March 5, 2026 – LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. – The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) launched its March version of the Division I Top 25 twin meet ballot Thursday, with LSU’s males’s and ladies’s applications every remaining within the high 25.

The ladies stay slotted at No. 14 within the up to date ballot, whereas the boys fall from No. 18 to No. 20, following this system’s efficiency on the SEC Championships on Feb. 16-21. This is the ultimate ballot earlier than the NCAA Championships start on March 18.

The ballot is voted on by a committee of Division I coaches. Their evaluations embody head-to-head twin meet outcomes, performances since earlier polls, season-long outcomes, twin meet information, roster adjustments, and knowledge from the SwimCloud Simulator. It is essential to notice that the ballot just isn’t supposed to foretell championship meet finishes.

Since the February ballot, the Tigers have competed within the SEC Championships, the place the ladies positioned fifth general, and the boys completed in seventh. LSU introduced residence seven medals – 5 from particular person performances and two from relays. Jere Hribar received gold within the 100-free, silver within the 200-free, and bronze within the 50-free. Carson Paul struck gold within the platform diving. Zoe Carlos-Broc earned bronze within the 100-back. The males’s 200-free relay squad and 200-medley relay squad took silver and bronze, respectively.

The Tigers additionally despatched six athletes to Auburn on Feb. 27-28 to compete within the Last Chance Invitational. Breaststrokers Grace Palmer, Volodymyr Lisovets, and Guilherme Camossato every set college information of their respective occasions.

The Tigers will likely be again in motion when the diving staff heads to the NCAA Zone D Diving Regional hosted by Texas A&M on March 9/11. Following the regional, the Tigers’ swimming and diving program will ship athletes to the NCAA Championships. The ladies’s championship is held on March 18-21; LSU will ship 9 swimmers. The males’s championships will likely be held on March 25-28; the record of qualifiers will likely be launched on March 11. Both championships will happen on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga.

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The following is the boys’s rating, adopted by the ladies’s: