2026 Women’s NCAAs: Texas’ Berit Berglund Scratches, Kentucky’s De Goeij Called Up

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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  • Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2
  • Finals: Day 1

Berit Berglund is the second women to have scratched the 2026 NCAA championships, with the Texas junior pulling out on the same day as she entered the transfer portal after three years at Texas. Berglund was an NCAA ‘B’ finalist in the 100 back in 2024, where she set her current best time of 50.70 to win the ‘B’ final, and qualified for 2025 NCAAs in both the 100 back and 200 back. She notably led off Texas’ 2nd-place 400 medley relay in 2024, clocking 51.51.

She had swum just four meets for the Longhorns this season, and was not present as the Texas women won their second SEC title last month. Her season best times of 51.48 in the 100 back and 1:56.91 in the 200 back come from the Texas Hall of Fame Invitational at midseason. She was seeded 29th in the 100 back.

Berglund entered the transfer portal on March 13, the same day that she scratched NCAAs. That pulled Kentucky’s Fernanda de Goeij into the meet in the 400 IM for her first NCAA appearance, as the 25-year-old qualified thanks to the 4:09.53 she swam at the Ohio State Invitiational in November.

De Goeij will swim the 200 back in addition to the 400 IM in Atlanta, having missed out on that event by just 0.29 seconds with her time of 1:53.59 from SECs. She is the second alternate called up into the meet, after UCLA’s Sarah Bennetts moved up following Ashley McMillan‘s scratch on March 10.

At the time of writing de Goeij had finished 44th in the 400 IM, clocking a time of 4:18.57 to add nine seconds from her season best.