Texas Men Now Have the 2nd-Most NCAA D1 Swimming Event Titles

2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

The University of Texas men won 7 event titles last week in Federal Way en route to the team title.

That was their 16th team title, which extends their lead over the next-closest program the University of Michigan, which won 12 of their 14 official NCAA titles in the years 1961-or-earlier.

Michigan has another 7 unofficial titles won before 1937, where team championships were not formally granted by the NCAA but where contemporary newspapers declared champions regardless. While the NCAA calls them unofficial titles, those titles are listed in the official NCAA record books.

Texas would need three more to match Michigan in that column (earliest 2028) and four more to surpass them.

All-Time NCAA Titles – Official

Rank School Number of Titles
Most Recent Title
1 Texas 16 2025
2 Michigan 12 2013
3 Ohio State 11 1962
4 USC 9 1977
T-5 Stanford 8 1998
T-5 Auburn 8 2009
T-5 Cal 8 2023
8 Indiana 6 1973
9 Yale 4 1953
10 Florida 2 1984
T-11 Tennessee 1 1978
T-11 UCLA 1 1982
T-11 Arizona 1 2008
T-11 Arizona State 1 2024

Their 7 individual titles also moved the Texas men past Stanford as the second-most individual titles in history, and they are now just 9 behind Michigan in that category (those early meets did award official NCAA event titles, even if the team titles were unofficial.)

Texas’ current momentum would mean possibly 1, but likely 2, more seasons before they can catch the Wolverines. While Michigan doesn’t currently have any NCAA event title contenders, the Wolverines have built some momentum under second year head coach Matt Bowe.

There was no other movement in the overall rankings for event titles, with Cal (1), Indiana (5), Florida (4), Tennessee (3), and Georgia (1) sharing the rest of the awards.

Notably, Indiana swept the diving events to claim three of their five 2025 titles, with Zalan Sarkany‘s mile and Jassen Yep‘s 200 breast being the others. 27 of Indiana’s 101 titles all-time (26.7%) are from diving, while only 6 are in the breaststroke events where they have more recently risen to the top of the mountain.

All-Time NCAA Division I Men’s Event Titles

College Individual Championships 2025 Titles New Total Movement
1 Michigan 166 166
2 Texas 150 7 157 +1
3 Stanford 151 151 -1
4 Southern California 123 123
5 Ohio St. 121 121
6 California 103 1 104
7 Indiana 96 5 101
8 Florida 68 4 72
9 Yale 60 60
10 Auburn 59 59
11 Arizona 52 52
12 Tennessee 47 3 50
13 UCLA 41 41
14 Northwestern 31 31
15 Miami (FL) 30 30
16 SMU 28 28
17 Georgia 23 1 24
18 Arizona St. 22 22
18 Michigan St. 22 22
18 Princeton 22 22
21 Iowa 21 21
22 Minnesota 20 20
23 NC State 19 19
24 Alabama 15 15
25 Purdue 14 14
26 Rutgers 13 13
27 Harvard 12 12
27 Washington 12 12
29 Long Beach St. 9 9
30 Columbia 8 8
30 Navy 8 8
32 Illinois 7 7
33 Florida St. 6 6
33 Louisville 6 6
35 Texas A&M 5 5
36 BYU 4 4
36 Duke 4 4
36 La Salle 4 4
36 LSU 4 4
36 North Carolina 4 4
36 Virginia 4 4
42 Cincinnati 3 3
42 UT Arlington 3 3
42 Wayne St. (MI) 3 3
42 Williams 3 3
42 Wisconsin 3 3
47 Arkansas 2 2
47 Dartmouth 2 2
47 Oklahoma 2 2
50 Air Force 1 1
50 Amherst 1 1
50 Army West Point 1 1
50 Brown 1 1
50 Cornell 1 1
50 Denver 1 1
50 Fla. Atlantic 1 1
50 Frank. & Marsh. 1 1
50 Georgia Tech 1 1
50 Houston 1 1
50 Miami (OH) 1 1
50 Missouri 1 1
50 Nebraska 1 1
50 Oregon 1 1
50 Penn 1 1
50 Penn St. 1 1
50 Pittsburgh 1 1
50 SUNY Cortland 1 1
50 UC Santa Barbara 1 1
50 Utah 1 1
50 Villanova 1 1
50 Virginia Tech 1 1
50 Wesleyan (CT) 1 1

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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