Where 2025-26 men's swimming & diving players came from
No state leads college men's swimming & diving: California and Pennsylvania are effectively level at the top, and we won't rank them.
Out of 1,594 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
62 schools' 2025-26 men's swimming & diving rosters, 1,594 players. We don't say what share of all programs that is — no authoritative count of programs exists.
Not a ranking. The top states here are within 0.3 of a percentage point of each other — California, Pennsylvania are effectively level. 5 players separate the top two, and a lead that small would need about 31 players before we'd call anyone first. So read the bars as sizes, not as places 1, 2, 3.
- Outside the U.S.145 players · 9.1%
- California119 players · 7.5%
- Pennsylvania114 players · 7.2%
- New York92 players · 5.8%
- Indiana76 players · 4.8%
- Texas69 players · 4.3%
- North Carolina68 players · 4.3%
- Virginia54 players · 3.4%
- New Jersey54 players · 3.4%
- Washington51 players · 3.2%
- Ohio51 players · 3.2%
- Maryland46 players · 2.9%
- Colorado46 players · 2.9%
- Florida44 players · 2.8%
- Illinois43 players · 2.7%
- Home state unknown91 players · 5.7%
These players' roster pages didn't list a readable home town. We count them rather than hide them.
36 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 1,594 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
145 of the 1,594 players we read listed a home town outside the U.S. Shares below are out of those 145.
- Poland14 players · 9.7%
- Canada14 players · 9.7%
- Brazil14 players · 9.7%
- Italy13 players · 9.0%
- Turkey10 players · 6.9%
- Hungary10 players · 6.9%
- South Africa6 players · 4.1%
- Norway5 players · 3.4%
- Mexico5 players · 3.4%
- United Kingdom5 players · 3.4%
19 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 145 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
How to read this
Each bar is the number of players on a 2025-26 college men's swimming & diving roster whose listed home town is in that state. It is not a count of recruits, offers, or scholarships, and it says nothing about your own odds — it's simply where the players currently on rosters grew up.
We don't call a state first here. California, Pennsylvania are within a percentage point of each other, and 5 players separate the top two — a "#1" that a handful of players would overturn isn't a fact, so we don't print one.
The unknown bar matters. 91 men's swimming & diving players (5.7%) are on rosters that didn't list a readable home town. We show them because a chart with no leftovers is usually a chart someone tidied up.
Source: official athletics roster pages, 2025-26 season, read August 4, 2026.