Florida Males Qualify 11 Swimmers for 2026 NCAA Championships

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The fourth-ranked Florida males’s swimming and diving program certified 11 swimmers for the 2026 NCAA Division I Championships, this system introduced Wednesday.
 
The four-day competitors can be hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 25-28.
 
Florida’s Eric Brown, Scotty Buff, Koen de Groot, Ahmed Hafnaoui, Charlie Hutchison, Ahmed Jaouadi, Josh Liendo, Gio Linscheer, Jonny Marshall, Aiden Norman, and Alexander Painter will symbolize the Gators in 18 occasions at this 12 months’s championships.
 
Florida’s 11 qualifiers are tied for the fourth-most by any faculty this 12 months, matching Arizona State’s whole and trailing solely Indiana (16) and each Cal and Texas (13). The Gators additionally certified 5 relays, the 200 free, 400 free, 800 free, 200 medley, and 400 medley relays, with the 200 medley relay holding the quickest qualifying time heading into Atlanta.
 
Seven of Florida’s qualifiers convey NCAA Championships expertise, whereas de Groot, Hafnaoui, Hutchison, and Jaouadi are set to make their NCAA debuts.
 
Last 12 months, Florida positioned fourth on the NCAA Championships and introduced house 4 nationwide titles. Liendo captured his third consecutive 100 free title and efficiently defended his 100 fly crown, whereas Marshall and Painter helped the Gators safe the successful 400 medley relay.
 
Additionally, Following NCAA Diving Zones, three Gators earned NCAA qualifying spots throughout eight occasions. Jesus Agundez Mora and Jesus Gonzalez superior in all three diving occasions, whereas Conor Gesing certified in each springboard occasions.
 
A complete of 270 members (235 swimmers and 35 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. Divers can be decided by performances achieved on the Zone Diving Championships held March 8-11. The full lists of all swimmers (athletes by establishment, official psych sheet, relays and alternates) competing within the championships is offered at usaswimming.org/ncaa.
 
ESPN+ will present stay digital protection for preliminary and finals periods Wednesday via Saturday. Tape-delayed protection of the boys’s championships can be on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Monday, March 30.
 


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