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!

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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.

Week 9 of the short course yards season (swims added November 5–11) produced a board with a clear peak and a few unmistakable patterns. Ayden Tan, 14, posted a 21.86 in the 50 fly for 1,091 power points, the highest score anywhere on this week's board. Right behind him are Luka Mijatovic (1,070 points, 500 free) and nine-year-old Liixin Zhang (1,067, also the 500 free). Twelve swimmers crossed the 1,000-point line in total, and five of them are 11 or younger. This week's pool was big: the database matched more than 234,000 swim records in the window, covering just over 51,000 unique swimmer entries. The board keeps each swimmer's single best power-points swim, ranks the top ten in each age group and sex (ties at the cutoff included), and allows any event. If you want to see how a particular swim scores, the Power Points Calculator will do it in seconds. The headline swims Tan's 50 fly is the story at the top, but it also shows why power points are worth reading alongside the clock. The fastest raw time on the board belongs to 18-year-old Brady Campbell, whose 21.32 in the same event is 0.54 seconds quicker than Tan's. Tan, though, scores 98 more points (1,091 to 993), because a 21.86 at 14 is a much rarer swim than the same event at 18. Beyond the top three, the 1,000-club includes Molin Qian (11, 100 breast, 1,041), Robert Legg (10, 500 free, 1,037), Nicolas Lahre (11, 1650 free, 1,026), Janiel Espinosa (13, 100 back, 1,016), Addie Farrier (10, 50 fly, 1,014), Owen Ekk (18, 200 IM, 1,010), Lillie Dirito (14, 50 back, 1,004), Kylee Crotts (17, 50 back, 1,002) and Eli Kim (13, 400 IM, 1,000). 10 & Under: nine-year-olds and the 500 free Nine-year-olds hold 13 of the 20 spots in this age group, and the boys' side turns on the 500 free. Liixin Zhang's 5:31.70 tops the list at 1,067 points, ahead of Robert Legg's 1,037 for a 5:09.25. Legg is 22 seconds faster on the clock but a year older, and the points reflect that. Porter Pitti, also nine, takes sixth at 880 with a 6:01.06. Elsewhere, Tatsumasa Sekine (9, 100 fly, 1:06.89) and Arthur Groose (9, 50 back, 31.39) sit at 956 and 954. Sekine's club teammate Rubix Szolusha is seventh with a faster 1:04.52, but at 10 he scores 871. The ninth-place tie at 862 pairs Austin Ren, 10, with Dylan Kemmish, 9, in the 100 IM; Ren's 1:06.89 is nearly five seconds faster than Kemmish's 1:11.75, yet the points come out identical. On the girls' side, the 50 fly claims five of the ten spots. Farrier is the only girl in the group over 1,000, with a 26.95. Behind her, Adaleen Cho (29.73, 971), Emma Liu (29.74, 970) and Nya Ferguson (29.80, 966) are separated by seven hundredths of a second, with the same age and nearly the same score. The age lens shows up again in the 100 back, where nine-year-old Sophia Lee-Park (1:08.81, 962) ranks ahead of 10-year-old Audrey Hook (1:03.63, 939). Patricia Kaawa (50 breast, 35.97), Ellen Chae (500 free, 5:35.31) and Magdalene Roberts (50 fly, 30.88) round out the AAAA swims, while Yuguo Li's 1:21.05 in the 100 breast, at 872, is the only AAA time on the girls' list. 11–12: distance, IM and a breaststroke star Vanessa Kuo, 12, leads the girls with a 10:16.26 in the 1000 free (971). Yipeng Wang is next with a 31.39 in the 50 breast (926), and Leah Bearyman follows with a 26.95 in the 50 fly (911). That is the exact time Farrier swam, and it is worth 103 fewer points at 11 than at 10, a tidy illustration of how steeply the scoring moves from year to year at these ages. The 400 IM is the group's other signature. Three 11-year-olds hold ranks four, five and eight: Elizabeth Burke (4:46.56, 909), Jessica Palattao (4:47.20, 904) and Olivia Choi (4:48.59, 894), all within about two seconds of each other. Anna Ringh (100 IM, 1:02.56, 902), the 12-year-old 50 back pair of Shelby Bigby (27.55) and Billie Briggs (27.68), and Olivia Vaden (200 fly, 2:17.90, the group's one AAA among the girls) complete the list. The boys' list has a pronounced top end. Molin Qian's 1:04.93 in the 100 breast (1,041) and Nicolas Lahre's 17:40.76 in the 1650 (1,026) both clear 1,000, and then the board drops 82 points to Ethan Huynh (200 back, 2:11.70, 944). The 400 IM again offers a clean age comparison: 12-year-old Oscar Jovic swam a 4:28.06, about 19 seconds faster than 11-year-old Daniel Radchenko Avondo's 4:47.14, but lands 24 points behind him (893 to 917). The rest of the list: Hunter Gumbayan (200 free, 1:49.09, 928), Anton-David Bernstein (100 back, 56.51, 920), Maxim Pisanka (200 breast, 2:33.80, 907), Taylor DeLuca (200 back, 2:14.29, 901) and George Xuan (100 breast, 1:09.76, 897). 