The transfer portal has opened for men’s swimming and diving and a flood of athletes have already entered as of Wednesday morning.
With roster cuts already taking place, the transfer portal is expected to flood, and this morning’s rush already shows that.
Morning/Lunch Update:
109 Division I men have already entered the transfer portal this morning. Highlighting the list is Michael Cotter and Aaron Shackell, both of which transferred into Texas for this season. Shackell has already left Austin and is training with his club team in Carmel, Indiana while Cotter arrived from NC State but did not swim at SECs this season.
They are two out of the eight athletes from Texas to enter the portal so far for the Longhorns. Other names from Texas include Tanner Braunton, Max Hatcher, Jeremy Kelly, Lukas Stibrich, Landon D’Ariano, and Tyler Quarterman. Kelly was a BOTR ranked recruit in the boys high school class of 2024 while D’Ariano was an honorable mention in the class. Neither swam at SECs.
Auburn leads the way with 14 men already in the portal. The team also has the most women in the portal.
The 14 from Auburn include Avery Henke, David Hatt, Aidan Clements, James Allison, Jack Ailshire, Aidan Siers, Britton Spann, Isaac Lee, Alexander Just, Travis Keith, Tate Cutler, Andrew Commins, and Benjamin Chateigner. Travis Keith notably scored seven points as a diver for the team at SECs.
Indiana has nine men in the portal with Saadeddin Saadeddin, Leonardo Pelaez, Lucas Byrd, Harrison Herrera, Wilson Tuttle, William Raches, Ian Everett, Benson Wong, and Ryder Androsky. None of the men competed at Big Tens last month.
Early Afternoon Update:
Arizona State had seven men enter the portal since our last update. The list includes Leo Verschooten, Charles Gould, Cale Martter, Bryce Rohr, Finn Kemp, Isaac Fleig, and Leo Roden.
Martter is the biggest name on the list as he won the Big 12 title in the 200 IM swimming a 1:42.93. He also was 3rd in the 400 IM and 5th in the 200 breast. The 200 IM was a weaker event for ASU this season, partly due to the loss of Leon Marchand and Hubert Kos. Martter is not scheduled to compete at NCAAs next week for the Sun Devils as it took a 1:42.65 to make the cutline but helped the team to an NCAA Championship a year ago as he made the NCAA ‘B’ final of the 400 IM and 200 breast.
Gould also swam at Big 12s last month, scoring in the 100 and 200 backstrokes.
Late Afternoon Update:
Alabama has had men trickle into the portal all day and now bring their total up to six. Jake Kennedy, Sebastien Wenger, Paul Matthews, Leyton Row, Benjamin Kutufakis, and Jeremy Rosen are all in the portal for the Tide.
Roe, Wenger, and Kutufakis all swam at the 2025 Southeastern Championships (different from SECs), a club meet in Huntsville, Alabama, last month. Matthews, a diver, did not compete all season.
another £hackell to IU?
Cotter can help someone out. Maybe he lands at fast rising UNC where he probably would have scored in the 200/500 freestyles and made the 800 free relay.
It was one of the weaker events for the Sun Devils this year but, still, Quinlan Gould was ASU’s season leader to this point (they do have one person in the event at NCAAs) in the 200 Back at 1:41.70.
Tanner Braunton had a bad meet and still scored at NCAAs as a freshman. I was surprised to see him disappear off the Texas roster this year.
Tanner left midyear
Aaron is gonna go to Indiana and pull the exact same BS as is his sister.
So it’s essentially Texas’ freshmen class + Cotter and Shackell. Upperclassmen seem through with swimming
Kyle Peck and Cooper Lucas aren’t in the portal.
Neither is garret Gould
Brain fart
Bummer now he has a picture with cows for nothing 😡
Andy Commins is a pretty notable guy in the portal from Auburn, he already dropped his 2 fly from a 1:47 to a 1:45 this year as a freshman.
Oooo which still gets him nowhere close to NCAA’s
Not every transfer portal swimmer are NCAA caliber, but this gentleman would instantly contend for any mid-major conference championship.