The Colleges Swimming and Diving Coaches Association (CSCAA) has released December dual meet polls, the last edition for the 2025 calendar year, and the Virginia women maintain their stranglehold of the top spot with 425 points.
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Since last month’s polls, the UVA women have swum three dual meets (at the CSCAA Dual Meet Tournament), all three of which they won in dominant fashion.
In the first meet of the tournament they came up against the ASU women, and they scored 30 points to ASU’s 10 at the meet. The first dual meet saw some off events from the Cavalier women, but they still dominated the score, winning every event except the women’s 100 fly, which went to Julia Ullmann from the Sun Devils.
The 2nd meet of the tournament between Virginia and Michigan saw some of the fastest swims in the NCAA this season as the Cavalier women nearly shut out Michigan, scoring 43 points to the Wolverine’s 1.
Anna Moesch was the headliner of the meet with two massive freestyle times, winning the 100 free in 45.98 and the 200 free in 1:40.25. Both swims currently lead the country this season.
The Dual Meet Tournament ended with Virginia coming out on top of Michigan again, 40 to 16. This time they were led by Claire Curzan, who set a nation leading time in the 100 back (49.12) and the 2nd fastest time in the country in the 100 fly (49.68).
The Texas women maintained their position in 2nd, bringing in 407 points to come in almost 30 points ahead of Stanford, who moved back into 3rd overall.
Michigan and Tennessee both saw huge jumps up the leaderboard with Michigan moving up three spots to go from 7th to 4th and Tennessee jumping four from 9th to 5th with both teams finding their way into the top five.
Louisville, Cal, NC State, and Florida all dropped in rankings to sit 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th respectively while Indiana stayed steady in 10th to round out the top 10 teams.
Northwestern and Pittsburgh both made their way onto the rankings for the first time this season at 21s and tied for 24th respectively.
| Rk | Prv | Team | Points | Record |
| 1 | 1 | Virginia | 425 | 5-0 |
| 2 | 2 | Texas | 407 | 2-0 |
| 3 | 4 | Stanford | 378 | 2-0 |
| 4 | 7 | Michigan | 354 | 6-0* |
| 5 | 9 | Tennessee | 353 | 3-4 |
| 6 | 3 | Louisville | 349 | 4-0 |
| 7 | 6 | California | 330 | 1-1 |
| 8 | 5 | NC State | 317 | 3-0 |
| 9 | 7 | Florida | 295 | 3-1 |
| 10 | 10 | Indiana | 275 | 5-1 |
| 11 | 12 | Southern California | 251 | 4-1 |
| 12 | 11 | Louisiana State | 237 | 8-0 |
| 13 | 13 | Auburn | 198 | 3-3 |
| 14 | 14 | Ohio State | 192 | 1-1 |
| 15 | 17 | Wisconsin | 190 | 4-1 |
| 16 | 16 | Alabama | 165 | 2-2 |
| 17 | 15 | South Carolina | 153 | 4-1 |
| 18 | 18 | Georgia | 143 | 2-3 |
| 19 | 18 | Arizona State | 141 | 1-5-1 |
| 20 | 20 | Duke | 109 | 5-1 |
| 21 | 21 | North Carolina | 85 | 1-3 |
| 22 | NR | Northwestern | 40 | 2-3 |
| 23 | 21 | Minnesota | 35 | 5-2 |
| 24 | 23 | Arizona | 31 | 3-2 |
| 24 | NR | Pittsburgh | 31 | 6-1 |
Also Receiving Votes: Texas A&M (25), Princeton (12), Missouri (2), UCLA (1), Rice (1)
*Michigan’s Record is listed as 6 – 0 on the CSCAA Dual Meet rankings, but their Dual Meet Tournament record is not factored in where it is for the other teams. Their updated record should be 8-2.
Women’s Poll Committee
Canaan Campbell (Tulane), Sarah Collins (Tennessee), Catie DeLoof (Alabama), Ashley Dell (Illinois-Chicago), Brooks Fail (Southern Cal), Daniel Graber (Duke), Naya Higashijima (New Mexico), Zach Hinsley (Miami (FL)), Margaret Howe (Northwestern), Nathan Lavery (Drexel), Brody Lewis (Utah), Tylor Mathieu (South Carolina), Zach Mertens (Minnesota), Athena Miller (Florida State), Milana Socha (Dartmouth), Lauren Sullivan (Arizona), Graydon Tedder (Texas Christian).
Top 10 rankings a little wacky and suspect
Does anyone think Grimes’s season is a bit alarming so far? Not to sound rude or throw dirt on her career, but 4:39+ in the 500 and 4:03 in the 400 IM is a bit alarming for someone who’s been 4:28/3:57. Not to mention her 25 second add in the 1650…
4:03 is definitely not tremendously off for someone who tends to have a better meet with a full taper rather than a drop taper. It’s evident she’s regressed a bit in general as she’s aged out of Sandpipers, but seems more like her versatility has diminished slightly rather than a complete loss of form. I’d expect her narrowed choices of events to take a little more time to see breakthroughs as she acclimates more to college, but honing in eventually will yield better results. Who knows, she could end up hacking an insane amount of time off her 1650 if she’s been conditioned to hit her peak at NCAAs.
I’m sure you have data, but my memory is Grimes is not being a big taper person. Some of her best times are mid season (like her 4:31 400 IM at Mission Viejo).
