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

SEC

ACC

Big Ten

Big 12

*All ’26-27 Rosters