ASU Women Earn 2nd Straight Big 12 Win With Top End Dominance

2026 Big 12 Championships

• Dates: Tuesday, February 24–Saturday, February 28, 2026
• Location: Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, NC
• Defending champions: Arizona State women (1x); Arizona State men (1x)
• Teams: Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Texas Christian, Utah, West Virginia
• Men’s Championship Preview
• Women’s Championship Preview
• Championship Central
• Psych Sheets
• Live Results
• Live Video: ESPN +
• Live Recaps
  • Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5
  • Prelims: Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5

Before 2025, the ASU women had never won a conference title. Last year, they picked up their first title by more than 400 points over the Arizona women after winning 10 individual events. This year, they created the start of a Big 12 dynasty, earning their 2nd straight event win after not losing a single individual event over the first two days of the meet. Though Arizona did outscore their in-state rivals on the final day of competition, it still left them in a 218-point deficit for second place.

Final Standings

  1. Arizona State University       1660.5
  2. University of Arizona          1442.5
  3. University of Houston          1194.5
  4. University of Cincinnati          770
  5. University of Kansas            739.5 
  6. Texas Christian University        733
  7. University of Utah                693 
  8. Brigham Young University          524
  9. Iowa State University             520 
 10. West Virginia University          409

Freshman Albane Cachot was one of the top performers on the women’s side, giving the Sun Devils a sweep in the three sprint freestyle events. Senior Deniz Ertan served as Cachot’s distance counterpart, emerging on top of the two distance freestyles as well as the 200 fly. The school’s second highest scorer, junior Alexa Reyna, gave the school a 1-2 punch behind Ertan in the distance freestyles and added a win of her own in the 400 IM. Rounding representation from each class, sophomore Julia Ullmann took the 100 fly pole position and got a silver and bronze medal as well in the 200 fly and 200 IM, respectively. The Sun Devils found a fifth event winner in junior Sonia Vaishnani.

The first four women were the top four scorers in the entire conference, and with Vaishnani they were five of the top six.

Individual Event Winners:

• 50 Free: Albane Cachot — 21.80
• 200 free: Albane Cachot — 1:44.58
• 500 Free: Deniz Ertan — 4:41.34
• 100 Fly: Julia Ullmann — 51.97
• 200 Fly: Deniz Ertan — 1:57.46
• 200 IM: Sonia Vaishnani — 1:57.16
• 400 IM: Alexa Reyna — 4:09.22

ASU’s Individual Points

Albane Cachot, FR, 96
Deniz Ertan, SR, 96
Alexa Reyna, JR, 88
Julia Ullmann, SO, 87
Sonia Vaishnani, JR, 85
Gerda Szilagyi, SR, 79
Grace Lindberg, JR, 77
Jordan Greber, SO, 67
Ella Guilfoil, SR, 62
Lucie Vasquez, SO, 61
Shane Golland, FR, 60
Ginger McMahon, SR, 58
Miriam Sheehan, JR, 50
Indigo Armon, SR, 46
Zoe Summar, SR, 45
Kayden Hayes, JR, 43
Ariel Beltran, SO, 41
Alexia Sotomayor, FR, 34
Payden Rafferty, SO, 31
June Tran-Hansen, FR, 30
Lia Csulak, JR, 28
Eleaunah Phillips, FR, 24
Katherine Randall, SR, 9.5
Amayah Wiley, SR, 9
Libby Thai, FR, 2

Class-wise, ASU was the top scorer in the conference for every year except for sophomore, where Arizona got the upper hand.

Though some of the school’s top scorers will be graduating this spring, head coach Herbie Behm will rest easy knowing his top sprinter and relay centerpiece Cachot will be around for another three years. Moreover, three juniors who had 75+ point weekends will be stepping into leadership roles, and there’s plenty of room for the rest of the first year class to grow.