By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
As we continue ranking recruiting classes, we have made it to the #9-#12 ranked schools for the 2026-2027 NCAA season.
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Individual Recruit Rankings: Girls Final Standings Women’s 2026 Recruiting Class Rankings: Honorable Mentions Women’s 2026 Recruiting Class Rankings: #16-13A few important notes on our rankings:
The rankings are based on our Class of 2026 Re-Rank and our Top 10 NCAA Diving Recruits. “HM” refers to our honorable mentions and “BOTR” refers to our Best of the Rest section for top-tier recruits Like most of our rankings, these placements are subjective. We base our team ranks on a number of factors: prospects’ incoming times are by far the main factor, but we also consider potential upside in the class, class size, relay impact, and team needs. Greater weight is placed on known success in short course yards, so foreign swimmers are slightly devalued based on the difficulty in converting long course times to short course production. Transfers are included, though they are weighed less than recruits who arrive with five seasons of eligibility. We also take into account how many years the transfers have remaining. An athlete with one year remaining will be weighted lower than an athlete with four years remaining. For the full list of all verbally committed athletes, click here. A big thank you to SwimSwam’s own Anne Lepesant for compiling the index – without it, rankings like these would be far less comprehensive. Some teams had not released a finalized 2026-27 team roster at the time these articles were published, meaning it’s possible we missed some names. Let us know in the comments below.Honorable Mentions
Ohio State, Arkansas, Alabama, ArizonaPreviously Ranked
#16 Arkansas Razorbacks #15 UNC Tar Heels #14 Florida Gators #13 Wisconsin Badgers#12 Harvard Crimson
SwimSwam Ranked Recruits: BOTR Clare Custer (FL – distance free), #6D Victoria Wang (NY – diver), #7D Simone Hall (IN – diver) The “Rest”: Cindy Wu (China – free/fly), Emma Miner (MA – breast/IM), Frances Muir (MN – distance free/IM), Malia Ma (Hong Kong – fly/IM), Olivia Emmett (New Zealand – distance free)Harvard’s incoming freshman class is one of the few freshman classes on this list not highlighted by a swimmer. They have one SwimSwam ranked swimmer in BOTR freestyler Clare Custer, but their big additions are SwimSwam’s #6 and #7 ranked divers from the class, Victoria Wang and Simone Hall. They graduating their top diver Nina Janmyr last season.
Custer, the top swimmer joining the program, is a distance freestyler who is coming in with conference scoring times and as a likely NCAA qualifier. Her 1650 freestyle time of 16:09.72 from the 2025 Winter Juniors would have been 3rd at the 2026 Ivy League Championships behind two Penn swimmers who have now graduated. It also would have been 19th at the 2026 NCAA Championships, just outside the 16:08.76 it took to score points.
She is also a likely ‘A’ finalist in the 500 free with the 4:44.09 she swam at the Florida State Championships in November. This swim would have qualified for the ‘A’ final at the Ivy League Championships where she would have finished 6th overall.
She will be joined by Olivia Emmett from New Zealand whose converted 200 and 500 free times would have scored at the 2026 Ivy League Championships.
Malia Ma, from Hong Kong, is a potential Ivy League ‘A’ finalist in the 100 fly with her converted 53.0 coming in 4th at last year’s meet, just over a second off the invite time of 51.99.
China’s Cindy Wu is also a potential ‘A’ finalist with her converted times of 22.7 in the 50 free and 49.8 in the 100 free. She will also be a strong relay addition for the Crimson, who graduated two of their four sprint relay members.
#11 Arizona State University Sun Devils
SwimSwam Ranked Recruits: BOTR Alyssa Albertyn (IL – free/back), BOTR Riley Christensen (NV – distance free), BOTR Maya Hetland (CA – fly) The “Rest”: Belis Sakar (Turkey – distance free), Ellie Chalupsky (SC – back), Haddie Vohs (IN – free/fly), LJ Allison (TX – free/breast), Monica Leydar (Venezuela – fly/back), Olivia Colombo (TX – back/free), Rowynn Biffart (Canada – free/fly), Saeren Brett (England – diver)The ASU recruiting class of 2026 is one of the biggest on this list with three BOTR ranked recruits, three international swimmers, four domestic swimmers, and one diver totaling 11 new athletes on their team this season.
The recruits are highlighted by the three Best of the Rest ranked athletes. Distance swimmer Riley Christensen is coming in with lifetime bests that would finish in the top eight in the 500 free and 1650 free at the Big 12 Championships.
Maya Hetland lives and trains in California, but represents Norway internationally, and her 200 fly time of 1:57.04 would have finished 2nd at last year’s Big Ten Championships to the now graduated Deniz Ertan.
Their final BOTR recruit is Alyssa Albertyn, a freestyle and backstroker. She is coming in with a best 200 back time of 1:55.15 and best 200 free time of 1:46.46. She will immediately be a relay contender for the Sun Devils in the 4×200 free relay with her time, which would have been 4th at the 2026 Big 12s. Her 200 back time would have also finished 4th at the Big 12 Championships in an event where ASU had only one ‘A’ finalist in now graduated Gerda Szilagyi.
