2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational

• November 18-21, 2025
• McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, Columbus, OH
• Start Times:
  • 9:30 am ET swimming prelims
  • 11:30 am diving prelims
  • 5:30 pm ET finals
• Participating Teams: Ohio State, Indiana, Yale, Cincinnati, Notre Dame, Louisville, Penn State, UCLA, Kentucky, Purdue
• SCY (25 yards)
• Live Results
• Results on Meet Mobile as “2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational”
• Live Stream (subscription required)
• Live Prelims Recaps: Day 2 Prelims | Day 3 Prelims | Day 4 Prelims
• Live Finals Recaps: Day 1 Finals | Day 2 Finals | Day 3 Finals

The final session of the 2025 Ohio State Fall Invitational has arrived, with the 200 IM, 100 free, 200 fly and 200 back on tap as the event adopts the new NCAA Championship schedule.

The lone difference between this meet and the NCAA event order is the 1650 free, which will be on the opening night at NCAAs but was run at 2pm today.

As a reminder, Ohio State has a 10-lane pool and is opting to use all lanes for the finals sessions, meaning that 10 swimmers will contest each A-final rather than the traditional eight seen at other midseason invites.

Stay tuned for live updates.

WOMEN’S 200 IM – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 1:48.37, Kate Douglass (Virginia) – 2023
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:57.88
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:56.69

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Rosie Murphy (UCLA) – 1:54.89
2. Paige Delma (OSU) – 1:57.07
3. Kim Herkle (LOU) – 1:57.98
4. Reese Tiltmann (IU) – 1:58.28
5. Summer Cardwell (LOU)
6. Mia Cheatwood (LOU) – 1:59.03
7. Hayden Penny (UKY) – 1:59.25
8. Margaret Markvardt (PSU) – 1:59.69
9. Marie Belli (UKY) – 2:00.24
10. Fernanda De Goeji (UKY) – 2:07.78

UCLA senior Rosie Murphy followed up her 400 IM win on Wednesday night by taking control of the women’s 200 IM from the gun, winning by over two seconds.

Murphy put up a time of 1:54.89, which destroyed her 1:55.93 personal best from the 2024 Pac-12 Championships. She led the race from start to finish, splitting 24.90/28.07/33.72/28.20 by 50s.

Ohio State junior Paige Delma touched 2nd in 1:57.07 to mark a new season-best and come within a half second of her lifetime best (1:56.24). Delma set a best time of 4:07.99 en route to placing 2nd to Murphy in the 400 IM final two days ago.

Kim Herkle, a German native who is a senior at Louisville, rounded out the top three at 1:57.98. Her time checks in as a new season best and is less than a second shy of her 1:57.01 career best from the 2024 ACC Championships.

MEN’S 200 IM – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 1:36.34, Leon Marchand (ASU) – 2023
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:44.13
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:42.65

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Owen McDonald (IU) – 1:40.90
2. Tristan Jankovics (OSU) – 1:43.43
3. Matthew Bittner (PSU) – 1:43.55
4. Jackson Millard (LOU) – 1:44.08
5. Toby Barnett (IU) – 1:44.58
6. Noah Cakir (IU) – 1:44.60
7. Josh Bey (IU) – 1:44.61
8. Gregg Enoch (LOU) & Evan Mackesy (PUR) – 1:45.06
9. N/A
10. Drew Reiter (IU) – 1:45.30

Just like Murphy in the women’s race, Indiana’s Owen McDonald dominated from the very first stroke in the men’s 200 IM, ultimately stopping the clock with a time of 1:40.90 en route to winning by 2.53 seconds.

McDonald, who won the 2025 Big Ten title and then placed 3rd at the NCAA Championships last season, clipped his own national-leading 1:41.11 from prelims. He was just shy of the time he produced in the final at this meet last season (1:40.86).

His best time remains the 1:39.23 he put up to claim silver at the 2024 NCAA Championships, when he was representing Arizona State.

