2026 Collegiate Club Swimming National Championships
- April 10-12, 2026
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Short Course Yards (25 yards), Prelims/Finals
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The College Club Swim Team Nationals meet kicked off on Friday and after one day of competition, the Cal Poly Swim Club holds the overall lead on both sides.
The women have 305 total points, bringing them in about 80 points ahead of the Grand Canyon University Swim Club, which has 228. The men are in the lead with 351 points, about 100 points ahead of the UNC Club Swim Team’s score of 239.
Overall, eight CCS records fell on night one, and UNC’s Walker Davis was part of three of them.
Women’s Top 5
- Cal Poly — 305
- Grand Canyon — 228
- Georgia Tech — 181
- Virginia — 179
- Michigan — 153
Men’s Top 5
- Cal Poly — 351
- UNC — 239
- Liberty — 227.5
- Georgia Tech — 165
- Virginia — 140
Combined Top 5
- Cal Poly — 656
- Georgia Tech — 346
- UNC — 343
- Virginia — 319
- Grand Canyon — 278
UNC club swimmer Walker Davis swam for the UNC varsity team from 2021-2025 until his graduation, and he is making his mark at this year’s meet.
In the prelims, he set two CCS records in the 100 backstroke and 50 free, swimming 46.13 in the 100 back and 19.62 in the 50 free.
In finals, he swam the 100 backstroke in 45.81, taking three tenths off his prelims record and more than a second off the Club Nationals meet record of 46.84 which was set by Alan Maher back in 2012. Davis also cut three seconds off the CCS record of 48.55, which is slightly slower because the CCS was established in 2017.
Davis was about six tenths off his lifetime best in the event of 45.24, which he swam at the 2025 ACC Championships. UNC’s James Bennison finished 2nd in 49.33.
Later in the session, he raced the 50 freestyle, swimming 19.28 in the final to cut more than three tenths off his prelims record and seven tenths off the former record time of 19.94 set by USC’s Billy Cruz Zuniga in 2023. This was a new personal best for Davis, who came into the meet at 19.37 from November.
The 2nd place finisher, Cal Poly’s Lucas Crother-Collado, and the 3rd place finisher, Arizona’s Scott Edmiston, also came in under the record, touching in 19.78 and 19.85 respectively.
Finally, Davis swam the backstroke leg on UNC’s 400 medley relay that swam 3:13.25 to take five seconds off the former record of 3:18.40 set by Purdue back in 2024. Davis led the team off in his 3rd 100 backstroke record of the day, touching in 45.75 to cut another six hundredths off his finals time of 45.81.
The rest of the relay was made up of John Donovan on breaststroke (54.76), Everett Oehler on fly (47.50), and Harrison Gardner on free (45.24).
The first event of the men’s meet, the 800 freestyle relay, also saw a new CCS and Meet Record. Cal Poly swam 6:38.22 with their team of Gavin Tallman (1:40.33), Joshua Olson (1:41.27), Lucas Crother-Collado (1:37.14), Vaughn Taner (1:39.48). They cut four seconds off the former record time of 6:42.74 set by Liberty in 2023.
One of the most exciting events of the session was the men’s 100 breaststroke. In the event prelims, Alex Seybold swam 53.28 to come in under the former CCS and meet record time of 54.01 set by Jayson Hansen in 2019.
In the final, Kent State’s Richard Kurlich swam the top time of 53.34, earning the gold medal and beating Seybold’s 53.39 by just five hundredths. Seybold will still hold the record, though, since neither swimmer broke his prelims record of 53.28. Cal Poly’s Sam Seybold was 3rd in 53.82.
Seybold picked up a win of his own and another CCS and Meet record in the 400 IM, swimming 3:49.16 to earn the win by almost nine seconds over Georgia Tech’s Ryan Altera, who was 3:57.89 to also come in under the records for 2nd. Seybold’s time broke Tim Koza’s 2023 record of 3:59.50.
