SwimSwam Pulse: 53.8% Choose Texas Women As Favorites For 2nd At NCAAs Behind Virginia

SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring function monitoring and analyzing the outcomes of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can solid your vote in our latest ballot on the SwimSwam homepage, about midway down the web page on the suitable aspect.

Our most up-to-date ballot requested SwimSwam readers which girls’s workforce they consider is second-best this season behind the Virginia dynasty:

Question: Behind Virginia, who’s the frontrunner for the #2 spot on the 2027 Women’s NCAA Championships?

RESULTS

• Texas – 53.8%
• Cal – 17.1%
• Tennessee – 13.4%
• Stanford – 10.3%
• Indiana – 3.8%
• Michigan – 1.5%
• Other – 0.7%

There’s no finish in sight to the dominance of the University of Virginia girls, because the Cavaliers are the unanimous choose to win their seventh straight NCAA title this coming March, however behind them, there’s loads of debate about who the following greatest workforce is.

Texas has had a constant presence close to the highest of the NCAA standings all through Virginia’s reign. The Longhorns have completed no decrease than third since 2021, together with reeling off three consecutive runner-up finishes in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

In the final two seasons, Stanford has earned the runner-up spot behind Virginia, with Texas in third.

We requested SwimSwam readers who they’re choosing because the #2 squad within the nation behind Virginia coming into 2026-27 in our most up-to-date ballot, and as soon as once more Texas seems to be like the very best of the remainder.

More than half of voters, 53.8%, are choosing Texas to position 2nd, because the Longhorns are returning all of their particular person factors from the 2026 NCAAs, and so they’re bringing in a really robust recruiting class headlined by Audrey Derivaux, who graduated highschool early.

The Cal Golden Bears completed 2nd within the ballot with 17.1% of votes, as they, like Texas, profit from an early highschool commencement as Rylee Erisman joins the roster this fall after initially being a member of the category of 2027.

Cal is struggling a key loss in Teagan O’Dell, who transferred to Virginia, however return nearly all of their 2026 NCAA roster and have some probably impactful recruits to go together with Erisman.

The Tennessee Volunteers, who’ve a standout recruiting class headlined by Charlotte Crush, ranked third within the ballot with 13.4% of votes.

Last 12 months, Cal snagged 4th place at NCAAs with 303 factors, edging out Tennessee (301.5) by only a level and a half.

Stanford, which has completed 2nd two years in a row and been within the high three in 4 of the previous 5 seasons, trailed within the ballot with 10.3% of votes, because the Cardinal lose their high two scorers (by a large margin) from final season in Torri Huske and Lucy Bell.

In their final season with out Huske, the 2023-24 marketing campaign when she took an Olympic redshirt, the Cardinal fell to fifth within the workforce standings.

Below, vote in our new A3 Performance Poll, which asks: Who do you consider the #2 males’s workforce within the nation is coming into the 2026-27 NCAA season:

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