Scoring The 2025 Women’s NCAA Championships Without Seniors

By James Sutherland on SwimSwam

2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

• March 19-22, 2025
• Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center – Federal Way, Washington
• Short Course Yards (25 yards)
• Final Results
• Live Recaps :Day 1 ׀ Day 2 ׀ Day 3 ׀ Day 4
• Women’s NCAA Championship box score

Andrew Mering crunched most of the math for this article.

Coming out of the Women’s NCAA Championships a few weeks ago, we’ve already delved deep into the analysis and numbers of what went down in Federal Way, and we’ve also taken a look at which teams return the most points for next season.

Now we’re taking things a step further, re-scoring the individual events at the meet after removing all senior and fifth-year swimmers (everyone who won’t be returning) from the competition.

Below, see how many points each team scored individually at the 2025 NCAAs, alongside how many points they would’ve tallied had the graduating seniors not been in the field.

2025 INDIVIDUAL POINTS V. SCORING WITHOUT SENIORS

• The Virginia Cavaliers take a big hit with the graduation of Gretchen and Alex Walsh, as the duo combined for 114 of the team’s 344 individual swimming points last season, or 33.1%. Re-scoring the meet without any seniors, the five-time defending champions still lead all teams with 314.5 individual points, but it’s a tighter race at the top with Stanford only 53 points back after they trailed by 93 in 2025 (individual only).
• Without seniors, Virginia’s Katie Grimes gets bumped up from 33 to 45 individual points, while Leah Hayes (+14) and Cavan Gormsen (+10) also moved up significantly.
• Stanford would score slightly more individual points than they did this year without seniors in the field, with their biggest senior loss being Aurora Roghair (40 points). In the re-scored meet, Torri Huske would hit the maximum 60 points and Caroline Bricker and Lucy Bell surpass the 50-point barrier. Emily Thompson nearly triples her point total, from nine to 26.
• Among the top 10 teams, Indiana is hit the hardest both in sheer numbers and by percentage. The Hoosiers scored 129 senior points last year, with four of their top five scorers being seniors: Anna Peplowski, Skyler Liu, Ching Hwee Gan and Brearna Crawford. Miranda Grana is their top returning scorer and would bump up from 35.5 to 43.5 points in the re-score, while Kristina Paegle (+22) and Ella Roselli (+17) would move up big.
• Michigan and NC State stand to gain the most with this senior class graduating, as the Wolverines would score 44 more points in the re-scored meet, and NC State would put up 37.5 more points. Michigan would have Brady Kendall (+11), Letitia Sim (+19) and Kiarra Milligan (+10) all go from single-digit to double-digit points without seniors, while NC State would see Erika Pelaez climb from 24 to 41 points and have Kennedy Noble quadruple her point tally from four to 16.
• Cal, Miami (FL) and Wisconsin are other teams that figure to fall in the standings in the re-score, with the Bears losing more than 55.3% (48.5 points down) of their individual points and the Badgers losing 71.4% (55 points down).
• Teams more than doubling up their individual point total from 2025 were: Washington State, Nebraska, Arkansas, Princeton, UCLA, Auburn, Fresno State and Rutgers.
• Harvard, UNC Wilmington, Liberty, Penn, Missouri, UC San Diego, Utah, Notre Dame and Richmond all would score individual points without seniors in the field after they didn’t in 2025.

Individual Athlete Scores By Team

UVA