Faculty Swimming Reset (Males’s Butterfly and IM): Luca Urlando, Ilya Kharun Chasing Titles
The school swimming season has entered its house stretch. January options the ultimate twin meets of the season earlier than convention championships in February and the NCAA Championships in March. Previous to the vacation break, swimmers set themselves up for championship season with sturdy performances at varied midseason invitationals. Here’s a have a look at each ladies’s particular person occasion as of proper now, together with the information, the winners from the 2025 NCAA Championships, the highest returning swimmers, the highest occasions within the nation this season and the highest performances in historical past.
This remaining entry consists of the statistics for the boys’s butterfly and particular person medley races. Canadians Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun plus American world champion Luca Urlando are the butterfly headliners, whereas the boys’s 400 IM has seen an inflow of College of Texas swimmers placing their names into the combo.
Males’s half one – freestyleMen’s half two – backstroke & breaststrokeWomen’s half one – freestyleWomen’s half two – backstroke & breaststrokeWomen’s half three – butterfly & IM
100 Butterfly
U.S. Open Document: Caeleb Dressel – 42.80 (2018)
American Document: Caeleb Dressel – 42.80 (2018)
NCAA Document: Caeleb Dressel – 42.80 (2018)
2025 Champion: Josh Liendo, Florida – 43.06
Prime Returning Finisher: Josh Liendo, Florida – 43.06
Present 2025-26 Rankings:
Ilya Kharun, Arizona State – 43.38
Josh Liendo, Florida – 43.42
Luca Urlando, Georgia – 43.87
Michel Arkhangelskiy, Florida State – 44.43
Thomas Heilman, Virginia – 44.54
All-Time Rankings:
Caeleb Dressel – 42.80
Josh Liendo – 43.06
Youssef Ramadan – 43.15
Ilya Kharun – 43.38
Luca Urlando – 43.49
Dare Rose – 43.52
Andrei Minakov – 43.71
Joseph Education – 43.75
Jordan Crooks – 43.77
Tom Shields – 43.84
Two Olympic-medal-winning Canadians are the favorites within the 100 fly this season, and the long-standing NCAA report may come underneath fireplace. Florida’s Josh Liendo clocked 43.06 on the way in which to his nationwide win final season whereas Arizona State’s Ilya Kharun went 43.43. Georgia’s Luca Urlando broke into the top-three together with his 43.49. All three of these males return this season. Whereas Kharun swam his greatest time at midseason, Liendo took the subsequent step in his profession by breaking the quick course meters world report within the 100 fly on the World Cup meet in Toronto, hinting {that a} 42-second swim could be doable by the spring. There are two different energetic collegians with greatest occasions underneath 44, Virginia freshman Thomas Heilman and Florida veteran Scotty Buff.
200 Butterfly
U.S. Open Document: Luca Urlando – 1:36.41 (2025)
American Document: Luca Urlando – 1:36.41 (2025)
NCAA Document: Luca Urlando – 1:36.41 (2025)
2025 Champion: Luca Urlando, Georgia – 1:36.43
Prime Returning Finisher: Luca Urlando, Georgia – 1:36.43
Present 2025-26 Rankings:
Luca Urlando, Georgia – 1:36.41
Ilya Kharun, Arizona State – 1:37.56
Thomas Heilman, Virginia – 1:39.09
Tyler Ray, Michigan – 1:39.60
Krzysztof Chmielewski, USC – 1:39.81
All-Time Rankings:
Luca Urlando – 1:36.41
Jack Conger – 1:37.35
Ilya Kharun – 1:37.56
Nicolas Albiero – 1:37.92
Joseph Education – 1:37.97
Dare Rose – 1:38.04
Trenton Julian – 1:38.57
Andreas Vazaios – 1:38.57
Andrei Minakov – 1:38.61
Shaine Casas – 1:38.69
Two of one of the best 200 flyers on the earth will face off once more on the NCAA Championships. Urlando crushed the sphere eventually yr’s meet, leaving Kharun virtually two seconds behind as he swam the quickest time in historical past. Since then, Urlando has gone on to win a world title within the 200-meter butterfly and decrease his personal report within the yards occasion at midseason. Kharun, in the meantime, was the NCAA champion in 2024 and the Olympic bronze medalist later that yr, and he swam his greatest time at 1:37.56 in November. Moreover, this occasion options Virginia freshman Thomas Heilman, the U.S. Olympic Trials winner within the 200-meter fly from 2024, and USC’s Krzysztof Chmielewski, who received silver behind Urlando at Worlds.
