2025 College Club Swimming National Championships
- March 28-30, 2025
- Skyline Aquatic Center, Mesa, Arizona
- Short Course Yards (25 yards), Prelims/Finals
- Meet Central (Includes Live Results & Live Stream)
- Qualifying Times
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results available via Meet Mobile: “2025 TYR CCS National Championship”
- Day 1 Recap
The 2025 College Club Swimming National Championship meet continued on Saturday at the Skyline Aquatic Center in Mesa, Arizona.
These Club Nationals bring together various communities within the sport, including former NCAA swimmers, individuals who fell in love with swimming after high school but chose not to pursue the NCAA route, and adults discovering the sport for the first time.
After two College Club national records were broken on night one of the competition, another seven were shattered on Saturday. Three of the seven records came in relay events, with the women’s 200 medley relay, men’s 200 medley relay, and women’s 400 freestyle relay records all falling.
Georgia Tech’s quartet of Rachel Fulton (26.07), Alice Spaulding (32.39), Gabrielle Freund (25.07), and Delaney Carlton (22.30) posted a final time of 1:45.83 in the 200 medley relay, breaking Ohio State’s previous record of 1:46.82 from last year by nearly a full second. Cal Poly finished in 2nd place with a time of 1:46.57, also surpassing OSU’s former record.
Fulton and Carlton also played key roles in the record-setting 400 free relay, swimming the 3rd and 4th legs. Iris Ochoa (54.73) led off the relay before handing off to Audrey Munger (54.33). Then, Fulton (52.29) and Carlton (49.52) pushed the team to a final time of 3:30.87, breaking their own previous record from 2019.
In the men’s 200 medley relay, the foursome of Bebe Wang (23.19), Andrew Witty (24.10), Kellen Reese (21.10), and Tyson Tucci (20.69) sprinted to the wall with a time of 1:29.08, edging out the previous record of 1:29.28 set by Purdue just a year ago.
Like the Georgia Tech women, the Purdue men swept the relays on the day. They secured gold in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:02.74, which was the only relay swim of the day that did not set a new CCS record. Their winning lineup consisted of Wang (45.41), Matthieu Foucu (45.92), Reese (45.58), and Tucci (45.83), and they finished just 0.93 seconds shy of the record time.
In individual action, three of the four records were set on the women’s side. Georgia Tech’s Carlton, who competed in both of the previously discussed relays, scorched a pair of new record-breaking swims. In the 50 fly, her winning time of 24.47 was the only sub-25 second swim of the day, and it was way under Lindsey Engel‘s 2019 record of 24.91. Engel, a member of the Stanford varsity program for most of her undergraduate career, had scored at Division I NCAAs multiple times in the 100 and 200 fly events.
In the 50 free, Carlton posted a 22.48, the only swim under 23 seconds, breaking Alex Rieger’s 2019 record of 23.60 in the process.
Carlton’s 50 fly time matched her personal best, which she notched at the 2023 Tennessee Last Chance meet. She also owns a best time of 22.08 in the 50 free, recorded at the 2023 CCSA Championships when she was representing UNC Asheville in the NCAA system.
The women’s 200 free record was claimed by Stanford’s Ella Blake, who punched a time of 1:52.18, winning by more than 3.5 seconds. Her performance also surpassed Julianna Prim’s 2018 CCS record of 1:52.87.
Vanderbilt’s Kyle Maas dominated the men’s 200 IM with a new record time of 1:47.18. While he was a bit off his career-best of 1:45.04 from the 2019 SEC Championships, where he was swimming for Alabama, he easily took down the previous CCS record of 1:48.24 set by Liberty’s Robert Boehme in 2022.
Kyle is the brother of former Alabama competitor Derek Maas, who won the men’s 100 and 200 breaststrokes at the 2022 SECs, taking the 100 in 50.78 and the 200 in 1:51.56. Derek went on to make the ‘A’ final at the 2022 NCAAs, finishing 7th in the 100 breast. As a senior, Derek placed 5th in both breaststroke events and 5th in the 200 IM at the SECs. At the 2023 NCAAs, Derek finished 8th in the 100 breast and 10th in the 200 breast.
Other Day 2 Winners:
- Michigan’s Katherine Blake outpaced the women’s 200 IM field, reaching the wall with a new career-best time of 2:08.32. She also won the 1000 free earlier in the day, touching in 10:38.16. On Friday, Blake defended her 400 IM title in a time of 4:32.28, which broke Allison Nastasi’s CSS record of 4:32.94 from 2019. Blake was an NCSA Junior Nationals qualifier in high school and represented Rockville Montgomery Swim Club throughout her age group swimming days.
- 22-year-old Arizona representative Preston Grandpre (21.55) won the men’s 50 fly, with Purdue’s Kellen Reese also breaking 22 seconds with his outing of 21.96. Grandpre went on to secure a second victory, taking gold in the 50 free with a time of 20.45, slightly off his 20.02 entry time (and best time) from last month.
- Grand Canyon’s Isabella Parish, who entered the meet as a big favorite in all three breaststroke events, won the 100 in 1:04.46. That’s a new lifetime best, shaving 0.54 seconds off her time from the CCS Western Regionals meet last November. She also won the 200 on Friday in a big best time of 2:18.50.
- Maas almost made it a double on the night, but Purdue’s Andrew Witty narrowly touched him out to win the 100 breast, 55.04 to 55.07.
- Purdue’s Alex Helwig was the only swimmer under 1:40 in the 200 free, where he scored gold in a time of 1:39.40. He was more than a second faster than his previous personal mark of 1:40.75.
- Georgia Tech’s Rachel Fulton won the women’s 100 back with a time of 56.14, a season best, though it was off her career-best time of 54.69.
- Florida State’s James Riordan claimed his second backstroke gold medal of the meet, winning the men’s 100 back with a time of 50.62. He broke 50 seconds for the first time in prelims, recording a time of 49.76. On Friday, he won the 200 back in 1:50.48, securing the title with a 1.49-second margin of victory.
- The men’s 1000 free winner was Georgia Tech’s Ryan Altera (9:30.93). Altera, a former finalist at the USA Swimming Futures Championships and Georgia High School State Championships, was 2nd in the 400 IM on Friday (4:02.21).
Team Scores After Day 2:
Women’s Top 5:
- Virginia — 523 points
- Georgia Tech — 480 points
- Cal Poly — 457 points
- Florida State — 378 points
- Michigan — 347 points
Men’s Top 5:
- Liberty — 627 points
- Purdue — 561.5 points
- Georgia Tech — 458 points
- Florida State — 326 points
- Arizona State — 310 points
Combined Top 5:
- Georgia Tech — 938 points
- Virginia — 807 points
- Cal Poly — 725 points
- Purdue — 721.5 points
- Florida State — 704 points
We’re about to see an explosion in CCS – I hope it can grow into a legit college swim alternative for a wide range of swimmers, including those looking to swim faster than they ever have before
Amazing venue! Electric atmosphere! So much fun watching this meet, with fresh air, and mountains in the background!
Thanks, SwimSwam for this coverage. College Club swimming is a great choice for a lot of swimmers, and sadly, many high school swimmers and their families know little about it.
More families are prolly bout to find out