Final Girls Swimming & Diving Rankings: Charlotte Country Day ends year at No. 1

For the first time, Charlotte Country Day is the No. 1 team in the final HighSchoolOT girls swimming & diving rankings. The Buccaneers were N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association D1 champions.

The rankings are based on performances in either the N.C. High School Athletic Association or N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association championships. HSOT uses championship times across all classifications and associations and combines them into one big state meet to calculate the final rankings.

In some events, there were ties across different classifications. In order to determine the points, the tiebreaker was podium placement (a 1A champ got the spot over a second-place 4A athlete in the same event). If the athletes were still tied, they split the points.

For the final rankings, if two teams were tied for a top-25 spot, the tiebreaker was whichever team had the higher finish at their respective state championship.

Previous All-State Teams, Final Rankings

• 2024 girls all-state team
• 2023 final rankings (Myers Park girls No. 1)
• 2023 all-state team
• 2022 final rankings (Myers Park girls No. 1)
• 2022 all-state team
• 2021 final rankings (Hough girls No. 1)
• 2021 all-state team

State championship coverage, other links

• 4A
• 3A
• 1A/2A
• NCISAA D1
• NCISAA D2
• NCISAA D3
• College recruits (class of 2024)

CCDS was 30 points ahead of second-place Green Hope and 26 ahead of N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A champion Myers Park.

In total, 19 teams from the preseason top 25 also made it in the final 25, with No. 20 Rolesville the highest of those who began the year unranked. Latin was the preseason No. 12 team.

Other state champions include No. 18 Lake Norman Charter (3A). Pine Lake Prep, the 1A/2A champ, and NCISAA champions Asheville School (D2) and The O'Neal School (D3) were unranked.

The full rankings are below:

Final HSOT Statewide Top 25: Girls Swimming & Diving

Reminder: Rankings are calculated by compiling championship times across all classifications and associations into one big state meet, with ties broken by podium placement. Each team is listed with their total points and championship finish.

1. Charlotte Country Day 226, NCISAA D1 champ
2. Green Hope 194, 2nd in 4A
3. Myers Park 188, 4A champ
4. Ardrey Kell 133, 5th in 4A
5. Charlotte Catholic 127, 4th in 4A
6. Marvin Ridge 125, 3rd in 4A
7. Providence Day 119, 4th in NCISAA D1
8. East Chapel Hill 105, 6th in 4A
9. Lake Norman 98, 7th in 4A
10. Cary Academy 96, 2nd in NCISAA D1
11. Charlotte Latin 85, 3rd in NCISAA D1
12. Grimsley 76, 9th in 4A
13. Apex Friendship 65, 10th in 4A
14. Orange 60, 2nd in 3A
15. Apex 54, T11th in 4A
16. Cardinal Gibbons 52, T11th in 4A
17. Providence 38, 8th in 4A
18. Lake Norman Charter 34, 3A champ
19. Durham Academy 29, 5th in NCISAA D1
20. Rolesville 28, T20th in 4A
21. Riverside 26, 14th in 4A
22. Burns 26, 17th in 1A/2A
23. Gaston Day 24, 4th in NCISAA D3
24. Woods Charter 22, 22nd in 1A/2A
25. Central Cabarrus 21, 5th in 3A