The NCAA has released the official psych sheets for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships, and true-to-form, everyone ranked 29th-or-higher in the pre-selection sheets has been invited, along with a handful of swimmers on the 30 line.
Stanford’s Ryan Arata will be the first alternate – a position that is expected to come into play with the Texas men holding three diving invites to go with 16 swimming invites, and a roster limit of 18.
- 2015 NCAA DI Men – Official Psych Sheet
- 2015 NCAA DI Men – Official Alternates
- 2015 NCAA DI Men – Institutions Eligible for Relays
- 2015 NCAA DI Men – Official Invited Swimmers by Team (relay-only swimmers not included)
The top two teams from last year’s NCAA Championship, Cal and Texas, have the most invites again this year, but two teams that are trying to climb the hill with smaller, but equally-potent, rosters are USC and Georgia, with 13 each.
Also joining the ranks of the powers is North Carolina State, who earned 10 spots into the meet – fitting of their recent meteoric rise into the swimming consciousness. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the Arizona Wildcats, who are only bringing 5 swimmers on individual entry – a low point for a team that has historically been one of the country’s best. The silver lining for Wildcat fans is that included among those 5 are a pair of NCAA Champions, Kevin Cordes and Brad Tandy, which means that a top-10 finish is still in their sights.
The Virginia Cavaliers, meanwhile, have had a similar fall, and with no relays qualified, will be represented by only a single swimmer, Yannick Kaeser, at the NCAA Championships.
Teams with the most individual invites:
- Texas – 17
- Cal – 16
- Florida – 14
- USC – 13
- Georgia – 13
- Michigan – 12
- Stanford – 12 (likely to be 13 soon)
- North Carolina State – 10
South Carolina (Bernardino) has 4 times the number of swimming entries as UVA.
Just saying. Go get em Mark!!
Varsity Swimmer:
You must be thinking about Minnesota’s past success. The Gopher men finished in sixth place at the 2015 Big Ten Championship, which is their poorest finish since 1988. Hmmm.
Surprised that Minnesota’s hardly got anybody. The way they’ve been swimming, you would think that they would be on the list of teams.
I’ve just scrolled through psych sheets, and am I the only one disappointed by Cal’s freshman class? Only 3 invites. Weren’t they ranked as the best recruiting class by SwimSwam?
How do teams decide which swimmers swim the relays (chosing between invited and uninvited
athletes)?
Alright, I expect people to have scored this thing out by Friday. unfortunately the psych sheet doesn’t say a lot about how the meet will turn out. It doesn’t make a big difference if you win the relays or win individual events. It all depends on what teams show up ready to dominate some morning swims, and hope you get more 8th and 16th place morning swims than 9th and 17th place. Either way I’m ready for the meet to start and see some insanely fast racing.
formerlonghorn – Friday? Pffft. We had it done Tuesday. https://www.google.com/search?q=swimswam+scoring+out+the+psych+sheet+men&oq=swimswam+scoring+out+the+psych+sheet+men&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.4671j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
I like your style.
Interesting to note that Michigan has two top-ranked relays, with both of those relays having an uninvited swimmer contributing to that time.
Last year, I think 1:43.1 A made the A final in the 200 fly, not this year. 1:43.1 in the 19th seed.
That is incredible! Looks like it will take a sub 1:40 just to get into the top 3!