UNC Swimming & Diving 2025-2026
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Men have ticked up into 8, but there is a big logjam with 5-10 all within 100 points.
Women are 7th, a little over 60 points behind 6th, and a little under 60 ahead of 8th. Swimswam had picked the women 6th.
Men are 7th, 53 points back of 6th, 13 points ahead of 8th. Will likely look to defend their place rather than move up (Were also picked 6th)
Men are 7th, 53 points back of 6th, 13 points ahead of 8th. Will likely look to defend their place rather than move up (Were also picked 6th)
Women's Standings: (To UNC), A Finals Today/B/C
6. Pittsburgh +62.5 1/0/2
7. UNC 1/2/2
8. Duke -59 2/1/0
9. Notre Dame -77.5 0/0/2
10. Florida State -83.5 0/1/2
11. Miami -89.5 0/0/0
So, without considering the 1650 and Relay, it looks like UNC is around 40 back of Pitt and 50 up on Duke. Depending on finishes those will shuffle but worst case, 8th place finish, maybe with some luck a 6th place repeat.
Men's Standings (To UNC)
5. VT +95 2/3/1
6. FSU +53 0/2/3
7. UNC 1/2/4
8. UVA -13 2/3/1
9. Notre Dame -49.5 0/3/2
Once again, without considering the 1650 and Relay, UNC looks to be 30 back of FSU, 15 back of UVA, and 60 up on ND. Think the men will be happy to hold 7th.
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Pretty poor final relay cost the men their 7th spot by 5 points. Overall, the women just missed 6th, but then there's a huge gap to the next team up. So the decline in diving points didn't actually hurt that poorly.
You can see the men outperformed the 2022/2023 campaigns, but the relay DQ hurt. Overall, a bit of a decline. But there should be a good set of athletes going to nationals in a few weeks.
UNC's recent drop in ACC Meet results seems mostly attributed to Cal and Stanford joining the conference.
We are not at all competitive with the top teams; I don't want to imply otherwise. There is a huge chasm between 1-3 and what we are fielding.
We are not at all competitive with the top teams; I don't want to imply otherwise. There is a huge chasm between 1-3 and what we are fielding.
Diving Heads To Athens For NCAA Zone B Championships - University of North Carolina Athletics
Action gets underway on Sunday, March 8 at the Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium and will continue to Wednesday March 11.
Hopefully Gutch and Joyce get redshirts
Knight is officially going to nationals, any top 12 finish on 3M or platform will be another event she gets into.
For NCAAs, the women have 11 swimmers going, covering 12 individual events and 3 relays
First, no, revenue share is not a major component of swimming. Top swimmers flock to programs with coaches, technology and facilities known to increase chances to get into (or stay) world class swimming. UNC and other programs are trying to increase scholarship counts in swimming. I have no idea where swimming stands in our pecking order among teams, but surely there is a pecking order. It is possible that top teams are prioritizing expanding swimming scholarships faster than we are, but I really have no idea.
- UNC can compete in diving and breaststroke due to specific coaches.
- The UNC natatorium was nice when built but is now the oldest facility on campus in terms of replacement or recent major upgrade. And we do not have cutting edge technology that some of the top programs like UVA have managed to build combining their academic faculty with team performance.
- Koury Natatorium replacement is now tied with decisions surrounding the removal or refurbishment of the Dean Dome. If they were to do the big update to the Dome, KN, likely would need to come down for the extra needed space and thus be replaced. But if it is a tear down I have no idea where that puts KN; not sure if the AD truly knows yet either. But the point is, no decision on KN will be considered until the arena decision is made. UNC has a stated priority of Softball and rowing upgrades (which both obviously take a back seat to The Arena.) So as it stands right now, KN would be at best in the next round of facility upgrades or replacements.... unless the Dean Dome takes their footprint sooner.
But we are not reasonably competitive with the UVA and Stanford women, nor the Cal and NCSU men. When we face them it is a bloodbath against those top national teams. I don't see us catching them any time soon. UVA is recruiting Olympic gold medalists on the regular. And their coaches tend to be tied to the Olympic program.
So then the question becomes, is it reasonable to expect to be truly competitive at a national title level in every single sport? Does just the realities of uphill battles in terms of tradition against established programs, and accepting that there will never be enough resources to compete at top money in all 28 varsity sports as a member of the ACC with ACC level resources need to be factored in?
If your goal is Director's Cup points, we are actually doing OK in swimming. If your goal is to be as good as rivals UVA and NCSU (and dook) at literally everything year in and year out, then yeah, we are not there in the sports they succeed in (and perhaps value) the most. I don't have a solution for that above and beyond what we are already doing. Should we expect to match ND in football? Should WF expect to match us in basketball? What is realistic?
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Men's qualifiers haven't been released yet, would guess it'll be the end of this week?
Knight is also officially qualified for the 3M. Considering platform is her best event, hopefully she'll have a clean sweep tomorrow and give us a chance to pick some an extra couple points at nationals.
Knight is also officially qualified for the 3M. Considering platform is her best event, hopefully she'll have a clean sweep tomorrow and give us a chance to pick some an extra couple points at nationals.
Ciro Mejia is a qualifier on the platform and the only male to qualify for NCAAs
Women’s Swimming & Diving Heads To NCAA Championships Wednesday - University of North Carolina Athletics
North Carolina women's swimming and diving team will head to the NCAA Championships Wednesday through Saturday, March 18-21 in Atlanta's McAuley Aquatic Center.
McCauley got 2 points in the 400IM, Knight gets 3 points in the 1M
Men’s Swimming & Diving Opens NCAA Championships Thursday - University of North Carolina Athletics
The men's squad will finish off its season with three days of competition at the national meet.
Believe Dramm scores 2 this morning and the team is guaranteed at least 10 in the 200 free pending any teams in the A final finishing below us.
Delmar finishes 4th, and the Heels officially have more points than last year
And Mejia picks up 9 points with a 9th place finish in the platform! Looks like we should have a great score!
19th place finish is the best since 2015!
2027 Commit Josephine Piliang from Ohio
Appears to be a backstroke specialist, placing 7th at NCSA nationals:
Appears to be a backstroke specialist, placing 7th at NCSA nationals: