Both Texas and Virginia placed 14 athletes on the USA Swimming 2025-2026 National Team. That leads the way for all NCAA programs.
Texas, who notably won the 2025 NCAA men’s team title, led the way on the men’s side with 10 athletes named to the roster and had four women named as well. The Virginia women, who won the 2025 NCAA women’s team title, placed 11 athletes on the women’s roster and had three named on the men’s side.
Last year, Texas led the way with 14 swimmers, with nine men and five women. Virginia had 12 athletes named to the 2024-2025 roster, 10 women and two men.
Indiana had 13 athletes named to the roster for this upcoming 2025-2026 year. “N/A” also had 13 athletes, although that includes junior swimmers such as Rylee Erisman and Luka Mijatovic.
It is important to note that this these affiliations are based on the what the athlete specified during USA Swimming’s roster announcement. For example, Shaine Casas is listed as N/A despite spending three years competing at Texas A&M before he transferred (and went pro) at Texas. Another example is Regan Smith listed as N/A, although she swam one season at Stanford and currently trains at Texas.
Men + Women By College Affiliation (Alphabetical)
| Alabama | 1 |
| Arizona State | 7 |
| Cal | 10 |
| Florida | 6 |
| Georgia | 2 |
| Harvard | 1 |
| Indiana | 13 |
| Kentucky | 1 |
| Louisville | 2 |
| Michigan | 3 |
| Minnesota | 1 |
| N/A | 13 |
| NC State | 8 |
| Nebraska | 1 |
| North Carolina | 3 |
| Notre Dame | 1 |
| Ohio State | 3 |
| Penn | 1 |
| Stanford | 6 |
| Tennessee | 3 |
| Texas | 14 |
| Texas A&M | 1 |
| USC | 2 |
| Virginia | 14 |
| Virginia Tech | 1 |
| West Virginia | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 2 |
Men’s Roster By College Affiliation
| Alabama | 1 |
| Arizona State | 6 |
| Cal | 7 |
| Florida | 4 |
| Georgia | 1 |
| Harvard | 1 |
| Indiana | 9 |
| Kentucky | 1 |
| Michigan | 1 |
| Minnesota | 1 |
| N/A | 6 |
| NC State | 4 |
| North Carolina | 2 |
| Notre Dame | 1 |
| Ohio State | 2 |
| Penn | 1 |
| Stanford | 1 |
| Tennessee | 2 |
| Texas | 10 |
| USC | 1 |
| Virginia | 3 |
| Virginia Tech | 1 |
| West Virginia | 1 |
Women’s Roster By College Affiliation
| Arizona State | 1 |
| Cal | 3 |
| Florida | 2 |
| Georgia | 1 |
| Indiana | 4 |
| Louisville | 2 |
| Michigan | 2 |
| N/A | 7 |
| NC State | 4 |
| Nebraska | 1 |
| North Carolina | 1 |
| Ohio State | 1 |
| Stanford | 5 |
| Tennessee | 1 |
| Texas | 4 |
| Texas A&M | 1 |
| USC | 1 |
| Virginia | 11 |
| Wisconsin | 2 |
It’s weird that Virginia is the best women’s college swim team, but none of their 11 women on the national team are actually from Virginia. And also, the best swimmer in women’s college swimming is from Virginia, but she doesn’t swim for Virginia.
Texas doesn’t do much better, with David and Shaine being the only ones actually from Texas.
Who do you consider the best swimmer in women’s college swimming? Torri Huske? Also, I don’t find this odd. A lot of kids want to move somewhere new for college. It’s their chance to live anywhere in the country they want and a good growth experience.
Odd was probably the wrong word. Maybe “quirky” or “ironic” work better for what I was trying to say.
Yes, I think huske will sweep ncaa this year.
The *roster* of a public state school traditionally had more kids from the home state bc in-state tuition fees are so much cheaper. But the very fastest kids getting full rides have little incentive to stay in-state – and often purposely want to try something new. In addition – with Texas giving a full ride to each swimmer now, there’s no longer any advantage for them to recruit an in-state athlete.
i think you can make an argument that Curzan is the best swimmer in college, she’s very versatile in SCY (2nd in the 50 free!) and has 1 individual NCAA record to Huske’s 0 ( i know, swimming the same events as Gretchen is a curse)
wait no I agree she got more points than huske and an NCAA record. its not like huske went 2nd fastest of all time in any of her events