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2025 BUCS SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Friday, November 14th – Sunday, November 16th Ponds Forge International Swimming Centre, Sheffield, England SCM (25m) Meet Central Results LivestreamThe 2025 British Universities & Colleges (BUCS) Short Course Championships kicked off, with the 3-day competition taking place at Ponds Forge.
Swimmers are vying for individual titles but primarily for team points in their quest to come away with the men’s, women’s and overall team trophies.
As a refresher, BUCS points are awarded to the top 4 swimmers/teams; however, only the top 2 swimmers from each institution, or 1 team per institution for relay events, are eligible for BUCS points. If there are not enough eligible swimmers/teams in the top 4 to earn points, then the remaining points will be awarded to the next-best eligible swimmers/teams based on the rest finals or heats results.
Day 1 Highlights
For the second consecutive year, 21-year-old Olympian Freya Colbert notched two individual titles to kick off her BUCS campaign.
The Loughborough ace first took on the women’s 200m free, registering a big-time effort of 1:52.26.
That not only beat the field by nearly 4 seconds but it checked in as a monster lifetime best.
Entering this competition, Colbert’s PB was represented by the 1:53.91 put up at the 2024 Swim England Winter Championships.
Here in Sheffield, Colbert rocked splits of 26.43/27.90/28.79/29.14 to dip under the 1:53-barrier for the first time in her career.
Teammates Lucy Fox and Jessica Smelt wrangled up the minor medals, with the former hitting 1:56.14 for silver and the latter logging 1:56.51 for bronze.
As for Colbert, the versatile athlete now ranks as Great Britain’s #2 women’s SCM 200 freestyle performer of all time. She also ranks 3rd in the world at the moment.
Top 5 GBR Women’s SCM 200 Freestyle Performers All-Time
Freya Anderson – 1:51.87, 2020 Freya Colbert – 1:52.26, 2025 Holly Hibbott – 1:53.54, 2019 Francesca Halsall – 1:53.79, 2009 Siobhan-Marie O’Connor – 1:53.82, 20152025-2026 SCM Women 200 FREE
Mollie AUSO’Callaghan 10/24WR 1:49.362Lani PallisterAUS1:51.7510/243Anna Peplowski USA1:52.5410/184Erika Fairweather NZL1:52.6610/185Freya Colbert GBR1:53.0610/24View Top 26»Colbert’s next victim was the 200m IM where she topped the podium once again in a time of 2:06.26.
She and University of Stirling’s Katie Shanahan represented the sole swimmers to clear the 2:10 barrier, with Shanahan registering 2:07.79 as the runner-up. Leah Schlossan clocked 2:10.19 to give Manchester the bronze.
Colbert’s performance blew her winning time of 2:08.36 from last year to bits and also overtook her former PB of 2:07.99 from the aforementioned 2024 Swim England Winter Championships. She’s now the 6th-best British performer of all time.
Ulster’s Lotte Cullen turned heads en route to winning the women’s 100m backstroke over Shanahan.
Cullen stopped the clock at a massive 56.96 to beat Shanahan by nearly a second on her way to establishing a new personal best.
Cullen opened in 27.42 and closed in 29.54 to become GBR’s 5th-quickest performer in history.
Shanahan snagged the silver in 57.87 and Honey Osrin bagged the bronze in 59.46. Shanahan’s effort ripped her own previous PB of 58.57 to shreds.
Top 5 GBR Women’s SCM 100 Backstroke Performers All-Time
Elizabeth Simmonds – 56.35, 2015 Georgia Davies – 56.45, 2016 Medi Harris – 56.66, 2023 Kathleen Dawson – 56.73, 2016 Lotte Cullen – 56.96, 2025Additional Notes
20-year-old Tyler Melbourne-Smith posted a time of 1:44.05, a new personal best to win the men’s 200m freestyle. The Loughborough man led Bath’s Cam Brooker who settled for silver in 1:44.32 followed by Stirling’s Evan Jones who rounded out the podium in 1:44.83. Veteran Max Litchfield was too quick to catch in the men’s 200m IM, posting 1:56.61 for the gold. Jones once again collected silver, producing 1:57.07 and Matthew Ward of Bath also landed on the podium in 1:57.89 for bronze. Ward got on the board once more as the men’s 100m fly silver medalist. He touched in 51.88 behind Ed Mildred who clocked 50.76 as the decisive victor. Lucy Grieve of Stirling scored a new personal best en route to winning the women’s 100m fly. Grieve turned in a time of 56.76 to clear the 57-second barrier for her first time ever. She’s now GBR’s 4th-best performer of all time. Angharad Evans successfully defended her 50m breaststroke title from last year, hitting 30.04 ahead of Anna Morgan‘s effort of 30.18. Sienna Robinson of Loughborough got to the wall in 30.82. Despite battling inoperable brain tumors, Archie Goodburn came out on top of the men’s 50m breaststroke event. The 24-year-old stopped the clock at 26.43 a result only .17 outside his PB of 26.26 from the 2023 European Short Course Championships.Read the full story on SwimSwam: Freya Colbert Rocks 1:52.26 SCM 200 Free To Open 2025 BUCS
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