By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
2026 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships
Dates: Wednesday, March 25–Saturday, March 28 Location: McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA Defending Champions: Texas (1x) SwimSwam Preview Index Psych Sheets Preview Index Live Stream Live Results Live Recaps: Prelims: Day 1 Finals: Day 1Men’s 200 Medley Relay — Final Heat
NCAA Record: 1:20.03 – Florida (Marshall, de Groot, Buff, Liendo), 2026 Championship Record: 1:20.15 – Florida (Chaney, Smith, Liendo, McDuff), 2024 American Record: 1:20.92 – Indiana (Barr, Benzing, Brooks, King), 2025 U.S. Open Record: 1:20.03 – Florida (Marshall, de Groot, Buff, Liendo), 2026 Defending Champion: Texas (Modglin, Germonprez, Kos, Guiliano) – 1:20.28 2025 8th/16th Place Times: 1:22.01/1:23.59Top 8:
Arizona State (Chaney, Dobrzanski, Kharun, Kulow) — 1:20.08 Florida (Marshall, de Groot, Buff, Liendo) — 1:20.16 Texas (Modglin, Germonprez, Kos, Gould) — 1:20.46 Indiana — 1:21.12 NC State — 1:21.23 California — 1:21.58 Michigan — 1:21.64 Kentucky — 1:22.00ASU roared home on the second half of this race behind Ilya Kharun and Jonny Kulow to set a new meet record and take the first relay win of the meet, with Florida less than a tenth of a second behind. They had the fastest fly leg and 4th-fastest free leg, as well as the 5th-fastest leadoff courtey of Adam Chaney.
Josh Liendo was the fastest freestyler as he nearly ran down Kulow in 17.58, but just ran out of pool. The Gators had the joint-2nd fastest fly leg from Scotty Buff, and had the fastest back half of any team in 36.64, 0.04 seconds faster than ASU’s 36.68.
Army were DQed for a -0.06 reaction from their anchor leg, but had top-three splits on both back (Jonny Crush) and breast (Kohen Rankin).
Reaction times down to -0.03 seconds are allowed, as the timing equipment has a tolerance of 0.03 seconds.
Backstroke Leg
We had five swimmers 20.30 or better, but no one under 20.19 on the leadoff leg. Will Modglin was a hundredth faster than Ruard van Renen, but the Texas swimmer was nearly two tenths of a second of the 20.00 he swam at midseason, and slower than the 20.08 he swam at SECs.
Jonny Crush threw down a rapid 20.25 to rank in the top ten performers all-time, but it would ultimately count for nothing as Army were DQed on their final exchange. Lysander Osman was 20-low again in 20.30 after swimming 20.21 at SECs, as Kentucky continues to show out this season. Overall, 21 men were under 21 seconds on the backstroke leg.
Rank Swimmer Team Reaction Time Split 1 Will Modglin Texas 0.66 20.19 2 Ruard van Renen Georgia 0.49 20.20 3 Johnny Crush Army 0.55 20.25 4 Quintin McCarty NC State 0.68 20.26 5 Lysander Osman Kentucky 0.61 20.30 6 Adam Chaney ASU 0.79 20.35 7 Mira Knedla Indiana 0.57 20.36 8 Marcus Reyes-Gentry Notre Dame 0.54 20.56 9 Evan Petty California 0.67 20.58 10 Jack Wilkening Michigan 0.72 20.60 11 Ulises Saravia Tennessee 0.62 20.67 12 Stuart Seymour Northwestern 0.60 20.74 13 Jonny Marshall Florida 0.70 20.76 14 Charlie Crush Louisville 0.66 20.81 15 Max Wilson FSU 0.73 20.84 16 Stepan Goncharov LSU 0.62 20.88 16 Mathew Bittner Penn 0.68 20.88 18 Jake Wang Yale 0.54 20.92 19 Kalle Makinen Auburn 0.65 20.93 20 Alex Hotta Purdue 0.66 20.95 21 Tommy Hagar Alabama 0.69 20.96 22 Levente Balogh VT 0.56 21.07 23 Ethan Harrington Stanford 0.61 21.11 24 Vaggelis Makrygiannis USC 0.59 21.24 25 Cornelius Jahn OSU 0.71 21.32 26 Nathan Welker Wisconsin 0.59 21.48 27 Quin Gould Missouri 0.66 21.51 28 Ben Irwin Navy 0.58 21.60 29 Alexandre Desangles Arizona 0.64 21.77Breaststroke Leg
Yamato Okadome and Nate Germonprez vaulted to #4 and #5 all-time with their splits tonight, as the only swimmers under 22.50. Okadome knocked 0.34 seconds off the 22.69 he swam at ACCs while Germonprez was a tenth faster than the 22.49 he split at SECs.
