What Percentage of Men’s Energy 4 Swimming and Diving Rosters are At the moment International?

On Tuesday, 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 truly 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 information with SwimSwam.

Lucas used the hometown/nation listed on the roster web page of every college’s web site, which suggests there could be a couple of hiccups with athletes who had been raised within the United States however signify different nations internationally, like NC State’s Kaii Winkler who was raised within the U.S., however swims for Germany.

Even if the invoice has an extended solution to go earlier than it passes, it’s an intriguing dialog as extra complaints come up in regards to the variety of worldwide athletes within the NCAA in all faculty sports activities discussions and even within the feedback on SwimSwam.

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

In this text, we’re trying completely on the males’s groups.

Some faculties and conferences rely way more on worldwide athletes than others. The Florida males’s staff has the very best worldwide proportion with 63% of their 2025-26 roster made up of worldwide athletes (15/24).

There had been 5 different males’s groups which have greater than 50% worldwide athletes, and all 5 of them are within the SEC. Auburn is the subsequent highest at 59% (13/22). LSU has 55% (11/20). Tennessee has 52% (13/25), and Georgia and Kentucky each have 50%.

Overall, 31 of the entire 42 males’s groups are available in over the 20% threshold proposed together with seven of the top-10 ending NCAA groups in 2026.

Duke had the bottom proportion of worldwide males among the many energy 4 faculties with only one man on the roster, freshman Yavuz Omer Aga from Turkey.

Men’s Totals

Conference	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage
SEC	252	107	42%
ACC	389	90	23%
Big Ten	257	69	27%
Big 12	217	53	24%
Total Men P4	1115	319	29%

SEC

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage	Roster Year (’26-’27 except famous in any other case)
Texas	22	6	27%
FL	24	15	63%	25-‘26
UGA	24	12	50%
Tenn	25	13	52%
Kentucky	16	8	50%
Alabama	27	10	37%
Auburn	22	13	59%
LSU	20	11	55%
TX A&M	24	6	25%	25-‘26
Missouri	24	6	25%
South Carolina	24	7	29%

ACC

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage	Roster Year (’26-’27 except famous in any other case)
NC State	28	8	29%
Cal	43	11	26%	25-‘26
Stanford	24	7	29%
Louisville	26	5	19%
UVA	24	4	17%
VT	25	12	48%
FSU	29	6	21%
UNC	29	8	28%	25-‘26
Notre Dame	30	2	7%
Pitt	23	6	26%
SMU	35	7	20%
GA Tech	19	8	42%
Duke	24	1	4%
BC	27	2	7%
Miami	3	3	100%

Big Ten

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage	Roster Year (’26-’27 except famous in any other case)
Indiana	32	6	19%	25-‘26
Michigan	30	11	37%	25-‘26
OSU	30	10	33%	25-‘26
Wisconsin	25	6	24%	25-‘26
Northwestern	29	7	24%
USC	28	11	39%
Purdue	33	8	24%
Penn State	22	5	23%
Minnesota	28	5	18%

Big 12

*All ’26-27 Rosters

Team	Total Roster Count	International	Percentage
ASU	33	12	36%
Arizona	31	7	23%
Utah	30	7	23%
BYU	29	5	17%
TCU	30	6	20%
Cincinnati	25	4	16%
West Virginia	39	12	31%