Belis Sakar, from Turkey, is another distance freestyler following in the footsteps of fellow Turkish distance swimmer Ertan. Her mile time converts to 16:22.74, which would have been 3rd at the 2026 Big 12 Championships to Ertan and rising senior Alexa Reyna.
Every new member of the ASU roster could score at the Big 12 Championships, which will only make ASU’s standing as two-time reigning champions stronger.
#10 Duke Blue Devils
SwimSwam Ranked Recruits: #20 Riley Anderson (CT – free/fly), BOTR Quinn White (MA – back/free), HMD Elizabeth Bircher (TX – diver) The “Rest” – Addison Bitel (FL – breast), Alexa Simmons (TX – distance free), Emory DeGuenther (VA – free), Gracyn Kehoe (WA – breast), Lily Doyle (FL – distance free), Reese Reilly (OH – breast)The Duke women’s recruiting class was made up entirely of domestic freshmen, including two SwimSwam ranked recruits and one SwimSwam ranked diver.
The class is headlined by #20 Riley Anderson, from Connecticut, who is coming in with a 50 free time of 22.07, which would be 3rd in Duke history in the event. She also has a lifetime best 48.82 in the 100 free, which puts her near an NCAA invite in both. She will also be a major relay addition for the program.
Backstroker Quinn White has a best 200 backstroke of 1:55.37, which is a little over two seconds off the Invite time of 1:53.27 from last season. She also is coming in with a 1:46.86 in the 200 free and 4:45.93 in the 500 free, which put her at or near the top of the program.
Elizabeth Bircher, a diver from Texas, was one of our honorable mention recruits when we ranked the divers last year, and she will also be joining the Blue Devils this season.
With their domestic recruits, Duke focused a lot on areas they were weak. They did not have anybody under 4:50 in the 500 or 16:40 in the 1650 free last season and on top of White, they also added Alexa Simmons, Lily Doyle, and Emory DeGuenther who will be major additions to that part of the team.
They also picked up a few strong breaststrokers in Reese Reilly, Gracyn Kehoe, and Addison Bitel. Duke had one of the top breaststrokers in the NCAA last year in Kaelyn Gridley, but she graduated in the spring. All three of their new breaststroke recruits are coming in with best times faster than Raylee Hunt’s 1:02.19, which was the 2nd fastest breaststroke on the team last year.
#9 Michigan Wolverines
SwimSwam Ranked Recruits: BOTR Mckinley Scobie (CA – sprint free), BOTR Gioia Balzano (FL – free/fly) The “Rest”: Hazel Huilman (CO – breast/fly), Ridley Hagerman (CO – distance free), Gilaine Ma (Hong Kong – free), Miyaka Chang (Taiwan – back), Haley McDonald (Texas transfer – back/IM), Julia Strojnowska (Auburn transfer – distance free), Kamryn Meskill (North Carolina Transfer – back), Mia Henninger (Mizzou transfer – diver), Nina Schwab (Carleton College transfer – diver), Rebecca Ciancagli (Cal transfer – diver)After picking up a huge transfer in Bella Sims last year, Michigan picked up another few transfers this season along with two BOTR ranked recruits, two international swimmers, and two domestic athletes.
They picked up two individual NCAA qualifiers in Haley McDonald, from Texas, and Julia Strojnowska, from Auburn. McDonald is a backstroke and IMer, and she set a new personal best 4:07.55 in the 400 IM at the Texas midseason meet. Strojnowska swims the distance freestyle events and she just missed earning qualification for the NCAA Championships this season but in 2025, she finished 39th in the mile.
The Wolverines also picked up transfer Kamryn Meskill from North Carolina, who swam on three relays for UNC at the 2026 NCAA Championships.
Three of their transfers – Mizzou’s Mia Henninger, Cal’s Rebecca Ciancaglini, and Carleton College’s Nina Schwab – will be additions to the diving program. Henninger was a 2026 NCAA qualifier, where she finished 18th in the platform event and Schwab is the DIII NCAA Champion in the 1-meter.
Best of the Rest Recruits Mckinley Scobie and Gioia Balzano will both add depth to the sprint freestyle program. Scobie was originally committed to the U.S. Military Academy, but she switched her commitment. She is coming in with a 100 free best of 48.79, which is two tenths off the NCAA Invite time of 48.60.
Balzano trends a little longer and her 200 free time of 1:46.11 is less than a second off the NCAA invite of 1:45.53. She is also strong in the fly events at 53.83/1:58.38. Both Balzano and Scobie will be potential relay contributors as freshmen, particularly with Brady Kendall graduating.
They also picked up Hong Kong’s Gilaine Ma, who will be another addition to their sprint freestyle program with times similar to Balzano and Scobie.
Even with the discount applied to transfers in the rankings, this is still a top 10 class thanks to all those new faces from other programs.
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