Breaststroker Jon Reiter has announced that he will transfer from Cal Baptist to Arizona State for the 2025-2026 season. Reiter has one year of eligibility remaining and just wrapped up his undergraduate studies this past May.
He isn’t the only Cal Baptist swimmer headed to Tempe this off-season, as NCAA ‘B’ finalist Remi Fabiani, who boasts 18.82/41.23 sprint freestyle bests, is also transferring.
He shared the news on his Instagram account, writing the following:
Beyond psyched to announce I’ll be transferring to ASU to continue my swim and academic career this fall. A huge thank you to Coach Herbie and Dave for the incredible opportunity. Forks up! 🔱
Top SCY Times:
- 100 Breaststroke: 52.45
- 200 Breaststroke: 1:55.21
- 200 IM: 1:46.94
Reiter, a breaststroke specialist, owns best times of 52.45 and 1:55.21 in the 100 and 200, which were both posted en route to bronze at the 2025 Western Athletic Conference Championships this past season. He was 2nd in both events in 2023 and won the 200 and took silver in the 100 in 2022. He leaves with current school records in the 100 breast, 200 medley relay, and 400 medley relay. He took an Olympic redshirt year for the 2023-24 season in hopes of representing Vietnam at the Olympic Games, but this couldn’t be completed in time, so he prepared for the U.S. Olympic Trials instead.
At Olympic Trials last summer, he touched 67th in the 200 breast with a time of 2:17.63.
Reiter recently competed at the U.S. National Championships, which doubled as the qualifying meet for Team USA’s squad for the World Championships in Singapore. His highest placement came in the 50 breast, where he touched in 28.86 for 30th, and he also swam to a 42nd-place showing in the 100 breast (1:03.36). Both of his performances represented season-best times.
His long course lifetime bests rest at 28.15, 1:02.29, and 2:15.64, respectively.
Reiter is a significant addition to the Sun Devils’ breaststroke group. His best 100 time would have ranked 4th on the team’s depth chart for the 2024-25 season, behind rising senior Andy Dobrzanski‘s 51.27 and rising sophomores Oscar Bilbao‘s 51.99 and Lucien Vergnes‘ 52.29.
Furthermore, Reiter’s personal best in the 200 breast would have been 5th on the roster, behind Dobrzanski (1:51.93), Bilbao (1:52.31), Vergnes (1:54.31), and soon-to-be senior Cale Martter (1:54.31).
Reiter’s career best in the 100 would have been enough to rank 2nd out of prelims at the Big 12 Championships this past season, earning him a middle lane for a final where he ultimately would have been 6th with his PB. In the 200, he would have snuck into the ‘A’ heat in 8th, as it took 1:55.38 to make it back.
Dobrzanski won both events while he, along with Bilbao, delivered a 1-2 punch in the 200.
This is the seventh high-profile transfer to Arizona State this offseason. Recently, fellow breaststroker Brayden Taivassalo also announced his intent to transfer to ASU, joining with breaststroke bests of 52.20 and 1:52.20. Taivassalo’s lifetime best in the 200 breast would have been fast enough to capture silver at the Big 12 Championships this past season.
Additionally, the Sun Devils have added NCAA champion Adam Chaney, SEC champion Andrew Taylor, NCAA ‘B’ finalist Jordan Tiffany, and NCAA qualifier JT Ewing via the transfer portal for next season.
ASU just wrapped up their first season as a member of the Big 12 Conference and has established itself as the new superpower, winning by over 600 points ahead of 2nd-place University of Arizona. The Sun Devils, now under first-year head coach Herbie Behm, finished 6th at the 2025 NCAA Championships after winning the overall title in the 2023–24 season.
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Herbie’s got such a scary looking roster for this fall.
No kidding! They are really doing a great job
Love it
Excellent swimmer I wonder how much herbie can develop him.
I think Salo is in charge of the breaststrokers
I note that Oscar Bilbao is not on the newly released ASU men’s swimming roster. Does anyone have any further information?
I’m sure Oscar does
Also listed in the article, but no longer on the ASU roster, is Cale Martter (2025 Big-12 200 IM Champion and
2-event scorer at 2024 NCAAs), who has been noted in earlier SwimSwam articles to have transferred to Georgia, much nearer his Atlanta home.
Balancing these losses (Bilbao, Martter) from the Sun Devil breaststroke crew is Jonathan Itzhaki, an incoming Israeli freshman with a LCM 100 Breast PB of 1:00.58 from the 2024 European Championships.
Great fit! The swimming content will be through the roof there. We’re going to get an inside view of training with an elite team. Sammon already has some great videos up.