Men’s Recruit Ranks: Individual Scoring For All Classes Through 2026 NCAAs

It’s post-NCAA retrospective time, as we look back at recruit rankings through the lens of now-updated NCAA scoring data. We’ve focused in on the senior class (after four NCAA seasons) and the freshman class (after their first NCAA showings), and now it’s time to share all of our data for the four classes currently making up the NCAA field.

Further reading:

• Revisiting recruiting ranks: High school class of 2022
• Revisiting recruiting ranks: High school class of 2025

We’ll also include this year’s freshmen and seniors to have all the data in one post. You can find further analysis of those classes above.

Notes:

• The data included is only individual scoring at NCAAs. That’s not an exact measure of an athlete’s contribution to a program: many of these swimmers (and others not listed) were relay scorers at NCAAs, scored significant points at conference meets and provided great leadership and culture-building for their programs. This data isn’t a perfect analysis of the best recruits – it’s merely a quick look at the data we can compile.
• Some of these athletes haven’t had as many scoring seasons as others in their class. Some redshirted a season and have more remaining seasons. Some deferred their enrollment as freshmen. Some sat out a year with a transfer. Some turned pro early. Some will turn pro early. Some are hard to pigeonhole into a specific class, international athletes especially. We did our best to group athletes where they best fit. Again, this isn’t a hard-and-fast ranking of value – it’s just the best data we can compile.
• The ranks are from our recruit rankings, typically compiled when these athletes were high school juniors. We don’t include internationals in those rankings, as it’s difficult to figure out if and when internationals will join the NCAA and which class they should be grouped with before they appear in the NCAA. Do bear in mind that our rankings were done well over a year before any of these athletes appeared in NCAA competition, so if you do have a quibble with a specific rank, you may want to check how fast that athlete actually was when the ranking was done before you get too livid. Unranked recruits showing massive improvement curves are some of the best stories in the NCAA year-in and year-out, and one reason we rank recruits is so we can better see which athletes had great rises during their college careers.
• All that said, compiling these ranks is a lot of data entry and a lot of research. If we missed anyone, or misclassified anyone with the wrong class or with the wrong domestic/international tag, please let us know in the comments and we’ll update our data as soon as possible!

SENIORS (HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2022, COLLEGE CLASS OF 2026)

• Read more on this class here.

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JUNIORS (HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023, COLLEGE CLASS OF 2027)

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Notables:

• Ilya Kharun scored a career-high 52 points to bring his three-year total to 139, leading all athletes in the class by a wide margin. The Arizona State junior reclaimed the national title in the 200 fly (1:37.66) after initially winning it as a freshman, and he also placed 3rd in the 50 free (18.24) and 100 fly (42.92), setting new best times in both. Kharun also contributed key legs on all four of ASU’s winning relays.
• The second-highest scorer in this class through three seasons is Rex Maurer, the top-ranked recruit coming out of high school who had a dominant sophomore year at Texas after scoring zero points with Stanford as a freshman. This season, although Maurer didn’t match his massive 57-point haul in 2025, he still scored 42, defending his title in the 400 IM with a new American Record of 3:32.96. Maurer also took 3rd in the 500 free, 11th in the 200 back, and split 1:30.76 on the Longhorns’ winning 800 free relay.
• Maurer’s Texas teammate Will Modglin hit a career-best point tally with 41, collecting top-eight finishes in the 100 back (4th), 200 IM (4th) and 100 breast (8th). He notably set a new American Record in the 100 back (43.26) at the Texas Hall of Fame Invite in November.
• A third Texas swimmer, Nate Germonprez, put up 33 points as a junior for his highest single-season total thus far, placing 3rd in the 100 breast and 5th in the 200 breast while adding a 14th-place finish in the 200 IM. Germonprez had a breakout season, moving to #4 all-time in the 100 breast (49.71) and joining the sub-1:49 club in the 200 breast (1:48.94), though he was a touch off those time in the NCAA finals.
• Five of the other six swimmers ranked in the top 10 of this class coming out of high school hit double-digit points at the 2026 NCAAs, led by Virginia Tech’s Brendan Whitfield. After scoring zero points as a freshman and then 1.5 as a sophomore, Whitfield put up 27 as a junior, placing 8th in the 50 and 100 free and adding a 12th-place finish in the 200 free. That came after a breakout ACC Championship meet that saw him win the conference title in the 100 free (40.93) and place 2nd in the 50 free (18.71) with a pair of lifetime best times.
• Competing at his first NCAA Championship meet, Indiana’s Aaron Shackell scored 12 points after taking 7th in the 500 free, having hit a new best time of 4:11.01 in the prelims. Shackell also set a PB in the heats of the 200 free (1:31.76), placing 17th. Shackell originally committed to Cal, then flipped his decision to Texas, where he spent the first semester of the 2024-25 season before returning home to Carmel.
• His Hoosier teammate Toby Barnett had a breakout performance in his third NCAA Championship meet, scoring points for the first time. Barnett set a lifetime best of 1:49.80 in the 200 breast final to place 6th, and also hit a PB of 51.53 in the 100 breast to tie for 15th and score a total of 14.5 points.
• Florida’s Jonny Marshall, ranked #20 coming out of high school, is tied with Modglin for 3rd in total points after three seasons of college at 74. Marshall was the NCAA runner-up in the 200 back this season, improving on his 5th-place finish in 2025, but in the 100 back, he failed to score, placing 17th, after taking 2nd last year with one of the fastest swims ever.
• The only Honorable Mention recruit who scored this season was Georgia’s Tomas Koski, who took 14th in the 500 free and tied for 15th in the 200 free for 4.5 points. Koski put up 31.5 points in his sophomore year, making the ‘A’ final of the 200 and 500 free while also scoring in the 1650.
• Among the unranked domestic recruits, Kentucky’s Carson Hick placed 8th in the 1650 free to score 11 points coming off his breakthrough 6th-place finish in 2025. NC State’s Daniel Diehl (a ranked recruit in the HS class of 2024 before he reclassified), Alabama’s Tommy Hagar and UNC’s Ben Delmar hit double-digit points for the first time this season, while NC State’s Jerry Fox (10.5), Northwestern’s Stuart Seymour (8) and SMU’s Jack Berube (3) scored for the first time as juniors.
• The top international scorer for the past two seasons, USC’s Krzysztof Chmielewski, surprisingly didn’t score for USC in 2026, though his 50 career points still put him atop the international recruit rankings.
• LSU’s Jere Hribar had a phenomenal season, punctuated by his runner-up finish in the 100 free at NCAAs in a lifetime best of 40.33, ranking him #6 all-time. He also placed 10th in the 200 free (1:31.30), scoring 24 points, though his total could’ve been significantly higher had it not been for a DQ in the prelims of the 50 free due to a false start.
• Five international swimmers scored for the first time from this class, led by Alabama’s Leonardo Alcantara, who took 6th in the 500 free and 11th in the 1650 for 19 points. Tennessee’s Nikoli Blackman was 10th in the 50 free and 13th in the 100 free, both personal bests, to score 15 points, while Michal Chmielewski, Krzysztof’s twin brother, set a pair of PBs to place 10th in the 100 fly and 12th in the 200 fly for 12 points. UNC’s Seb Lunak, who placed 19th in the 200 fly as a freshman to narrowly miss scoring by less than half a second, took 10th in the event to score points for the first time in his third championship appearance.
• Among the divers, Georgia Tech’s Max Fowler followed up his 18-point sophomore year by scoring 17 this season, placing 8th on 1-meter and 11th on 3-meter to bring his career total to 35 points. Florida’s Conor Gesing was the top-scoring diver in this class this season, piling up 27 points after placing 5th on 3-meter and 6th on 1-meter, to bring his career total to 30.

SOPHOMORES (HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2024, COLLEGE CLASS OF 2028)

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Notables:

