2026 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, March 25–Saturday, March 28
- Location: McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending Champions: Texas (1x)
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- Updated Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Video
- Scored Psych Sheets
Texas has added two swimmers to its roster for the Men’s NCAA Championships.
Longhorns Alexey Glivinskiy and Garrett Gould have been scratched into the meet following the withdrawals of Georgia’s Luca Urlando and NC State’s Lance Norris.
Updated Documents
Urlando announced he was dropping out of the meet on Thursday morning due to a minor injury, while Norris is missing from the most recently updated version of the psych sheets.
Urlando was coming in as the top seed and defending champion in the 200 fly, the 4th-ranked swimmer in the 100 fly, and he was also expected to be dangerous in the 100 back as the former NCAA Record holder (20th seed).
Norris, a senior with the Wolfpack, qualified for NCAAs in the 1650 free, where he was seeded 23rd (14:52.16), and he was also entered to swim the 500 free (32nd seed).
In their absence, Glivinskiy and Gould, who were the first two alternates when the psych sheets were released last week, will both swim in their first NCAA Championship meets.
This gives Texas 15 swimming qualifiers for the meet, moving them into sole possession of 2nd behind Indiana.
Teams With Most NCAA Qualifiers (Swimmers Only)
- Indiana – 16 swimmers
- Texas – 15 swimmers
- Cal – 13 swimmers
- Arizona State / Florida – 11 swimmers
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- Stanford – 10 swimmers
- Georgia – 9 swimmers
- NC State – 8 swimmers
- Michigan / Tennessee – 7 swimmers
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Glivinskiy earns his berth in the 200 free, sitting as the 26th seed on the psych sheets with his best time of 1:32.23 from the Ohio State Winter Invite in February. The Israeli native is also entered in the 200 IM (28th seed) and 100 free (41.86).
Gould picks up his qualification in the 100 free, with his time of 41.82 from last month’s SEC Championships ranking him 25th on the psych sheets. He’s seeded even higher in the 50 free, ranked 24th at 18.89, and is also slated to swim the 100 fly (28th seed).
Although he’s ranked higher in the 50 than in the 100 based purely on time, there were nine men earning automatic qualifying spots in the 50 who were slower than Gould’s time, while in the 100, there were only four.
With Glivinskiy and Gould moving into the meet, LSU’s Jacob Pishko is now the first alternate by virtue of his 14:52.88 time in the 1650 free.
ALTERNATES LIST
| Alternate | Row Number | Swimmer | Team | Event | Entry Time | Standard | Percent Rank | Secondary Event | Secondary Percent Rank |
| 1 | 29 | Pishko, Jacob | Louisiana State University | 1650 FR SCY | 14:52.88 | QS | 1.015133 | — | — |
| 2 | 29 | Oktar, Sanberk | University of Southern California | 200 IM SCY | 1:42.78 | QS | 1.012965 | 400 IM SCY | 1.009196 |
| 3 | 30 | Jones, Charlie | Wisconsin, University of, Madison | 200 FL SCY | 1:40.84 | QS | 1.028423 | 500 FR SCY | 1.003294 |
| 4 | 30 | Graham, Rian | Louisville, University of | 100 FL SCY | 44.93 | QS | 1.025591 | 100 BK SCY | 1.013394 |
| 5 | 30 | Johnson, Connor | VA Tech | 200 BK SCY | 1:39.64 | QS | 1.024476 | 100 BK SCY | 1.009721 |
| 6 | 30 | Witmer, Cole | University of Alabama | 200 BK SCY | 1:39.64 | QS | 1.024476 | 100 BK SCY | 1.003672 |
| 7 | 30 | Taivassalo, Brayden | Arizona State University | 200 BR SCY | 1:52.33 | QS | 1.022793 | 100 BR SCY | 1.002092 |
| 8 | 30 | Healy, Ryan | Michigan, University of | 400 IM SCY | 3:41.40 | QS | 1.021177 | — | — |
| 9 | 30 | Sauve, Antoine | Michigan, University of | 200 FR SCY | 1:32.26 | QS | 1.017779 | 500 FR SCY | 1.013678 |
| 10 | 30 | Sansone, Pedro | University of Tennessee | 100 FR SCY | 41.83 | QS | 1.016921 | 50 FR SCY | 1.021616 |
The NCAA format has always been a little more complicated than necessary. It would be nice if swimming were more like diving and just say you get x spots per event. But even diving gets a little confusing once you get to the bubble places. Still keep the numbers proportional to gender.
I personally think the conference finals champs are a cool addition, but just don’t include those in the numbers. Every conference should have representation, but this math is just insane. Sorry to the people in the mid20s this year. If you were that good, you deserve to be there. Hopefully the coaches realize this problem for next year.
Good for Gould
The system is broken when a row 29 alt gets in but not a row 22 18.83 50 freestyler
Yeah wtf?
I still can’t get over how conference champions who swam slower than Gould were invited before him
Perhaps good to get over it – but some prefer to wallow.
No. Thankfully there are some folks willing to point out the the absurdity in this modified format system. It’s not wallowing it’s pointing out the absolute unfairness in a supposed competitive sport where true competition takes a backseat to some stupid made up rules to include swimmers who don’t belong there. Thankfully at the girls meet fans were booing the announcement on the new consolation finals system and coaches were boycotting the finals. If you think it’s wallowing then you are supporting an effort to change the most elite meets in the world and punish hard working athletes for some misguided reason that it will grow interest in the sport and television ratings. The swimmers that were added to the… Read more »
Appreciate it!
The rich get richer
Nightmare!
YESSSSSSSSSSSS
Only in swimming do people get upset when a BOTR recruit makes it to NCAAs 😔
What the heck are you talking about Builder? Give a better factual basis for your position, please. Who was upset, who was the BOTR recruit, do they even have BOTR recruits in other sports? I suspect even regular readers of the SwimSwam comments section might not be able to independently provide these answers.
Glad you are happy; my suspicion is that it will make no difference to the eventual Longhorn point total, as they were already going to be there for whatever relays Bob determines they may be helpful on, and though one or both might be able to score individually, it would be surprising.
Enjoy the racing everyone!!
You are right. I made that narrative up. I apologize. 🙁
Also you and your factual basis… If only you believed in that…
Considering that that a BOTR means they are a consensus top 40ish recruit, and there’s 220(ish?) spots at mens NCAA’s… it’s not exactly that exciting lol
I find it very exciting when a kid commits at 20 point and goes 18.8 in two seasons to make NCAAs