Big 12 West Championships
- January 16-17, 2026
- Tempe, AZ — Mona Plummer Aquatic Center
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Full Meet Results
Team Scores
Women
- ASU — 894
- Arizona — 783
- Kansas — 657
- Utah — 544
- BYU — 524
Men
- ASU — 609
- Arizona — 534
- BYU — 464
- Utah — 459
The ASU men and women swept the Big 12 West Championships in preparation for the upcoming Big 12 Championships next month. The Sun Devils were led by junior Ilya Kharun, who continues to make his mark on the all-time rankings through his junior campaign.
He started the meet with the fly leg on the men’s 200 medley relay, splitting 19.12 on ASU’s 1st place relay. The team of Lucien Vergnes (20.91), Jon Reiter (24.17), Kharun (19.12), and Jonny Kulow (18.30) swam 1:22.50 to beat their ‘B’ relay’s 2nd place time of 1:22.81.
Kharun followed that performance up with a top 10 all-time relay split in the men’s 100 fly on ASU’s ‘B’ 400 medley relay. He split 43.16, which will rank him 9th all-time. This split actually takes away one of his own spots on the list with the 10th ranking split belonging to a tie with himself of 43.35 from the 2023 NC State Invite and the 2025 CSCAA Dual Meet Tournament.
His ‘B’ relay of Vergnes (46.11), Jordan Tiffany (52.22), himself, and Remi Fabiani (41.25) swam 3:02.74 to finish 2nd to the ASU ‘A’ relay of Adam Chaney (44.60), Andy Dobrzanski (50.45), Filip Senc-Samardzic (45.36) and Jonny Kulow (41.43) who swam 3:01.84.
With this swim, Kharun holds four of the top 10 100 fly splits in history.
Updated Top 10 All-Time Relay Splits — Men’s 100 Fly
- 42.12, Josh Liendo (2025 SEC Championships)
- 42.46, Josh Liendo (2025 NCAA Championships)
- 42.77, Josh Liendo (2024 SEC Championships)
- 42.80, Ilya Kharun (2025 Eddie Reese Showdown)
- 42.83, Ilya Kharun (2025 NCAA Championships)
- 42.91, Josh Liendo (2023 NCAA Championships)
- 43.15, Ilya Kharun (2025 Big 12s)/Luca Urlando (2025 NCAA Championships)
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- 43.16, Ilya Kharun (2026 Big 12 West Championships)
- 43.34, Joe Schooling (2016 NCAA Championships)
Kharun also won the individual 50 free (18.62), 100 fly (44.39), and 200 fly (1:39.30) during the meet.
The Sun Devil men won the other two relays as well. The ‘B’ 200 free relay team of Tolu Young (19.16), Seth Crow (19.19), Kharun (18.37), and Tommy Palmer (18.29) swam 1:15.01 to lock up 1st overall. The ASU ‘A’ relay of Adam Chaney (19.09), Jag Zwaschka (19.66), Remi Fabiani (18.57), and Jonny Kulow (18.77) was disqualified.
The 400 free relay went to the ‘A’ team of Adam Chaney (42.09), Remi Fabiani (41.20), Tommy Palmer (41.52), and Jonny Kulow (41.13) in 2:45.94. Kharun swam the 2nd leg on the ‘B’ relay, splitting 41.61.
The ASU men won most of the individual events with a few personal best times scattered through the results. Andy Dobrzanski won the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, setting new personal best times in both. He swam 51.00 in the 100 and 1:50.95 in the 200 to drop from his previous best 51.14 and 1:51.63 respectively. He will move up to 9th in the country this season in the 100 breast and 7th in the 200 breast. His 100 breast time was also a pool record, taking down Leon Marchand‘s 51.01 from 2023.
Mattia Mauri set the other personal best among Sun Devil event champions. He won the 500 free in 4:16.54, coming in almost six seconds ahead of the rest of the field. His previous best was 4:17.96 from the Tennessee Invite last month.
