{"id":642744,"date":"2026-04-26T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=642744"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:31:14","slug":"cscaa-recommends-return-of-b-finals-further-adjustments-to-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cscaa-recommends-return-of-b-finals-further-adjustments-to-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"CSCAA Recommends Return of B Finals, Further Adjustments to NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

CSCAA Recommends Return of B Finals, Further Adjustments to NCAA Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

Expect to see consolation finals back on the program at next year’s Division I NCAA Championships, but the meet will not simply return to the 2025-and-earlier status quo. A working group established by the College Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has convened twice this month as the organization continues to tinker with its preferred format for the meet.<\/p>\n

Following meetings on April 2 and April 20, the nine-member coaching panel issued draft recommendations that would restore B finals to the national meet. The recommendation calls for those those races to be contested together prior to the start of championship finals. Additionally, the split in diving events into two groups of three rounds would remain, but all individual swimming finals would take place between the diving rounds rather than the back-and-forth model used this year.<\/p>\n

An elite group of coaches met to discuss these recommendations, including national-championship-winning coaches Todd DeSorbo<\/strong> of Virginia and Dave Durden<\/strong> of Cal. The list also includes\u00a0Louisville’s Arthur Albiero<\/strong>,\u00a0Arizona State’s\u00a0Herbie Behm<\/strong>, Princeton’s\u00a0Matt Crispino<\/strong>, NC State’s Braden Holloway<\/strong>,\u00a0Tennessee’s Matt Kredich<\/strong>, Indiana’s Ray Looze<\/strong> and Northwestern’s Rachel Stratton-Mills<\/strong>. USA Swimming National Team Director and former Stanford women’s coach Greg Meehan<\/strong> was also part of the second meeting.<\/p>\n