All-day passes for the 2026 Women’s NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships are now on sale through the Georgia Tech website. The tickets are still not listed for sale on the NCAA website, but Georgia Tech posted the link to social media accounts on Monday.
- Purchase all-session passes here.
- Note: it does not appear that you get to choose seats.
- Ticket Sales for the ACC Championships, which have not historically charged, start on Tuesday, January 20 at 10AM Eastern Time. Click here for those tickets.
The price on an all-session pass is $180, a 38% increase from last year’s price of $130. The price increase comes along with a host of changes to the format, including automatic qualifying for mid-major teams, eliminating B finals to create shorter evening sessions and a whole new order of events.
Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center was the host venue for swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, and water polo at the 1996 Olympic Games. At the time, it had a capacity of 14,600.
Post-Olympics, that capacity was reduced to about 1,950 spectators, though with seating only along one side of the 50-meter pool, many of those seats are not along the 25 yard NCAA competition course.
Historically, NCAA Championship sessions have been lightly attended early in the week, with crowds increasing into the weekend. Even Federal Way last year, which has not been a popular host among teams or spectators in the past, was mostly-full for the Saturday evening session last season to see the Virginia Cavalier women and Texas Longhorn men win team titles.
With most of the best seats designated for team ticket blocks, meets at smaller venues have historically sold out very quickly, with only a handful of tickets being available to the general public. While the NCAA has stopped publishing attendance numbers for the NCAA Championships, in 2016, the men’s meet sold 13,306 tickets across 7 sessions: effectively a sellout. With tickets sold as all-session passes though, a sold out facility doesn’t always equate to complete sessions.
With most tickets being sold to friends and family of teams, or their highly-invested alumni, the $50 price difference is unlikely to impact attendance numbers.
Men’s tickets are scheduled to go on sale next Monday, January 19, at 10AM Eastern Time.
Do they ever sell single session tickets for the NCAA Championships?
At the door usually.
Thanks! One more question…if you buy all session passes, do you know if you could split it up and sell tickets to the single sessions you can’t attend? Or does it stay as one “ticket”?
Historically you get 1 ticket for each session in an all-session pass. So yes you’d be able to split up the tickets and distribute them to others (I don’t know if ‘selling’ them violates the tickets’ terms of use so I don’t want to say you can ‘sell’ them, even though we all know full well that people do so).
less swimming in finals makes me want to go less…
Yup
Less slow swimming adds to the excitement!
Have you actually been to finals with Consols? There is NO slow swimming.
But if you attend the Saturday evening session, you’ll be in for a riveting live watch of the most exciting races to witness. Allegedly.
Give A, B, and C scoring heats in finals.
More fast swimming to watch, heat up the team competition for places 10-20, and get a lot more mid-major swimmers racing for points.
Why stop with only the C scoring heats at finals? Perhaps enjoy A, B, C, D & E finals.
OR BETTER YET:
Repeat the preliminaries at night so everyone can have a second swim. Score every person swimming so all individuals present “score” in the meet.
This way all parents will get to see their child compete more!
To best reflect the integration of International athletes, change from “All American” to “All World” which is more meaningful and inclusive.
Eliminate all DQs; EVERYBODY scores.
A win earns 100 points descending to the number of swimmers in the event. (If 55 swimmers, last place gets 45 points.) Of course, double scoring for relays.
All we want are B finals
All I want is to have someone agree with me on one of my posts!
Yeah… Let’s charge 38% more for 50% less
finals swims…