2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational
- November 18-21, 2025
- McCorkie Aquatic Pavillon, Columbus, OH
- 9:30 am ET swimming prelims/11:30am diving prelims/5:30 pm ET finals (Tuesday exception: 5 pm ET relay timed finals)
- Championship Format
- SCY
- Live Stream (subscription required)
- Live Results (unconfirmed)
- Results on Meet Mobile as “2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational”
Midseason invites get underway in earnest tonight, as the Ohio State Invitational kicks off in Columbus. The meet will largely follow the new NCAA Championships schedule, but tonight will be an exception, as there will only be the 200 medley and 800 free relays, and no 1650 contested.
Besides Ohio State, we’ll see a strong lineup consisting of Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Penn State, Purdue, UCLA and Yale, while Pitt, Northwestern and Miami will compete in diving only.
Most of those teams were ranked in the top 25 of our latest round of power rankings (men/women), meaning that we should be in for a good evening of racing tonight in Columbus.
Women’s 200 Medley Relay – Timed Finals
- NCAA Record: 1:31.10 —Virginia (2023)
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut – 1:36.09
- NCAA ‘B’ Cut – 1:36.57
Top 8:
- Lousville – 1:33.69
- Indiana – 1:34.96
- Ohio State – 1:35.62
- UCLA – 1:36.13
- Cincinnati – 1:37.40
- Pudue – 1:38.64
- Penn State – 1:38.70
- Yale – 1:39.09
The Louisville Cardinals posted the second-fastest time in the NCAA this season, finishing just 0.07s behind the 1:33:62 that Virginia swam against UNC. Julie Mishler led off in 23.88, Caroline Larsen split 26.51 on breast, Ella Welch split 22.51 on fly, and Julia Dennis anchored in 20.79. That appears to be Louisville’s second-fastest time in program history, behind only their 1:33.41 from last year’s NCAA Championships.
Indiana (1:34.96) and Ohio State (1:35.62) were also under the NCAA ‘A’ cut, while UCLA nabbed a ‘B’ cut.
The Hoosiers held an early lead after Mya DeWitt led off in 23.73, but their other three legs lagged just a bit behind each of the Louisville swimmers. Ohio State got a big 26.04 breast split from Maria Ramos Najji, who was nearly a second faster than she was on this relay here last year.
Men’s 200 Medley Relay – Timed Finals
- NCAA Record: 1:20.15 — Florida (2024)
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut – 1:23.61
- NCAA ‘B’ Cut – 1:23.85
Top 8:
- Indiana – 1:21.99
- Penn State – 1:23.05
- Louisville – 1:23.16
- Kentucky – 1:23.86
- Ohio State – 1:24.10
- Indiana ‘C’ – 1:24.40
- Louisville ‘B’ – 1:24.43
- Pudue – 1:24.55
For the second race in a row, the winning team came within roughly a tenth of a second of the top time in the nation. This time, it was the Indiana men who won in 1:21.99, just 0.11s shy of Arizona State’s 1:21.88 from early October.
Mirsolav Knedla led off in 20.66, Texas A&M transfer Travis Gulledge split 22.78 on breast, Owen McDonald split 19.89 on fly, and Mikkel Lee anchored in 18.66.
There was a bit of an upset for 2nd place, as Penn State finished ahead of both Louisville and Kentucky, as the Nittany Lions just missed their school record of 1:22.93 with a time of 1:23.05. Mariano Lazzerini and Matthew Bittner were both on that school record relay and tonight’s relay, although Bittner swam back tonight (20.99) instead of fly, while Lazzerini had the exact same breaststroke split (23.13) as he did in 2024.
Louisville had a strong back half, with Aiden Musso splitting 19.69 on fly and Nikita Sheremet anchoring in 18.45, but the Cardinals ultimately came up just short of running down Penn State, touching in 1:23.16. Kentucky finished 4th in 1:23.86, just missing the NCAA ‘A’ cut, while hosts Ohio State took 5th in 1:24.10.
