2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Wednesday, March 18 – Saturday, March 21, 2026
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending Champions: Virginia (5x)
- Championship Central
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Video
The NCAA has officially released the psych sheet for the 2026 Women’s NCAA DI Swimming and Diving Championships, along with the alternate list, eligible relays, and entries by team. They will be releasing the qualified divers list on Thursday, March 12.
This year’s meet will run from March 18th-21st in Atlanta Georgia at the McAuley Aquatic Center.
You can see all the documents here:
Updated after Ashley McMillan scratch
SwimSwam’s projected cutline was exactly accurate, with the University of Virginia leading the rankings with 18 swimming qualifiers, two more than Stanford who comes in with 16, and three more than Texas who sits at 15.
Teams With Most NCAA Qualifiers (Swimmers Only)
- Virginia — 18 swimmers
- Stanford — 16 swimmers
- Texas — 15 swimmers
- Cal — 14 swimmers
- Louisville — 12 swimmers
- Tennessee — 11 swimmers
- Florida/Michigan/Ohio State — 10 swimmers
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- NC State/USC/Wisconsin — 9 swimmers
Alternates List
Just as projected, UCLA’s Sarah Bennetts will be the first alternate for the meet with her 59.55 in the 100 breaststroke as she was the final remaining swimmer in line 39.
Updated: Sarah Bennetts has been pulled into the meet. Read more here.
| Swimmer | Age | School | Time | Line | Percentage of NCAA standard. |
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| De | Goeij, Fernanda | 25 | Kentucky, University of-SEC | 4:09.43 | 40 | 1.015114461 |
400 Individual Medley
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| Reese, | Addison | 20 | Florida, University of-SEC | 1:56.28 | 40 | 1.007137943 | 200 Butterfly |
| Driscoll, | Tyler | 21 | North Carolina State University ACC | 21.93 | 41 | 1.015959872 | 50 Freestyle |
| Wozniak, | Julia | 22 | Arizona, University of-Big 12 | 21.93 | 41 | 1.015959872 | 50 Freestyle |
| Muzzy, | Ava | 20 | North Carolina, University of, Chapel Hill-ACC | 4:09.45 | 41 | 1.015033073 |
400 Individual Medley
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| Eden, | Jessica | 22 | Ohio State University-B1G | 4:09.45 | 41 | 1.015033073 |
400 Individual Medley
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| Parker, | Maddy | 21 | Southern Methodist University (W)-ACC | 47.94 | 41 | 1.013767209 | 100 Freestyle |
| IGNATOVA, | Xeniya | 20 | Louisville, University of-ACC | 1:53.35 | 41 | 1.012792236 | 200 Backstroke |
| Furse, | Shea | 21 | Georgia, University of-SEC | 1:44.31 | 41 | 1.011695906 | 200 Freestyle |
Cutline Progression
With the addition of automatic bids via conference championship, it was harder to determine the “invite time”, but we just used the time of the last invited swimmer who was not an automatic qualifier.
Some of the events, like the 200 free and 50 free got significantly faster, while others, like the 500 free and 1650 free got slightly slower, even with auto qualifiers.
| EVENT (SCY) | 2022 INVITE TIME | 2023 INVITE TIME | 2024 Invite time | 2025 Invite Time | 2026 Invite Time |
| 50 free | 22.16 | 22.15 | 22.11 | 22.01 | 21.92 |
| 100 free | 48.44 | 48.37 | 48.34 | 48.11 | 47.85 |
| 200 free | 1:45.42 | 1:45.31 | 1:44.80 | 1:44.74 | 1:44.00 |
| 500 free | 4:43.08 | 4:41.09 | 4:41.19 | 4:39.47 | 4:41.47 |
| 1650 free | 16:16.47 | 16:13.73 | 16:14.82 | 16:09.37 | 16:15.74 |
| 100 back | 52.46 | 52.36 | 52.28 | 51.68 | 51.7 |
| 200 back | 1:53.97 | 1:53.94 | 1:54.01 | 1:53.31 | 1:53.27 |
| 100 breast | 59.87 | 59.73 | 59.75 | 59.51 | 59.53 |
| 200 breast | 2:09.15 | 2:09.68 | 2:09.55 | 2:09.58 | 2:08.77 |
| 100 fly | 52.35 | 52.2 | 51.88 | 51.87 | 51.99 |
| 200 fly | 1:56.14 | 1:55.92 | 1:55.88 | 1:55.82 | 1:56.22 |
| 200 IM | 1:56.85 | 1:56.90 | 1:57.03 | 1:56.69 | 1:57.20 |
| 400 IM | 4:11.60 | 4:11.36 | 4:10.74 | 4:09.53 | 4:08.80 |
Keep the ball rolling on the University of Virginia women’s swimming articles:
Canny, Aimee
Curtis , Sara
Curzan, Claire
15 more to go. No rest for the weary.
When can I begin complaining that there is only an all-session pass for $180? This is the most expensive that I can remember. And, we are paying more for half the swimming in finals (and for anyone who is tempted to say “but it’s really fast swimming,” the B-final has historically been really fast swimming too). Anyone know if single session tickets will be available at the door?
Probably not.
At the major conference meets there were standing room only tickets available at the door.
Just bite the bullet and enjoy really fast swimming during prelims and then extremely fast swimming at night.
Thanks,I will have to bite the bullet. Was hoping for single sessions since I can only make 2 days. And, like many, I’m still irked by not including the B final (my swimmer is seeded in the B final range for her events).
Doesn’t your swimmer get two tickets for free? Thought that was standard.
Understand – BUT at least it is not the NCAA FOOTBALL Championship game in Miami or you might have paid $5,000 – $50,000 for a one event game!
Kinda crazy how much depth there is in sprint free right now
Is this the final psych sheet or will invited athletes now be able to add events where they have a qualifying time?
That should have been done as part of their entries, so this should be the final one.
This is the final psych sheet barring scratches. Everything below the dashed line is a bonus swim.
How many accept then DFS an event at meet?
It is astounding how fast and deep the freestyles have become. At least 200 down.
Last year there were two from line 38 (500 Free & 1650 Free) that made into the meet and this article said that there was one swimmer in line 39 that was not invited. Will be interesting to see what the line would been under the old system
Yeah, sort of implies it would have been much deeper right?
Think so, but I don’t have a setup done it easily run the numbers so I will leave to for people that already have that setup and can do it quicker than me.
AQs actually push the line deeper than it would be otherwise. It’s much more likely they have multiple AQs that wouldn’t have been invited compared to whoever would have been the 39th person in an event and just had the one qualifying swim. So in those trade offs your replacing two or three swimmers with one which pulls more people in
I assume you mean more people per events (more lines/rows) since the total number of swimmers is the same.
The faster cut times did have an impact on the number of heats for the meet this year, but we cannot say that R is 1 since we have a different order of events, slightly different selection pool etc as well. Here are just a few things I looked at for this year vs last year:
500 Free 55 vs 70
200 IM 46 vs 68
50 free 54 vs 79
1650 free 41 vs 41
Who was the lowest seeded female swimmer to at least qualify for the Consolation Final last year?