By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
2025 Home of Champions Invite
November 20-22, 2025
IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, Indiana
Quick Course Yards (25 yards)
Day 1 Outcomes
Day 2 Outcomes
IU Indy’s Logan Kelly broke his personal Home of Champions Meet Document on Friday night within the 100 breaststroke as the house staff roared to the lead on the boys’s facet; whereas one other win and two massive relay performances by Ball State’s Payton Kelly (no relation) prolonged their lead on the ladies’s facet.
In the meantime Milwaukee’s uncommon sophomore Sam Lorenz inserted himself into the meet with a thunderous presence within the 100 again closing.
After profitable the 200 IM on Thursday, Logan Kelly added a victory in his finest occasion, the 100 breaststroke, on Friday. He completed in 52.20, which broke his personal Meet Document of 52.52 set in 2024.
Kelly is the uncommon swimmer who has a fifth yr of COVID eligibility remaining to make use of this yr after redshirting final season. He opened his season with a 51.56 in a quad meet in September, which might have certified for final yr’s NCAA Championship meet.
This yr is utilizing a radically totally different qualifying system, although, and so Kelly’s best previous to NCAA Championship qualification is by profitable the Horizon League title in a time higher than 52.58, which he has now cleared twice this season already.
He was pushed the entire race by Maxim Tsyfarov of NCAA Division II Lynn College, who positioned 2nd in 52.90. He was 4th ultimately yr’s NCAA Division II Championship meet.
Lynn as soon as once more took a giant share of the occasion wins on day 2, although as a D2 program they didn’t have the depth to maintain up within the general staff scoring.
Tsyfarov opened the session with a swin within the 50 breaststroke in 24.06, shaving a tenth of a second off the Meet Document of 24.16 set by Missouri State’s Luigi Da Silva in 2024. Logan Kelly didn’t swim that occasion.
Then with Tsyfarov on the breaststroke leg, Lynn additionally gained the 200 medley relay. He cut up 23.87, the third-best cut up of the sphere behind Missouri State’s Kiefer Roemer (23.78) and Logan Kelly (23.69), however the back-half of his relay every had one of the best splits of the sphere. THe full squad was Maurice Grabowski (21.42), Tsyfarov (23.87), Vitaly Kostin (20.58), and Enzo Constable (19.38).
Kostin then led a 1-2 end within the 100 fly with Constable. Kostin gained in 47.13 adopted by Constable in 47.56. That swim is Costin’s finest time by seven-tenths of a second. He entered the yr with bests of 49.19 from every his freshman and sophomore years, however has now bettered that point in 4 separate swims at three meets already this season.
Friday additionally marked the primary closing for Milwaukee sophomore Sam Lorenz. Whereas his switch bought a lot much less consideration than the Shackell siblings at Indiana, he too is experimenting with returning house to coach primarily together with his membership staff, Schroeder, whereas representing an area faculty, Milwaukee, in collegiate competitors.
Lorenz broke a meet report within the 50 again (20.81) and had the quickest morning time within the 50 free (19.68) on Thursday, however scratched each occasions in finals.
On Friday, he noticed out the finals of the 100 again and gained in 45.91. That knocked over a second off the Meet Document (Bryan Wiener, Lewis U, 2014); obliterated the Milwaukee College Document (Victor Kostov, 49.24, 2025); and whereas the league solely formally publishes championship information, seems to be the quickest time in Horizon League historical past (Philipp Sikatzki, Cleveland State, 2016, 46.41).
His earlier finest time of 46.10 got here final season as a freshman at Wisconsin.
Like Kelly, Lorenz’s path to the NCAA Championships is a bit clearer in a mid-major convention. He would want to clear 46.29 within the occasion closing whereas profitable the 100 again on the Horizon League Championships to safe his spot at nationals in March.
Different Males’s Meet Day 2 Winners:
Missouri State gained the 800 free relay in 6:34.37, led off by a 1:37.78 cut up from freshman Zach Mendez. He was joined by Ilias El Fallaki (1:38.89), Jack Grandy (1:39.02), and Mate Miszlai (1:38.68). The quickest cut up of the sphere got here from Ball State freshman George Patterson, who anchored their runner-up relay in 1:36.74.
