2026 College Swim League Match 2 (Virginia, NC State, Georgia, Alabama): Heat Sheet and Preview

College Swim League Match Two

• September 25, 2026
• Westmont, Illinois
• SCY (25 Yards)
• Heat Sheet
• Live Stream
• How to Watch
• Rules
• Starts at 6:30PM Eastern Time
• Teams: #1/#8 Virginia, #7/#7 NC State, #13/#16 Georgia, #16/#19 Alabama

The reigning girls’s NCAA Champions will open their season immediately within the 2nd match of the 2026 College Swim League, and if we thought final evening was quick, the 2nd match might be occasion sooner.

Tonight’s match options Virginia, NC State, Georgia, and Alabama, and if the pace we noticed final evening was any indication, it will not be absurd to counsel we’ll see some occasions near NCAA information tonight.

Just like yesterday, SwimSwam shall be masking the match dwell, however we all know a bit of extra about what to anticipate with regards to format.

Power Rankings

The Virginia girls have been the #1 ranked girls’s group in our pre-season energy rankings after they’ve gained the final six NCAA Championship titles.

The NC State males are the best ranked males’s group at #7 in our energy rankings, only one spot forward of the Virginia males, who’re ranked #8. The NC State girls are additionally ranked #7.

The Georgia girls are ranked #13 and the lads are ranked #16, each of which are available in forward of Alabama’s rankings of #16 for the ladies and #19 for the lads.

Event Lineup

• 200 Backstroke
• 200 Breaststroke
• 500 Freestyle
• 4×50 Freestyle Relay
• 200 Butterfly
• 100 IM
• 100 Backstroke
• 100 Freestyle
• 50 Skins
• 200 IM
• 100 Breast
• 50 Free
• 100 Fly
• 200 Free
• 4×50 Relay Super Skins

Scoring

Skins Scoring

Super Skins Scoring

Scoring Note: It got here up a couple of occasions final evening, greater than we have been anticipating, and so we’re including a bit of primer about jackpot scoring immediately.

Jackpots occur when the athlete who wins beats any of the athletes by a predetermined quantity outlined within the guidelines right here. The winner steals the factors of all athletes who they beat by the margin.

If they solely beat the eighth place athlete by the designated quantity, they are going to earn 10 factors. If they beat the seventh and eighth place athletes, they are going to earn 11 factors and so on.

We are anticipating a couple of jackpots tonight as nicely.

Athletes to Watch

Women’s

• Claire Curzan, Virginia — 200 again, 100 fly
• Sara Curtis, Virginia — 50 free
• Anna Moesch, Virginia — 100 free, 200 free
• Leah Shackley, NC State — 100 again, 200 again, 100 fly
• Erika Pelaez, NC State — 200 again, 100 fly, 100 IM
• Eneli Jefimova, NC State — 100 breast, 200 breast
• Maya Schweikert, Georgia — 100 again, 200 again
• Elizabeth Nawrocki, Georgia — 100 breast, 200 breast
• Cadence Vincent, Alabama — 50 free, 100 free
• Zara Zallen, Alabama — 100 breast

One notable absence on the ladies’s facet is Georgia sophomore Kennedi Dobson. She had an explosive freshman yr that led to 3 NCAA scoring swims within the 200 free, 500 free, and 1650 free.

Men’s

• Maximus Williamson, Virginia — 50 free, 100 free, 200 IM
• Thomas Heilman, Virginia — 100 fly, 200 fly
• Kaii Winkler, NC State — 100 fly
• Quintin McCarty, NC State — solely relays
• Daniel Diehl, NC State — 200 again, 100 IM, 200 IM
• Tomas Koski, Georgia — 200 free, 500 free
• Drew Hitchcock, Georgia — 100 fly, 100 IM, 200 IM
• Tommy Hagar, Alabama — 100 again, 200 again
• Leonardo Alcantara, Alabama — 200 free 500 free

Races to Watch

Women’s

• 200 Back: Claire Curzan, Teagan O’Dell, Leah Shackley, and Erika Pelaez will all be on one facet of the pool, and after Miranda Grana swam a 1:49 final evening, something feels potential
• 100 IM: In a race as fast because the 100 IM, there are only a few outcomes that will be utterly stunning to see. Virginia has O’Dell and Hayes within the combine, and with the addition of Erika Pelaez, we may see some quick occasions.
• Freestyle: All the ladies’s freestyle races might be very quick tonight. Sara Curtis and Anna Moesch will each be racing freestyle for Virginia together with Alamba’s Cadence Vincent, who ought to make the races thrilling.
• 100 Breast: One of the few spots the place the Cavaliers won’t be the favorites to win this night are the ladies’s breaststroke occasions. NC State’s Eneli Jefimova shall be a pressure, significantly within the 100 the place she is the reigning NCAA champion

Men’s 

• 200 again: The first races have been the quickest yesterday, with athletes getting drained because the meet went on. The males’s 200 again options David King and Tommy Hagar, who have been each ‘A’ finalists on the 2026 NCAA Championships, and shall be assembly once more tonight.
• 100 free: With the 100 free and 200 IM being on the identical day final season, Virginia’s Maximus Williamson didn’t race the occasion at NCAAs. He shall be in it tonight, together with NC State’s Jerry Fox, who completed tenth within the occasion final yr.
• 200 IM: Williamson may even tackle the 200 IM, the place he’s the reigning NCAA Champion. He shall be racing NC State’s Daniel Diehl, who was additionally within the last.
• 100 fly: Thomas Heilman, an NCAA ‘A’ finalist, will tackle the lads’s 100 fly. Just behind him is NC State’s Kaii Winkler, who has not traditionally targeted on the occasion, however may have to this season after NC State misplaced Aiden Hayes.

SwimSwam’s Prediction

The match shall be scored as a mixed males’s and ladies’s meet, which makes it exhausting to foretell any group apart from Virginia on prime of the rankings. NC State feels very secure for 2nd, and Alabama’s extra dash oriented packages are designed to do higher within the CSL and skins format, making them the selection for third.