We’re introducing three ways to discover and follow top performances throughout the 2026–27 season. Each one looks at performances a little differently. Weekly Top Swims — Live Now Weekly Top Swims shows the top 18 & Under swims that actually happened during each week. Monday through Sunday Based on the actual swim date Ranked by Power Points Updated live as results are added to Swim Standards Browse up to the Top 500 For example, the Aug. 31–Sept. 6 ranking includes swims performed during that exact date range, even if the results were added to Swim Standards later. Weekly Top Performers — First Edition Sept. 16 Our popular Weekly Top Performances series is returning for the 2026–27 SCY season with a clearer name: Weekly Top Performers. The format remains the same. Each edition features the Top 10 performers for girls and boys in: 10 & Under 11–12 13–14 15–18 Performers are ranked by Power Points, with each swimmer represented by their highest-rated performance. Unlike Weekly Top Swims, this series is based on when results are added to Swim Standards, with the regular weekly data period running Thursday through Wednesday. Because the new season has just started, our first edition will include eligible 2026–27 SCY performances added through Wednesday, Sept. 16. Power 100 — Coming Sept. 18 We’re also introducing something completely new: Power 100. Power 100 will rank the 100 highest-rated 18 & Under performances of the 2026–27 season by Power Points. Top 100 Girls + Boys SCY + LCM All events One national chart Updated every Friday Unlike the other weekly features, Power 100 is season-to-date. As new performances are added throughout the season, swimmers can enter the Power 100 or move up and down the chart. Weekly snapshots will let you follow chart movement, new entries, peak positions, and more as the season progresses. The first Power 100 will be released Friday, Sept. 18. Follow the Weekly Updates We’ll also share Weekly Top Performers, Power 100, and other highlights throughout the season on Instagram. 📸 Follow us on Instagram: @swimstandards Three different ways to look at the season Weekly Top Swims → What actually happened that week Weekly Top Performers → Top performers from results added that week Power 100 → Where the top performances rank across the entire season We hope these give swimmers, families, coaches, and swimming fans some fun new ways to follow performances throughout 2026–27. Let us know what you think!

omg girl, i gotchu!! 🏊‍♀️✨ so basically, since you’re 12 and swimming for Maverick Aquatics, you are literally crushing it! your profile on Swim Standards tracks all your times, and since you're in the 11-12 group, those times are graded by tiers like B, BB, A, AA, AAA, and AAAA (AAAA is like, total elite mode standard) 🏆if you want to level up and drop those times to hit your next big cut, here is the secret tea:the walls are everything! hold that streamline so tight and do 4-6 massive dolphin kicks off every single wall. seriously, that’s where you leave everyone in the dust 🧜‍♀️don't just spin your arms! make sure you're reaching far and pulling tons of water with each stroke instead of just moving fast. efficiency is key, bestieeee! ⏱️prep for next year! you're turning 13 soon UGH I HATE THE THOUGHT OF BEING 13 which means longer sets, so working hard at practice right now is going to pay off SO big later. And btw im younger than u (im jasmine siadaty from ACAC) but like im a nerd and speak from knowledge so thank me

The 2026 TYR Futures Championships split the country into five regional meets this week — Austin, Greensboro, Knoxville, Madison, and Sacramento — all racing the same dates (July 29–August 1) and the same 34 individual events. The meets haven't started yet, but the psych sheets are already out — and they point to some sites being a lot harder to make an A-final at than others. How We Measured It For each of the 34 individual events, we compared the 8th-place seed time — the projected cutoff to make an A-final — across all five sites, and tracked which site has the fastest cutoff. More wins means a deeper, more competitive field going in. The Projected Ranking Rank Site Fastest Seeded Cutoff In (out of 34 events) 1 Madison, WI 13 2 Austin, TX 9 3 Knoxville, TN 7 4 Greensboro, NC 5 5 Sacramento, CA 0 Based on seed times, Madison has the fastest cutoff in more events than any other site — more than a third of the entire program. Sacramento doesn't have the fastest cutoff in a single event. A Real Example: Men's 100 Fly Here's the seeded 8th-place time in the men's 100 fly at each site: Site 8th Place Seed Time Madison 54.91 Austin 55.66 Greensboro 55.76 Knoxville 56.26 Sacramento 57.11 Going into the meet, a swimmer seeded at 55.5 projects to make the A-final in Sacramento, Knoxville, or Greensboro — but misses it entirely in Madison. Not Just Wins — Consistency Madison isn't seeded to win all 34 events, and no site is. But in the events where Madison doesn't have the fastest cutoff, its seed times are still typically within a fraction of a second of whoever does. Sacramento's gaps are bigger — its seed cutoffs often trail the leader by several seconds, not fractions of one. That's the real gap between #1 and #5 heading in: Madison projects to win often and stay close everywhere else. Sacramento projects to rarely win and fall well behind when it doesn't. Field Size Backs It Up Site Total Entries Knoxville 2,744 Madison 2,701 Austin 2,644 Greensboro 2,257 Sacramento 1,928 Sacramento's field is roughly 800 swimmers smaller than Knoxville's — nearly 30% — consistent with also projecting as the shallowest field. Who to Watch at Each Site Looking at who tops the psych sheets in the marquee individual events (50/100 free, 100 back, 100 breast, 100 fly, 200 IM), a few names stand out at each site: Sacramento — Olivia Detter (PASA, 20) is seeded #1 in three events: the 50 free (26.05), 100 free (57.46), and 100 fly (1:01.30). Knoxville — Josh Toothman (Blazing Barracudas, 20) tops both sprint frees, seeded 22.65/50.70. Lainy Kruger (Gator Swim Club, 21) leads the women's 100 and 200 free. Austin — Carter Wright (Bolles School Sharks, 19) is the top seed in both the men's 100 free and 100 back. Greensboro — The clear headliner: Reina Liu (TAC, 16) is seeded #1 in five different events — the 100 free, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 IM, and 50 free. Madison — Stuart Seymour (Northwestern University, 21) tops three men's events, while Molly Sweeney (Carmel Swim Club, 18) tops three on the women's side. The Takeaway If you're swimming Futures in Madison this summer, you're facing a tougher projected road to the A-final than swimmers at any of the other four sites. If you're swimming in Sacramento, the field — while still a legitimate championship meet — projects as the least competitive of the five. This isn't a knock on any athlete. Futures assigns swimmers to sites by home region, not competitive balance, so nobody chose their field. But it's a useful reality check when comparing results across sites once the meets wrap: an A-final finish at Madison and an A-final finish at Sacramento won't have required the same time. Psych Sheets Austin Greensboro Knoxville Madison Sacramento Data based on official 2026 Futures Championship psych sheets as of publication, all five sites, meets held July 29–August 1. This is a pre-meet projection based on seed times, not final results — seed times reflect entries at time of export and are subject to change with scratches, add-ons, or updates ahead of competition.

