This is a list of college swimming and diving teams that compete in the NCAA or NAIA men's and/or women's swimming and diving championships.
NCAA Division I
Schools transitioning to Division I
NCAA Division II
Schools transitioning to Division II
- Notes
- ^ The school rebranded its athletic program as Bakersfield, but its conference uses CSU Bakersfield, and national media use Cal State Bakersfield.
- ^ Alternately FAU.
- ^ a b c d Grand Canyon and Seattle join the West Coast Conference, which does not sponsor swimming & diving for either sex, in 2025. Neither school has announced a future aquatics affiliation.
- ^ Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis split into two separate universities starting in the fall of 2024. The athletic department transferred to the new Indiana University Indianapolis.
- ^ a b c d Delaware and Missouri State join Conference USA, which does not sponsor swimming & diving for either sex, in July 2025. Delaware has since announced its swimming & diving teams will join the Atlantic Sun Conference, while Missouri State has yet to announce a future aquatics affiliation.
- ^ Alternately "The Mount".
- ^ a b Because of the existence of Queens College, an NCAA Division II school in New York City, several other terms see use:
- National media typically use "Queens (NC)".
- The school itself interchangeably uses "Queens University" and "QUC".
- ^ Alternately Seattle U.
- ^ Alternately Army West Point.
- ^ Alternately UCSD.
- ^ a b UMass joins the Mid-American Conference in July 2025. Effective in 2024–25, the MAC sponsors swimming & diving for women only. The school has yet to announce a future affiliation for its men's program.
- ^ University of Miami only participates in men's diving.
- ^ Alternately UNCW.
- ^ Alternately UIW.
- ^ Le Moyne College will begin transitioning out of the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Conference in the 2023–24 season and will become a full D-I member of the NEC in the 2027–28 school year.
- ^ Stonehill College began transitioning out of the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Conference in the 2022–23 season and will become a full D-I member of the NEC in the 2026–27 school year.
- ^ Queens University began a transition from the NCAA Division II South Atlantic Conference in the 2022–23 season, and will become a full D-I member of the Atlantic Sun Conference in the 2026–27 school year.
- ^ Lindenwood University and the University of Southern Indiana started transitions from the D-II Great Lakes Valley Conference in 2022–23 and joined the Ohio Valley Conference at that time. Both schools joined the Summit League in swimming and diving. Both Lindenwood and USI will become full D-I members in 2026–27. But Lindenwood dropped both of its swimming & diving teams after the 2023–24 school year.
- ^ Because of the existence of several other institutions with the St. Thomas name, media typically use "St. Thomas (MN)".
- ^ The University of St. Thomas, which was expelled from the MIAC at the end of the 2020–21 school year, joined the Summit League starting in the 2021–22 season. St. Thomas has received an NCAA waiver allowing it to move directly from Division III to Division I on a five-year schedule, instead of the four years used for transitions from Division II to Division I, thereby becoming a full D-I member in 2026–27.
- ^ Emory and Henry College will begin the transition to Division II in the 2022–23 season. They will compete in the Bluegrass Mountain Conference.
- ^ Bluefield State planned on adding men's and women's swimming for the 2021–22 school year however they did not field a team for that season. They will compete as a swimming independent.
NCAA Division III
- Notes
NAIA
- Notes
NJCAA
See also
References
- ^ "NJCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Teams". NJCAA. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ "NJCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Teams". NJCAA.