• Only four ranked recruits in this class have scored in both of their NCAA Championship appearances: #2 Cooper Lucas, #7 Jacob Johnson, #10 Johnny Crush and #14 Jake Eccleston.
• Texas’ Lucas was 6th in the 400 IM and 14th in the 200 fly to score 16 points, a slight improvement on the 14 he scored as a freshman. Johnson, a Minnesota Golden Gopher who entered the transfer portal three weeks ago, placed 5th in the 200 fly to improve on his 10th-place finish as a freshman. Army’s Crush had a similar progression to Johnson, going from 8th in the 100 back as a freshman up to 5th as a sophomore, setting a new best time of 43.84 in the final. As for Eccleston, a Louisville Cardinal, he was 7th in the 200 breast last year for 12 points, and he scored in the event again this year, taking 14th.
• The top-ranked recruit in this class, Kaii Winkler, set new best times across the board this season, most notably clocking 41.10 in the 100 free, 1:30.92 in the 200 free and 44.62 in the 100 back at the ACC Championships. At NCAAs, after failing to score last season, the NC State Wolfpack member placed 6th in the 200 free for 13 points, setting a new PB of 1:30.83 in the prelims, while narrowly missing the points in the 100 free with a 17th-place finish. He was a key relay cog for NC State, throwing down notable splits on the 200 free (18.48) and 400 free (40.15) relays that finished 3rd and 2nd, respectively.
• Virginia’s David King had a breakthrough 25-point performance, placing 3rd in the 200 back (1:37.43) and 9th in the 200 free (1:31.17), setting best times in both, to help the Cavaliers place 9th in the team standings. King notably tied for 8th with freshman teammate Maximus Williamson in the prelims of the 200 free, but opted to forgo the swim-off to allow Williamson to swim the final, which he won.
• Also hitting double-digit points among ranked recruits was Luke Whitlock, who swam a portion of the 2024-25 season at Florida before transferring to Indiana last May. After setting best times in the 500 free (4:09.60), 1650 free (14:31.54) and 400 IM (3:42.69) at the Big Ten Championships, Whitlock scored 13 points at NCAAs with his 6th-place finish in the mile (14:34.30).
• Honorable Mention recruit Daniel Li has scored in both of his NCAA Championship appearances with Stanford, moving up to 11th in the 200 breast this season after taking 15th as a freshman.
• Among unranked domestic recruits, Florida State’s Logan Robinson leads the way with 23 career points, 17 of which came this season. Robinson placed 5th in the 200 fly and 14th in the 200 free at NCAAs, which came after a breakout ACC title victory in the 200 fly (1:38.78) and a runner-up finish in the 200 free (1:31.18) at the conference championships.
• Five other unranked recruits scored for the first time as sophomores, led by the Indiana duo of Alexei Avakov and Raekwon Noel. Avakov set best times to place 6th in the 100 breast (50.58) and 10th in the 200 breast (1:51.43) for 20 points, while Noel was 6th in the 200 fly for 13. Neither qualified for NCAAs last season.
• Virginia Tech’s Eli Martin set a PB of 1:51.08 in the heats of the 200 breast to make the final, where he placed 8th to score 11 points. Like Avakov and Noel, he also didn’t earn an invite as a freshman.
• Cal’s Yamato Okadome vaults into the overall scoring lead for the class after sweeping the 100 and 200 breast, scoring 40 points and bringing his career total to 65. Okadome set respective best times of 49.90 and 1:48.61 to win the titles, improving on his 25-point freshman year when he was 6th in the 200 and 7th in the 100.
• Pitt’s Julian Koch had a breakout season, scoring 28 NCAA points after placing 4th in the 100 free (40.43), 8th in the 100 fly (43.85 in prelims) and 15th in the 50 free (18.85). He also led off the Panthers 800 free relay in a 200 free best of 1:31.95. The German native, who didn’t qualify for NCAAs as a freshman, entered the transfer portal after the conclusion of the season.
• Michigan’s Lorne Wigginton, Arizona’s Tomas Lukminas and Northwestern’s Joshua Staples also scored double-digit points after failing to hit the board as freshmen. Wigginton was 4th in the 400 IM and 13th in the 200 IM, Lukminas was 7th in the 100 free, and Staples was 8th in the 400 IM.
• This diving class is dominated by SMU’s Luke Sitz and Tennessee’s Bennett Greene, who were the top two scoring divers of the entire meet this season.
• Sitz scored 38 points, winning the 1-meter national title while placing 2nd in the 3-meter event, while Greene was the only diver to make the final of all three events, placing 3rd on 1-meter and 8th on both 3-meter and platform.
• Four other divers in this class scored double-digit points this season, three of whom scored for the first time. Stanford’s Misha Andriyuk was the lone one who scored last season, following up an 11-point freshman campaign with 14 as a sophomore, placing 5th on platform.

FRESHMEN (HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2025, COLLEGE CLASS OF 2029)

• Read more on this class here.

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