SwimStandards Weekly · 2026-27 SCY · Results added October 22–28 Thirteen-year-old Parker Wheeler of WAC (LSC ga) opened the week's scoring with a 23.08 in the 50 butterfly, good for 1067 power points. That is the highest score among the top performers in any age group this week, and it came from a swimmer who is still two years away from high school. The window pulled in 252,870 swim rows across 58,541 unique swimmers, and the top end of that pool was heavy on distance freestyle, backstroke and butterfly. Nine swimmers topped 1000 points: seven boys and two girls. Wheeler leads a loaded 13-14 boys group Wheeler wasn't alone at the top. Jacob Lee (ROSE) posted a 58.33 in the 100 breaststroke for 1007, Jett Hatchard (SSC) went 49.77 in the 100 back for 1004, and Janiel Espinosa (AZFL) added a 1:53.41 in the 200 fly for 1002. Butterfly defined the group. Seven of the ten top scores came in the stroke, including four 50 flys between 23.08 and 24.32 from Wheeler, Noah Arthiabah, Jesse Boyle and Layten Norem. The depth is notable too: the tenth-place score in this group is 939, which is higher than the 935 needed to make the 15-18 boys board. Distance swimmers set the pace Several of the biggest scores came from the longest events. Gabriel Brown of FAST (LSC in) went 10:33.14 in the 1000 free at age 11, scoring 1031, the second-highest mark of the week. His teammate Jace Jackson added an 18:00.16 in the 1650 (987), and Robert Gergardt of QSS went 10:48.75 in the 1000 (971). Together they filled three of the top four spots among 11-12 boys. At the other end of the age range, 17-year-old Luka Mijatovic of PLS (LSC pc) swam 14:38.60 in the 1650 for 1005, narrowly ahead of Aaron Roy's 21.53 in the 50 fly (1002). It is a good illustration of what power points do: a mile and a 50 land within three points of each other. Elsewhere, Harper Rauch (CWAC) led 13-14 girls with a 9:54.39 in the 1000 free, and 15-year-old Declan McDonald (BAD) went 9:13.12 in the same event. Backstroke takes over the 15-18 girls Eight of the ten top entries among 15-18 girls came in backstroke. Ella Busquets (OAPB) led the way with a 24.91 in the 50 back for 1012, the best score by a girl this week, with Katrin Otaegi (SRVA) just eight hundredths behind at 24.99 (1004). Both swim in LSC pc. The rest of the group backed it up across distances: Daniela Linares Danzos went 1:54.34 in the 200 back (984), and Anna Curtis went 53.55 in the 100 (962). On the boys' side, Ryker Levi of SCAR posted a 48.39 in the 100 back for 964. The 100 breast and the age adjustment The 15-18 boys' 100 breaststroke is where age adjustment is easiest to see. Five swimmers made the board in the event, with times spread across just 1.15 seconds: Luke Zardavets, 17: 54.59 (938) Adam Barlow, 17: 54.66 (935) Amar'e San Diego, 16: 55.38 (940) Kelly Sommer, 16: 55.50 (935) Nikolay Chernev, 15: 55.74 (955) Chernev has the slowest time of the five but the highest score, because he is the youngest. Barlow and Sommer tied at 935, which is why the 15-18 boys list runs to eleven. Young swimmers making noise Among 10-and-unders, Iris Liu of PLS led the girls with a 1:17.12 in the 100 breast (962), and NOVA's Meixuan Jiang and Margaret Wang went 5:53.06 and 5:53.77 in the 500 free, with Wang listed at just 8. Robert Legg (PLS) topped the boys at 985 with a 2:15.32 in the 200 IM, and Zeeon Zang (XCEL), also 8, made the list with a 31.03 in the 50 fly. In the 11-12 girls group, Victoria Gu (5:13.92 in the 500 free, 919) and Julia Xiong (2:12.95 in the 200 IM, 918) gave NOVA the top two spots, separated by a single point, with Emma Blaho and Ziqi Sun within nine points of the lead. By the numbers Clubs: PLS placed a swimmer in all four age groups for six total entries, the most of any club. NOVA followed with five. 1000-point club: Wheeler (1067), Brown (1031), Busquets (1012), Lee (1007), Mijatovic (1005), Hatchard (1004), Otaegi (1004), Roy (1002), Espinosa (1002). Tenth-place scores: from 842 (10&U boys) to 939 (13-14 boys). Notes: The data window reflects when results were added to the SwimStandards database, not necessarily meet dates. Each swimmer appears once per age group and gender, with their best-scoring swim. Browse every swimmer's results at swimstandards.com.

