By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
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Lamar Taylor is just the third different Swammy winner of the Caribbean/Central American Male Swimmer of the Year since 2020, joining Jordan Crooks (2022 and 2024) and Dylan Carter (2020, 2021, 2023). Taylor spent the year rewriting a number of his own Bahamian records while making a significant impact on several University of Tennessee relays at NCAAs, becoming the first swimmer ever to break an NCAA record in the same event at the Division I and Division II levels with Tennessee’s 400 free relay time of 2:42.30 on the final night of the 2025 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
At those championships, Taylor also added a key backstroke leg to the 200 medley relay, finishing in 20.74, which helped the Vols finish 2nd in the event. Taylor later anchored the 200 free relay for the Volunteers, splitting 18.54, helping earn Tennessee’s first relay title since 1996.
Individually, Taylor went on to win the 100 free consolation final at NCAAs, giving Tennessee three finalists in the 100 free finals at NCAAs and turning in the 3rd-fastest time in program history, 41.31.
Following a breakout NCAA Championships, Taylor returned home to the Bahamas for the 53rd Bahamas National Championships, where he set a new national record in the 50 freestyle in 22.05, leading off the 400 free relay, lowering his own record time from the Pan American Games in 2023 of 22.13. He also picked up wins in the individual 50 free (22.56), 100 free (49.36), and 50 back (25.66).
Later in the summer, Taylor travelled to Singapore to represent the Bahamas at the World Aquatics Championships (LCM). He won his prelims heat of the 100 free, setting a new Bahamian record in the process (48.52). Taylor did not make the finals in any of his World Championship events, with his highest finish coming in the 50 free, where he finished 20th in 22.05, tying his national record. Additionally, Taylor placed 22nd in the 100 free with his prelims national record, and 39th in the 50 back (25.45).
He then competed at the Junior Pan American Games (LCM), once again rewriting Bahamian swimming history, taking bronze in the 100 free in 48.51, clipping the newly minted national record set just over a week earlier in Singapore. Taylor also added a silver in the 50 free (22.11), just six hundredths off of his national record.
Taylor’s 2025 year came to a wrap at the World Cup, where he swam on two stops (Westmont and Toronto), where he continued the national record-breaking performance that he had on display all year long.
In Westmont, Taylor lowered his short-course national record in the 50 free by one hundredth with his prelims swim of 21.44. He also added a national record in the 100 IM, touching in 54.70.
The following week, Taylor shaved an additional .36 off of that 50 free record time in 21.08 in Toronto’s 50 free prelims, before dropping another eight hundredths to 21.00 at finals on the last stop of the World Cup.
Taylor also dipped below the 52-second barrier for the first time in his career in the 100 back in Toronto, setting a national record 51.99 in prelims.
Honorable Mentions:
Dylan Carter (Trinidad & Tobago): Carter competed in a pair of World Championship events this summer in Singapore, touching 21st in the 50 fly (23.36), and 43rd in the 50 free (22.51), and raced on all three stops of the World Cup this fall as well; in Carmel, Carter finished 3rd in the 50 back (23.00), 4th in the 50 free (21.12), and 5th in the 50 fly (22.57). He ended up with similar finishing positions in Westmont, finishing 3rd in the 50 free (20.89), 5th in the 50 back (23.17), and 7th in the 50 fly (22.48). Carter wrapped up the year at the Trinidad and Tobago National Open Short Course Championship, where he won his lone individual event, which was the 50 back in 23.07. Jordan Crooks (Cayman Islands): Crooks’ SEC and NCAA championships were almost enough to earn him this award. His SEC Championships swims in the 50 free (17.85) and the 400 free relay (39.52) sent ripples through the NCAA ahead of the National Championships. Then, at those championships, clocking the fastest ever 100 freestyle in 39.83 in prelims, and adding an individual 50 free national title made a sizeable impact on this decision. What held Crooks back was stepping away from the sport in May, limiting his results to less than half of the calendar year.PREVIOUS WINNERS:
2024 — Jordan Crooks, Cayman Islands 2023 — Dylan Carter, Trinidad & Tobago 2022 – Jordan Crooks, Cayman Islands 2021 – Dylan Carter, Trinidad & Tobago 2020 – Dylan Carter, Trinidad & Tobago 2019 – Ricardo Vargas, Mexico 2018 – Dylan Carter, Trinidad & Tobago 2017 – Mauro Castillo-Luna, Mexico 2016 – Marcelo Acosta, El Salvador 2015 – (Vacant — combined South American and CAC Award, Thiago Pereira of Brazil won) 2014 – George Bovell, Trinidad & TobagoRead the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 Swammy Awards: CAC Male Swimmer of the Year – Lamar Taylor
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