Racing alongside McDonald in the final, 400 IM winner Tristan Jankovics of Ohio State clocked 1:43.55 to knock off three tenths from his 1:43.84 season best from prelims.

Penn State’s Matthew Bittner finished 3rd in 1:43.55, six hundredths faster than his 1:43.61 lifetime best from this morning.

WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 44.71, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 2025
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 48.60
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 48.11

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Liberty Clark (IU) – 46.87
2. Julia Dennis (LOU) – 47.38
3. Caroline Larsen (LOU) – 47.47
4. Julie Mishler (LOU) – 47.61
5. Rachel Bockrath (OSU) – 47.76
6. Jada Duncan (UCLA) – 48.29
7. Erin Little (OSU) – 48.33
8. Daria Golovaty (LOU) – 48.34
9. Ella Welch (LOU) – 48.51
10. Kristina Paegle (IU) – 48.69

Indiana freshman Liberty Clark continued her dazzling invitational debut, notching 46.87 to win the women’s 100 free by 0.51 seconds. Her time represents her first time breaking the 47-second barrier and undercut the Indiana program record of 47.18, set by Anna Peplowski last season.

This type of swim was foreshadowed over the past 24 hours. This morning, Clark knocked 15 hundredths off her month-old best of 47.39 set at the USC Invite in October. She’s also coming off splitting 45.87 on the anchor leg of Indiana’s 400 medley relay last night. She also broke the school record in the 50 free on Thursday, marking a 21.54.

Louisville senior Julia Dennis, who won the 50 free on night two, clocked a season-best 47.38 for 2nd. She was about three tenths shy of her 47.11 lifetime best from the 2025 NCAA Championships.

Dennis’ teammate, sophomore Caroline Larsen, finished 3rd with a time of 47.47. Larsen’s time is her second-fastest ever, just behind the 47.38 she swam late last month.

MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 39.83, Jordan Crooks (Tennessee) – 2025
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 42.55
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 41.95

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Guy Brooks (LOU) – 41.87
2. Nikita Sheremet (LOU) – 42.04
3. Mikkel Lee (IU) – 42.15
4. Nicholas Finch (YALE) – 42.24
5. Ahmed Ismail (OSU) – 42.45
6. Dylan Smiley (IU) – 42.51
7. Tomas Navikonis (OSU) – 42.59
8. Matthew Kinge (OSU) – 42.93
9. Tylor Kim (PSU) – 43.14
10. Vidar Carlbaum (IU) – 43.29

Louisville’s Guy Brooks was the sole man to break 42 seconds in tonight’s final, and he did so in career-best fashion. The Cardinal finished in a time of 41.87, improving upon his former best time of 42.07 from this morning’s prelims, when he sliced 1.13 seconds off his 42.20 from the 2025 NCAA meet.

It was a 1-2 finish for U of L, as freshman Nikita Sheremet, fresh off winning the 50 free last night, set a new personal best of 42.04, 35 hundredths faster than his prelims PB of 42.39. to move through to the final in 4th.

Indiana’s Mikkel Lee improved his PB by five one-hundredths to take 3rd in 42.15.

Notably, Indiana sophomore Dylan Smiley logged 42.51 for 6th, well shy of the 41.59 personal best he threw down earlier today, a time that would have comfortably won tonight’s final.

WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 1:49.11, Emma Sticklen (Texas) – 2025
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:57.11
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:55.82

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Katie Forrester (IU) – 1:56.99
2. Campbell Scofield (PUR) – 1:57.89
3. Jessica Eden (OSU) – 1:58.09
4. Billie Sherratt (UKY) – 1:58.45
5. Lily Hann (IU) – 1:59.22
6. Keira Kask (PUR) – 1:59.32
7. Lucy Malys (OSU) – 1:59.37
8. Emmy Therrien (OSU) – 2:00.10
9. Summer Cardwell (LOU) – 2:00.22
10. Lorin Tobler (OSU) – 2:00.25

Indiana junior Katie Forrester paced the final of the women’s 200 fly, setting a new season-best of 1:56.99 to win by almost a full second. She narrowly missed her 1:56.82 best time from last season’s Big Ten Championships, where she won the ‘B’ final.

Touching 2nd was Purdue’s Campbell Scofield, the only other woman to break 1:58, with a season-best 1:57.89.Her best time remains the 1:57.02 she clocked during prelims at the 2025 Big Ten meet, before she went on to touch 7th.

Ohio State’s Jessica Eden (1:58.09) edged out Kentucky’s Billie Sherratt (1:58.45) for 3rd place, with Eden setting new season best. Eden dropped from her 1:58.36, while Sheratt has been as quick as 1:57.51 so far in the 2025-26 campaign.

Three other swimmers joined those four under two minutes: Indiana’s Lily Hann (1:59.22), Purdue’s Keira Kask (1:59.32), and Ohio State’s Lucy Malys (1:59.37).

MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 1:36.43, Luca Urlando (Georgia) – 2025
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:43.79
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:41.45

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Andrew Shackell (IU) – 1:41.26
2. Gregg Enoch (LOU) – 1:43.48
3. Tommy Bried (LOU) – 1:43.64
4. Aidan Paro (LOU) – 1:43.79
5. Aaron Shackell (IU) – 1:43.94
6. Thomas Powers-Hammond (LOU) – 1:44.31
7. Jordi Vilchez (OSU) & Biko Hooper-Haviland (PUR) – 1:44.73
8. N/A
9. Javier Lopez-Guillen (UKY) – 1:45.40
10. Ryan Merani (UKY) – 1:45.98

Indiana freshman Andrew Shackell clocked 1:41.26 to win the men’s 200 fly by over two seconds.

In prelims, he set his prior best of 1:41.72, dropping more than two seconds from his October PB of 1:44.29. Indiana head coach Ray Looze told SwimSwam of Shackell today, “There’s no harder worker. He’s fearless, and he’s a guy that hasn’t gotten a whole lot of spotlight, but he’s a really good swimmer.”

Tonight’s swim puts Shackell well within possibility of earning an NCAA invite, as 1:41.45 was the cutoff time last season.

The Louisville duo of Gregg Enoch (1:43.48) and Tommy Bried (1:43.64) rounded out the top three with season bests. Enoch sliced five hundredths off his prelim mark, while Bried chopped 35 hundredths off his.

Enoch set his current PB of 1:41.81 at this meet last year, while Bried’s 1:41.29 was set en route to touching 20th at the 2025 NCAAs.

WOMEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 1:46.82, Claire Curzan (Virginia) – 2025
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:54.80
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:53.31

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Miranda Grana (IU) – 1:49.06
2. Rosie Murphy (UCLA) – 1:52.60
3. Macky Hodges (IU) – 1:52.77
4. Xeniya Ignatova (LOU) – 1:53.46
5. Mya DeWitt (IU) – 1:53.50
6. Delia Lloyd (OSU) – 1:55.46
7. Abby Marcukaitis (PUR) – 1:55.48
8. Grace Frericks (UKY) – 1:55.62
9. Camille Murray (LOU) – 1:56.26
10. Devyn Sargent (YALE) – 1:57.22

Indiana’s Miranda Grana was the class of the women’s 200 back field, splitting 53.01/56.05 en route to her second-fastest time ever of 1:49.06. The junior, who came into the week ranked 2nd in the NCAA this season after going 1:49.85 at the USC Invite, won the consolation final last season at NCAAs in her personal best of 1:48.73.

Grana’s been on fire all week, having already secured wins in both the 100 fly (49.98) and 100 back (49.89), with the former representing a career best.

UCLA’s Rosie Murphy, fresh off claiming the 200 IM victory, posted a time of 1:52.60 for 2nd, narrowly missing her season-best of 1:52.39. She was marginally quicker in the prelims when she stopped the clock in a time of 1:52.53.

