Florida Ladies Qualify 10 Swimmers for 2026 NCAA Championships

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Tenth-ranked Florida girls’s swimming and diving program certified 10 swimmers for the 2026 NCAA Division I Championships, this system introduced Wednesday.

The four-day competitors will probably be hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia from March 18-21.

Florida’s Beatriz Bezerra, Anita Bottazzo, Julie Brousseau, Catie Choate, Camille DeBoer, Lainy Kruger, Michaela Mattes, Molly Mayne, Grace Rabb and JoJo Ramey will characterize Florida in 19 occasions at this yr’s championships.

The Gators additionally certified three relays, with the 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay and the 800 free relay all hitting the qualifying commonplace.

Eight of Florida’s 10 qualifiers convey NCAA Championships expertise, whereas freshmen Bezerra and Rabb are set to make their NCAA debuts. Seven of the swimmers had been a part of final yr’s sixth-place workforce in Federal Way, Wash., which noticed 11 Gators earn 17 All-American honors.

Florida’s 10 qualifiers match Michigan and Ohio State, whereas Virginia, the five-time reigning nationwide champions, leads the way in which with 18. Stanford (16), Texas (15), Cal (14) and Tennessee (11) spherical out the highest 5 packages with essentially the most qualifiers.

Divers will probably be decided by performances achieved on the Zone B Diving Championships held March 8-11 at Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Ga., with chosen divers being introduced on Thursday, March 12.

A complete of 322 members (281 swimmers and 41 divers) will compete within the championships. Swimmers certified for the championships both by successful their convention championship in an occasion with a longtime minimal time in that swim or by assembly the established minimal time for the occasions through which they entered. The full lists of all swimmers (athletes by establishment, official psych sheet, relays and alternates) competing within the championships is on the market at usaswimming.org/ncaa.

ESPN+ will present dwell digital protection for preliminary and finals periods Wednesday by way of Saturday. Tape-delayed protection of the ladies’s championships will probably be on ESPNU at 9 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, March 25.

 
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