There were two records set on the women’s side as well with North Georgia’s Meagan Davis swimming the women’s 100 breaststroke in 1:02.33 to win the final by more than a second over Cal Poly’s Melia Costa. Davis took almost a second off her prelims record time of 1:03.23 and more than a second off the former CCS and meet record time of 1:03.37 set by Kasey Venn in 2023.
Michigan’s Katherine Blake won the 400 IM in 4:26.73, taking six seconds off her 2025 CCS record time of 4:32.28 and four seconds off the 2015 meet record time of 4:30.94 set by Melissa Andruzzi back in 2015. She touched nearly 10 seconds ahead of the rest of the field with Michigan State’s Allison Alguire finishing 2nd in 4:36.24
Other Event Winners
- Women’s 800 Free Relay: Cal Poly — 7:48.40; Amalie Claus-Udarbe (1:56.61), Piper Whitty (1:56.81), Paige Tomek (1:57.97), Ella Krampert (1:57.01)
- Women’s 100 Back: Diana Kolb (Texas A&M) — 56.28
- Women’s 50 Free: Rachel Fulton (Georgia Tech) — 23.28
- Women’s 200 Fly: Clara Armstrong — 2:08.95
- Men’s 200 Fly: Josean Massucco — 1:50.20
- Women’s 400 Medley Relay: Cal Poly — 3:56.44; Brooke Javor (59.04), Melia Costa (1:03.68), Ella Krampert (1:00.33), Piper Whitty (53.39)
Unless I’m mistaken, Katherine Blake broke her own 400 IM record…
Maybe you should have stayed for 4IM. That was th biggest record break of the night.
People complaining fail to realize that this is the future of college swimming unless the NCAA coaches find a way to monetize their product. The navel-gazing from those coaches as their golden-goose paycheck disappears is embarrassing to watch.
CCS is amazing, and the addition of elite athletes will only make it better. Of course many current “national” qualifiers will eventually need to make Regionals their championships, and that’s okay. I can’t imagine any of those swimmers have any delusions that they are world-class elite swimmers. Most are solid high school and USA Swimming competitors who now train 25% of the yardage they did back then and are thrilled to get close to their best times.
But there is no final meet outside of nationals. Regionals are in November, like a ncaa invite meet, where people get cuts, and taper mid season.
For people missing nationals, which will happen more and more, they will end on a random small meet.
It seems fair to let undergrads swim who got cut from their teams. Graduates who already swam 4 years in college, not so much.
Rich K from Kent State is 26 years old and all over the podiums. No one complained or cared.
I don’t love this. The point of CCS is to give people who were fatigued with intense swimming and chose not to swim in college, or perhaps didn’t get that opportunity, to have their own space to swim with less stress and on their own volition. It’s supposed to be fun and not insanely competitive. I don’t think it’s cool for former college swimmers to come into the CCS space and show hey guys look how fast I am and y’all arent!
*with exceptions for clubs like Michigan State or Cal Poly of course
but then where do they go?
Ummm masters nationals
How’d you come to that decision?
This feels more like what masters should be for.
I disagree 1000%. We should encourage people of all different abilities to participate. I love that this guy gets an opportunity to continue to do the sport he clearly loves.
The worst thing is to have people who love our sport, not have an opportunity to participate. He’s following the rules and throwing down – all the respect to those who are the “man in the arena” as Teddy Roosevelt said.
I feel like then you’re defeating the point of a Club national championship with cut times. The purpose is clearly for people who want to compete to be able to do so. If that’s a guy with exhausted eligibility then so be it.
Fun fact. The previous record holder in the 100BK was also a former student athlete who was finished swimming collegiately at Texas.
This is the same mindset all of those D3 coaches had last year about Derek Maas not being a “real” D3 swimmer when they were voting for swimmer of the year.
Why? It’s pretty much masters swimming just on a university level. Have a good time, do your best or as best as you want to.
8 and under swimming with credit cards 🙂
it’s a Masters meet … all 18 and over are welcome.
We got guys going 45 backstroke at club nationals? What sport is this
This is a great meet. The drops are huge!
And the kind of thing coaches can learn from. Most of these kids don’t do 20 hrs a week, I’d guess. But they have FUN and are bought in to what they do…and that makes a bigger difference than anything.