How Many Women’s Power Four Swimming and Diving Rosters Are Extra Than 20% International?

Earlier in the present day we seemed on the share of every males’s power-four swim and dive groups that had been worldwide, and now we’re wanting on the girls’s packages.

United States lawmakers launched a invoice that might restrict the quantity of worldwide athletes on a roster to twenty% on the heels of the Protect College Sports Act, however what would that really imply for school swim and dive groups.

Leslie Lucas, proprietor of College Swimming Consulting and the mom of present University of Texas junior Cooper Lucas, analyzed present power-four rosters and shared the info with SwimSwam.

Lucas used the hometown/nation listed on the roster web page of every college’s web site, which implies there is perhaps just a few hiccups with athletes who had been raised within the United States however characterize different nations internationally, just like the Rottink twins who’re each freshmen this yr and had been raised in Tennessee however characterize the Netherlands internationally.

In the info SwimSwam printed yesterday, males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving each had lower than 20% worldwide freshmen on their rosters in 2022, however the workforce particular knowledge is a bit more compelling.

The girls’s groups had a decrease total share of worldwide athletes than the boys’s groups. LSU has probably the most worldwide athletes on the ladies’s facet, coming in at 63% for this season (17/27). This is tied with the Florida males, who had the best share on the boys’s facet.

There are solely two different groups over 50% and each are available in at 52%. Miami has 11 of 21 complete athletes worldwide and Florida State has 15 of 29 complete athletes.

When wanting on the proposed 20% threshold, 33 of 52 complete groups are available in over that mark together with eight of the highest 10 groups in 2026.

Boston College has the bottom share of worldwide athletes, although they lower the funding for this system and there aren’t any swimming and diving scholarships for BC athletes.

The subsequent lowest Power Four faculties had been Iowa, Notre Dame, and Kentucky who all solely have one worldwide athlete on the roster.

Women’s Totals

Conference	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage
SEC	357	87	24%
ACC	384	98	26%
Big Ten	383	86	22%
Big 12	305	80	26%
Total Women P4	1429	351	25%

SEC

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage	Roster Year (’26-’27 until famous in any other case)
Texas	28	7	25%
FL	26	7	27%	’25-‘26
UGA	28	2	7%
Tenn	34	13	38%
Kentucky	19	1	5%
Alabama	32	10	31%
Auburn	30	8	27%
LSU	27	17	63%
TX A&M	27	3	11%	’25-‘26
Missouri	22	2	9%
South Carolina	28	6	21%
Arkansas	27	7	26%
Vanderbilt	29	4	14%

ACC

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage	Roster Year (’26-’27 until famous in any other case)
NC State	25	5	20%
Cal	28	8	29%	’25-‘26
Stanford	22	3	14%
Louisville	23	10	43%
UVA	30	7	23%
VT	29	11	38%
FSU	29	15	52%
UNC	27	6	22%	’25-‘26
Notre Dame	27	1	4%
Pitt	17	3	18%
SMU	26	7	27%
GA Tech	24	8	33%
Duke	30	3	10%
BC	26	0	0%
Miami	21	11	52%

Big Ten

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage	Roster Year (’26-’27 until famous in any other case)
Indiana	27	7	26%	’25-‘26
Michigan	28	7	25%	’25-‘26
OSU	29	11	38%	’25-‘26
Wisconsin	28	3	11%	’25-‘26
Northwestern	27	6	22%
USC	28	8	29%
Purdue	32	3	9%
Penn State	18	2	11%
Minnesota	30	5	17%
Iowa	26	1	4%
Illinois	30	8	27%
Rutgers	27	8	30%
UCLA	28	6	21%	’25-‘26
Nebraska	25	11	44%

Big 12

*All ’26-27 Rosters

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage
ASU	29	13	45%
Arizona	33	10	30%
Utah	30	7	23%
BYU	28	2	7%
TCU	29	10	34%
Cincinnati	28	3	11%
West Virginia	35	11	31%
Iowa State	30	8	27%
Kansas	31	2	6%
Houston	32	14	44%