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Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers which swimmer will score the most at the Women’s NCAA Championships:
Question: Who will score the most individual points at Women’s NCAAs?
RESULTS
- Torri Huske (Stanford) – 68.1%
- Claire Curzan (Virginia) – 17.7%
- Bella Sims (Michigan) – 5.1%
- Anna Moesch (Virginia) – 3.2%
- Other – 2.2%
- Lucy Bell (Stanford) – 1.4%
- Caroline Bricker (Stanford) – 0.7%
- Sara Curtis (Virginia) – 0.7%
- Miranda Grana (Indiana) – 0.7%
- Aimee Canny (Virginia) – 0.2%
With Gretchen Walsh out of the field following back-to-back perfect 60-point performances at the Women’s NCAA Championships, the picture at the top of the individual scoring leaderboard is more open in 2026.
We polled SwimSwam readers on who would take over the mantle as the leading scorer at the national championship meet in March, and Torri Huske, who collided with Walsh in two events last season, came out on top by a wide margin.
Last season, Huske won the 200 IM title, taking down defending champion Alex Walsh, and was the runner-up to G. Walsh in both the 100 free and 100 fly, scoring a total of 54 points.
Among returning swimmers, Huske ranked second in individual points last season behind Virginia’s Claire Curzan, who swept the 100 and 200 back and finished runner-up in the 50 free for a total of 57 points.
However, Huske dominated the poll with more than two-thirds of votes, with readers likely picking her to go three-for-three now that Walsh has graduated.
Huske currently leads the NCAA in the 50 free (21.01) and 100 fly (48.90), while she ranks 2nd in the 100 free (46.15) and 11th in the 200 IM (1:55.13).
Given the new NCAA schedule, it’s very possible the Stanford senior races the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly this season after she opted for the 200 IM over the 50 in previous years–the 200 IM now conflicts with the 100 free on Day 4, rather than the 50 free on Day 2.
Huske is certainly the favorite in the 50 free and 100 fly heading into the postseason, though the 50 has several contenders, and in the 100 free, her main challenge will be Virginia’s Anna Moesch, who has been on fire all season and clocked 45.98 back in November. That’s faster than Huske’s best time, which stands at 46.01 from last season’s NCAAs.
She could also opt to swim the 200 IM, though teammate Lucy Bell (1:52.65) currently leads the national rankings. It does look like a much clearer path to victory for Huske, though, given that her best time is nearly three seconds quicker at 1:49.67.
Of course, Huske doesn’t need to go three-for-three individually to lead the meet in individual points. She’s looking like a lock to score 50+ yet again, with a perfect 60 at play.
Curzan came out with the second-most votes in the poll at 17.7%, as she’s the clear favorite to repeat in the 100 and 200 back, and she’s also ranked #2 in the country in the 100 fly, sitting only 23 one-hundredths back of Huske at 49.13. The schedule change likely means Curzan will race the 100 fly as her third event instead of the 50 free.
Bella Sims, who only scored 34 points last season after two runner-up finishes to Curzan in the backstroke events and a 17th-place showing in the 500 free, ranked third in the poll with 5.1% of votes after transferring from Florida to Michigan.
Sims has raced a wide variety of events this season and looked strong. Based on the schedule, the 200 free, 100 back and 200 back looks like her most likely lineup, and it’s hard to bet against her finishing in the top three in any of them.
Moesch picked up 3.2% of votes in the poll as a legitimate national title threat in the 100 and 200 free, currently leading the NCAA in both, and in the 50 free, she ranks 6th but could land in the top three or four given how tight the event is.
The “other” category earned more votes than the rest of the options, which included the Stanford duo of Caroline Bricker and Lucy Bell, who scored 50 and 49 points apiece last season, respectively, and standout UVA freshman Sara Curtis.
We did not include the swimmers who joined their teams for the second semester in the poll–having dove into that subject last week–but it seems as though the majority of the “other” votes were made for those swimmers, specifically Anastasia Gorbenko, who has been red-hot since joining Louisville, and Alex Shackell, who 54.4% of voters believed will be the most impactful second semester addition in last week’s vote.
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NCAA finals is going to be so boring. It is going to be the same eight swimmers rotating through all the events for the majority every single night. Getting rid of the B finals is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of.
Anyone see Hafnaoui is confirmed? The 1650 at SECs will be wild next year. The Turkish kid va the Tunisian duo
Confirmed to UF ^
It’s not a foregone conclusion that Kos will score the most points lol
I agree but I think they just wanted him out of this poll, he probably would have won it.
If he does the 200 back/IM double he probably does but if does something like 100 fly he probably won’t
He’s doing the 100 fly today. I think Bob’s testing some stuff out. Fente-Damers in the 200 free, gotta get a third event going, Maurer in the 200 IM and 1000,
That could be for the medley relay. I think if he doesn’t do the double, the 400 IM makes the most sense. It translates really well to the LCM 200. No point in putting him in an event he can’t win, unless they are that worried that he might bump someone out of an IM final.
On a different note: what do you think Modglin’s and Maurer’s line-up will be? They both got screwed by the schedule change too.
Who voted Aimee Canny or Miranda Grana
lol whats interesting is that they both have teammates not polled who might outscore both of them (grimes and shackell)
Grana is better than flopkell
Liendo could conceivably score more points than Kos. I don’t see that third event for the others on the list.
Rex scored 57 last year and can do the same 3 events.
I don’t see him winning the mile with Jahuadi and Sarkany in the picture.
I also don’t think he’s doing the mile. 200 IM or 200 back would be my guess. I doubt Bob leaves him off the 800 free relay
Depending on Kos’s lineup, Liendo may end up scoring more points