Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss Rylee Erisman reclassifying to 2026 and going to Cal, Audrey Derivaux to Texas, and recap the first week of Mid-Season Meet pandamonium.
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Coleman Hodges
Coleman started his journey in the water at age 1, and although he actually has no memory of that, something must have stuck. A Missouri native, he joined the Columbia Swim Club at age 9, where he is still remembered for his stylish dragon swim trunks. After giving up on …
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As an attendee at the CSCAA Duals, I can speak for most of the crowd to say that it was not a successful spectator event. Whatever excitement was generated evaporated during the endless 5-minute timeouts. There were 14 separate meets (7 Men, 7 Women); only 2-3 were even competitive. In some cases, the coaches didn’t put their best lineups out, in saving swimmers for a later match-up. In other cases, it was just an utter mismatch. UVA Women beat Michigan 43-1 and 40-17. ASU Men beat Tennessee 33-11 and 37-19. Michigan/Virginia Men came down to the last relay, as did Tennessee/Michigan Women. During most sessions, it was only two teams’ fans in attendance. And if the teams swam at different… Read more »
another suggestion for CSCAA dual meet going forward-
score men and women combined, go to next bracket combined.
very confusing when 4 different teams competing in same dual meet
I’m still kind of confused how Tennessee got so many commits…
No confusion at all – We have a great school, great pool, great coaches and are the Lady Vol NIL $ machine!
Same could be said about every school in the top 10… also the women have kind of underperformed compared to their seed at NCAA recently
Go rylee
I disagree with the Stanford women’s team prediction. I’m not convinced they have the depth this season to challenge UVA (unless disaster strikes like a relay DQ). And even though their relays were phenomenal at midseason, so were UVA’s.
Next year they lose not only Huske but also Lucy Bell, Gigi Johnson, and Kayla Wilson. That’s a huge amount of not only individual points to replace but also about half of their relay legs. Even with a class like Cal’s or Tennessee’s (which they don’t have) that would be a tall order.
Stanford is really good this year, and I think that their depth is much better than last year.
Huske, Bricker, and Bell combined for 153 points last year, they are far and away the best first three on any roster this year. Canny, Curzan, Grimes, Gormsen, and Moesch combined for 160. Hayes, Howley, Weber, and Wilson scored 55. UVA always takes 18 swimmers to NCAAs, but only 13 or 14 score.
Gigi Johnson (3), Natalie Mannion (2), Lucy Thomas (5), Emily Thompson (7), Kayla Wilson (13), and diver Anna Lemkin (14) all return. They are all swimming well, but Johnson (47.57 1free, 1:43.97 2free, 50.96 1fly), Thomas (58.72 1br, 26.09 split), and Thompson (4:04.39 4IM) are all obviously… Read more »
Canny, Curzan, Gormsen, Moesch, Howley ,Hayes had some great summer LCM swims,
and many great early season swims.
Add freshmen Curtis and Mintenko!
Weber, Grimes, Wilson, Greenwaldt, others will score
As for your last point, I really hope NCAA finds a way to give B finalists a second swim!
E$PN last Saturday broadcast 2 hours of NCAA Cross Country Championships.
1 womens race lasting 20 minutes, 1 mens race lasting 30 minutes!!
No changes there to “attract more viewers”
@SwimSwam article idea score out ncaas after cals midseason meet next month. kinda a lot of work bc youll also need to make adjustments based on event selection (maybe just chose the top 3 scoring swims) & subbing in addups for teams that havent swum particular relays yet (uva 800 free).
but could be interesting to see what the gap is!
I mean…the Swimulator can do this on demand. But we’re happy to do an article about it too!
https://swimswam.com/swimulator/
Swimulator gives Virginia 560 points (giving UVA 4th in the 800 FR) to Stanford’s 388. Stanford will score some diving points and there will be some changes based on upcoming Invites next weekend – but these should impact UVA and Stanford similarly. Virginia has 10 Women seeded to score at least 20 points (in order: Curzan 57, Moesch 52, Canny 43, Curtis 42, Grimes 36, Howley 34, Hayes 31, Mintenko 25, Weber 20 and C Gormsen 20) and 5 more scoring. After Midseason last year, Swimulator had UVA with 457 points, Texas at 418, Stanford 352. Final scores: UVA 544, Stanford 417, Texas 394. Draw your own conclusions.
On the women’s side, I sincerely don’t see a NCAA Record broken in Jan.
On the women’s side, the SEC is overrated:
tekSUCKS
Tennessee
On the women’s side, the SEC is overrrated:
tekSUCKS
Tennessee
Florida
Really curious if Todd used a lot of his recruiting money to really go for a 6th championship in a row, and so had to punt this recruiting class. Just given their track record, I would imagine they’ll coming roaring back with a strong following class or a slate of transfers / international recruits. At this point in the post-NIL landscape, Bowman, Durden, and Desorbo seem to take the recruiting style that’s been seen lately in college basketball with aggressive transfers or international talent that are more likely to be a proven impact immediately than just relying on rising HS seniors who may need more time to develop.
what are you talking about