Josh Matheny

USA Swimming Releases Psych Sheets For 2025 National Championships

The pre-scratch psych sheets for the 2025 U.S. National Championships have been released, showing many swimmers over-entered with a slew of events.

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Flux At The Highest Level: How Consistent Are Trials Finals Year-To-Year – Men’s

There has been a lot of talk about the swimmers who won’t be at Trials this year, but 2024 was the most consistent Trials in terms of finalists for a decade

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Shin Ohashi Improves Standing As Fastest 16-Year-Old 200 Breaststroker With 2:08.89

Shin Ohashi won the 200 breaststroke in Canet with a 2:08.89, lowering his own mark as the fastest 16-year-old in the event from 2:09.04.

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2025 U.S. World Trials Previews: Departures Leave Matheny, Pouch As Clear 1-2 In 200 Breast

Josh Matheny was the lone U.S. swimmer in the 2024 Olympic final, placing 7th after producing his 2nd and 3rd-fastest swims ever at the Olympic Trials.

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Shin Ohashi Blasts 2:09.04 200 Breaststroke, Fastest 16-Year-Old Ever

At the Barcelona stop of the 2025 Mare Nostrum tour, Shin Ohashi swam the fastest 200 breast time by a 16-year-old in history.

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2025 NCAA Qualifier Travis Gulledge Joining Indiana After Freshman Season At Texas A&M

Gulledge’s arrival comes at the right time as the Indiana breaststroke group will look much different due to graduations.

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2025 U.S. World Trials Previews: The Men’s 100 Breaststroke Is Anyone’s Race

Only two of the eight men’s 100 breaststroke finalists from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials have raced since last summer, opening the door for chaos this summer.

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2025 U.S. World Championship Trials: Official SwimSwam Preview Index

Keep up with all of SwimSwam’s previews and picks with our official preview index for the 2025 U.S. National Championships.

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American Record Holder Matt Fallon Will Sit Out This Summer’s Major National Meets

U.S. Olympian and American Record holder in the 200 breaststroke Matt Fallon will skip this summer’s major national competitions to focus on an internship.

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Men’s Recruit Ranks: Individual Scoring For All Classes Through 2025 NCAAs

Florida’s Josh Liendo has scored 171 out of a possible 180 individual NCAA points through the first three seasons of his college career.

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Revisiting NCAA Recruit Rankings: Men’s High School Class of 2021

Luke Hobson emerged as the top point scorer (146) among domestic recruits in the high school class of 2021, while Leon Marchand led all swimmers with 177.

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Reviewing SwimSwam’s 2025 NCAA Event Predictions – Men’s Edition

Stanford’s Ron Polonsky was an ‘A’ finalist in the men’s 200 IM and 100 breast after we didn’t predict him to finish in the top eight in either event.

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Indiana Men Rewrote Their Record Book This Season Breaking 11 of 18 Total Records.

Zalan Sarkany was responsible for three of Indiana’s 11 new team records this year in the 500 free, 400 IM, and 1650 free.

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Ultra Swimmer of the Month: Jassen Yep

Yep came into the month of March ranked 22nd all-time in the 200 breast. He exits it as the third-fastest swimmer ever and an NCAA champion.

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Detailing Indiana Senior Jassen Yep’s Road From Walk-On To NCAA Individual Champion

Yep gradually got better throughout his collegiate career and eventually became the third-fastest 200 breaststroker of all-time.

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