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#2/17 Swim and Dive readies to defend title at Big 12 Swim and Dive Championships

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by Zach Wargo

TEMPE – No. 2/17 Sun Devil Swim and Dive aims to defend its pair of Big 12 titles at the Big 12 Swim and Dive Championships presented by Allstate beginning Tuesday, Feb. 24, through Saturday, Feb. 28, in Greensboro, North Carolina at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. 

Fans can tune in on ESPN+, with both preliminary and finals being streamed all five days, and follow along with live results. Natalie Kalibat, Smacker Miles and ASU swim alumnus Kyle Sockwell will serve as the talent on the call.

Big 12 Championship Central | Schedule of events | Watch

A new qualifying process for the 2026 Division I NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships was introduced last October. Now, if an athlete wins their conference final in their event, they get an automatic bid to NCAAs if they swim the NCAA qualifying time

Competition begins on Tuesday with time trials starting at 8 a.m. MST, then the first set of finals beginning at 3 p.m., with the men and women kicking off the week with the 200 medley relay, men’s and women’s team diving and the 800 free relay.

On Wednesday, preliminary swims will begin at 8 a.m. MST with finals starting at 4 p.m. each day until the final day of competition.

In 2025, the Sun Devils took home 31 Big 12 titles, helping lead the men’s and women’s teams to their first Big 12 Championships. The men are vying for their fourth-straight conference championship this week, while the women are looking to go back-to-back as Big 12 Champions.

Going into the week, the men’s team holds the top times in 17 of the 18 events, and the women’s team has 11 top times in 18 events in the Big 12.

In program history, the men’s team has won 97 individual and relay conference championships, and the women’s team has won 46 individual and relay conference titles. With both teams attempting to defend their Big 12 titles, they would join volleyball as the second and third teams to win the Big 12 this season. 

In January, both men’s and women’s teams won the Big 12 West Championships against Arizona, Utah, BYU and Kansas.

2026 Big 12 Schedule of events (Watch on ESPN+)

Tuesday, Feb. 24

Finals
3 p.m. MST
Women's and Mens
200 Medley Relay
Women's Diving
Women's and Mens
800 Free Relay
Men's Diving

Feb. 25

Prelims
8 a.m. MST
Women's and Men's
500 free
Women's and Men's
200 IM
Women's and Men's
50 Free
9:30 a.m.
Women's
1m Diving

Men's
3m Diving

 

FINALS

3:15 p.m. MST
Women's
1m Dive
Women's and Men's
500 Free

Women’s and Men’s
200 IM

Women's and Men's
50 Free

Men's
3m Dive

Feb. 26

Prelims
8 a.m. MST
Women's and Men's
100 Fly
Women's and Men's
400 IM
Women's and Men's
200 Free
9:30 a.m.
Men's
1m diving
Women's
3m diving

 

FINALS
3:15 p.m. MST
Men's
1m Dive
Women's and Men's
100 Fly
Women's and Men's
400 IM
Women's and Men's
200 Free
Women's
3m Dive
Women’s and Men’s
400 Medley Relay

Feb. 27

Prelims
8 a.m. MST
Women's and Men's
200 Fly
Women's and Men's
100 Breast
Women's and Men's
100 Back
9:30 a.m.
Men's
Platform Dive
Men's
Platform Consolation

 

FINALS
4 p.m. MST
Women's and Men's
200 Fly
Women's and Men's
100 Breast
Women's and Men's
100 Back
Men's
Platform Dive
Women's and Men's
200 Free Relay

Feb. 28

Prelims
8 a.m. MST
M & W 200 Back
M & W 100 Back
M & W 200 Breast
9:30 a.m.
Women’s Platform Diving
12:45 p.m.
Women's and Men's
1650 Free

 

FINALS
4 p.m. MST
Women's and Men's
200 Back
Women's and Men's
100 Free
Women's and Men's
1650 Free
Women's and Men's
200 Breast
Women's
Platform Dive
Women's and Men's
400 Free Relay

Sun Devil Men's top-3 finishes at Big 12/Pac-12 Championships
2025: 1st
2024: 1st
2023: 1st
2022: 3rd
1995: 2nd
1993: 3rd
1987: 3rd
1983: 3rd
1980: 3rd

Sun Devil Women's top-3 finishes at Big 12/Pac-12 Championships
2025: 1st
2018: 3rd
1994: 2nd

2025 Big 12 Champions
Women’s 50 Free: Caroline Bentz (21.77) 
Men’s 50 Free: Jonny Kulow (18.64)
Women’s 100 Fly: Julia Ullmann (51.40)
Men’s 100 Fly: Ilya Kharun (44.13)
Men's 100 Breast: Andy Dobrzanski (51.75)
Women's 100 Back: Caroline Bentz (51.22) 
Men's 100 Back: Jack Wadsworth (45.01)
Men's 100 free: Jonny Kulow (41.07)
Women's 200 Free: Erin MIlligan (1:45.41)
Men's 200 Free: Patrick Sammon (1:31.57)
Women's 200 fly: Deniz Ertan (1:54.92)
Men's 200 fly: Ilya Kharun (1:39.41)
Men's 200 breast: Andy Dobrzanski (1:51.93) 
Women's 200 back: Caroline Bentz (1:51.89)
Women's 500 Free: Alexa Reyna (4:39.24)
Men's 500 Free: Daniel Matheson (4:14.37) 
Women's 200 IM: Charli Brown (1:57.84)
Men's 200 IM: Cale Martter (1:42.94)
Women's 400 IM: Sonia Vaishnani (4:10.28) 
Men's 400 IM: Michael Hochwalt (3:41.40)
Women's 200 medley relay:  Miriam Sheehan, Iza Adame, Julia Ullmann and Caroline Bentz (1:35.63)
Men's 200 medley relay: Lucien Vergnes, Andy Dobrazanski, Ilya Kharun and Jonny Kulow (1:21.16)
Women's 400 medley relay: Bentz, Adame, Ullmann, Milligan (3:30.09)
Men's 400 medley relay: Vergnes, Dobrzanski, Kharun, Kulow (3:00.55)
Women's 400 Free Relay: Bentz, Milligan, Ullmann, Brown (3:13.64)
Men's 400 Free Relay: Kharun, Sammon, Palmer, Kulow (2:44.03)
Women's 800 free relay: Erin Milligan, Charli Brown, Grace Lindberg and Alexa Reyna (7:04.24)
Men's 800 free relay: Tiago Behar, Quin Seider, Filip Senc-Samardzic and Patrick Sammon (6:08.54)
Women's platform diving: Kayden Hayes (251.60)

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