Kohen Rankin‘s split from this moring stood up as the third-fastest overall, the same position as teammate Jonny Crush on the backstroke leg. Indiana’s Travis Gulledge was a tenth slower than the 22.63 he swam at Big Tens, with only eight swimmers breaking 23 seconds.
Rank Swimmer Team Reaction Time Split 1 Yamato Okadome California 0.11 22.35 2 Nate Germonprez Texas 0.16 22.39 3 Kohen Rankin Army 0.02 22.67 4 Travis Gulledge Indiana 0.09 22.73 5 Volodymyr Lisovets LSU 0.08 22.75 6 Koen de Groot Florida 0.28 22.76 6 Uros Zivanovic Auburn 0.24 22.76 8 Luka Mladenovic Michigan 0.20 22.85 9 Joshua Staples Northwestern 0.21 23.01 10 Andy Dobrzanski ASU 0.29 23.04 11 Ben Wiegand Wisconsin 0.13 23.15 12 Elliot Woodburn Georgia 0.20 23.17 13 Adomas Gatulis Kentucky 0.19 23.23 14 Mariano Lazzerini Penn 0.20 23.25 15 Finnley Conklin Louisville 0.20 23.30 16 Eli Martin VT 0.16 23.32 17 Ahmed Ismail OSU 0.09 23.33 18 Daniel Diehl NC State 0.18 23.35 19 Charlie Egeland Yale 0.19 23.36 20 Gabe Nunziata Tennessee 0.30 23.42 21 Tommaso Baravelli FSU 0.20 23.43 22 Zhier Fan Stanford 0.27 23.46 23 Lucas Byrd Purdue 0.08 23.49 24 Juan Mora Navy 0.24 23.50 25 Tavner Wisdom Arizona 0.14 23.57 26 Junhao Chan USC 0.18 23.59 27 Steijn Louter Alabama 0.33 23.72 28 Jackson Armour Notre Dame 0.24 23.75 29 Darden Tate Missouri 0.12 23.82Butterfly Leg
Ilya Kharun blazed the #2 split of all time on the fly leg for eventual winners ASU, but was closely followed by Michigan’s Tyler Ray and Florida’s Scotty Buff, both of whom set best-ever splits and now move into the top-ten all-time. Hubert Kos was the 4th-fastest split, 0.05 seconds ahead of Brazilian and Tennessee Sprinter Gui Caribe, who was off his best of 19.06.
Owen McDonald set a best-ever split of 19.77, faster than the 20.12 he swam at Big Tens, and 17 men were under 20 seconds. Yale’s Nick Finch timed his takeover perfectly with a rection time of 0.00, but the Bulldogs ended up finishing 17th, just 0.09 seconds outside the points.
