits for Louisville. On night three, she split 25.49 on Louisville’s gold medal 200 medley relay, the #3 breaststroke split in history. She followed that up with a 1:41.61 on the 2nd leg of the 800 freestyle relay.
On day four, she picked up a silver medal in the 200 IM, swimming 1:51.30 to finish 2nd, touching just three hundredths behind Stanford’s Torri Huske, the reigning NCAA Champion in the event.
She is still entered in the 100 breast on Friday and the 200 back and 200 breast on Saturday.
Also scratching two events were UVA’s Tess Howley and Cal’s Mia West. Howley was originally entered in the 200 free and the 100 fly on Wednesday, but scratched both. She has not swum an individual event yet these championships, but she is still entered in the 200 fly and the 100 back on Friday and the 200 back on Saturday.
West is coming off the bronze medal in the 200 IM (1:52.30) and will swim the 400 IM on Thursday morning, scratching the 200 free and 100 fly to make space in her schedule.
Aimee Canny was the 4th seed in the 200 freestyle, but she also dropped the event as did UVA’s Claire Curzan, the 7th seed. Including West and Gorbenko, four of the top eight seeds in the event scratched.
Curzan is racing the 100 fly instead and Canny is still entered in the 400 IM.
The high level men’s scratches all appear to be making room for other individual events with the highest seeded scratch coming from Florida State’s Logan Robinson in the 100 fly. He was the 6th seed in the event, but he opted to race the 200 free instead, where he is the top seed.
Top 10 Scratches on Day Five
Women’s
- 400 IM
- Anastasia Gorbenko (LOU) – 9th seed
- 100 fly
- Mia West (CAL) – 7th seed
- 200 free
- Mia West (CAL) – 3rd seed
- Aimee Canny (UVA) – 4th seed
- Anastasia Gorbenko (LOU) – 6th seed
- Claire Curzan (UVA) – 7th seed
Men’s
- 100 fly
- Logan Robinson (FSU) – 45.30 – 6th seed
- Kaii Winkler (NCST) – 45.42 – 8th seed
- 200 free
- Hudson Williams (NCST) – 1:33.00 – 9th seed
Can someone explain how Gorbenko is eligible for the NCAA? She participated in the ISL and won more money than other swimmers were deemed ineligible for accepting.
That Louisville compliance department going ham. But fr, with the lawsuits around athlete compensation and the NIL stuff, I think the NCAA is taking a “let em all in and have someone else draw the line later” approach to athlete compensation. So for swimmers who were members of the ISL, and can possibly still swim NCAAs (cough, cough, Summer) they’d have a better shot of being eligible now
They were able to draw a hard line on Lani Pallister though. 🙄
Has L. Hayes for the Virginia Cavaliers scratched the 200 FR?
Will G. Johnson for the Stanford Cardinal swim the 100 FL and the 200 FR scheduled back-to-back tomorrow?
interesting, canny goes for the 4 im