200 Particular person Medley
U.S. Open Document: Leon Marchand – 1:36.34 (2023)
American Document: Destin Lasco – 1:37.91 (2024)
NCAA Document: Leon Marchand – 1:36.34 (2023)
2025 Champion: Hubert Kos, Texas – 1:37.91
Prime Returning Finisher: Hubert Kos, Texas – 1:37.91
Present 2025-26 Rankings:
Baylor Nelson, Texas – 1:40.29
Will Modglin, Texas – 1:40.58
Owen McDonald, Indiana – 1:40.90
Campbell McKean, Texas – 1:41.06
Logan Brown, Texas A&M – 1:41.59
All-Time Rankings:
Leon Marchand – 1:36.34
Destin Lasco/Hubert Kos – 1:37.91
Caeleb Dressel – 1:38.13
Andrew Seliskar – 1:38.14
Hugo Gonzalez – 1:38.72
Shaine Casas – 1:38.95
Luca Urlando – 1:39.22
Owen McDonald – 1:39.23
Andreas Vazaios – 1:39.35
Similar to within the 200 IM on the ladies’s facet with Torri Huske, the defending nationwide champion won’t compete on this occasion on the NCAA Championships. Hubert Kos might need to resolve between the 200 again and 200 IM, with each races on the ultimate night time of the meet. If he drops the medley, that makes Owen McDonald the favourite for his first NCAA title. Except for Kos, McDonald is the one returning swimmer who went sub-1:40 on the 2025 NCAA meet. Urlando has a faster private greatest, however he has not been underneath 1:40 since 2022. With or with out Kos, anticipate an enormous efficiency from Texas right here; Baylor Nelson, Will Modglin and Campbell McKean all impressed at midseason whereas Camden Taylor was a top-16 finisher final season.
400 Particular person Medley
U.S. Open Document: Leon Marchand – 3:28.82 (2023)
American Document: Chase Kalisz – 3:33.42 (2017)
NCAA Document: Leon Marchand – 3:28.82 (2023)
2025 Champion: Rex Maurer, Texas – 3:34.00
Prime Returning Finisher: Rex Maurer, Texas – 3:34.00
Present 2025-26 Rankings:
Baylor Nelson, Texas – 3:34.83
Cooper Lucas, Texas – 3:35.28
Tristan Jankovics, Ohio State – 3:38.91
Jackson Millard, Louisville – 3:39.11
Drew Hitchcock, Georgia – 3:39.57
All-Time Rankings:
Leon Marchand – 3:28.82
Hugo Gonzalez – 3:32.88
Chase Kalisz – 3:33.42
Carson Foster – 3:33.79
Rex Maurer – 3:34.00
Shaine Casas – 3:34.09
Baylor Nelson – 3:34.83
Tristan Jankovics – 3:34.98
David Schlicht – 3:35.27
Cooper Lucas – 3:35.28
Texas all the way in which right here? Rex Maurer was the nationwide champion final season, with teammates Cooper Lucas and David Johnston additionally within the championship remaining. Additionally there was Baylor Nelson, who has since transferred to Texas. All 4 return this yr, and Nelson and Lucas presently lead the nationwide rankings after their monumental greatest occasions in November vaulted them into the top-10 in historical past within the occasion. The one man able to breaking apart the Texas stranglehold is Ohio State’s Tristan Jankovics, who was second to Maurer on the 2025 NCAA meet after briefly taking the lead on the breaststroke leg.
