2025 Males’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Throughout the remaining session of the 2025 Males’s NCAA Championships, Georgia’s Luca Urlando broke the NCAA file within the 200-yard butterfly within the final particular person occasion of the meet. He touched the wall in 1:36.43, reducing his earlier mark of 1:37.17 to say his first-ever NCAA title.
That is the second time Urlando has damaged the file this season, with the primary coming throughout the Georgia vs. Tennessee twin meet in January. There, he claimed the oldest males’s all-time yards file from Texas’ Jack Conger, who put a time of 1:37.35 on the books in 2017.
After tonight’s swim, Urlando now holds 4 of the 5 quickest performances of all time within the 200-yard fly. He additionally additional separated himself from the subsequent quickest swimmer ever, growing his hole from 0.18 to 0.92.
Nearly all of Urlando’s time drop tonight stemmed from his first 150 yards, as he out-split his file tempo by important margins on all of these 50 splits. He closed 0.63 seconds slower than his earlier file on the ultimate 50, however he was 1.37 seconds below tempo by means of the 150, so it finally didn’t matter.
See a full splits comparability beneath between Urlando’s file swim tonight and his different performances from the highest 5.
Splits Comparability:
Urlando’s New NCAA File
Urlando’s Outdated NCAA File (2025 UGA vs. TENN)
Urlando’s #3 Efficiency All-Time (2025 SECs)
Urlando’s =#4 Efficiency All-Time (2025 NCAA Prelims)
50
21.38
22.03
21.96
21.79
100
23.83 (45.21)
24.15 (46.18)
24.40 (46.36)
24.45 (46.24)
150
24.53 (1:09.74)
24.93 (1:11.11)
24.60 (1:10.96)
24.97 (1:11.21)
200
26.69 (1:36.43)
26.06 (1:37.17)
26.22 (1:37.18)
26.14 (1:37.35)
High 5 All-Time Performers:
Luca Urlando (Georgia), 2025 – 1:36.43
Jack Conger (Texas), 2017 – 1:37.35
Nick Albiero (Louisville), 2022 – 1:37.92
Ilya Kharun (Arizona State), 2024 – 1:37.93
Joe Education (Texas), 2016 – 1:37.97
High 5 All-Time Performances:
Luca Urlando (Georgia), 2025 — 1:36.43
Luca Urlando (Georgia), 2025 — 1:37.17
Luca Urlando (Georgia), 2025 – 1:37.18
Luca Urlando (Georgia), 2025 & Jack Conger (Texas), 2017 — 1:37.35
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Previous to tonight’s swim, Urlando’s highest ever end on the NCAA Championships was 2nd place, and that got here within the 100 fly in 2022. Earlier this week, he was ninth within the 200 IM (1:40.53) and as soon as once more runner-up within the 100 fly (43.49). His 100 fly was a lifetime greatest, whereas he was a bit off his 1:39.22 private marker within the 200 IM.
Urlando got here into the season with a better of 1:38.82 within the 200 fly, from the 2022 NCAAs. There was a time about 5 years in the past when it appeared like Urlando would change into the subsequent large U.S. swimmer within the 200 fly, as he broke a number of Nationwide Age Group data in each the yards and LCM variations of the occasion between 2018 and 2020.
He’s struggled with critical shoulder points over the previous few years however appears to have regained his type in a giant method. He made the U.S. Olympic crew on this occasion final 12 months, ending seventeenth in prelims in Paris. He hasn’t set a protracted course private greatest within the occasion since 2019, however certainly that’ll be within the sights this summer season.
Urlando is slated to compete on the Sacramento Professional Swim Sequence subsequent week, the place he’s entered in 9 occasions: the 100 free, 200 free, 400 free, 50 fly, 100 fly, 200 fly, 50 again, and 200 IM.
