The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced the men’s NCAA Division I award winners for the 2024-25 season on Monday, Mar. 31. The announcement comes two days after the 2025 Men’s NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships wrapped up in Federal Way, Wash., as Texas won the team title.
The awards were decided by a vote of the CSCAA-member Division I head swimming coaches and head diving coaches.
Swim Coach and Swimmer of the Year
The Texas Longhorns swept the Swim Coach and Swimmer of the Year honors. Bob Bowman won Men’s DI Swim Coach of the Year for the second-straight season after becoming the first men’s DI swimming and diving head coach to win two national titles with two different teams in back-to-back years. Richard Quick was the first to accomplish the feat on the women’s side, winning with Texas in 1989 and Stanford in 1989. Bowman won his first title last year with Arizona State, guiding the team to its first NCAA title in program history.
With Bowman at the helm, the Texas Longhorns set three NCAA records and won seven national titles.
Bob Bowman (photo: Jack Spitser)
Junior Hubert Kos won three of the Longhorns’ national titles and set two NCAA records. Kos followed Bowman to Austin from Tempe and a year after peaking at the Pac-12 Championships rather than the NCAA Championships, Kos nailed his performance in Federal Way. He was the only swimmer at the meet to win three individual titles, placing first in the 200 IM, 100 backstroke, and 200 backstroke.
After swimming on Texas’ winning 200 medley relay, Kos kicked off his individual event slate by winning the 200 IM in 1:37.91. It was the first individual NCAA title of his career and he tied Destin Lasco’s winning performance from last season.
Kos’ first of two NCAA records came on night three in the 100 backstroke. He outdueled Florida’s Jonny Marshall by two-hundredths as both cracked the three-year-old NCAA record. Kos took over the NCAA record with a blistering 43.20, dropping over a half-second from his former lifetime best.
After that performance, there was plenty of anticipation for his 200 backstroke. Kos, the Olympic champion in the 200-meter backstroke, delivered. He chopped over a second off the record Lasco set last season, swimming a blistering 1:34.32. The swim completed his sweep of the backstroke events and his individual races.
Kos also contributed to four of Texas’ relays. He flexed his versatility by swimming butterfly on both medley relays, as well as splitting 18.56/41.35 on the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.
Hubert Kos’ Results
- 200 IM: 1st, 1:37.91
- 100 backstroke: 1st, 43.20 NCAA Record
- 200 backstroke: 1st, 1:34.32 NCAA Record
- 200 medley relay: 1st, 1:20.28 — 19.33 butterfly split
- 200 freestyle relay: 6th, 1:14.66 — 18.56 relay split
- 400 medley relay: 2nd, 2:58.95 — 43.45 butterfly split
- 400 freestyle relay: 7th, 2:45.12 — 41.35 relay split
Diving Coach and Diver of the Year
While Texas swept the swimming honors, the Indiana Hoosiers did the same for the diving awards. Head diving coach Drew Johansen earned his third consecutive and fourth career Men’s DI CSCAA Diving Coach of the Year.
Quentin Henniger and Carson Tyler (credit: Indiana Athletics)
Indiana divers swept the three diving events, marking the second time in NCAA history that a program has done that, and the first since 1997. Beyond the three national titles, won by Quentin Henniger and Carson Tyler, Indiana repeated as the gold and silver medalists on the three-meter, and multiple athletes scored in each event.
After winning the three-meter and platform events, Tyler won Diver of the Year honors for the second straight season. Tyler’s meet didn’t start as he wanted; after missing a dive during 1-meter prelims, he did not return to the ‘A’ flight, instead qualifying for the ‘B’ flight. He rallied by winning the ‘B’ final with 432.75 points, which would’ve finished second in the championship final.
Tyler hit his stride the next day. He defended his titles in both the three-meter and platform events. He scored 467.45 points on three-meter, edging out his teammate, 1-meter champion Henniger, by 1.30 points. Tyler won the platform by a wider margin (29.65), tallying 480.45 points as he concluded his senior season at Indiana.
Carson Tyler’s Results
- 1-meter diving: 9th, 432.75 points
- 3-meter diving: 1st, 467.45 points
- Platform diving: 1st, 480.45 points
Hungary has punched above its weight in both water polo and swimming for many decades! So, Kos continues the tradition of smaller countries producing excellent athletes. Kudos to him and the aquatic tradition of Hungary!
Thx.
In other news, Hubi is extending his taper, and flying in for Hungarian Nationals a week from now. I’m so ready to see him swim a tapered 200IM and a sub 1:54 200 back.
IU DIVING!
Had to be like this.