Where 2025-26 women's swimming & diving players came from
No state leads college women's swimming & diving: California, Pennsylvania and New York are effectively level at the top, and we won't rank them.
Out of 2,867 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
109 schools' 2025-26 women's swimming & diving rosters, 2,867 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 0.8 of a percentage point of each other — California, Pennsylvania, New York are effectively level. 22 players separate the top two, and a lead that small would need about 38 players before we'd call anyone first. So read the bars as sizes, not as places 1, 2, 3.
- Outside the U.S.313 players · 10.9%
- California188 players · 6.6%
- Pennsylvania166 players · 5.8%
- New York166 players · 5.8%
- New Jersey121 players · 4.2%
- Florida120 players · 4.2%
- Virginia112 players · 3.9%
- Texas105 players · 3.7%
- Illinois104 players · 3.6%
- Indiana101 players · 3.5%
- Wisconsin97 players · 3.4%
- North Carolina90 players · 3.1%
- Minnesota86 players · 3.0%
- Ohio85 players · 3.0%
- Colorado83 players · 2.9%
- Home state unknown150 players · 5.2%
These players' roster pages didn't list a readable home town. We count them rather than hide them.
38 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 2,867 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
313 of the 2,867 players we read listed a home town outside the U.S. Shares below are out of those 313.
- Canada66 players · 21.1%
- Italy25 players · 8.0%
- United Kingdom24 players · 7.7%
- Poland19 players · 6.1%
- Germany17 players · 5.4%
- Turkey16 players · 5.1%
- Sweden15 players · 4.8%
- Mexico12 players · 3.8%
- Hungary11 players · 3.5%
- France11 players · 3.5%
20 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 313 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 women'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, New York are within a percentage point of each other, and 22 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. 150 women's swimming & diving players (5.2%) 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.