Breaking Down The 2024 U.S. Olympic Crew By NCAA Ties

Two of probably the most dominant faculty packages in latest reminiscence, the Virginia girls and Texas males, headline the 2024 U.S. Olympic swimming groups by way of NCAA affiliation.

Future NCAA Commitments

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Males

NCAA Groups In the course of the 2023-2024 Season

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Males

Previous NCAA Groups (Transfers/Graduations/Went Professional)

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Males

A contemporary dynasty, the College of Virginia girls have gained 4 straight nationwide titles and have constructed Charlottesville right into a hub for a few of the high swimmers within the nation, attracting a few of the greatest recruits yearly whereas conserving a post-grad celebrity like Kate Douglass round after turning professional.

Together with Douglass, who gained the ladies’s 100 free, 200 breast and 200 IM on the Olympic Trials, Virginia shall be sending present staff members Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh and Emma Weber to Paris, together with a former member of the staff, Paige Madden.

In case you’re a Virginia fan, you’ll have one other American swimmer to root for on the Olympics, as 17-year-old Thomas Heilman, the top-ranked recruit within the boys’ highschool class of 2025 who’s dedicated to hitch the Cavaliers subsequent fall, certified for the Olympic staff within the males’s 100 and 200 fly.

Additionally sending a number of feminine swimmers to the Video games are Stanford, Cal and Indiana.

Of Stanford’s 4, Torri Huske is notably the one one at the moment coaching in Palo Alto, with Simone Manuel and Regan Smith now each at Texas with Bob Bowman and Katie Ledecky being primarily based out of Gainesville with Anthony Nesty.

U.S. WOMEN’S ROSTER

On the boys’s aspect, Texas leads the way in which with 5 swimmers on the U.S. staff, together with one present member in Luke Hobson, one future member in Aaron Shackell, and two former members in Drew Kibler and Carson Foster.

The fifth swimmer is David Johnston, who took a redshirt season and moved to practice with The Swim Crew in California, however is predicted to return subsequent year.

Along with Manuel, Smith and Madden, Texas additionally has male swimmers Shaine Casas and Chase Kalisz on the staff at the moment coaching in Austin although by no means having raced for the Longhorns.

Following Texas’ 5 is the Florida Gators, who’ve 4 males on the staff—although none of them competed for UF this previous NCAA season. Caeleb Dressel, Bobby Finke and Kieran Smith are three embellished former Gators—all nonetheless coaching in Gainesville—whereas Luke Whitlock is an incoming freshman recent off a breakout exhibiting in Indianapolis.

MEN’S ROSTER

When it comes to a mixed complete, becoming a member of Virginia and Texas with six certified swimmers is Cal and Indiana, each with three males and three girls apiece.

The Golden Bears put two future members, Alex Shackell and Claire Weinstein, on the ladies’s staff, together with graduated sprinter Abbey Weitzeil.

The lads put present members Jack Alexy and Keaton Jones on the Olympic squad together with Ryan Murphy, who will symbolize the U.S. males in each backstroke occasions for the third straight Video games.

Cal additionally has Brooks Curry (LSU) and Hunter Armstrong (Ohio State by the use of WVU) on the staff who practice in Berkeley however by no means represented the Bears within the NCAA.

Indiana landed post-grads Lilly King and Blake Pieroni, present members Josh Matheny, Anna Peplowski and Mariah Denigan, and incoming switch Matt King on the staff.

NCAA TEAMS RANKED BY U.S. OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS

1. Virginia / Texas / Indiana / Cal, 6
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5. Florida, 5
6. Stanford, 4
7. Georgia, 3
8. NC State, 2
9. 9 groups tied with 1 (Wisconsin, Tennessee, Ohio State, Texas A&M, LSU, Penn, Notre Dame, WVU, Michigan)