A cut, B cut, QS, Qualifying, Provisional — the terminology shifts depending on which NCAA division you're looking at, and in Division I's case, from year to year. Here's what each one actually means. Division I Starting in 2026, D1 replaced the old A/B system for individual events with a single qualifying standard (QS) per event. The rank behind that number isn't fixed — it's been recalculated each year so far: 2026: a 3-year average of the 72nd-best time nationally, same rank for men and women. 2027: gender-specific and based on the prior season alone — 64th-best time for men, 88th-best for women. Where that 2026 line sat is still useful context: the old A cut was roughly the 8th-best time nationally (a handful of qualifiers per event), the old B cut roughly the 125th (hundreds of qualifiers). The new QS landing near 70th-90th put it deliberately in between. The headline change is how you use that standard. Win your conference championship while swimming under the QS, and you're in automatically — no waiting on national rankings. That shortcut only applies to individual events. Hit the QS at any other point in the season without winning your conference, and you're ranked and selected event-by-event with everyone else, filled evenly across events until the meet caps out (235 men, 281 women). The reason the QS wasn't set as loose as the old B cut: at that level, most conference champions would clear it automatically, and the "win and you're in" rule would stop meaning anything. Relays didn't change. They still run the old two-tier system, now called Qualifying (auto-in) and Provisional (fills remaining spots), with no conference-champion shortcut. Relay bids also belong to the school, not the four swimmers who earned the time — a team can swim anyone in the final. Division II D2 kept the classic two-tier system for individual events. A cut is an automatic invite; B cut fills whatever room is left once every A-cut swimmer is seated. There's no cap on A cuts — if fifteen swimmers hit the standard in one event, all fifteen get in, and it's the B-cut pool that absorbs the squeeze. Relays work differently than you'd expect. D2's published standards list a "Qualifying" column and a "Provisional" column for every relay — but Qualifying is marked N/A across the board. D2 relays only have one real cutline. Division III Same two-tier shape as D2, with three separate published formulas underneath: A cut: 3-year average of the top finisher's time in finals. B cut: 3-year average of the 32nd-place time from the meet entry system. Relay cut: 3-year average of the 20th-place time (men) or 24th-place time (women) from the entry system. Those are three different ranks, not one formula reused. Selection fills the top 16 men / 20 women per individual event, adds top relay finishers, then fills remaining spots one swimmer at a time until the meet hits its cap (260 men, 319 women). On "NS": occasionally you'll see an "NS" entry alongside A/B in a results database. It isn't an NCAA standard — there's no such designation in any division's official rules. Where it shows up, it's almost always a database placeholder (unpopulated row, "No Standard" for an event with no cutline), not a real qualifying tier. A/B cuts vs. A-final/B-final Two unrelated concepts that happen to share letters: A cut / B cut / QS — a season-long time standard that decides whether you're invited to the meet at all. A-final / B-final — the at-the-meet grouping after prelims, based on how you rank in that session. A swimmer who arrived on a B cut can still swim into the A-final if they're fast enough on the day. D1 dropped B-finals for 2026, then brought them back for 2027 — a separate change from the QS overhaul happening the same year. Quick reference Division Individual Relay D1 Single QS, rank varies by year and gender; conference-champion auto-bid Qualifying (auto-in) / Provisional D2 A cut (auto) / B cut (fills remaining spots) Provisional only — no auto-in tier D3 A cut (auto) / B cut (fills remaining spots) Own formula (20th/24th-place avg), often stored under "B" Current standards 2027 NCAA Division I Championship Time Standards 2027 NCAA Division II Championship Time Standards 2027 NCAA Division III Championship Time Standards

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@Shiny_Walrus408 Thank you for the explanation. Your club name has been corrected to CAC Boulder Riptide

@madi_swims Hasn’t it started yet? We only see 2026 results at https://ghsaswim.swimtopia.com/ Do you have more information for us?