Cal-Berkeley and Tennessee lead the way with the most swimmers represented by NCAA programs at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Cal has a total of 18 swimmers representing any country while Tennessee has 17 swimmers.
The NCAA put together a database with all of the data breakdowns on current, former, and incoming student-athletes that will be competing in Paris. There will be a total of 179 NCAA swimmers in Paris.
After filtering for swimming, here is some of the key data.
Top 5 Swimming Programs By Number of Athletes
| Cal | 18 |
| Tennessee | 17 |
| Michigan | 15 |
| Florida | 13 |
| Texas | 10 |
A total of 48 schools are represented with Cal and Tennessee leading the way. Notably, Cal also leads the way for the US team with six swimmers representing the US.
Out of the 179 total NCAA athletes, 172 of them compete at the Division I level, seven of them compete at the Divison II level, and Division III is represented by one swimmer. Bowdoin’s Alex Grand-Pierre will be the lone Division III swimmer in Paris as he competes for Haiti. (Note: we know that 172+7+1 does not equal 179 but Lamar Taylor is listed under both D2 Henderson State and D1 Tennessee)
Breaking down the conferences, the ACC leads the way with 61 total swimmers and is followed closely behind by the SEC. It is important to note that the database follows the conferences for this upcoming season, so there is no Pac-12, and Texas is included in the number for the SEC while Cal is now in the ACC. 18 total conferences are represented in the pool.
As expected, the US also is home to about a quarter of the swimming athletes. 44 out of the 179 athletes (24.59%) will represent the US. Canada is home to the next largest NCAA contingent with 17 athletes. No other country has NCAA swimmers in the double digits. In total, 67 countries will be represented by NCAA swimmers.
Other notable observations with the data include Matt King being listed under Virginia and Alabam (but not Indiana), Aaron Shackell listed as Cal and Texas, and 5th years such as Maggie MacNeil listed under LSU and Michigan.
“DUrDen CAnT coAch”
-probably Andrew
Adell Sabovic from Princeton is representing Kosovo in the 100 free. Go tigers!
lmfaooo i can’t even be mad when they’re giving credit to people that don’t even swim at cal.
Shackell is credited to Cal when he regressed and added in all his events before leaving and salvaging his career in time to make the olympic team
Paging mr. Andrew…
It took me a while to remember Emma Weyant’s year at UVA. Time flies!!!
Interesting list, after a very quick look at a few schools I see they gave Cal credit for Aaron Shackell and the Polish twins are missing from USC.
Lots of swimmers missing from USC who should have 12. And that’s without counting Ivan Puskovitch who is listed on the NCAA link above. So I’m not sure how accurate the list is…
They also say that Cal “leads the way for the US” as though they’re alone in that category when they’re actually tied with 3 other schools for that honor. And that’s only if you include Shackell, which you pointed out that they do.
Nevertheless, that is an impressive number of Olympians.
Murphy, Jones, Alexy, Armstrong, Curry and Weitzeil give them 6 without Shackell
Jesse Ssengonzi swimming for Uganda is from Chicago U . Isn’t that Div 3? He won D3 title in 1Fly 💪🏼