By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
The new NCAA Championship qualifying system announced on Friday brings an exciting new element to mid-major conference championship meets.
Previously, NCAA qualifiers were determined strictly based on performances throughout the season, with 235 male swimmers and 281 women earning berths.
Now, if a swimmer wins a mid-major conference title and goes under the new time standard in their conference-winning swim, they automatically earn a berth to the NCAA Championships, regardless of where they stack up in the overall national rankings.
Given this change, we dug into some of last season’s results to see how the selection process for the 2025 NCAA Championships would’ve looked with this new wrinkle.
Thank you to Rob Chelle for providing the outline and men’s data for this article.
Who’s In
In order to determine the mid-major swimmers who would’ve qualified for NCAAs last season (but didn’t), we first took a look at the conference-winning times from all of the mid-major conferences that are eligible. We then listed out all the conference-winning performances that were faster than the new qualifying time, but slower than the 2025 invite (cutline) time. (Anyone who went faster qualified for NCAAs.) We then go through the list of swimmers who produced these times in conference championship finals and see if any of them qualified for NCAAs by going faster at a different point in the season, and remove them from the “new qualifier” list.Who’s Out
In selecting the NCAA qualifiers next season, the mid-major conference champions under the qualifying times will be automatically slotted in, essentially atop the psych sheets, and then event selections will follow as they have previously, but each event will have an equal number of qualifiers. That means that if three women win a conference title in the 100 back and qualify, but none are fast enough in the 200 fly, three 200 fly qualifiers from the remaining pool of swimmers will be added to NCAAs before any new ones are added for the 100 back. In projecting who would be bumped out of NCAAs, we went through last year’s list of invitees by priority, and removed the lowest priority swimmer in a given event that had someone fast enough to win the conference title.WOMEN’S NCAA QUALIFIERS
Looking at the women’s mid-major conference championship results, a total of 38 individual title-winning performances in 2025 were faster than the new NCAA qualifying standards, with the Ivy League (nine), ASUN (seven) and Missouri Valley (six) conferences leading the way. The Horizon League, MPSF and Summit League all have zero.
Would-Be 2025 NCAA Qualifiers Under New System
Swimmer Conference (Team) Event(s) Lydia Hart America East (New Hampshire) 1650 FR, 200 BR Ava Topolewski Atlantic 10 (George Washington) 1650 FR Sydney Lu Ivy League (Harvard) 100 FLY Ellie Scherer Coastal Athletic Association (William & Mary) 100 BR Aleksandra Denisenko Ivy League (Harvard) 100 BR Izzy Ackley Atlantic Sun (FGCU) 100 BK Ali Tyler Atlantic 10 (George Mason) 100 BK Anya Mostek Ivy League (Harvard) 100 BK Lily Mead Patriot League (Loyola) 100 BK Sophia Heilen Coastal Athletic Association (William & Mary) 200 BR Asia Kozan Big West (UC San Diego) 100 FR, 200 IM Samantha Banos Big West (UC Santa Barbara) 200 FLY Abigail Zboran Atlantic Sun (Queens) 200 FLY Molly Hamlin Ivy League (Harvard) 200 BKBased on last year’s qualifying process, the addition of mid-major conference champions earning automatic slots would’ve resulted in the following female swimmers being bumped out of the 2025 NCAAs, based on our calculations. Only one of the women, FSU’s Edith Jernstedt, scored individually last season.
Women Bumped Out of 2025 NCAAs
Out School NCAA Points Grace Sheble NC State 0 Liberty Williams Alabama 0 Maggie Schalow Virginia 0 Simone Moll Miami (FL) 0 Margaux McDonald Cal 0 Ava Yablonski Minnesota 0 Casey Chung Michigan 0 Zoe Carlos-Broc LSU 0 Emma Kern Texas 0 Danika Varda Ohio State 0 Macky Hodges USC 0 Lizzy Cook Cal 0 Edith Jernstedt FSU 3 Maren Conze UNC 0MEN’S NCAA QUALIFIERS
On the men’s side, there were 50 mid-major conference title-winning swims under the new NCAA qualifying time, led by the Ivy League, which was faster than the new cut in all 13 individual events. America East, the MPSF and the Summit League all had none.
Would-Be 2025 NCAA Qualifiers Under New System
Swimmer Conference (Team) Event(s) Taber daCosta Big West (UCSB) 1650 FR Vili Sivec Big West (Cal State Bakersfield) 100 FLY, 200 FLY Kuba Kwasny CAA (Drexel) 100 FLY Connor Rodgers Atlantic 10 (George Washington) 200 FLY, 400 IM William Carrico CAA (UNCW) 400 IM Jackson Nester Horizon League (Cleveland State) 400 IM Marton Nagy Ivy League (Brown) 400 IM Kyle Brill Big West (UCSB) 200 IM, 400 IM Dylan Felt Atlantic 10 (Davidson) 200 FR, 500 FR Evan Yoo Big West (Cal Poly) 100 BR, 200 BR Toni Sabev CAA (Delaware) 100 BR Matt Driscoll Big West (UCSB) 100 BK Matej Dusa Atlantic Sun (Queens) 50 FR, 100 FR Caleb Kelly Patriot League (Loyola) 50 FR Henju Duvenhage Missouri Valley (Miami OH) 200 IM Patrick Dinu Ivy League (Princeton) 100 FR Aiden Leamer Big East (Xavier) 200 FLY Drew Huston Big West (Cal Poly) 200 BK Harry Nicholson Horizon League (Oakland) 200 BK Michael Faughnan MAAC (Iona) 200 BKOn the men’s side, two of the 20 swimmers who project to be bumped out of NCAAs scored last season, Cal’s Humberto Najera and NC State’s Will Gallant:
Men Bumped Out of 2025 NCAAs
Out School NCAA Points Will Gallant NC State 3 Colin Whelehan UNC 0 Will Hayon Will Hayon 0 Munzy Kabbara Texas A&M 0 Gibson Holmes Stanford 3 Michael Hochwalt Arizona State 0 Humberto Najera Cal 7 Luke Maurer USC 0 Tiago Behar Arizona State 0 Josh Corn Columbia 0 Junhao Chan USC 0 Mason Herbet FSU 0 Ed Fullum-Huot Florida 0 Luke Nebrich Mizzou 0 Tyler Lu Northwestern 0 Pedro Sansone Tennessee 0 Charlie Jones Wisconsin 0 JT Ewing NC State 0 Filip Suchanski TCU 0 Caleb Maldari Florida 0Based on this data, the implementation of mid-major conference champions to the NCAA Championship field won’t have a significant effect on the team standings, though it may make the meet slower as a whole, marginally.
However, it is important to note that teams are only able to bring four relay-only swimmers to NCAAs. So for certain teams that may have previously relied on one of their lower-seeded swimmers to fill in the gap on a relay, they may have to make some difficult choices about which relays to load up on and which to simply field a team, depending on the versatility of their roster.
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