Rank Swimmer Team Reaction Time Split 1 Ilya Kharun ASU 0.19 18.70 2 Scotty Buff Florida 0.14 19.06 2 Tyler Ray Michigan 0.16 19.06 4 Hubert Kos Texas 0.22 19.30 5 Gui Caribe Tennessee 0.19 19.35 6 Aiden Hayes NC State 0.15 19.49 7 Sean Niewold Alabama 0.29 19.53 8 Michel Arkhangelskiy FSU 0.08 19.67 9 Landon Gentry VT 0.20 19.71 10 Owen McDonald Indiana 0.22 19.77 11 Michal Chmielewski USC 0.03 19.78 12 Sohib Khaled Auburn 0.07 19.81 13 Nicholas Finch Yale 0.00 19.86 14 Rafael Gu Stanford 0.06 19.87 15 Luke Nebrich Missouri 0.06 19.89 16 Lucca Battaglini California 0.31 19.90 17 Matthew Klinge OSU 0.08 19.99 18 Aidan Musso Louisville 0.20 20.05 19 Jakey Hutchinson Arizona 0.15 20.09 20 Cooper Morley Penn 0.17 20.2 21 Caleb Ellis LSU 0.27 20.47 21 Dean Jones Navy 0.15 20.47 23 Javier Lopez-Guillen Kentucky 0.30 20.56 23 Drew Hitchcock Georgia 0.32 20.56 25 Aaron Baltaytis Northwestern 0.24 20.59 26 Charlie Jones Wisconsin 0.32 20.60 27 Nathaniel Thomas Purdue 0.24 20.67 28 Tommy Janton Notre Dame 0.30 20.69 29 Daniel Verolaga Army 0.36 20.97Freestyle Leg
We saw a stunning four splits under 18 seconds on the anchor leg, all of which came in the final heat. Josh Liendo stayed as the #3 swimmer all-time behind Caeleb Dressel and Jordan Crooks by matching the 17.58 he swam at SECs, while Jere Hribar was 0.37 seconds off the 17.59 he split behind Liendo last month which ranked him at #4.
Kentucky’s Falemana Tuufui was two tenths faster than the 18.11 he swam at SECs, going 17.91 to ranks as the fastest freshman ever on a 50 free split. The wildcats finished 8th overall in the event, and sat 3rd in the standings after the first two events.
Jonny Kulow was the final member of the quartet, splitting 17.98 to stay ahead of Liendo as ASU set a new meet record. Nikita Sheremet and Drew Salls were just off the 18-second barrier this morning in 18.06 and 18.13, with four swimmers under 18.00 but only a further four under 18.50.
Overall there were 25 swimmers under 19 seconds, 21 18-points and 4 17-points. The slowest swimmer on this leg, Michigan’s Ole Eidam, was 0.07 seconds slower than Tyler Ray was on butterfly for the Wolverines, but they still set a new school record of 1:21.64.
Cal anchor Martin Wrede missed his turn, hitting halfway in 8.41 but only coming home in 10.34 as he split 18.75. The half a second or so that cost would have moved the Golden Bears up two places to 4th, ahead of Indiana and NC State.
Rank Swimmer Team Reaction Time Split 1 Josh Liendo Florida 0.10 17.58 2 Falemana Tuufui Kentucky 0.10 17.91 3 Jere Hribar LSU 0.14 17.96 4 Jonny Kulow ASU 0.19 17.98 5 Nikita Sheremet Louisville 0.11 18.06 6 Drew Salls NC State 0.05 18.13 7 Mikkel Lee Indiana 0.08 18.26 8 Brendan Whitfield VT 0.24 18.33 9 Garrett Gould Texas 0.32 18.58 10 Janis Dzirkalis Purdue 0.06 18.59 11 Nikoli Blackman Tennessee 0.41 18.61 12 Tomas Lukminas Arizona 0.12 18.64 13 Shane Eckler Notre Dame 0.22 18.65 14 Ben Denman-Grimm Navy 0.11 18.70 15 Martin Wrede California 0.19 18.75 16 Rasmus Hanson OSU -0.03 18.78 17 Jonathan Tan Stanford 0.15 18.79 18 Oliver Sogaard-Anderseive USC 0.11 18.8 19 Tane Bidois Georgia 0.17 18.86 19 Logan Robinson FSU 0.03 18.86 19 Tim Korstanje Alabama 0.12 18.86 22 Warner Russ Auburn 0.06 18.87 23 Tylor Kim Penn 0.12 18.95 23 Oliver Kos Northwestern 0.13 18.95 25 Cooper Scharff Wisconsin 0.10 18.96 26 Deniel Nankov Yale 0.06 19.02 27 Francois Malherbe Missouri 0.03 19.11 28 Ole Eidam Michigan 0.22 19.13 *DQ Ben Vorthmann Army -0.06 18.99Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2026 M. NCAA Division I Championship: Day 1 200 Medley Relay Analysis – Four 17-point Anchors
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