2026 Big 12 Championship
- Dates: Tuesday, February 24–Saturday, February 28
- Location: Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, NC
- Defending champions: Arizona State women (1x); Arizona State men (1x)
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Men’s 400 Medley Relay — Finals
- NCAA Record: 2:55.66 – Florida (Marshall, Smith, Liendo, Painter), 2025
- American Record: 3:00.34 – Texas (Modglin, Germonprez, Gould, Taylor), 2025
Big 12 Record: 2:58.97 – Arizona State (Wadsworth, Dobrzanski, Kharun, Kulow), 2025Meet Record: 3:00.55 – Arizona State (L Vergnes, A Dobrzanski, I Kharun, J Kulow), 2025- NCAA Qualifying Times (Qualifying/Provisional): 3:04.96/3:06.20
Top 8 Finishers
- ASU — 2:57.48 **New Conference Record
- Arizona — 3:02.84
- TCU — 3:07.97
- Utah — 3:08.45
- BYU — 3:09.39
- West Virginia — 3:11.40
- Cincinnati — 3:11.41
The Sun Devil men capped off a productive evening in the pool with their 3rd record breaking swim of the session, as the team of Adam Chaney, Andy Dobrzanski, Ilya Kharun, and Remi Fabiani set a new 400 medley relay Big 12 conference and meet record in 2:57.48.
With that time, Arizona State jumps both Florida and Texas, now holding the fastest time in the NCAA this season, and joins Texas as the only other team in the country to be under 2:58.
Chaney led off nearly a second better than the field in 43.93, Dobrzanski took over, splitting 50.36, more than a second faster than any other breaststroker in the event final.
The second half of the relay featured two previous record breakers on the day: Kharun who split the 6th-fastest 100 fly leg in history at 42.81, before handing the reins to Fabiani, who powered home in 40.38 to secure the Sun Devils another event win and two more Big 12 records.
Comparing all three record relays for the Sun Devils, Dobrzanski and Kharun were members on all three of the relays, while both swimmers swam their fastest splits on this relay. Chaney was considerably faster than the other two backstroke legs in Jack Wadsworth and Lucien Vergnes.
Splits Comparison (New Big 12 Conference/Meet Record v. Former Conference Record v. Former Meet Record):
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New Big 12 Conference/Meet Record
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Former Conference (ASU) |
Former Meet Record (ASU)
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| Back | Chaney- 43.93 | Wadsworth- 45.25 | Vergnes- 45.81 |
| Breast | Dobrzanski- 50.36 | Dobrzanski- 50.78 | Dobrzanski- 50.52 |
| Fly | Kharun- 42.81 | Kharun- 42.83 | Kharun- 43.15 |
| Free | Fabiani- 40.38 | Kulow- 40.11 | Kulow- 41.07 |
| 2:57.48 | 2:58.97 | 3:00.55 |
hell ya dobrzanski amazing split
PB for Chaney. I feel like that flew under the radar
I’m predicting he goes significantly faster at NCAAs too. By the eye test, he doesn’t even have the full fast-twitch effect yet, still needs some more rest.
He’s still someone not to count out he got rly close to winning it all in 2024 but he’ll need to find nearly a second next month
More of the BEHM EFFECT…WOW!
Do we know why Fabiani was on this relay instead of Kulow?
because hes Him tf
Fabiani has faster times this year, to date.
In this meet, he improved Wed. from :18.79 to :18.68, whereas Jonny was :18.86 while his best is :18.56(the scoreboard initially said :19.55 for Kulow but after a required timing adjustment by the officials, he was moved to :18.86 and 4th place.) Jonny was a couple of tenths off his 200 PB. Remi won the 200 and was 1:30.88R
Fabiani is simply swimming a bit better right now, but I seriously doubt it means Coach Behm has made up his mind as to this leg yet. If Jonny goes :17.7 on the MR opening night (last year he was :17.78) and :18.37 in the 50 I’m sure Herbie would feel… Read more »
You think Kulow will be on the 200 medley opening night? So he’ll be pulling double duty?
Even though Jonny may have a higher ceiling for a 200 free leg, ASU has at least three choices for the final leg of the 800 relay after Fabiani, Seider and Senc-Samardzic.
Options include 1) Kulow (1:32.41 PB at 2025 Big XIIs; this year 1:32.56R and 1:33.06SB),
2) freshman Mattia Mauri (came to meet with 1:34.32 PB and went 1:34.02 prelim and new PB 1:33.60 in the final(6T) and 3)JT Ewing, who came to the meet with a 1:33.79PB and after a disappointing 1:34.63 prelim swim that put him 9th, dominated the “B” final in a new PB of 1:33.66.
So Coach Behm has to consider how these 200 choices are advancing, as well as considering how the… Read more »
I’ll be curious to see what he chooses to do. Feel like ASU needs him on anchor for that race to sub 1:20
My assumption is that Fabiani was on the relays because he has been faster than Kulow throughout the season. I’m not sure Kulow has beaten him once this year.
American record?
Remi Fabiani?
Kharun is still considered Canadian until he can officially switch to USA in October
Both Miranda and Tomek are correct. Fabiani is from Luxembourg and we double checked with USA Swimming – Kharun not eligible for American Records until he can rep the US in competition (presumed October).
Chaney — :43.93PB (formerly :43.99 at Florida)
Dobrzanski – :50.36R PB (formerly :50.45 at ’26 Big XII – West meet)
Kharun — :42.81R — relay PB is :42.80 (tied with Liendo for 4th on all-time performer list. Liendo has top 3.)
Fabiani — :40.38R PB — former relay PB is :40.53 (in dual with USC this season).
Solid relay.
ASU, Texas, Florida. Should be an excellent race.
ASU was 0.16 off the school record (:2:57.32) set in winning the event at the ’24 NCAAs, with a pretty recognizable crew: H Kos (:44.61), Marchand (:48.73), Kharun (:43.44); Kulow (:40.54).
Kharun is the only holdover, and he dropped 0.63 from the ’24 effort.
Wow, that is impressive to get that close, especially considering that 48.73 from Marchand.
My god those splits are lightning fast!