NISCA Names 1019 Women and 796 Boys 2025-26 Academic All-America Lists

The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) has launched the 2025-2026 Academic All-American lists, that includes 1815 graduating seniors: 1019 ladies and 796 boys.

In order to qualify for Academic All-American, athletes should be graduating within the relevant faculty yr (2025-2026) and meet just a few different standards:

• Have a minimal GPA of three.750 on a 4-point scale for 7 semesters
• Have lettered in highschool program (swim/dive/or waterpolo) in your senior yr
• Have a accomplished software submitted by the appliance deadline (March 31 for fall/winter season and June 15 for spring season)

You can learn extra concerning the course of here.

Highlighting the checklist is SwimSwam’s #7 ranked recruit for 2026, Emerson Callis. She graduated from Monacan High School in Richmond, Virginia and is dedicated to NC State within the fall with a number of potential scoring occasions on the NCAA Championships.

She is the very best ranked recruit from both the boys’s or ladies’s checklist. It is essential to notice, nonetheless, that athletes who aren’t on the checklist might nonetheless meet the GPA necessities, however their coaches won’t have submitted an software.

There had been just a few different ranked recruits who made the checklist. On the women’ aspect, #20 Riley Anderson additionally earned the designation. She is a dash freestyle and butterflyer from Connecticut who graduated from Manchester High School, who will likely be headed to Duke within the fall.

The boys had just a few extra ranked recruits make the checklist.

Grant Kellis just lately graduated from Higley High School in Gilbert, Arizona, and will likely be attending Indiana. He was one in every of two BOTR ranked swimmers on the checklist. The different was Isaiah Tucker, who graduated from Kennesaw Mountain High School and will likely be headed to Princeton.

Finally, Liam Smith, an Honorable Mention recruit from Kalamazoo, Michigan earned his manner onto the checklist. He is a butterfly and IMer who’s dedicated to Florida for the autumn.

You can see the complete lists for this season and the comparative rankings by state here.