2025 NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championship
- March 11-15, 2025
- IU Natatorium — Indianapolis, IN
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Defending Champions:
- Women: Nova Southeastern (2x)
- Men: University of Tampa (1x)
- Women’s Psych Sheets
- Men’s Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Stream
It’s only day one of the DII NCAA Championships, and the meet got started on a fast foot with Tampa’s new NCAA record in the men’s 800 freestyle relay.
Men’s 800 Freestyle Relay — Timed Final
NCAA DII Record: 6:18.46 – Queens (Dreesens, Pijulet, Kusch, Arakelian) (2017)Meet: 6:18.46 – Queens (Dreesens, Pijulet, Kusch, Arakelian) (2017)
Top 8:
- Tampa (Brandon, Knollman, Hamlin, Ponce de Leon) — 6:17.93 DII Record
- Drury (Mineur, Zornoza Quiros, Nogueira, Vissotto) — 6:19.67
- McKendree (Gandaria-Hernandez, Gavrysh, Souza, Yavari) — 6:20.34
- Wingate — 6:24.13
- Indy — 6:27.77
- Grand Valley — 6:28.56
- Wayne State — 6:29.25
- Colorado Mesa — 6:30.87
Tampa came in at 6:17.93, almost two seconds ahead of the rest of the field, and about half-a-second ahead of the previous record of 6:18.46 set by Queens back in 2017
The Tampa team did not lead the race the whole time, in fact, 2nd place team Drury was ahead for the first half. 5th year Caleb Brandon led the team off in 1:36.42. This time was about a second off his lifetime best of 1:35.28 from this meet last year, but it was a new season best time for him, improving from the 1:36.58 he went at the Gamecock Invitation in November.
Brandon was followed by senior Parker Knollman, who came in at 1:34.44 to bring the team almost tied with Drury, which was exactly what sophomore Jacob Hamlin needed to bring the team into first overall. Hamlin split 1:32.74, which is significantly faster than his 200 seed time of 1:35.38 and almost four seconds faster than the 1:36.15 he went on this relay at last year’s championships.
Finally, Rafael Ponce De Leon, another grad student, brought the relay home in 1:34.33 to bring them home under the previous NCAA record.
Split Comparison
| Old NCAA Record | Queens (2017 NCAA Championships) | New NCAA Record | Tampa (2025 NCAA Championships) |
| Dion Dressens | 1:33.62 | Caleb Brandon | 1:36.42 |
| Paul Pijulet | 1:35.36 | Parker Knollman | 1:34.44 |
| Marius Kusch | 1:34.15 | Jacob Hamlin | 1:32.74 |
| Nicholas Arakelian | 1:35.33 | Rafael Ponce De Leon | 1:34.33 |
| 6:18.48 | 6:17.93 |
10 years ago those were top 10 times at D1 NCAAs 🤯
WTG SPARTANS!!!
Just looked up Mckendree (~1500 students) and Drury (~1300 students). Had no idea they were such small schools.
Are they getting this great talent from scholarships? I don’t know much about D2.
I can’t speak for now, but in the mid 90’s when we swam against Drury several times a year, and generally though not always, got smoked I learned they absolutely were doing scholarships for swimming at much higher levels than a lot of other D2 schools. They didn’t have football and essentially all the scholarship money other D2v schools used on football they used on swimming. They even gave full rides to multiple swimmers which is very rare in D2. Take that and add in good coaching and facilities and you get a good swimming program.
Shields Up 🛡
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What happened to Queens? Didn’t make the jump to D1 as easily as people thought!
their transition to DI started in 2022 and it’s a 4 year transition.
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