Wouldn’t be so sure on that. Pretty sure Grimes swam 4 or 5 meets her first semester and NCAAs was her slowest of all. Even then, she was still going 4:32s and 3:59s in season. We’ll see what the future holds, but if that doesn’t turn around, I would bet on her leaving after this season.
I don’t understand why so many people get hung up on her results. What does she have to prove? She’s a two time Olympian and maybe she’s happy in Charlottesville. Ever consider that every ounce of blood has been squeezed from that stone while at Sandpipers and training way over 20 hours a week? Even if thats true it’s totally ok. These kids don’t give a crap about what anyone thinks. Let her enjoy being part of a great team and having fun while getting a education.
This isn’t football. She’s training in a bunch of events and appears to be very happy. Being #4 in the country in 2 events isn’t some failure. I could point to a bunch of #1 recruits who frankly are disappointing. By the way her first meet at uva was mid last January. She’ll see you in L A only she’ll be in the pool.
Facts are facts. She was faster before going to UVA. That program clearly doesn’t work for everyone.
Keeping Texas ahead of Stanford at this point is just wild.
Sans diving, Swimulator says a dual based on Texas Invite lineups would’ve has Stanford win by 51. Wonder if the voters are caught up in the Texas men’s hype.
https://swimswam.com/swimulator/?type=swimulate&gender=Women&division=D1&division1=D1&team1=Stanford&season1=2026&meet1=Texas+Invitational&division2=D1&team2=Texas&season2=2026&meet2=Texas+Invitational
Maybe they realize diving will still count this year?
Hard to make up 51 points in a dual meet in diving.
(And by hard, I mean ‘mathematically impossible’ in a standard dual meet where there are 2 diving events. The max points one team can score is 32).
If I’m using the swimulator correctly, looks like a Texas v. Michigan head to head has Michigan winning by 11 points as well (sans diving & 800 Free Relay).
https://swimswam.com/swimulator/?type=swimulate&gender=Women&division=D1&division1=D1&team1=Michigan&season1=2026&meet1=Create+Lineup&division2=D1&team2=Texas&season2=2026&meet2=Create+Lineup
OOOOH that’s juicy.
actually – it’s a 22 point lead atm since the swimulator is giving Texas +11 for the 800 Relay and Michigan gets 0 b/c they haven’t swum it yet. 👀
Didn’t the voters have Texas ahead of Stanford all year last year? We all saw how that panned out at NCAAs.
is it? i feel like theyre pretty evenly matched. texas has a stronger freshman, sophomore, and junior class. stanfords senior class + torri evens it out.
Did we watch the same midseason invites?
yes, your claim is that placing texas over stanford is wild. my claim is that its not wild. theyre pretty evenly matched. id prob place stanford over texas but i dont think its super definitive in any particular direction.
texas has a higher ceiling but i thinks stanford is performing better. thus, evenly matched.
Texas has more talent but Stanford has far better coaching
If you look at who has higher ranked recruiting class rankings over the past 4 years, Stanford and Texas split 2-2
Curzan isn’t at Stanford anymore which greatly reduces their 2022 class and SwimSwam did a terrible job with their rankings in the 2025 class. Texas’s 2025 class has an insane amount of international talent that they greatly downplayed that should have their class ranked higher than Stanford’s. Either way, I don’t go off these rankings- you can easily look at the rosters and see that Texas’s roster is much more talented than Stanford’s.
*I am not including diving because I know nothing about it*
Texas has depth, Stanford has talent. Stanford will beat Texas in every relay and have far more A finalists at NCAAs.
Correct. Stanford dominated Texas in Austin
Alot of work still needs to be done to make up at least 91 points, if not more, of the 135 points lost last season (E. Kaye, M. Parker, A. Walsh, G. Walsh) for the Virginia Cavaliers:
W 50 FR
Sub 21.5
Greenwaldt, B.
Moesch, A.
W 100 FR
Sub 47.5
Mintenko, M.
W 200 FR
Sub 1:43 (W 4 x 200 FR-R)
Grimes, K. (if she wishes to participate)
W 500 FR
Sub 4:35
Gormsen, C.
Grimes, K.
Hartman, B.
Mintenko, M.
W 1650 FR
Sub 15:50
Gormsen, C.
That’s just the freestyle events. To T. DeSorbo, the message is clear: “Chop! Chop!”
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Moesch went sub 46 at the dual challenge and uva will be completely fine and we should get off this site. just need to find a way to stop myself
what’s special about 91
As of now, three swimmers who didn’t swim for Virginia last year (Curtis, Greenwaldt, and Mintenko) are projected to score 72 points. And that doesn’t include improvement trajectories for Howley, Moesch, and several others.
They’ll be fine.
They are projected to score more points at NCAAs than they have ever scored. Another asinine, ill-informed post from this guy.
UVA does NOT need any more 200 freestylers lol. curzan, moesch, canny, and minktenko have all been/can be under 1:42
It they have more, and more.
You may be correct and probably are.
tekSUCKS is better than Stanford, I don’t think so.
Tennessee’s record is 3-4, yet somehow move up the rankings? What a joke!
The SEC is vastly overrated.
Just like in Football.
Yea like Staaaanford can actually play football without crying and walking off the field without a big L!
Why you dumpin on our Big Orange Barefooted Coonskin Hatted Lady Vols? We have the best spirit, cheers and team synergy of the top 10 teams. With our mid year flash from Japan, we gonna rock relays, diving in our corner and Coach K will coach em up to a frenzy at SEC and NCAAs. Mike Wright is the greatest up and coming diving coach in the NCAA too! Go LV Empire!