2025 Males’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Day 2 Prelims Warmth Sheet (will hyperlink once we obtain a replica)
If final night time was a tease of what’s to come back, then strap in, of us, trigger we’re definitely in for an exhilarating journey.
For those who’re on the East Coast and seeking to procrastinate at work, let this be your outlet. For those who’re on the West Coast, properly, take pleasure in this along with your espresso (that’s, in case you are awake and/or take pleasure in espresso).
After posting the third quickest flying begin final night time within the 800 free relay, breaking into the sub-1:30 membership, going 1:29.91, Texas’s Rex Maurer will look to construct that momentum and safe a spot within the A-final of the five hundred free. Since making the transfer to Austin, Maurer has exploded within the occasion.
Final yr at NCAAs, Maurer entered the meet with a 4:11.88 however had a tough prelims swim, hitting the wall in 4:16.69. This season, Maurer is your prime together with his American file of 4:04.45 and has an enormous three-second benefit over the #2 seed Noah Millard of Yale.
Texas could possibly be off to a highly regarded begin this morning if all the things falls into place for the Longhorns, as Coby Carrozza is the ninth seed, and regardless of being the fifteenth seed, Luke Hobson had the quickest 200 free final night time on the relay and might be seeking to return to the A-Ultimate as he’s the best positioned returner from final yr.
Cal, too, might be seeking to blunt the facility of the Texas freestyle group. Lucas Henveaux and Gabe Jett are each seeded within the prime 8 and might be driving a wave of confidence after their performances from final night time. The Bears will look to hold that over to the 200 IM, the place, regardless of being seeded seventeenth, Destin Lasco is the defending champion.
Indiana hopes to make its presence felt within the IM as Owen McDonald and Luke Barr enter because the 2nd and fifth seeds, respectively. Whereas his relay was DQed final night time, Florida’s Julian Smith is the highest seed, and his 1:29.92 200 free cut up, in addition to his new all-time greatest 50 breast cut up (22.14), present that the Gator is in effective type.
We finish the day with the 50 free. Whereas prime seed Jordan Crooks has an enormous benefit as he’s the one swimmer seeded underneath 18.00, not to mention 18.25, the Tennessee Volunteer was a bit off his greatest final night time (if one can name going 17.67 off their greatest). His teammate Gui Caribe sits third and might be seeking to safe a repeat journey to the A-final. SEC rival and the defending champion, Josh Liendo, sits between the pair because the #2 seed. Liendo, like Crooks, was a bit off final night time on the 200 medley relay, splitting 19.08 on the fly leg. Cal’s Jack Alexy, who pulled double obligation final night time, swimming the 4th quickest 50 free (18.03) and the 2nd quickest lead-0ff 2oo free is the fifth seed within the 50 and can look to repeat (or higher) his third place end from final yr.
Whereas their possibilities of a repeat NCAA championships are very slim, ASU will definitely be seeking to flex their sprinting prowess as they’ve Ilya Kharun (#4) and Jonny Kulow (#8) projected to make the A-final. Kharun final night time posted the quickest 50-fly cut up ever, going 18.78. Kulow, too, made historical past as he went 17.78, second solely to Crooks.
Seed
500 Free
2oo IM
50 Free
1
2
Joshua Liendo (FLA) – 18.26
3
Tomas Koski (UGA) – 4:08.25
Gal Groumi (MICH) – 1:40.34
Guilherme Caribe (TENN) – 18.42
4
Jacob Magahey (UGA) – 4:08.61
Hubert Kos (TEX) – 1:40.51
5
John Alexy (CAL) – 18.58
6
David Johnston (TEX) – 4:09.41
William Modglin (TEX) – 1:40.64
Christopher Guiliano (TEX) – 18.61
7
Charlie Hawke (BAMA) – 4:09.75
Colin Geer (MICH) – 1:40.65
Quintin McCarty (NCST) – 18.63
8
Gabriel Jett (CAL) – 4:10.27
Carles Coll Marti (VT) – 1:40.95
Jonathan Kulow (ASU) – 18.64
9
Tristan Jankovics (OSU) – 1:41.09
Jere Hribar (LSU) – 18.65
10
Jacob Mitchell (FLA) – 4:10.72
Daniel Diehl (NCST) – 1:41.39
Connor Foote (TAMU) – 18.67
11
Carson Hick (UK) – 4:10.89
Danny Schmidt (AUB) – 1:41.42
Scott Buff (FLA) – 18.73
12
Mason Mathias (AUB) – 4:11.03
Baylor Nelson (TAMU) – 1:41.43
Matthew Klinge (OSU) – 18.78
13
Giovanni Linscheer (FLA) – 4:11.03
Mitchell Schott (PRIN) – 1:41.44
Alexander Painter (FLA) – 18.80
14
Zalan Sarkany (IU) – 4:11.62
Gianluca Urlando (UGA) – 1:41.46
Taiko Torepe-Ormsby (WISC) – 18.81
15
Camden Taylor (TEX) – 1:41.58
Lamar Taylor (TENN) – 18.82
16
Jovan Lekic (LSU) – 4:12.26
Ron Polonsky (STAN) – 1:41.66
Remi Fabiani (CBU) – 18.82
