2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 26-29, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center, Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- SwimSwam Pick’Em Contest
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Psych Sheet
- Day 1 Heat Sheets
- Day 1 Live Recap
The University of Florida squad of Jonny Marshall (20.59), Julian Smith (22.14), Josh Liendo (19.08) and Scotty Buff (18.24) were the first to touch the wall in the final heat of the 200 medley relay at the 2025 NCAA Championships, clocking a time of 1:20.05 to get under the NCAA record time of 1:20.15 (set by Florida’s squad at 2024 NCAAs). However, due to an early takeoff from Buff, the Gator squad was disqualified. Buff’s reaction time on his anchor leg was -0.06.
Video review was used to review the disqualifications in the event.
Instead, Texas’s Will Modglin (20.32), Nate Germonprez (22.83), Hubert Kos (19.33) and Chris Guiliano (17.80) were crowned the NCAA champions. The squad combined for a time of 1:20.28, 0.23 seconds behind the Gators’ initial time.
Guiliano’s 17.80 50 free split ranks as the eighth-fastest split in NCAA history, ranking just behind swims from Jordan Crooks and Caeleb Dressel. Crooks himself split 17.67, which is the sixth-fastest split ever. Gui Caribe, who was on Tennessee’s second-place relay with Crooks, clocked a 19.05 50 fly split that ranks as the sixth-fastest in history. Meanwhile, Arizona State’s Ilya Kharun went 18.78 on his fly leg, clocking the fastest 50 fly split ever to help his team take fourth.
Split Comparison:
| Florida, 2025 NCAA championships (DQed) | Florida, 2024 NCAA Championships (NCAA record) | Texas, 2025 NCAA Championships | |
| Back | Jonny Marshall — 20.59 | Adam Chaney — 20.29 | Will Modglin — 20.32 |
| Breast | Julian Smith — 22.14 | Julian Smith — 22.55 | Nate Germonprez — 22.83 |
| Fly | Josh Liendo — 19.08 | Josh Liendo — 18.97 | Hubert Kos — 19.22 |
| Free | Scotty Buff — 18.24 | Macguire McDuff — 18.34 | Chris Guiliano — 17.80 |
| Total | 1:20.05 | 1:20.15 | 1:20.28 |
Florida was not the only team disqualified in the 200 medley relay, as Virginia Tech and Michigan also took hits. The Wolverines would have finished ninth, while the Hokies would have finished 11th. Michigan’s Ozan Kalafat had a -0.05 reaction time to contribute to his team’s DQ, while Virginia Tech was disqualified because Youssef Ramadan earned a 15-meter violation.
That said, Kharun’s reaction time for his fly leg was marked as +0.81. Under SwimSwam’s Instagram post about Kharun’s split, NCAA champion and Olympian Kieran Smith wrote in the comments: “That is not a +.81 reaction time. Couple this with +.99 reaction times, should the accuracy of the reaction time mechanism be in question?”
Smith was referencing Florida State’s Sam Bork, Army’s Ben Vorthmann and Ohio State’s Daniel Baltes’ +0.99 reaction times, alluding to discrepancies between reaction times recorded during the relay. With two of the three disqualifications being related to reaction times, this could be notable.
With Texas having the highest projected non-diving projected point total (480) while Florida has the second-highest (420), this disqualification will have major implications on the team race. In addition, Florida was projected to earn the most relay points out of any team (182).
They do look at replays of the exchanges before a DQ is official. It’s not just the computer and/or humans. Most of you know that but I’m not sure everyone does based on some comments.
Wondering if they are using video to initiate calls or to confirm calls.
Just to confirm. And it’s only for relay takeoffs and 15m violations. Not underwater.
The NCAA doing its best to destroy swimming. No equipment calibration.
Do you have anything to back that up or are you just salty?
Are they using the same questionable touchpad in lane 5 again that said Bella Sims lost the 100 back by one-hundredth last week?
They switched things up from SEC to NCAA and Buff does a step over start but doesn’t even get to the end of the block, so he pushes off from the middle of the block.
Womp womp
Beyond hilarious. The one sport where they train all year for one meet and this happens.
I’ve hated the Gators since 18 months
Don’t you love when the American sprinters drop the baton in an ‘every 4 years’ Olympics?
The replay looks like like Buff was a clean exchange I don’t get that
It is clear in the re play..buff out quick
DQ seems to have rattled them, everyone was slower on their 800 free relay compared to SECs (although Smith not by much). Hopefully they turn it around tomorrow, but 4th is their ceiling now