Texas A&M Downs TCU as a Litany of Swimmers Clock Lifetime Improvements

TCU vs Texas A&M

• October 17th, 2025
• College Station, Texas – Rec Center Natatorium
• SCY (25 Yards)
• Results
• Final Scores:
  • Men: Texas A&M 198 – TCU 98
  • Women: Texas A&M 221 – TCU 74

The Texas A&M Aggies dominated the TCU Horned Frogs on Friday, dropping only four events across the men’s and women’s sides. The win marks the Aggies sixth in as many seasons against the Horned Frogs.

A unique method of format determination was used for this meet: the order of events after the opening race, the 200 medley, was decided by drawing event names out of a hat.

 Women’s Events

TCU’s meet was highlighted by freshman Avery Dillon, who earned them their only two wins in the women’s events.

Dillon set a new TCU school record on her way to winning the first individual event of the meet, the 1000 free. She clocked a time of 9:55.56, a five-second improvement on her lifetime best of 10:00.24.

Dillon went on to sweep the distance free events at the meet, also competing in and winning the 500 free. She took the event in a time of 4:52.63. While that time is six seconds off of her personal best, it is an impressive effort for having very recently swum a lifetime best in the 1000.

Outside of Dillon’s swims, the meet saw pure domination from the Aggies. They were led by sophomore Ella McQuinn, junior Halina Panczyszyn, and junior Hannah O’Leary, all of whom took two individual wins.

McQuinn took first in the 100 and 200 freestyle, clocking 49.46 and 1:48.48, respectively. Panczyszyn swept the backstroke events, stopping the clock in 53.01 to win the 100 and registering 1:57.00 in the 200. O’Leary took first in the 200 breast, producing 2:11.36, and the 200 IM, clocking 1:59.35.

McQuinn shaved two one-hundredths of a second off her lifetime best in the 100 free, and came within a second of her personal best in the 200. Panczyszyn also registered an improvement, hacking half a second off her all-time best in the 100 back, which was set only a week ago at the USC invite.

McQuinn and Panczyszyn each added a relay win to their individual victories. The team of Kaitlyn Owens (24.36), Claire Gass (28.27), Eloise Williamson (23.59), and McQuinn (22.33) clocked a time of 1:38.55 to win the 200 medley relay.

Reagan Sherrard (23.29), Celina Springer (23.52), Macy Lewis (23.56), and Panczyszyn (23.25) followed them up by taking the 200 free relay, winning the event in a time of 1:33.62.

Sherrard and Williamson, both of whom are freshmen at Texas A&M, notched one individual event win each in addition to their relay victories. Sherrard triumphed in the 50 free, clocking a time of 23.10 and coming within a tenth of a second of her lifetime best. Williamson registered a winning time of 53.87 in the 100 butterfly, coming within a second of a personal best that she set just a week earlier.

Claire Gass, a senior, and Katie Walker, a junior, were the only other Aggie swimmers that earned victory. Gass took the 100 breast, clocking a winning time of 1:01.70. Walker took the 200 fly, winning the event in a time of 1:57.99. Both swimmers were among the few Aggie race winners that didn’t also challenge their personal bests.

Men’s Recap

The men’s meet was also characterized by certain Aggie swimmers dominating their respective areas of expertise.

Aggie freshman Bucky Gettys won both of the distance freestyle events. He registered a winning time of 9:06.37 in the 1000 freestyle. Like Avery Dillon on the women’s side, he managed to win the 500 freestyle not long after swimming the 1000, taking first in a time of 4:24.44.

Unlike Dillon, he was not able to challenge his personal bests, though that is not unexpected in those events at this time of the season.

Texas A&M sophomore Ben Sytsma clocked 20.06 in the 50 freestyle to win the event, and shortly followed it up with a victory in the 100 free, registering 43.91.

Sytsma also competed in both the 200 medley and freestyle relays, and used them to max out his individual medal count. The team of John Simmons, Lane White, Chase Swearingen, and Sytsma took the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:26.35, a healthy two-and-a-half seconds faster than the Aggies were at this time last year.

Logan Brown (19.94), Sytsma (19.70), Jack Madoch (19.70), and Chase Swearingen (19.42) won the 200 free relay for Texas A&M, touching the wall in 1:18.81. The Aggies were particularly strong in the event at last season’s SEC Championships, where they set a school record of 1:15.25. They didn’t seem close to equaling that mark, though the fastest split from that relay, Ben Scholl, wasn’t present at this meet.

Roberto Bonilla Flores, a junior, swept the breaststroke events for Texas A&M. He took first in the 100 with a time of 53.77, and clocked 1:54.99 to take victory in the 200. Flores set a personal best in the 100 breast just a week earlier at the USC Invite, clocking 53.87, and he managed to cut a tenth-of-a-second off of that this weekend.

It was only in the backstroke events that the Horned Frogs had strength to challenge the Aggies. TCU senior Edgar Cicanci triumphed in the 100 backstroke, clocking 47.72 to earn one of only two TCU victories in the men’s meet.

The other TCU win was registered by sophomore Filip Suchanski. He produced a time of 1:43.52 in the 200 backstroke, which was good enough to earn him victory.

Sophomore Chase Swearingen and junior Logan Brown both clocked massive personal bests on their way to registering race wins for the Aggies. Swearingen took first in the 100 fly in addition to his relay win, touching the wall in a time of 45.94, a lifetime best of nearly a second. Brown took the 200 free for the Aggies in a time of 1:37.23, a personal best of nearly two seconds in an off event for Brown.

Aggie freshman Alejandro Michelena and Texas A&M fifth-year Munzy Kabbara rounded out the Aggie race winners. Michelena clocked 1:46.16 to win the 200 fly, and Kabbara registered 1:45.90 to win the 200 IM. Michelena was around seven seconds faster than he was at this time last year, and Kabarra was a full ten seconds faster than he was in October last season.

Looking Forward

Texas A&M is gearing up to take on SMU in Dallas on October 24th and 25th. The Honed Frogs’ next meet comes in Dallas against SMU and Arizona a week later, on October 30th and 31st.