13–14: a backstroke wave and a butterfly quartet Six of the 11 girls' entries (a tie at the cutoff adds an extra row) are backstrokers. Lillie Dirito leads with a 25.37 in the 50 back, the only 1,000-point score in the group, and she's joined by Mary Tolar (100 back, 55.03, 931), Ivy Zhang (50 back, 26.75, 929), Sage Searle (200 back, 2:01.75, 913), Gretchen Myers (50 back, 26.31, 909) and Lucy Simmons (50 back, 26.95, 909). The non-backstrokers are no slouches either: Zaryna Wardlay is second at 971 with a 49.15 in the 100 free, Olivia Holt (100 fly, 54.47) and Isla Rapcan (100 breast, 1:02.50) sit at 917 and 916, and Naiya DeSilva (100 fly, 55.71) and Kate Allen (200 free, 1:48.59) tie for seventh at 915. The boys' list is almost entirely 13-year-olds, eight of the ten, with Tan and Ryan Yao the two 14-year-olds. Yao's 1:50.55 in the 200 IM scores 999, one point shy of the 1,000 line. Espinosa and Kim lead the 13-year-olds, and Beckum Rychnovsky (1000 free, 9:33.70, 990) is close behind. Butterfly gets a quartet of its own: Tan's 50, Aaron Tong's 200 (1:54.63, 977), Caleb Goodavish's 100 (51.91, 975) and Connor Ventura's 50 (23.98, 973). Alex Kirsling (200 back, 1:54.37, 967) and Lochlan Thompson (100 breast, 59.41, 966) close out the group. 15–18: more backstroke, and an IM-heavy boys' list The girls' board mirrors the 13–14 group's backstroke theme even more strongly: seven of the ten entries are backstrokers. Kylee Crotts leads with a 25.01 in the 50 back, and Ella Busquets is three hundredths behind at 25.04 (999 points to Crotts's 1,002). The 100 back adds Ellie Clarke (53.43, 967), Daniela Linares Danzos (53.50, 964), Michelle Dean (53.65, 957) and Sydney Hardy (54.06, 948), with Khanh Seaton (50 back, 25.53, 948) tied alongside Hardy. Breaststroke interrupts the run at third, where Mikayla Tan went 27.99 in the 50 breast (987), and Grace Koenig-Song shares sixth with Dean at 957 after a 28.38. Jianna Amores rounds out the top ten with a 52.76 in the 100 fly (945). The boys' list is tightly packed behind its leaders. Mijatovic's 4:06.37 in the 500 free sets the standard, and Owen Ekk's 1:43.62 in the 200 IM is next at 1,010. After that, ranks three through nine span just 12 points, from 995 to 983. Daniel Mulla (15, 50 fly, 22.15) and Fedor Igoshin (15, 400 IM, 3:49.80) tie for third at 995. Mulla's 22.15 is 0.83 slower than Campbell's 21.32, but he edges him on points, 995 to 993, a reminder of the age lens again. Then come Matthew Cuadros (100 breast, 54.18, 989), Justin Shi (200 fly, 1:43.68, 987) and Yi Zheng (400 IM, 3:45.19, 984), while Shareef Elaydi (100 breast, 53.51) and Caleb Caponera (200 IM, 1:46.57) share ninth at 983. Every entry in the 13–14 and 15–18 groups is a AAAA swim. Where the swimmers come from By LSC code, pc (Pacific Swimming) is the most represented on this week's board, with 15 of the 81 entries, six of them from PLS alone (Legg, Zhang, Searle, Kim, Linares Danzos and Mijatovic). Several smaller clusters stand out too. The gu code has five swimmers spread across the 10&U, 11–12 and 13–14 groups, between FCST (Liu, Ren, Bigby) and BTA (Briggs, Simmons). Indiana's CSC places four, one each in the 11–12 boys, 13–14 girls, 15–18 girls and 15–18 boys lists. Week at a Glance The week's top-line number is Ayden Tan's 1,091, but the more telling pattern is how consistently the board rewards swimmers who are young for their group: 13 of the 20 entries in 10&U are nine-year-olds, seven of the ten girls in 11–12 are 11, and eight of the ten boys in 13–14 are 13. Backstroke stood out most on the girls' side, accounting for 17 of the 41 girls' entries across the four age groups, versus 8 of 40 on the boys' side. And the points needed for tenth place rise with age: 872 for girls and 862 for boys in 10&U, 882 and 893 in 11–12, 909 and 966 in 13–14, and 945 and 983 in 15–18. The data here can't say why, but it's a useful benchmark if you're checking where a swim would land. Rankings use power points as the primary metric, with ties broken by time, then by the date a swim was added. Each swimmer appears once per age-and-sex group, with their best-scoring swim of the window, and any event is eligible. The window reflects when swims were added to the SwimStandards database (November 5–11, 2026), not necessarily when the meets took place. Names, teams and codes appear as recorded in the database. Full rankings and swimmer profiles are on SwimStandards.

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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USA Swimming does not have Power Points for SCM events. All times must be achieved in one season and in one course (SCY or LCM)! You can find more information at: https://swimstandards.com/imx