2015 NCAA Champions Clark Smith (Texas) and Leah Smith (UVA) led their teams through their mid-season invites with several insane swims. Archive photo via Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com
The Texas men’s swim team and the Virginia women’s swim team remain on top of the College Swim Coaches Association of America after all of the mid-season invites.
Distance swimmers and 2015 NCAA Champions Clark Smith (Texas) and Leah Smith (UVA) led their teams through their mid-season invites with several insane swims. Both Clark Smith and Leah Smith posted nation leading times in the 500 freestyle, 1000 freestyle, and the 1650 freestyle. They are also both ranked in the top 5 nationally in the 200 freestyle. Additionally, Clark broke the American, NCAA, and US Open record in the men’s 1000 freestyle with his incredible time of 8:33.93.
The Louisville Men made the biggest leap into the top ten on the men’s side, improving three spots from 10th to 7th. On the women’s side, USC made the biggest improvement from 13th to 4th in the country after a strong mid-season showing at the Texas Invitational.
Division I Men
Rank
Prev
Team
Points
1
1
Texas
225
2
2
California
216
3
4
Georgia
206
4
3
Florida
199
5
4
Stanford
189
6
6
Michigan
170
7
10
Louisville
166
8
9
Auburn
162
9
7
NC State
159
10
7
Missouri
150
11
12
Indiana
137
12
11
Alabama
126
13
17
Arizona
114
14
14
Ohio State
102
15
23
Wisconsin
88
16
15
Tennessee
83
17
19
Southern California
78
18
13
North Carolina
66
19
15
South Carolina
63
20
31
Denver
55
21
31
Virginia
42
22
18
Duke
37
23
28
Florida State
34
24
31
Penn
28
25
31
Princeton
11
Also Receiving Votes
Minnesota 6 , Utah 3 , Georgia Tech 3 , Harvard 2 , Brigham Young 2 , Grand Canyon 2 , Air Force 1
Division I Women
Rank
Previous
Team
Points
1
1
Virginia
249
2
3
Georgia
241
3
5
Stanford
230
4
13
Southern California
209
5
7
Texas A & M
206
6
4
Texas
198
7
15
Arizona
185
8
9
California
178
9
5
Michigan
169
10
8
Auburn
163
11
12
Louisville
140
12
2
North Carolina
138
13
16
Tennessee
136
14
14
Florida
128
15
11
Indiana
113
16
21
Wisconsin
84
17
10
NC State
83
18
19
UCLA
75
19
17
Missouri
72
20
19
Penn State
61
21
28
Alabama
38
22
24
Purdue
3
23
30
Kentucky
28
24
25
Louisiana State
22
25
21
Arkansas
18
Also Receiving Votes:
Duke 15 , Minnesota 9 , Ohio State 8 , Princeton 6 , Also Receiving Votes: Duke 11 , Minnesota 9 , Ohio State 6
Not sure I understand how Penn Men are ranked above Princeton considering they lost to Princeton in November. Granted, it’s only one spot difference and lower in the rankings but still…seems a bit odd.
IVYFAN- these don’t appear to be dual meet rankings. Its end of season ones… So a team with a ton of depth and lacking top end swimmers may win dual meets, but not make a splash (pun intended) come championship season. Whereas teams with studs for relays will rank higher come end of season.
B1GSWAMFAN – The CSCAA’s are actually specifically supposed to be dual meet rankings, as compared to SwimSwam’s power rankings, which is more focused on NCAA success.
B1GFAN
8 years ago
Clark Smith did not post the leading 1650 time in the country.
Swimfan
8 years ago
Would like to see a new power rankings now that all of the mid season rest meets are done
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Not sure I understand how Penn Men are ranked above Princeton considering they lost to Princeton in November. Granted, it’s only one spot difference and lower in the rankings but still…seems a bit odd.
IVYFAN- these don’t appear to be dual meet rankings. Its end of season ones… So a team with a ton of depth and lacking top end swimmers may win dual meets, but not make a splash (pun intended) come championship season. Whereas teams with studs for relays will rank higher come end of season.
B1GSWAMFAN – The CSCAA’s are actually specifically supposed to be dual meet rankings, as compared to SwimSwam’s power rankings, which is more focused on NCAA success.
Clark Smith did not post the leading 1650 time in the country.
Would like to see a new power rankings now that all of the mid season rest meets are done