Women’s 800 Free Relay – Timed Finals
- NCAA Record: 6:44.13 — Virginia (2025)
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut – 7:00.86
- NCAA ‘B’ Cut – 7:05.18
Top 8:
- Indiana – 6:55.91
- Louisville – 7:00.76
- Ohio State – 7:01.73
- Purdue – 7:05.72
- UCLA – 7:07.46
- Cincinnati – 7:11.82
- Kentucky – 7:12.43
- Penn State – 7:12.51
The Hoosisers stormed to victory, winning by nearly five seconds as the only team to go under the seven-minute mark. Pending other results from tonight, their time of 6:55.91 ranks 2nd nationally this season.
Freshman Liberty Clark put Indiana in the lead early with a 1:41.55 leadoff. Clark came into college with a best time of 1:45.76, clocked a 1:42.43 at the USC Invite in October, and now has hit yet another personal best time in her first semester in college. That time ranks her 3rd in the NCAA this season.
Miranda Grana (1:44.94), Macky Hodges (1:43.81), and Reese Tiltmann (1:45.61) made up the rest of the Hoosiers’ relay.
Louisville was also under the NCAA ‘A’ cut, with a fairly tight spread of splits resulting in a 2nd-place time of 7:00.76. Daria Golovaty led off in 1:44.71, followed by Summer Cardwell (1:44.78), Julia Dennis (1:45.65), and Maya Bezanson (1:45.62).
Ohio State was the only other team under the NCAA ‘B’ cut, clocking a 7:01.73, with Rachel Brockrath‘s 1:43.00 leading the way with a 1:43.00 split on the second leg.
Men’s 800 Free Relay – Timed Finals
- NCAA Record: 5:59.75 — Cal (2025)
- NCAA ‘A’ Cut – 6:14.67
- NCAA ‘B’ Cut – 6:16.79
Top 8:
- Ohio State – 6:12.23
- Indiana – 6:13.01
- Louisville – 6:13.44
- Yale – 6:17.81
- Indiana ‘B’ – 6:21.25
- Ohio State ‘B’ – 6:21.93
- Purdue – 6:23.36
- Penn State – 6:24.85
Tomas Navikonis put the Buckeyes in the lead early with a 1:31.71 leadoff leg that, at the moment, looks to be the fastest time in the nation this season. After him, Ohio State put together a trio of 1:33s, with Cornelius Jahn (1:33.82), Jordi Vilchez (1:33.52), and Tristan Jankovics (1:33.18) combining to stop the clock in 6:12.23, also the fastest time in the nation at the moment.
Indiana got a 1:33.33 leadoff from Owen McDonald, and then slowly closed the gap on Ohio State, although ultimately coming up short. Cal/Texas transfer Aaron Shackell split a solid 1:32.22, followed by Raekwon Noel (1:33.59) and Zalan Sarkany (1:33.87), as the Hoosiers finished in 6:13.01. That time was also faster than Arizona State’s 6:13.37, which had stood as the fastest time in the nation coming into today.
Louisville (6:13.44) was the only other team under the NCAA ‘A’ cut, led by a 1:32.47 leadoff by Guy Brooks.
-0.35 reaction time for UCLA’s breaststroker is crazy
looks like liberty clark will be heading to a 53 lcm this summer. it will probably take a 53 low to get on the relay in the next couple years which is crazy lol. 8th will probably be faster than the winner of 2021 trials (53 mid).
Wait liberty clarke went from 1;45 to 1:41???? That’s insane
Bonkers!
Is this the first like ok split from shackell in college, do you think he might yet actually do anything?
He went his Highschool time… But we have to pray he is not remotely tapered🙏
He might not transfer after a semester this time which is something
I believe 1:41.55 lead off for Liberty Clark
some outstanding early times from Clark
Insane to have dropped this much time so far, her and Dobson are on fire
20.79 Julia Dennis 🔥🔥🔥
Lots of relay DQs, officials are not playing today
but they didn’t DQ the ucla breaststroke -0.35 lol
A touchpad that is that far outside of the setpoint requires eyeballs, not just pads, to confirm. Would also be an incredibly-obvious DQ. So either officials just flat out fell asleep, or it was a touchpad error.
The live results link goes to some random last change qualifier meet
That seems to be OSU’s primary live stats page, but unfortunately, neither that nor the live resuts link Ohio State has on their schedule seem to be getting updated.