2025 Big 12 Championship — Men’s Preview
- February 25 – March 1, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center — Federal Way, Wash.
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Start Times: prelims – 10 am PT/finals – 6 pm PT
- Championship Central
- Psych Sheet
- Livestream: ESPN+
- Live Results
While the first day’s official scoring events at the 2025 Big 12 Championships don’t start until 5:00 Pacific Time, racing has already begun with a morning time trial event in Federal Way.
These day 1 time trials are a way for swimmers to pursue best times and cut times at the start of the meet, when they’re still fresh before five days of warmups, cooldowns, hotel rooms, and racing.
The Big 12, especially, has been home to one of the most famous time trial swims ever when Jack Conger swam the fastest-ever 200 yard fly in a day one time trial at the 2015 championships.
Nothing to that level cropped up in this year’s edition, but there were a few noteworthy times, with the Arizona Wildcats especially leaning in hard to the session.
- TCU freshman Filip Suchanski, who joined the team for the spring semester, swam 1:40.13 in the 200 yard backstroke. That sets a new TCU school record, breaking the mark that NCAA qualifier Cooper Robinson set in 2014 at 1:42.33. That time would have earned a spot at NCAAs last year by half-a-second; this year, it ranks him 28th nationally, which is on the bubble at this point of the season. His teammate Mila Fabian swam 19.58 in the 50 free, which moves him up to 2nd place in school history in the event.
- Utah senior Norah Hay put up a strong bid for her first trip to the NCAA Championships in her last opportunity when she swam a 1:53.82 in the 200 backstroke. That cut almost a second off her previous best time of 1:54.70 (altitude adjusted), done in a dual meet against BYU late last season. That would have earned her an NCAA invite last year (1:54.01), but the women’s backstroke races have gotten much faster this season, and so she ranks just 58th nationally this season, with somewhere around 38 expected to be invited. She would need to drop down to around 1:53.0 later in the meet to feel safer about an individual invite.
- Arizona freshman Joel Nace smashed his lifetime best, swimming 1:42.61 in the 200 fly. His previous best was a mid-season 1:44.31, and in total has taken almost four seconds off his high school best.
- Arizona sophomore Tavner Wisdom swam 52.39 in the men’s 100 yard breaststroke, which shaves .27 seconds off his best time done at last year’s Pac 12 Championship meet. His teammate, 5th year Daniel Young, swam 52.71, which just-missed his previous best time of 52.66 from a November dual meet earlier this season.
- Arizona’s Riley Botton swam 22.38 in the 50 free, which knocks .17 seconds off her best time. She has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the coaching change at Arizona this season – her best time last season was 23.17, which placed her 52nd at Pac-12s, and this year should battle for a top three spot at Big 12s.
