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

SEC

ACC

Big Ten

Big 12

*All ’26-27 Rosters