The Virginia girls and Texas males stay the top-ranked groups within the nation because the School Swimming and Diving Coaches Affiliation of America’s (CSCAA) has launched its January twin meet polls.
The Cavalier girls have held the #1 rating all season lengthy, whereas the Longhorn males took excessive spot in November and haven’t relinquished it.
The CSCAA polls are primarily geared towards twin meet energy, fairly than predicting the ending order in a championship setting.
The CSCAA describes the method:
The committee, consisting of Division I coaches, evaluates and ranks the nation’s high 25 twin meet groups. Their evaluation considers head-to-head twin meet outcomes, latest performances for the reason that final rankings, season-long outcomes, twin meet data, roster adjustments (akin to accidents), and knowledge from the SwimCloud Simulator. It’s essential to notice that the ballot’s goal is to not predict the highest finishers in a championship meet format.
WOMEN’S POLL
The four-time defending NCAA champions, the Virginia girls don’t have any equal within the NCAA and are poised to run away with their fifth straight nationwide title in two months time.
Since final month’s polls have been launched, the Cavaliers have reloaded with the addition of two Olympic medalists to their roster. Freshman Katie Grimes joined the crew after committing in October, whereas fifth-year Alex Walsh made her season debut in January after sitting out the primary semester with harm.
Virginia cruised to a dominant win over Virginia Tech on Jan. 11, with Grimes and Walsh combining for 4 particular person wins.
Together with Virginia holding robust at #1, the complete high seven girls’s groups are the very same as they have been one month in the past, with Texas, Stanford, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana and Michigan rating 2-7.
The Cal Bears and NC State Wolfpack each moved up right into a tie for #8, beforehand ranked ninth and tenth, whereas Louisville, regardless of being undefeated in duals, slips to tenth after beforehand sitting eighth.
Georgia, Wisconsin and Ohio State stay eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth, whereas USC strikes up 4 spots from 18th to 14th regardless of struggling a pair of losses to Cal and Stanford final weekend.
Additionally shifting up 4 spots was the South Carolina Gamecocks, who’ve reeled off wins towards Virginia Tech and Auburn in January to rank 18th within the nation.
Girls’s Rankings
| Rk | Prv | Crew | Factors | Document |
| 1 | 1 | Virginia | 425 | 3-0 |
| 2 | 2 | Texas | 407 | 4-0 |
| 3 | 3 | Stanford | 391 | 4-0 |
| 4 | 4 | Florida | 367 | 6-1 |
| 5 | 5 | Tennessee | 365 | 3-1 |
| 6 | 6 | Indiana | 331 | 3-2 |
| 7 | 7 | Michigan | 311 | 4-1 |
| 8 | 9 | California | 293 | 4-1 |
| 8 | 10 | NC State | 293 | 3-0 |
| 10 | 8 | Louisville | 285 | 5-0 |
| 11 | 11 | Georgia | 250 | 4-3 |
| 12 | 12 | Wisconsin | 244 | 4-0 |
| 13 | 13 | Ohio State | 223 | 5-1 |
| 14 | 18 | Southern California | 183 | 2-2 |
| 15 | 15 | Alabama | 177 | 3-1 |
| 16 | 17 | North Carolina | 166 | 2-3 |
| 17 | 14 | Arizona State | 160 | 7-3 |
| 18 | 22 | South Carolina | 137 | 5-2 |
| 19 | 21 | Texas A&M | 121 | 5-1 |
| 20 | 16 | Louisiana State | 109 | 6-3 |
| 21 | 19 | Auburn | 87 | 2-0 |
| 22 | 24 | UCLA | 73 | 3-4 |
| 23 | 20 | Duke | 68 | 4-1 |
| 24 | 23 | Minnesota | 33 | 6-3 |
| 25 | 25 | Florida State | 19 | 4-3 |
Additionally Receiving Votes: Virginia Tech (5), Missouri (1), Pittsburgh (1)
MEN’S POLL
The Texas males have established themselves as a burgeoning powerhouse within the NCAA, following up a formidable exhibiting in November on the Texas Invitational with a pair of dominant wins within the final 5 weeks, toppling Georgia on Dec. 18 and SMU on Jan. 10.
The Longhorns grasp on to the #1 rating, Indiana stays #2, whereas Cal makes the transfer as much as #3 after beforehand rating fifth.
The Golden Bears shifting up comes after Lucas Henveaux and Mewen Tomac joined the crew for the second semester with shock appearances at their twin with USC on Friday, with Henveaux notably firing off a time of 4:11.17 within the 500 free.
The Hoosiers have additionally added sprinter Matt King and breaststroker Caspar Corbeau to their roster for the second semester, making IU a formidable, well-rounded crew.
It’s wanting like an actual three-horse race for the NCAA title in March.
Arizona State, which has gone 8-0 in twin meets this season, slides one spot to 4th within the ballot, whereas Florida additionally strikes down one spot after being handed by Cal, rating fifth.
Michigan and Virginia Tech have been two different huge movers within the high 12, with the Wolverines leaping up three spots into tenth, and the Hokies going from nineteenth as much as twelfth.
Michigan fell to Indiana on Jan. 10 however steamrolled Ohio State final week. Virginia Tech has been blowing out their opponents to date in 2025, dominating Queens, South Carolina and Virginia.
Whereas the identical 25 groups stay within the girls’s rankings, the boys’s has 4 new additions from December: Kentucky, Harvard, Northwestern and Princeton.
Males’s Rankings
| Rk | Prv | Crew | Factors | Document |
| 1 | 1 | Texas | 400 | 4-0 |
| 2 | 2 | Indiana | 381 | 3-1 |
| 3 | 5 | California | 360 | 4-1 |
| 4 | 3 | Arizona State | 358 | 8-0 |
| 5 | 4 | Florida | 330 | 4-3 |
| 6 | 6 | NC State | 313 | 2-1 |
| 7 | 7 | Georgia | 291 | 3-3 |
| 8 | 9 | Tennessee | 288 | 1-2 |
| 9 | 8 | Stanford | 284 | 1-2 |
| 10 | 13 | Michigan | 252 | 3-1 |
| 11 | 10 | Louisville | 241 | 4-0 |
| 12 | 19 | Virginia Tech | 205 | 8-1 |
| 13 | 12 | North Carolina | 197 | 4-1 |
| 14 | 11 | Ohio State | 188 | 4-1 |
| 15 | 14 | Auburn | 186 | 3-1 |
| 16 | 16 | Southern California | 171 | 2-2 |
| 17 | 23 | Texas A&M | 137 | 3-1 |
| 18 | 17 | Virginia | 125 | 0-3 |
| 19 | 15 | Alabama | 120 | 2-1 |
| 20 | 21 | Georgia Tech | 61 | 4-1 |
| 21 | 22 | Florida State | 60 | 1-4 |
| 22 | NR | Kentucky | 54 | 4-2 |
| 23 | NR | Harvard | 43 | 5-0 |
| 24 | NR | Northwestern | 41 | 6-0 |
| 24 | NR | Princeton | 41 | 8-1 |
Additionally Receiving Votes: Louisiana State (31), Arizona (22), Wisconsin (15), Minnesota (3), SMU (2)
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 Rowan (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).