Macky Hodges, another Indiana swimmer, was the final woman to crack 1:53 at 1:52.77. The USC Trojan-turned-Hoosier crushed her personal best of 1:53.58 from last season’s NCAAs, where she placed 32nd.

MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – FINALS

• NCAA Record: 1:34.21, Hubert Kos (Texas) – 2025
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:42.14
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 1:40.13

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Raekwon Noel (IU) – 1:40.63
2. Filip Kosinski (LOU) – 1:40.65
3. Miroslav Knedla (IU) – 1:40.93
4. Blake Rowe (PUR) – 1:41.43
5. Cornelius Jahn (OSU) – 1:41.73
6. David Kovacs (IU) – 1:41.77
7. Krys Gorski (OSU) – 1:42.59
8. Cooper Morley (PSU) – 1:42.74
9. Jackson Millard (LOU) – 1:42.80
10. Devin Naoroz (UKY) – 1:43.29

Indiana sophomore Raekwon Noel (1:40.63) won a tight 200 back final over Louisville sophomore Filip Kosinski (1:40.65) and Hoosier teammate Miroslav Knedla (1:40.93).

Knedla took the race out quickest through the first 150, leading all swimmers with Kosinski second and Noel third, but Noel came home quickest over the final 50—26.10 to Kosinski’s 26.30 and Knedla’s 26.61—to seal the win.

Noel, who has had an incredible improvement curve all season, lowered his PB from 1:41.56 to 1:40.76 in prelims, then sliced another 13 hundredths off tonight.

Kosinski’s time dropped three one-hundredths from the 1:40.68 season best he swam in a dual with Notre Dame last month. His best time is the 1:39.99 he swam at the Louisville Last Chance meet last February.

Knedla, a Czech sophomore, clocked 1:39.91 this morning to come within seven-tenths of his best time and crack 1:40 for the first time this season—that time would have won tonight’s final if replicated.

Penn State’s Cooper Morley was in a similar situation to Knedla. The Kiwi native set a massive best time this morning at 1:40.18, undercutting his previous best of 1:41.16 set at the 2024 Big Tens, but added to 1:42.59 to take 8th tonight.

WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE Relay – Timed Finals

• NCAA Record: 3:05.84, Virginia – 2023
• 2026 NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 3:13.62
• 2026 NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 3:14.92

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Indiana – 3:10.49
2. Ohio State – 3:12.14
3. Indiana ‘B’ – 3:14.26
4. UCLA – 3:16.05
5. Purdue – 3:16.68
6. Louisville ‘B’ – 3:16.78
7. Ohio State ‘B’ – 3:18.79
8. Kentucky  – 3:18.99
9. Cincinnati – 3:19.23
10. UCLA ‘B’ – 3:19.50

The Louisville women dominated the women’s 400 free relay, touching in a final time of 3:08.57, the third-fastest time in the country so far this season. Just moments after the win, however, it was revealed the squad was DQ’d for a false start on the third exchange:

• NCAA Record: 2:42.30, Tennessee – 2025
• 2026 NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 2:49.36
• 2026 NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 2:50.42

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Indiana – 2:46.69
2. Louisville – 2:48.40
3. Ohio State – 2:50.52
4. Yale – 2:50.70
5. Purdue – 2:51.28
6. Indiana ‘B’ – 2:51.31
7. Indiana ‘C’ – 2:53.06
8. Louisville ‘B’ – 2:53.17
9. Penn State – 2:53.44
10. Kentucky – 2:53.46

The men’s 400 free relay was fairly clear-cut as the Indiana quartet of Mikkel Lee (41.96), Owen McDonald (41.47), Dylan Smiley (41.47), and Miroslav Knedla (41.79) led from start to finish, winning in a time of 2:46.69.

Lee’s leadoff leg is his first-ever time under 42 seconds and faster than the 42.15 PB he set in the individual 100 free final about 50 minutes ago.