Other ASU Men’s Event Winners
- 100 free: Jonny Kulow — 41.60
- 200 free: Remi Fabiani — 1:32.86
- 1650 free: Noah Mudadu — 15:15.39
- 100 back: Adam Chaney — 44.68
- 200 back: Adam Chaney — 1:41.46
- 200 IM: Lucien Vergnes — 1:44.53
The only swimming event that did not go to ASU was the men’s 400 IM where Utah’s Strahinja Maslo swam 3:50.59 for the top time, beating ASU’s Hayden Hakes by half-a-second. Hakes finished 2nd in 3:51.09.
Maslo currently ranks 31st in the country this season with the 3:43.91 he swam at the SMU Invite.
Arizona’s Luke Hernandez won both men’s diving events on day one, scoring 332.45 on the 1-meter and 369.30 on the 3-meter.
There was another diving event on day 2, which Hernandez did not compete in. Arizona teammate Gage Dubois won the 1-meter in 363.75.
Women’s Meet Highlights
The ASU women won the meet, taking the top spot in two of the four relays. They started the meet with the top spot in the women’s 200 medley relay with their team of Miriam Sheehan (23.90), Lucie Vasquez (27.46), Julia Ullmann (23.10), and Albane Cachot (22.23) swimming 1:36.69, a new season best time for them. They came in a little under two seconds ahead of the Arizona ‘A’ team that swam 1:38.54 for 2nd.
ASU wrapped up the meet with the top time in the women’s 400 freestyle relay. Jordan Greber (49.34), Grace Lindberg (49.30), Gerda Szilagyi (48.36), and Albane Cachot (48.07) swam 3:15.07, just off their season best 3:14.66 from the ASU vs USC meet. The ASU ‘B’ team finished 2nd in 3:16.37, coming in about four tenths ahead of the Arizona ‘A’ team’s time of 3:16.80.
The other two relays went to the University of Arizona Wildcats. On day one, they won the 200 freestyle relay in 1:28.76 with the team of Riley Botton (22.28), Patricija Kondraskaite (22.22), Charlie Millard (22.74), Julia Wozniak (21.52). They beat the ASU ‘A’ team, who finished 2nd in 1:29.54.
They followed that up with the top time in the 400 medley relay of 3:33.30. Julia Smurzynska (53.55), Eleni Gewalt (59.32), Kayman Neal (52.64), and Julia Wozniak (47.79) beat the ASU ‘A’ team’s final time of 3:33.86.
The ASU women had more strong performances from midseason addition Albane Cachot. On top of her contribution on their two winning relays, she split 47.91 on the freestyle leg of the 400 medley and 22.15 as the anchor on the 200 freestyle relay.
She also won the 200 free in a personal best 1:45.63 and the 100 free in a personal best 48.32. Cachot also picked up a silver medal in the women’s 50 freestyle at 22.44, finishing behind Arizona’s Riley Botton, who touched in 22.18.
The only other women’s individual event winner to set a personal or season best time was Arizona’s Kelsey Wasikowski, who won the women’s 200 breaststroke in 2:10.95, a new personal best. ASU’s Sonia Vaishnani finished 2nd in 2:11.29 and Kansas’s Ryan Johnston swam 2:12.26 for 3rd. Both Vaishnani and Johnston set new personal best times as well.
ASU’s Julia Ullmann was one of the only two-event winners, taking the top time in both fly events. She touched in 51.83 in the 100 and 1:57.04 in the 200, winning both by more than a second.
Fellow Sun Devil Deniz Ertan was the other two-event winner. She swept the distance events, winning the 500 in 4:45.86 and the 1650 in 16:18.92.
