It is almost the end of the fall semester for most programs, meaning finals season is upon them. It is a light week of competition before the holiday season approaches.
Highlighting the list of meets is the SEC showdown between Tennessee and Kentucky. The Tennessee women are currently ranked #6, but the men’s side will be a top 25 showdown between #10 Tennessee and #22 Kentucky. Both men’s programs are strong at freestyle, with Tennessee’s strength coming in the sprint events and Kentucky’s coming in the distance events.
The CSCAA Open Water Championships will take place in Sarasota on Saturday. The men’s race kicks off at 8:30 am EST with the women’s race starting at 10:30 am EST. Both the men and women will race in a 5k. The top five finishers for each race earn invites to the USA Swimming 5k Open Water Championships.
SwimSwam’s Pre-Invite Power Rankings (Women)
SwimSwam’s Pre-Invite Power Rankings (Men)
Note: Many members of the SwimSwam staff have searched websites to compile this list. Meets are occasionally added/removed after this list is compiled. Some schools also have conflicting data ie, one school posts the meet being X date while the other posts Y date.
| Meet | Date | Men | Women |
| CSCAA Open Water Championships | 12/13 | Yes | Yes |
| TCU v. Oklahoma Christian | 12/13 | Yes | Yes |
| Kansas v. Rockhurst | 12/13 | Yes | |
| Kentucky at Tennessee | 12/11 | Yes | Yes |
| Colgate at Hamilton | 12/12 | Yes | Yes |
| Georgia Southern at UNC Asheville | 12/12-13 | Yes | |
| Bowling Green vs Findlay vs John Carroll | 12/13 | Yes | |
| Omaha v. Augustana | 12/12 | yes | yes |
| NAU at Utah Tech | 12/12-13 | yes | |
| GCU v. Ottawa v. Arizona Christian | 12/13 | yes | |
| Utah Winter Classic | 12/13 | yes | yes |
Poor Kintuckie gonna get trounced by the mighty Man Vol Machine. Always a good practice meet though as Tennessee ramps it up for the SEC Championship meet.
can we get a meet review from army/navy?? Looked insanely fast.
I’m interested too! The boys in blue were moving!
Let’s get a top 16 times list out, score the meet without diving and see how it all looks post fall invites….
Even a list top 20 to see who might be on the edge.
We’re working on an article, but anybody who wants to can run this at any time using the Swimulator.
https://swimswam.com/swimulator/