Louisville’s squad of Nikita Sheremet (42.13), Guy Brooks (41.65), Matias Santiso (42.35), and Rian Graham (42.27) finished in 2:48.40 to finish 2nd.

Ohio State outtouched Yale for third by 18 hundredths. OSU trailed by nearly six tenths at the final exchange, but Ahmed Ismail threw down a 41.98 anchor leg to run down the Bulldogs’ distance ace Noah Millard, who split 42.70.

WOMEN’S 1650 FREESTYLE – TIMED FINALS

• NCAA Record: 15:03.31 — Katie Ledecky, Stanford (2014)
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 16:25.29
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 16:09.37

Top 10: Finishers:

1. Emma Finlin (OSU) – 15:55.09
2. Leticia Fassina Romao (LOU) – 15:57.78
3. Mila Nikanorov (OSU) – 15:57.83
4. Adair Shaw (OSU) – 16:14.49
5. Reagan Mattice (PUR) – 16:21.01
6. Morgan Moore (PSU) – 16:28.37
7. Laila Oravsky (IU) – 16:29.07
8. Libby Grether (UKY) – 16:29.34
9. Paige Housman (UKY) – 16:30.64
10. Caitlin Hurley (PUR) – 16:31.27

Three women broke 16 minutes in the 1650 free, and two of them were Buckeyes. Emma Finlin stopped the clock at 15:55.09 to win the event, with Louisville’s Leticia Fassina Romao (15:57.78) second and Mila Nikanorov (15:57.83) third.

Finlin’s time smashed her 16:07.84 best time from last year’s Big Ten Championships. Fassina Romao sliced eight tenths off her former best time from the 2025 ACC Championships.

Nikanorov has been as fast as 15:49.61 in her career. She had a strong summer in the long course pool, where she was crowned the World University Games champion in the 800 LCM free.

• NCAA Record: 14:12.08 — Bobby Finke, Florida (2020)
• 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 15:06.60
• 2025 NCAA Invite Time: 14:48.80

Top 10 Finishers:

1. Zalan Sarkany (IU) – 14:23.85
2. Luke Whitlock (IU) – 14:37.47
3. Luke Ellis (IU) – 14:45.59
4. Noah Millard (YALE) 14:52.11
5. Carson Hick (UKY) – 14:52.84
6. Mason Edmund (OSU) – 14:55.97
7. Isaac Fleig (OSU) – 15:02.44
8. Arshak Hambardzumyan (YALE) – 15:04.88
9. Levi Sandidge (UKY) – 15:05.49
10. Oscar Isberg (LOU) – 15:11.65

The Indiana men put on a show in the men’s mile. Zalan Sarkany, a Hungarian native and reigning world champion in the SCM 800 free, lowered his own NCAA-leading time by over six seconds to 14:23.85, his second time under 14:30 this season.

Sophomore Luke Whitlock sliced 12 seconds off his best time of 14:49.90 from last November when he was swimming for Florida, while freshman Luke Ellis swam his third-fastest time ever at 14:45.59.

FINAL TEAM SCORES

Women:

1. Ohio State – 2257 points
2. Indiana – 2010.5 points
3. Louisville – 1934 points
4. Kentucky & Purdue – 1262 points
5. N/A
6. UCLA – 1041 points
7. Cincinnati – 832 points
8. Penn State – 745.5 points
9. Yale – 710 points
10. Northwestern (diving) – 152 points
11. Pittsburgh (diving) – 149 points
12. Wisconsin (diving) – 32 points

Men:

1. Indiana – 2766 points
2. Louisville – 1984.5 points
3. Ohio State – 1745 points
4. Purdue – 1346 points
5. Yale – 1215.5 points
6. Penn State – 1064 points
7. Kentucky – 989 points
8. Cincinnati – 689 points
9. Northwestern (diving) – 202 points
10. Wisconsin (diving) – 56 points
11. Pittsburgh (diving) – 19 points