2025 Massive 12 Championship
February 25 – March 1, 2025
Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Heart — Federal Method, Wash.
SCY (25 Yards)
Begin Instances: prelims – 10 am PT/finals – 6 pm PT
Championship Central
Psych Sheet
Livestream: ESPN+
Reside Outcomes
Reside Recaps
Day 2 Prelims Warmth Sheet
Good Morning, Swim Followers, or quite, Good Afternoon for these of you fellow EastCoasters. The primary preliminary session of the 2025 Massive 12 Swimming and Diving Championships is about to get underway.
With Texas having traded away their run of Massive 12 Championships for some SEC Titles, the Massive 12 will search new champions on each the lads’s and girls’s aspect, as Texas, Texas A&M, and Nebraska are all in several conferences.
ASU, new to the Massive 12, received issues off to a sizzling begin final night time as each their girls’s and males’s groups swept the 200 Medley and 800 Free Relays, with the ASU males setting new meet information in each. This morning, each groups will look to construct upon that success, as they maintain the highest seed in all however one swimming occasion.
Within the 500 free, ASU’s Deniz Ertan will look to go 1-2 with coaching companion Alexa Reyna because the pair of Solar Devils will look to fend off in-state rival Malia Rausch of Arizona. Each Ertan and Rausch, like their respective faculties have bounced round conferences, with Rausch beginning her collegiate profession at OSU and Ertan at Georgia Tech, the place she received the five hundred free in 2023, making this the third completely different Convention Championships she has competed in, after additionally swimming in final 12 months’s Pac-12.
Within the 200 IM, ASU holds a lock on the presumptive A-final, with six swimmers seeded amongst the highest 8, with senior Charli Brown (1:57.50) as the highest seed. Houston’s Evelyn Entrekin is the highest-seeded non-ASU swimmer, clocking in because the fifth seed (1:59.97).
Alternatively, and maybe on account of its nature, the 50 free sees a wide-open subject. ASU nonetheless is seeded to place a plurality of swimmers into the A-final as they’ve three within the prime eight, however Caroline Bentz (21.80) must maintain off the likes of Arizona’s Lexi Duchsherer (22.19) and Utah’s Erin Palmer (22.25). Final night time within the 200 Medley Relay, Bentz was 21.43, however the pair of former Pac-12 rivals had been shut behind, splitting 21.55 and 21.61, respectively.
ASU, coming off of an NCAA title final 12 months, can be assumed to have a stranglehold atop the occasions, however it’s TCU’s Geremia Freri (1:43.89) and Cincinnati’s Hunter Gubeno (1:44.65) who sit atop the 200 IM. ASU’s IM corps is in a rebuilding stage. Leon Marchand went professional, David Schlict graduated, and Owen McDonald and Hubert Kos transferred.
Within the 500 and 50 freestyles, nevertheless, ASU’s dominance might be on full show, as within the 500 free, Daniel Matheson (4:15.92) and Reece Grady (4:16.80) personal the one two entry occasions underneath 4:18 and are simply two of the 5 Solar Devils seeded amongst the highest eight. And whereas which will seem to be quite a bit, the lads’s 50 free, has a definite risk of getting an all ASU A-final.
Ilya Kharun tops the warmth sheet with a seed time of 18.51, simply forward of teammates Jonny Kulow (18.78) and Tommy Palmer (18.88). Actually, ASU’s dash dominance is so excessive that they maintain the highest six spots, with Arizona’s Tomas Lukminas representing the primary non-ASU swimmer within the males’s 50 free (Seventh-19.53); nevertheless, ASU’s Christian Ostendorf (Ninth-19.57) and Tiago Behar (Eleventh-19.68) will make sure to attempt to be a part of the A-final.
Ladies’s 500 Freestyle — Prelims
NCAA Report: 4:24.06 — Katie Ledecky, Stanford (2017)
Massive 12 Report: 4:35.02 — Evie Pfeifer, Texas (2021)
Massive 12 Championship Report: 4:36.35 — Evie Pfeifer, Texas (2021)
2025 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Reduce: 4:36.89/4:47.20
2024 NCAA Invite Time: 4:41.19
2024 Instances to Advance to Finals: 4:54.05/4:56.32/4:58.87
Prime 8:
Males’s 500 Freestyle — Prelims
NCAA Report: 4:02.31 — Leon Marchand, Arizona State (2024)
Massive 12 Report: 4:06.93 — Luke Hobson, Texas (2024)
Massive 12 Championship Report: 4:11.11— Clark Smith, Texas (2017)
2025 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Reduce: 4:10.64/4:21.28
2024 NCAA Invite Time: 4:14.90
2024 Instances to Advance to Finals: 4:26.67/4:31.43/4;34.99
Prime 8:
Ladies’s 200 IM — Prelims
NCAA Report: 1:48.37 — Kate Douglass, Virginia (2023)
Massive 12 Report: 1:52.58 — Madisyn Cox, Texas (2017)
Massive 12 Championship Report: 1:52.82— Madisyn Cox, Texas (2017)
2025 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Reduce: 1:53.66/1:59.35
2024 NCAA Invite Time: 1:57.05
2024 Instances to Advance to Finals: 2:01.12/2:03.87/2:04.66
Prime 8:
Males’s 200 IM — Prelims
NCAA Report: 1:36.34 — Leon Marchand, Arizona State (2023)
Massive 12 Report: 1:39.63 – John Shebat, Texas (2019)
Massive 12 Championship Report: 1:40.42 – Carson Foster, Texas (2023)
2025 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Reduce: 1:40.75/1:45.68
2024 NCAA Invite Time: 1:43.05
2024 Instances to Advance to Finals: 1:45.60/1:48.40/1:50.18
Prime 8:
Ladies’s 50 Freestyle — Prelims
NCAA Report: 20.37 — Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)
Massive 12 Report: 21.66 — Grace Cooper, Texas (2023)
Massive 12 Championship Report: 21.76 — Grace Cooper, Texas (2024)
2025 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Reduce: 21.58/22.58
2024 NCAA Invite Time: 22.11
2024 Instances to Advance to Finals: 22.88/23.22/23.46
Prime 8:
Males’s 50 Freestyle — Prelims
NCAA Report: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
Massive 12 Report: 18.60 — Drew Kibler, Texas (2022)
Massive 12 Championship Report: 18.76 – Joseph Education, Texas (2017)
2025 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Reduce: 18.72/19.69
2024 NCAA Invite Time: 19.13
2024 Instances to Advance to Finals: 20.04/20.33/20.78
Prime 8:
