2026 IHSAA Girls Swimming & Diving State Championships
- Prelims: Friday, Feb. 13, 2026
- Finals: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
- IUPUI Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN
- SCY (25 yards)
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- Results on Meet Mobile: “2026 Girls High School State Championships” (or search “Indiana”)
The girls from Carmel, Indiana laid the groundwork for their 40th straight Indiana High School State Championship on Friday. Facing their biggest challenge in years, the Greyhounds’ depth shined through in prelims.
That was most obvious in races like the 200 IM, where sophomore Ellie Clarke (1:59.36), sophomore Leah Debosch (2:00.39), and senior Lucy Enoch (2:03.36) gave them three in the A-Final.
SwimSwam’s Unofficial Prelims Scoring, Top 4 Contenders (Swimming Only)
Note: this is swimming only, but only Carmel has divers entered among these top 4 teams
- Carmel – 313
- Fishers – 235
- Carroll – 227
- Zionsville – 208
That was one of 5 events where Carmel held the top seed after day 1 of the meet. In the 200 medley relay, Debosch, Molly Sweeney, Ellie Clarke, and Sophia Floyd combined for a 1:40.68.
Sweeney, a Tennessee commit and the biggest name on a team that doesn’t have as many this season as they have in the past, was the star of the meet’s first day for Carmel. She took the top seed in both the 100 fly (52.72), which is a bit of an outside event for her, and the 100 breast (59.53), which is a primary event. That 100 breast time missed her best by .06 seconds.
The three-time defending State Champion in the 200 IM made a switch to the 100 fly this year. While she would have been a heavy favorite to win the 200 IM event, the Greyhounds are much deeper in that event. They have no other scorers in the 100 fly.
In the 100 back, sophomore Ellie Clarke took the top seed in 53.35, leading the field by over a second. Her fellow sophomore Lilly King from Munster High dropped 1.3 seconds to qualify 2nd in 54.38.
The teams chasing them, Carroll High School and Fishers High School, had good days as well and will be locked in a good battle for 2nd.
For Fishers, a pair of freshman paint a bright future for the program. Rookie Audrey Wolf dropped time to make a pair of A Finals in the 50 free (23.48) and 100 fly (54.22). Her classmate Ashlyn Hayes made a pair of A Finals, finishing 4th in heats of the 200 free (1:49.29) and 6th in the 100 free (51.09).
Junior Emily Wolf, the older sister of Audrey, qualified 1st in the 200 free in 1:45.72. Amid last week’s Sectionals meet and Friday’s prelims, she has dropped about 2.7 seconds off her best time in that event.
An NC State commit, she’s also the top seed in the 500 free, where she touched in 4:43.23.
Fishers also wrapped the session with the top seed in the 400 free relay over Carmel, 3:24.52 to 3:26.25. That time for Fishers included a 49.26 split for the rangy Emily Wolf.
For the Carroll girls, the meet got off to a tough start when their 200 medley relay added time from Sectionals and finished 9th in heats, missing out on the chance at big A-Final points. A best-in-class sprint free group, though, pulled them back into the meet.
That included taking the top two seeds in the 50 free. Junior Maris Williams dipped under 23 seconds to take the top seed in 22.99. She swam three relays and only one individual event at last year’s meet.
Her fellow junior Kate Fetters, who finished tied for 2nd at last year’s meet, was 2nd-best in prelims in 23.06. She swam 22.85 at Sectionals last week.
Those two combined as part of the 2nd-seeded 200 free relay behind Zionsville’s quartet that finished in 1:35.45. Zionsville had nobody split under 23 seconds, but threw up a balanced relay to touch the wall first.
Finals start Saturday morning with diving prelims at 9AM Eastern and finals for swimming and diving kicking off at 1PM Eastern.
Before anyone complains about Carmel’s facilities and privileges that make state unfair, I’d like you to do a typical week of training that Carmel does. Not many other teams are willing to do 10 practices a week and create new limits everyday. The culture that is present there is unlike any other team I’ve ever seen and that is why we succeed. Not because of a pool or how big of a school we are, but because of our values.
FYI, I think I got different scores without diving:
CAR – 313
FISH – 235
CAFW – 207
ZION – 193
HM! IDK where we varied. I wrote out each score in each event. If you want to compare notes, shoot me an email braden@SwimSwam.com.
(Or we could just wait a few hours and yeet it).