Other ASU Event Winners:
- 100 Back: Miriam Sheehan — 52.15
- 200 IM: Jordan Greber — 1:59.56
- 400 IM: Sonia Vaishnani — 4:12.56
The other two individual swimming events both went to the University of Arizona. Kayman Neal took the top time in the 200 backstroke at 1:54.43, coming in half-a-second ahead of 2nd place, and Eleni Gewalt won the 100 breast in 59.86 as the only swimmer under 1:00 in the event.
Finally, both diving events on day one were won by Kansas junior Shiyun Lai. She scored 315.20 on the 1-meter and 314.20 on the 3-meter boards.
Lai did not dive in the day two 1-meter event, which ended up going to ASU’s Amayah Wiley in 257.05.
Honestly, the biggest swim of the weekend was Andy Dobrazanski time trialing the 50 free to 19.77. The entire ASU squad was up for it. Great to see.
The first Big XII-West Swimming Championships were a success, with solid, but not all seeming ‘rest-ish’ results, but consistently similar and relatively smallish differentials from the Fall Invite times.
Madeline made a heroic trek through the results sheets to provide interesting points about the swimming quality at the First Big XII – West Swimming Championships. As the results format made it a bit difficult to set out in order the quality swims performed, including the non-inclusion of Time Trials in the results, thus excluding mention of some fine swims. Please consider this a supplement to her efforts.
There are 5 Women’s teams(ASU, AZ, BYU, Kansas, Utah) and 4 men’s squads (ASU, AZ, BYU and Utah).
The men were allowed 4 entries… Read more »
Swims you might have missed in the Big XII – West meet over three sessions on 1/16/26 (2 sessions) and 1/17/26.
Session One:
Women’s 200 Medley Relay – The ASU win described in the article was 0.12 off the NCAA cut of 1:36.57.
Other excellent splits not mentioned in the article included Arizona’s Eleni Gewalt, :26.91 (Brst.) and Julia Wozniak, :21.76 Free.
Men’s 200 Medley Relay – Both ASU squads were well under the NCAA Qualifying Standard of 1:23.61. Front end of the A was :20.72 (Chaney) and :23.20 (Dobrzanski), before :20.38 (Senc-Samardzic) and :18.51 (Fabiani) on the back end; Arizona was 1:24.89, with a :21.07 Back by Duncan Henderson as best leg.
Women 100 Fly (NCAA… Read more »
As one who attended all three sessions of this meet, I would say that it was an excellent meet. It was also the biggest as to number of teams attending at the ASU pool since ASU hosted the PAC 12 Championship in the 1990ies!
WTH is the ‘Big 12 West’?
It is the teams vaguely in the western half of the Big 12.
If football can make up divisions within their conferences, why can’t swimming?
The fact that all of the top 10 50 butterfly splits are from 2023 onwards should tell you something…
Aside from the fact that Caeleb Dressel never swam it at taper meets.
He is a great swimmer in season and at taper time. Wish he were a bit quicker in the long pool.
Had 2 individual Olympic medals at 19 years old and the best flyer across three distances.
Ponti? Phelps?
Current best. Milak probably checks that box at some point but he never took the 50 seriously. Ponti seems to be done with the 200 and his best there is 1:54.1 vs 1:52.8 for Kharun. Ponti has him the the 50 & 100, but the margin is close enough that I’m giving it to Kharun.
Kneeguh – ever see Phelps in a 50 Fly?
I cannot figure out how ASU determines which swimmers go on which of those men’s relays. Like, what do “A” and “B” relays mean for them? None of these combos seem like they are the fastest possible. Are they just rotating guys in and trying out different combinations all the time? And will wait until the actual NCAAs to put the 4 fastest guys on the same relay?
Sometimes coaches split up relays to create competition within the team.
At the end of the year the best swimmers will be on their A relays because that’s when it matters.
This meet format allowed B relays to score full points, so trying to 1-2 relays made some sense. The funny part is their relays would have been fine to go 1-2 with normal A & B lineups. You’ll see their best relays at Big 12s, but I don’t know how they make some of those final decisions around their sprint free relays.