By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
Dates: Wednesday, March 18–Saturday, March 21 Location: McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA Defending Champions: Virginia (5x) Championship Central Pre-Selection Psych Sheets Live Results Live VideoThe pre-selection psych sheets for the 2026 Women’s NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships have been released after the conference championship meets wrapped up over the weekend.
This initial release of the psych sheets doesn’t tell us who has qualified for the meet, but does show which events swimmers have opted to enter and will allow us to score out the meet and project where the cutline will fall.
Official cutlines are usually released on Wednesday afternoon.
See the pre-selection entry sheets here.We’ll be breaking down some of the notable entries throughout the day, though there aren’t many surprises among the biggest names.
Notable Entries:
Claire Curzan (Virginia) – 100 back, 200 back, 100 fly Katie Grimes (Virginia) – 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM Torri Huske (Stanford) – 50 free, 100 free, 100 fly Caroline Bricker (Stanford) – 200 breast, 200 fly, 400 IM Bella Sims (Florida) – 100 back, 200 back, 400 IM Anna Moesch (Virginia) – 50 free, 100 free, 200 free Camille Spink (Tennessee) – 50 free, 100 free, 200 free Liberty Clark (Indiana) – 50 free, 100 free, 200 free Lucy Bell (Stanford) – 200 breast, 200 IM, 400 IM Sara Curtis (Virginia) – 50 free, 100 free, 100 fly Anastasia Gorbenko (Louisville) – 100 breast, 200 breast, 200 IM Leah Shackley (NC State) – 100 back, 200 back, 100 fly Mizuki Hirai (Tennessee) – 100 free, 100 back, 100 fly Eneli Jefimova (NC State) – 100 breast, 200 breast Jillian Cox (Texas) – 500 free, 1650 freeStanford senior Torri Huske, the reigning NCAA champion in the 200 IM, has opted not to defend her title in that event this year, instead opting to race the 100 free on the final day of the meet. The change for Huske comes due to the NCAA’s new event schedule this season, as in previous campaigns, she’s raced the 200 IM over the 50 free on Day 2.
She will contest the 50 free at the NCAA Championships for the first time this season, coming in as the #2 seed behind Tennessee’s Camille Spink.
Michigan junior Bella Sims has chosen to race the 400 IM over the 200 free on Day 2, despite being the 2024 NCAA champion in the 200 free. Sims is coming off winning the Big Ten title in the 400 IM and is the top seed with her time of 3:58.02 from the CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge in November.
Sims has also entered the 100 and 200 back, which comes as no surprise after she was the runner-up to Claire Curzan last season in both races.
Curzan, fresh off breaking the NCAA and American Record in the 200 back (1:46.09) at the ACC Championships, has opted for the 100 fly as her #3 event to go along with the backstrokes, a change after she was the runner-up in the 50 free last season (again due to the new schedule).
Virginia sophomore standout Anna Moesch is in the midst of a historic season and owns the top seed in the 100 free (45.71) and 200 free (1:39.72) while also entering the 50 free (#6 seed).
Louisville’s first-year Anastasia Gorbenko had a myriad of event options given her versatility, but as predicted, she’ll race the 100 breast, 200 breast and 200 IM, currently owning the top seed in the 200 IM and the #3 seed in both breaststrokes.
Tennessee freshman Mizuki Hirai will focus on the 100s, selecting the 100 free, 100 back and 100 fly for her lineup at her debut NCAA Championships. None of those picks are a surprise, given it’s her exact lineup from SECs.
TOP SEEDS IN EACH EVENT
1650 Free – Jillian Cox, Texas, 15:32.75 200 Medley Relay – Virginia, 1:31.91 800 Free Relay – Virginia, 6:45.34 100 Fly – Torri Huske, Stanford, 48.26 400 IM – Bella Sims, Michigan, 3:58.02 200 Free – Anna Moesch, Virginia, 1:39.72 100 Breast – Eneli Jefimova, NC State, 56.72 200 Free Relay – Virginia, 1:23.75 100 Back – Claire Curzan, Virginia, 48.38 200 Breast – Lucy Bell, Stanford, 2:02.67 500 Free – Jillian Cox, Texas, 4:30.53 50 Free – Camille Spink, Tennessee, 20.87 400 Medley Relay – Virginia, 3:20.42 200 IM – Anastasia Gorbenko, Louisville, 1:51.30 100 Free – Anna Moesch, Virginia, 45.71 200 Fly – Hannah Bellard, Michigan, 1:50.34 200 Back – Claire Curzan, Virginia, 1:46.09 400 Free Relay – Virginia, 3:05.30SELECTION PROCESS
The NCAA invites the same number of overall swimmers every year. 270 men and 322 women make the meet annually. Depending on how many of those 270/322 athletes qualify in multiple events, the numbers can range for how many entries get invited in each event
Things look a bit different this year than we’ve seen in the past after the NCAA implemented a new qualifying window for individual conference championships that meet the standard.
Our math told us that 75 women and 86 men earned automatic berths into the NCAA Championships (including Power conference swimmers).
The new qualifying procedure, in its simplest terms:
Step 1: Divers go in (35 men, 41 women) Step 2: All individual swimmers who won a conference championship AND hit the Qualifying Standard in that event get the auto-bid. Step 3: (Steps 3 & 4 are similar to years past) Swimmers are added one at a time in each event, keeping the number of qualifiers in each event the same* until the entry cap is reached (235 swimmers for men, 281 swimmers for women). Step 4: When the entry cap is reached, you wind up with a ‘final row’ in each event. For women, that’s usually around #40, for men, that’s usually around #30 in each event. Swimmers already qualified in step two are now guaranteed their spot, while the rest are ranked by their time as a percentage of the qualifying standard, with the fastest times added one at a time until the cap is met.Read the full story on SwimSwam: NCAA Releases Pre-Selection Psych Sheets For 2026 Women’s NCAA Championships
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