1957 NCAA swimming and diving championships
Host city	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Date(s)	March 1957
Venue(s)	Bowman Gray Pool University of North Carolina
Teams	22
Events	16
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The 1957 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1957 at the Bowman Gray Pool at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the 21st annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving among its member programs in the United States.

A total of sixteen individual events, alongside a team championship, were contested as part of this year's program.

Michigan regained the national title, the Wolverines' seventh (and first since 1948), after finishing eight points ahead of Yale in the team standings.^[1]

• Three new events were added to the NCAA championships program this year: the 100 yard breaststroke, 100 yard butterfly, and 400 yard medley relay.
• One event, the 300 yard medley relay, was dropped.

• (H) = Hosts
• (DC) = Defending champions
• Italics = Debut appearance

Rank	Team	Points
	Michigan	69
	Yale	61
	Michigan State	52
4	Indiana	48
5	North Carolina (H)	24
6	Oklahoma	23
7	Iowa	15
8	Northwestern	12
9	SMU	10
10	Amherst	9
11	Miami (OH)	7
12	Army	5
	Bowdoin
	Illinois
15	Syracuse	4
	Wisconsin
17	California	3
	Purdue
	Texas
20	Denver	2
21	Knox	1
	Stanford

• Did not place: Ohio State (DC)

Event	Champion	Team	Time
50 yard freestyle	Robert Keiter	Amherst	22.1
100 yard freestyle	Henry Dyer	Harvard	49.4
220 yard freestyle	William Woolsey (DC)	Indiana	2:02.5
440 yard freestyle	William Woolsey (DC)	Indiana	4:38.2
1,500 meter freestyle	Fritz Myers	Michigan	19:04.8
100 yard backstroke	Charles Krepp	North Carolina	58.1
200 yard backstroke	Charles Krepp	North Carolina	2:07.8
100 yard breaststroke	Julian Dyason	Oklahoma	1:03.0
200 yard breaststroke	Cy Hopkins	Michigan	2:20.0
100 yard butterfly	Timothy Jecko	Yale	54.6
200 yard butterfly	Timothy Jecko	Yale	2:09.5
200 yard individual medley	Timothy Jecko	Yale	2:09.4
400 yard freestyle relay	Russell Hibbard Daniel Cornwel David Armstrong Rex Aubrey	Yale (DC)	3:23.9
400 yard medley relay	Don Adamaski Cy Hopkins Fred Mowrey Dick Hanley	Michigan	3:50.0

• List of college swimming and diving teams
• NAIA men's swimming and diving championships