It’s September, and that means the start of the college swimming season.
We’ve spent the past few weeks dissecting every possible aspect of the coming NCAA season. You can check out any coverage you missed here, with links back to all of our preseason coverage, plus a few hints at what’s still to come.
TEAM-BY-TEAM COLLEGE SWIMMING PREVIEWS
As we do every year, we previewed each of the top 12 men’s and women’s teams in the nation in-depth. You can find all our previews here, or on our College Swimming Previews channel.
NCAA Division I Preseason Event Winner Picks
We got 8 staff members to pick each event winner half a year out. See our picks here:
- SwimSwam’s 2019-2020 NCAA Division I Women’s Preseason Picks
- SwimSwam’s 2019-2020 NCAA Division I Men’s Preseason Picks
RANKING THE NCAA RECRUITING CLASSES
We also ranked out the incoming freshman classes, pulling out the 12 best recruiting classes nationwide for both men and women:
- Women’s classes #9-12
- Women’s classes #5-8
- Women’s classes #1-4
- Men’s classes #9-12
- Men’s classes #5-8
- Men’s classes #1-4
- Individual recruit rankings – Girls final rankings (June 2019)
- Individual recruit rankings – Boys final rankings (June 2019)
COMING SOON:
In addition, we’ll be rounding out our preseason coverage with an updated set of our traditional Power Rankings, as voted on by a panel of SwimSwam writers and updated to include newly-revealed redshirts and surprise roster additions. Stay tuned to our College channel to keep an eye out for those rankings.
Love looking into this stuff. Thanks SwimSwam!
The BEST articles for true NCAA swimming fans! Thank you.
Wild guess: Texas and Cal rank 1 and 2 for men. Not sure why, but I just get the feeling.
You mean Cal and Texas rank 1 and 2.
Nah, I wrote that right.