Minutes from the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Committee's April meeting have been released, and there are a number of significant items and a handful of minor items of note to come out of that meeting.

Among the major items are a discussion of qualifying times for the 2025 championships, approved non-NCAA qualifying meets for 2024/2025, reveal of zone diving locations for next season, and a proposed change to the NCAA Championship event schedule.

The biggest fundamental change in the pipeline is a proposal to move the 100 fly before the 400 IM on day 3 of the NCAA Championship meet.

The report says that "the committee will seek additional feedback" on both this change and the timing of diving consolation finals moving to immediately before finals vs directly after prelims before making a final decision.

Day 3 Swimming Schedule Change:

The pretense for this is that the 100 fly/100 back double is by far the most common same-day double in collegiate swimming, and moving those events further apart would make that double more plausible. It revives the age-old debate as to whether the goal of the swimming schedule is to "make doubles as easy as possible" or to "reward swimmers more capable of taking on tough doubles, or swimmers who are versatile enough to swim an event from each of the meet's three days."

Swimmers who swam both the 100 fly and 100 back at last year's NCAA Championship meet:

This would also benefit a handful of other swimmers with less-traditional doubles, like Indiana's Finn Brooks, who was 15th in the 100 fly and 32nd in the 100 breast at last year's NCAA Championship meet.

With the committee's updated focus on bona fide competition, the committee approved four non-collegiate meets for NCAA qualifying status for the 2024-2025 season:

The committee also reaffirmed that long course meters qualifying times for the NCAA Championships would be in pre-Olympic years only, meaning that next year swimmers will only be able to qualify in short course yards and short course meters.

Qualifying standards and timelines remain unchanged (could that change in the future?), and the committee announced that many standards will not change next season.

In general, the standard-setting procedure will not change:

All four standards come with the caveat that time standards cannot get slower, and this year, the A cut for the women's 1650 free, women's 200 back, women's 200 breast, women's 200 IM, women's 400 IM, and men's 500 free, plus the B cut for the women's 500 free will not change (because they would have gotten slower).

The same goes for the A cut for the women's 800 free relay, women's 200 medley relay, and men's 400 medley relay.

While the individual standards are functionally 'window dressing' (because selections are based on national rank, not the standards), the relay qualification times are more clear-lines where teams past those marks know they're into the NCAA Championships.

Zone diving qualifying standards have not changed.

The Zone Diving locations, qualification spots, and reimbursement spots have all been released, based on each zone's performance at last year's NCAA Championship meets.

The committee also says that it will continue looking into team diving, which has faced mixed reviews from swim coaches across the country, but that it will not be added to the 2025 NCAA Championships.