The Virginia ladies and Texas males have held agency on the high of the Faculty Swimming and Diving Coaches Affiliation of America’s (CSCAA) newest twin meet ballot, retaining their spots from the November version of the ballot.
The Virginia ladies garnered 425 factors. Texas maintained their second-place spot by additionally breaking 400 factors (408), whereas Stanford and Florida each moved up the rankings into third and fourth spot.
The Longhorns topped the lads’s ballot with 375 factors, 29 factors forward of the Hoosiers. Indiana’s 346 factors edged out Arizona State’s 342 factors by 4, whereas Florida took the fourth spot with 335 factors, climbing forward of the Cal Golden Bears.
Girls’s Ballot
Virginia and Texas not solely maintained their spots within the rankings however earned the identical variety of factors as they did within the November ballot. Because the 2024 Tennessee Invitational was scored as a tri-meet, the Cavaliers are an ideal 4-0 on the season.
The Indiana Hoosiers had been third within the November ballot however fell to sixth as Stanford, Florida, and Tennesee moved forward of them. The Cardinal haven’t competed in a twin meet for the reason that earlier rankings, however Florida gained as soon as and Tennessee twice for the reason that earlier rankings. The Gators moved to 4-1 on the season and Tennessee 2-1.
Michigan jumped from eleventh in November into seventh, coming into the highest ten. On the flip facet, Wisconsin fell to twelfth after getting ranked tenth in November.
Florida State is the one new program that entered the highest 25 this month.
Girls’s Division I December Ballot Rankings
| Rk | Prv | Group | Factors | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Virginia | 425 | 4-0 |
| 2 | 2 | Texas | 408 | 2-0 |
| 3 | 4 | Stanford | 389 | 2-0 |
| 4 | 6 | Florida | 375 | 4-1 |
| 5 | 8 | Tennessee | 357 | 2-1 |
| 6 | 3 | Indiana | 341 | 2-1 |
| 7 | 11 | Michigan | 308 | 3-0 |
| 8 | 7 | Louisville | 295 | 4-0 |
| 9 | 5 | NC State | 291 | 2-0 |
| 10 | 9 | California | 288 | 2-1 |
| 11 | 12 | Georgia | 253 | 3-3 |
| 12 | 10 | Wisconsin | 237 | 2-0 |
| 13 | 15 | Ohio State | 226 | 5-0 |
| 14 | 13 | Arizona State | 182 | 4-3 |
| 15 | 17 | Alabama | 178 | 3-0 |
| 16 | 14 | Louisiana State | 166 | 6-2 |
| 17 | 19 | North Carolina | 149 | 1-2 |
| 18 | 16 | Southern California | 146 | 2-0 |
| 19 | 18 | Auburn | 137 | 2-0 |
| 20 | 21 | Duke | 98 | 2-1 |
| 21 | 22 | Texas A&M | 89 | 4-0 |
| 22 | 20 | South Carolina | 72 | 3-2 |
| 23 | 23 | Minnesota | 53 | 6-1 |
| 24 | 24 | UCLA | 19 | 3-3 |
| 25 | NR | Florida State | 18 | 1-0 |
Additionally receiving votes: Pittsburgh (9), Virginia Tech (8), Miami (FL) (6), Akron (1), Missouri (1)
Males’s Ballot
The Texas males strengthened their maintain on the highest of the CSCAA standings, choosing up two extra factors than they did within the November ballot whilst they didn’t race in any twin meets between this ballot and the final one.
In the meantime, issues have tightened behind them within the high 5. Indiana and Arizona State have swapped locations, with the Hoosiers (1-1) getting 4 extra factors than the Solar Devils (6-0) to maneuver into second place. It was additionally introduced immediately that Olympic medallist Caspar Corbeau can be becoming a member of the Hoosiers as a mid-season switch, although that may not have figured in coaches’ votes for this ballot.
Final month, Florida and Cal tied for fourth. Now, the Gators maintain fourth place alone, as they earned 19 extra factors than the Golden Bears.
The Tennessee males moved up a number of locations, like their ladies’s crew did, transferring up two spots from eleventh to enter the highest ten. Michigan, USC, and Virginia all moved up 4 spots on this month’s rankings, whereas Minnesota fell from 18th to twenty fourth.
As within the ladies’s ballot, just one new crew—SMU—entered the highest 25 and did so within the twenty fifth spot.
Males’s Division I December Ballot Rankings
| Rk | Prv | Group | Factors | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Texas | 375 | 2-0 |
| 2 | 3 | Indiana | 346 | 1-1 |
| 3 | 2 | Arizona State | 342 | 6-0 |
| 4 | 4 | Florida | 335 | 3-2 |
| 5 | 4 | California | 316 | 3-1 |
| 6 | 5 | NC State | 290 | 1-1 |
| 7 | 7 | Georgia | 273 | 2-4 |
| 8 | 8 | Stanford | 259 | 0-2 |
| 9 | 11 | Tennessee | 255 | 2-1 |
| 10 | 8 | Louisville | 246 | 1-2 |
| 11 | 10 | Ohio State | 244 | 4-0 |
| 12 | 12 | North Carolina | 194 | 3-0 |
| 13 | 17 | Michigan | 186 | 2-0 |
| 14 | 15 | Auburn | 150 | 1-1 |
| 15 | 16 | Alabama | 137 | 3-0 |
| 16 | 20 | Southern California | 135 | 2-0 |
| 17 | 21 | Virginia | 131 | 0-2 |
| 18 | 14 | Wisconsin | 125 | 2-1 |
| 19 | 13 | Virginia Tech | 120 | 3-1 |
| 20 | 23 | Louisiana State | 85 | 4-2 |
| 21 | 19 | Georgia Tech | 83 | 3-0 |
| 22 | 24 | Florida State | 75 | 0-4 |
| 23 | 23 | Texas A&M | 65 | 2-0 |
| 24 | 18 | Minnesota | 47 | 4-1 |
| 25 | NR | SMU | 21 | 2-1 |
Additionally receiving votes: Princeton (15), Kentucky (10), Military (5), Arizona (2), Brigham Younger (1)
Division I Girls’s Ballot Committee
Brooks Fail (Southern Cal), Bex Freebairn (Missouri), Jerry Champer (Georgia), Ashley Dell (Illinois-Chicago), Ryan Evans (Kansas), Naya Higashijima (New Mexico), Zach Hinsley (Miami (FL)), Michael Licon (Akron), Maddy Olson (Minnesota), Pat Roman (Nebraska), Coleman Stewart (Duke), Leah Stancil (Louisiana State), Milana Socha (Dartmouth), Athena Spellman (Florida State), Graydon Tedder (Texas Christian), Nathan Lavery (Drexel) Brody Lewis (Utah).
Division I Males’s Ballot Committee
Cauli Bedran (Wisconsin), Jim Bolster (Columbia), Patrick Callan (Auburn), Graham Carpenter (Ohio State), Alicia Franklin (Denver), Reed Fujan (Louisville), Josh Huger (California-Berkley), Michael Joyce (Minnesota), Caitlin Kolbus (Kentucky), Brody Lewis (Utah), Jessica Miller Livsey (Outdated Dominion), Corey Manley (Arizona State), Tamber McCallister (Brigham Younger), Eric Posegay (Texas), Invoice Roberts (U.S. Naval Academy), Neal Studd (Florida State).