Patterson additionally gained the 200 free individually in 1:35.98, holding off Mendez’s 1:36.44 for 2nd place. Patterson’s earlier finest time coming into the meet was a 1:38.09 from October; his highschool finest was 1:38.20 on the 2025 Indiana Excessive Faculty State Championship meet.
Missouri State’s Mate Miszlai gained the boys’s 400 IM in 3:53.09. The Hungarian is a switch in from NAIA William Carey College.
On the ladies’s facet, it was one other massive day for Ball State’s Payton Kelly. After a pair of particular person wins and a Meet Document within the 50 free on Thursday, plus two relay wins and Meet Information, she grabbed two extra victories on Friday.
That began within the 200 medley relay, the place she anchored in 21.99 to assist Ball State set a brand new Meet Document of 1:40.00. The outdated mark was set in 2019 by Michigan State at 1:40.45.
She was joined by Lauren Fecher (26.12), Addie Beasley (28.38), and Anna Eager (23.51) within the record-setting effort – an in any other case very younger relay apart from the anchor. Eager had the quickest fly cut up of the sphere by eight-tenths of a second.
Payton Kelly later dominated the 100 backstroke in 52.86, clearing the sphere by nearly a second-and-a-half (teammate Ava Butterfield was 2nd in 54.24).
Payton Kelly‘s earlier finest time was a 53.52 from the time trial session on the CSCAA Nationwide Invitational Championships.
A 1:47.58 leadoff from Payton Kelly on the session-closing 800 free relay was not sufficient to carry off an upset from Missouri State, nevertheless. The Bears saved their finest for the anchor leg, the place Ainsley Jenkins made up a seven-tenths of a second deficit to hold her staff from third to 1st in 7:21.24. Ball State completed 2nd in 7:21.87.
Missouri State additionally pulled off a minor upset within the ladies’s 100 fly, the place Lillie Freulon gained in 53.89, beating out the aforementioned Eager (53.97). That was despite Eager splitting .92 seconds higher within the 50 fly leg of the 200 medley relay.
Freulon is one other swimmer at this meet who’s dropping finest occasions this season repeatedly. She entered the yr with a better of 54.59, swam 54.29 within the staff’s final twin meet three weeks in the past, and now has dropped a complete of seven-tenths already this season.
Different Ladies’s Meet Day 2 Winners:
Little Rock’s Megan Stewart gained the 400 IM in 4:17.43, breaking her personal Faculty Document (twice) on Friday. The South African freshman entered the meet with a better of 4:21.26 from 13 days in the past; she additionally gained the 200 IM on Thursday.
That kicked off a record-setting run for the Trojans. Olivia Elgin gained the 200 free in 1:47.88, setting one other faculty report, and Amara Addison completed 4th within the 100 again in 55.03, likewise a college report.
Gabrielle LePine from Milwaukee gained the ladies’s 100 breaststroke in 1:01.05. Her private better of 1:00.51 nonetheless stands from 2022, however this swim was a brand new Meet Document, breaking her personal 1:01.28 from final yr. Ball State’s Eager confirmed off her versatility by ending 2nd in 1:01.77.
Workforce Scores After Day 2
Males:
IU Indianapolis – 1484
Missouri State College – 1368
Lynn College – 1200
Milwaukee Panthers – 1051
Ball State College – 1038
Saint Louis College – 798
Illinois, College of, Chica – 743
College of Southern Indiana – 564
Lewis College – 554
Northern Kentucky College – 463
College of Montevallo
Ladies:
Ball State College – 1780.5
Missouri State College – 1165.5
Illinois, College of, Chica – 1145.5
Little Rock – 1065
Milwaukee Panthers – 962.5
IU Indianapolis – 875.5
Lynn College – 703.5
Saint Louis College – 653.5
Butler College – 586.5
College of Southern Indiana – 360
Lewis College – 316
Northern Kentucky College – 232
College of Montevallo – 226
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