2025 CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge
- November 21-23, 2025
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet Info (PDF)
- Meet Central
Anticipation is building for the inaugural CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge next month, and more details have been revealed for the four-team showdown scheduled for November 21-23 at the University of Tennessee’s Allan Jones Aquatic Center.
The host Volunteers (SEC) will be joined by Arizona State (Big 12), Michigan (Big Ten) and Virginia (ACC) as each power conference will have one representative.
The competition’s bracket-style format was revealed in late May, and the meet will be seeded based on the November CSCAA Top 25 Dual Meet Poll. The #1 seed and the #4 seed will compete and the #2 and #3 seeds will race on the first day of competition.
From there, the two winners will square off to kick off Day 2, and the two teams that lost will also go to battle. Then the loser of the winner-only meet will face the winner of the loser-only meet, and then on Day 3, there will be a championship dual meet along with a 3rd-place meet.
Photo: CSCAA
MEET SCHEDULE
Friday, November 21:
- Meet 1 – 3:00 PM
- Meet 2 – 6:00 PM
Saturday, November 22:
- Meet 3 – 12:00 PM
- Meet 4 – 3:00 PM
- Meet 5 – 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 23:
- Meet 6 (Race for Third) – 10:00 AM
- Meet 7 (Championship Meet) – 1:00 PM
The CSCAA announced Friday that Kyle Sockwell will be the in-house commentator for the competition.
Sockwell has been leading the charge in trying to get college dual meets more exciting and viewer-friendly in recent years.
🔥 The Dual Meet Challenge just leveled up.
Energy in the pool, energy on the mic. @kylesockwell is hype. Knoxville is ready. Are you?
📅 Nov. 21–23 | 📍 Allan Jones Aquatic Center
🎟️ FREE Admission | 📺 Live on SEC+#CSCAADuals #VisitKnoxSports pic.twitter.com/OBg4Qag7qx— CSCAA (@CSCAA) October 3, 2025
The unique format also includes head-to-head scoring and a different event schedule for each day. Read more here.
IMO, Kyle needs to get all the connections he has made with this generations talent that have big social media followings (the Walsh’s, Douglas’, Smith, Max, Heilman etc etc). The youngings with brands following him to help promote this.
I’m sure most have brand managers in charge of their postings (approval or no). Them understanding that this only improves their brand even though they may not be swimming in it.
Old publicist saying “any publicity is good publicity)
Smart of CSCAA to get swimming’s biggest online commentator on their payroll before they unveiled their steaming pile of NCAA format changes.
of course its going to be streamed on these impossible to access conference channels
I’m as big a swimming fan as anyone, but there’s a 0% chance a test event like this gets linear TV time in its first year. If we support it in year one, maybe we get that in year two, but no shot an ESPN tosses this into a TV slot in November with zero historical data.
How about streaming it to YouTube?
Kyle is 100% correct. Dog wags the tail, not the tail wags the dog in media. Media doesn’t ‘cover’ something to make it popular, it gets popular then the media covers it.
We’ll work with Kyle and the CSCAA as the event draws nearer to really make it easy to fine the stream.
or you know… just stream it for free somewhere.
7 dual meets in 3 days? I might book a flight.
Who is Kyle Sockwell?
Kyle is a former ASU swimmer and just about the only notable swimming-specific channel on YouTube (aside from the SwimSwam channel, of course) reporting about USA college and national swimming, which is where the vast majority of the younger generations (i.e. all current competitive swimmers) get their sports news.
And this is how you announce you’ve paid no attention to swimming lately.
Oh the guy that swims 50s in jeans?
Yep, in front of thousands of fans in a stadium racing against a world record holder (Peaty) and also has tens of thousands of people online watching too
His latest video, posted 3 weeks ago, has garnered 14k views. His last high-performing video (91k, NCAA-related) was over 6 months ago. Pump your brakes. His channel has been known to go inactive for weeks.
Every start up business has its start of losing, it’s prolonging the process to see the fruits.
He hit the peak right during championship season, now he needs to build and make tweaks to in season meets when swimmers aren’t rested. What’s he going to promote “swimming untapered produces not flare buts it’s fun?!”
City of Midland legend
Oh come on..put a Sock in it.
Braden won’t be able to complain about not having meet information in time since this is about 7 weeks away!
All good, instead I can complain about “changing the NCAA Championship format after the start of the season.”
Hold on to your seats boys and girls…
Dying. Say more?!
Is that why I cannot find the D1 qualifying standards anywhere?
Great
YES finally a user-friendly way to promote college swimming. Kyle will probably help generate some decent hype too. Excited for this!