By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
The 2025 NCAA Men’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Division II Championship will remain vacant after Drury was stripped of its title, the NCAA confirmed to SwimSwam on Monday morning.
The Tampa men finished 2nd at the meet, 74 points behind Drury. Their record will continue to reflect a 2nd place finish.
The original champions from Drury announced on Friday that their title was vacated after a member of the team violated NCAA anti-doping rules by testing positive for an elevated level of caffeine. Caffeine, while no longer outlawed by the World Anti-Doping Code, has a certain threshold in NCAA competition that makes it an anti-doping rules violation.
The threshold is set very high, with a limit of 15 micrograms per milliliter to trigger a positive drug test. WADA previously had a limit of 12 micrograms per milliliter. The NCAA says this equates to about 500 milligrams of caffeine within an hour in a normal adult male (though it would require larger quantities in a larger person). That’s equivalent to about 6-8 cups of brewed coffee in a short period of time.
Caffeine also has a relatively-short half life, meaning that it leaves the system at a high rate. Depending on how long after consumption the test was taken, that implies an even higher level of consumption likely from either highly-concentrated energy drinks, caffeine pills, or caffeine powders.
The amount of caffeine that would have to be consumed to trigger a positive test could be unsafe for some individuals. The FDA has cited 400 milligrams per day as “an amount not generally associated negative effects.” The FDA estimates that toxic effects, like seizures, can be observed with “rapid consumption of around 1,200 milligrams of caffeine.”
After the news broke on Sunday, one NCAA Division II coach told SwimSwam that this was the first time in “at least a decade” that he remembered there being drug testing at the D2 National Championships, and that the program was announced ahead of time. He speculated that it may have been prompted by the high profile suspension by WADA, the global anti-doping authority, of three-time NCAA Division II Champion Rafaela Raurich earlier this year.
The NCAA’s approach to Drury’s title is in line with its policies and past practices. Even in cases of regular season events, a team that has to vacate a win remains on the opponent’s record as a loss.
In spite of losing the 2025 title, Drury still has 12 NCAA Division II men’s championships in program history, which is easily the most among active D2 programs (Tampa and UIndy are the only other current D2 swim programs that have won titles, 1 each, in the last two years). That does bump them out of a tie with Cal State Bakersfield, which has since moved to Division I, for the most ever.
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