2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Wednesday, March 18 – Saturday, March 21, 2026
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending Champions: Virginia (5x)
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For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best in heats. During prelims, swimmers qualify for one of two finals: the top 8 finishers make the A final, while places 9 through 16 the B final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time of any heat in the final.
With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers and divers in the A finals, “Down” to B finalists.
These projections do not include relays or diving.
Top 10 Teams After Day 2
- Virginia — 249
- Texas — 183
- Stanford — 173
- Tennessee — 158.5
- Cal — 133
- Michigan — 132
- Indiana — 128
- Louisville — 79
- NC State — 76
- Florida — 62.5
The Virginia women entered day three with a 66 point lead over Texas and look to expand upon that after a strong morning. Virginia will have seven ‘A’ finalists tonight, the most of any program. Texas only has two ‘A’ finalists on the night.
Virginia is also only one of two programs that will have an ‘A’ finalist in every event tonight as the Michigan women earned one finalist in each event. That is a sharp change from yesterday for the Wolverines when they only had one ‘A’ finalist in Bella Sims who went on to win the NCAA title in the 400 IM.
With the 16th place tie in the 50 free and no swim-off needed due to the absence of the ‘B’ final, the 50 free will have 17 scoring swimmers with Harriet Rogers of Arkansas and Tatum Wall of Duke each earning 0.5 point.
Ups/Downs
| 100 Back | 200 Breast | 500 Free | 50 Free | |
| Virginia | 1/1 | 2/3 | 2/2 | 2/2 |
| Cal | 1/0 | 1/1 | 0/1 | |
| Michigan | 1/1 | 1/0 | 1/0 | 1/0 |
| Wisconsin | 1/0 | 0/1 | ||
| NC State | 2/1 | 0/1 | ||
| Alabama | 1/0 | 0/1 | ||
| Pitt | 1/1 | |||
| Nevada | 0/1 | |||
| Texas A&M | 0/1 | |||
| Indiana | 0/2 | 1/1 | ||
| Louisville | 1/1 | 0/1 | 1/0 | |
| Stanford | 1/1 | 1/1 | ||
| Duke | 1/0 | 0/1 | ||
| Florida | 2/0 | 1/0 | ||
| Southern Illinois | 0/1 | |||
| Washington State | 0/1 | |||
| Texas | 1/3 | 1/0 | ||
| Tennessee | 1/0 | 1/0 | ||
| Georgia | 1/0 | |||
| Nebraska | 0/1 | |||
| Arkansas | 0/1 |
Scores With Day 3 Prelims (‘B’ Finals Added Thru 50 Free)
- Virginia — 297.5
- Texas — 199
- Stanford — 180.5
- Tennessee — 158.5
- Indiana — 139
- California — 138.5
- Michigan — 136.5
- Louisville — 93
- North Carolina State — 84
- Florida — 62.5
- Ohio State — 53
- Alabama — 49.5
- Southern California — 49
- Georgia — 38
- Miami-FL — 33
- Louisiana State — 26
- Minnesota — 22
- South Carolina — 21
- Wisconsin — 21
- Arizona — 19
- Nebraska — 18
- Pittsburgh — 17
- Texas A&M — 16.5
- UCLA — 16
- Duke — 13.5
- Cincinnati — 11
- Kansas — 11
- Akron — 9
- Nevada — 9
- Purdue — 9
- Northwestern — 8
- Arkansas — 7.5
- Arizona State — 6
- Auburn — 6
- Pennsylvania — 6
- Virginia Tech — 6
- North Carolina — 5
- Southern Illinois — 4
- Fresno State — 2
- Indiana State — 2
- Notre Dame — 2
- Washington State — 2
- UC San Diego — 1
By my count 15 of UVA’s women will score tonight. Setting stars aside, only 3swimmers they’re carrying for the championship won’t tonight. That’s just incredible depth. I think that Texas has nobody in two events, so this meet will be over with a day to go. And as everybody knows, that’s without the Walshes, etc. It’s rather young team too and has some firepower coming in next summer.
so UVA has 7 up & 8 down today.
if I read this correctly, that is the same as the combined total of the next 4 teams in the points standings (Tex+Stan+Tenn+IU)
One of those teams could have put themselves in the driver’s seat for 2nd with a good morning but nope.
It feels like Virginia has almost hammered the nails in the coffin.
UVA is going to score more in 200 br than standford and Texas will entire session excluding the relay