2025 NCAA DIII Men’s Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Greensboro, North Carolina
- March 19-22, 2025
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Psych Sheets
- Defending Champions: Emory Men (3x), Kenyon Women (1x)
Last year, the Emory men picked up their third straight NCAA title, defeating the Kenyon men by less than 50 points. On the women’s side, Kenyon took back the title from Denison, who beat them in 2023, to win their 2nd title in three years.
The official psych sheets for this year’s championships were released today, giving us our first official look at the teams who will be competing for this year’s title.
Men’s Meet
On the men’s side, Emory and Denison have the most swimmers invited with the Denison men coming in at 18 athletes and Emory bringing 16. Last year, Emory was the school with the most invited athletes, and Denison was 2nd at 15. This would be Denison’s first crucial step in challenging for the men’s title, but the teams can only bring 18 athletes, including divers. Emory only has one male diver qualified for the meet, and Denison has two, so no matter how diving shakes out, Denison will have more athletes at the meet.
NYU has the next highest number of qualifiers at 13 and Chicago comes in just behind at 12.
Most Men’s Qualifiers By Team – Top 10
- Denison- 18 swimmers
- Emory- 16 swimmers
- NYU- 13 swimmers
- Chicago- 12 swimmers
- Washington University St. Louis- 11 swimmers
- Kenyon/ MIT/ Williams- 10 swimmers
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- Calvin University/ Hope College/ Johns Hopkins/Tufts- 9 Swimmers
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Men’s Links
Women’s Meet
The women’s meet could see a new champion again this year, based on the invite list. Reigning champions Kenyon had 17 athletes qualify last year. This year they are sitting behind Emory, who qualified 18, and Denison, who qualified 17. These teams may have to consider the roster cap with Emory and Kenyon both qualifying four divers to the regionals, and Denison sending three.
Kenyon is also currently tied with NYU, who also qualified 16 swimmers. NYU has the most divers of these four teams qualified for regionals at 5 total.
Most Women’s Qualifiers By Team- Top 10
- Emory- 18 swimmers
- Denison- 17 swimmers
- Kenyon/NYU- 16 swimmers
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- Pomona-Pitzer/Tufts- 15 swimmers
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- Williams- 14 swimmers
- Chicago- 11 swimmers
- Amherst/ Colby- 9 swimmers
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Women’s Links
Swimmers may be entered in a maximum of eight events, five relays and three individual events, but are only permitted to compete in a maximum of seven events, with a maximum of three individual events.
Once a swimmer is selected in one event, they are able to enter additional ‘optional” events in which they have the ‘B’ cut time.
This year’s cutline fell around 25 for the women, and 16 for the men. This is the same number for last year’s women, but the men went down a position from 17 last year.
Women’s Cutline Time – 2024 vs 2025
| 2024 Cut | 2025 Cut | |
| 50 Free | 23.52 | 23.38 |
| 100 Free | 51.23 | 51.01 |
| 200 Free | 1:51.63 | 1:51.49 |
| 500 Free | 4:58.43 | 4:58.57 |
| 1650 Free | 17:15.15 | 17:19.16 |
| 100 Back | 56.50 | 56.13 |
| 200 Back | 2:02.99 | 2:02.01 |
| 100 Breast | 1:03.92 | 1:03.44 |
| 200 Breast | 2:19.58 | 2:19.42 |
| 100 Fly | 55.69 | 55.48 |
| 200 Fly | 2:04.23 | 2:03.90 |
| 200 IM | 2:05.24 | 2:05.42 |
| 400 IM | 4:27.80 | 4:26.91 |
Men’s Cutline Time – 2024 vs 2025
| 2024 Cut | 2025 Cut | |
| 50 Free | 20.15 | 20.14 |
| 100 Free | 44.51 | 44.39 |
| 200 Free | 1:38.42 | 1:38.05 |
| 500 Free | 4:29.29 | 4:27.21 |
| 1650 Free | 15:42.66 | 15:36.67 |
| 100 Back | 48.61 | 48.67 |
| 200 Back | 1:47.52 | 1:47.04 |
| 100 Breast | 54.62 | 54.46 |
| 200 Breast | 1:59.76 | 1:59.71 |
| 100 Fly | 48.08 | 48.15 |
| 200 Fly | 1:48.41 | 1:47.90 |
| 200 IM | 1:48.96 | 1:48.81 |
| 400 IM | 3:55.79 | 3:54.62 |
Does anyone know how the top 4 teams are seeded to score for men and women?
We’ve got the data run, should be up soon…
Can invited relay swimmers swim events they have a B cut in?
Are you sure? It’s always been the case that relay-only swimmers may enter events in which they have B cuts. Just looked at several where this is the case (they are on the unofficial psych sheet for those events and they only qualified on relays).
Sorry sorry. Yes that’s right. When I see the comments, I just get a big stream on the backend of the site, and didn’t realize this was on a D3 article.
My mistake. Deleting my other comment so as to not cause confusion.
Yes, they are able to. Here’s the language from the Pre-Champs Manual:
Relay-Only Swimmers. A swimmer who has been invited to the championships as a member of a relay, but was not selected in any individual events, may swim in a maximum of three “optional entry” individual events (see below) for which the swimmer has achieved a “B” time. This option is not available for a relay alternate swimmer.
Yes they can
What does NS mean
In the psych sheet it seems to mean “Non-Qualified Swim” – if you are invited in one event I believe you can swim in two others, regardless if you have the B cut. For example, in the 200 Free the NS swimmers all have an at least one invited time, and in their other events they have B cuts or NS. The NS seed times are slower than the B cut.
One thing I picked up from this is nearly everything got significantly faster than it ever has been but thing is its only going to get much faster in the next few years I am predicting in the next 3-5 years in some events the winning time here will either barely make top 8 or not at all.
What a brave prediction to make.
Here’s the other thing I didn’t mention based off what’s to come from the house settlement one of the effects of that will likely be top tier talent looking at swimming D3 and I predict we see more top 50-100 recruits looking to swim more at D3 schools.
So all those guys going 19. High 43. Low are going to start looking at non D1 programs very soon. And it’s already happening from what I’ve heard too.
Denison winning would definitely not be an upset… they’re seeded to score about 200 points more than anyone else.
I believe Denison has 3 women divers qualified for Regionals. I’m not sure how many, if any, Kenyon has but none had qualifying scores at NCACs.
Tobe Obochi isn’t entered?
He graduated and got a job as a software engineer at Google.