By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
2025 Phoenix Fall Classic
November 21-23, 2025 Myers-McLoraine Pool, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Short Course Yards (25 yards) Live ResultsWhile the spotlights shined on the big NCAA Division I invites over the weekend, a new NCAA Division III Record fell in Chicago. NYU senior Kaley McIntyre crushed her own NCAA Division III Record in the 100 yard free at the Phoenix Fall Classic, swimming 48.13 on Sunday in the event final.
The old record was the 48.53 that she swam to win last year’s national title in the event. The next-fastest in history is Kendra Stern, who swam for Amherst College and posted a 48.98 at the 2010 NCAA Championship meet. No other D3 swimmer besides McIntyre has been sub-49 in the 15 years since, and McIntyre has done it four times.
Splits Comparison:
New D3 Record Old D3 Record 50y 23.34 23.20 100y 24.79 25.33 Total Time 48.13 48.53McIntyre spent some time experimenting with her splitting last season, but seems to have found the middle-ground for how fast she can go out and still come home like a freight train.
The 2025 CSCAA Swimmer of the Year for Division III, McIntyre is pursuing a third-straight 100 free national title in March. The 100 free is the only of her events in which she is not chasing a fourpeat: she swam the 200 back as a freshman and finished 9th at NCAAs. She is also the three-time defending champion in the 50 free and 200 free.
McIntyre won all seven events at the meet, including the 50 free (22.66/22.55 in prelims) and 200 free (1:47.11). That 50 free time is .55 seconds better than anybody else in D3 has been this season.She also had a 47.90 split on the second leg of the team’s 400 free relay.
NYU dominated the team scoring on both the men’s and women’s side, beating out Wash U for the win in both case.
Big D3 Weekend
Thank you to Parker Fleischman-Ament for compiling this list.
Phoenix Fall Classic:
In the men’s 50 prelims UChicago Sophomore John Butler started his meet off with a 19.98 PB for his first time under 20. In the finals he would go even faster in 19.91 to win. In the women’s 200 free relay the NYU women took the win in *1:31.50 the 9th fastest relay in D3 history. This team had 3 girls swim under 23 seconds on the relay. McIntyre led off in 22.89, a 22.65 split by Llew Ladomirak, and freshman Maeve O’Donnell in a very fast anchor split of 22.31. In the Men’s 500 free WashU FY Parker Chan won the event in a PB of 4:25.05 one of the fastest times ever swum by a D3 freshman. In the Men’s 400 medley relay UChicago won in 3:12.63 by almost 3 seconds. Their relay was notable for a 45.94 fly split by D3 record holder Cooper Costello, and a 42.81 free split by John Butler. Costello later swam 46.58 in prelims of the 100 fly to just-miss the pool record of 46.50 set 2 years ago by former teammate/record holder Jesse Ssengonzi. In the men’s 200 free John Butler swam a season best of 1:36.96 in the prelims and in the finals destroy his PB by almost 1.5 seconds in a *1:35.21. That broke the UChicago School record and makes him the 2nd fastest swimmer in D3 History. He now sits .47 off the NCAA D3 record set in 2023. He later swam a 43.46 in prelims of the 100 free and *43.17 in finals, both breaking the UChicago school record and becoming the 7th-fastest performer in D3 history. In the Men’s 800 free relay UChicago swam a time of *6:30.06 the 8th fastest 800 free relay in D3 history and John Butler’s anchor split of 1:35.53. In the Men’s 200 Medley Relay NYU won with a 1:27.65 but the most notable split came on the first 50 as Keith McQuaid led off with a *21.63 50 back which is the 9th fastest in D3 ever. In the Men’s 400 IM NYU Sophomore Max Nechydyuk swam to a 3:49.12 which is just off his time from NCAA’s last year when he finished 2nd. In the women’s 100 back NYU went 1-2 as senior Nicole Ranile would swim a season best of 54.70 to win and freshman Maeve O’Donnell swam a huge personal best of 54.75 in the finals to become one of the fastest D3 freshmen in history. In the men’s 100 back, NYU Sophomore Keith McQuaid swam a .01 PB to go 47.10 for the win and the top time in the country in D3 this season. He later swam another personal best of 1:44.47 in the 200 back, which also ranks #1 in D3 this season.2025 Total Performance Invite
This meet included top D3 programs Kenyon and Carnegie Melon, though a strong D2 program from West Chester University also participated.
D3 Highlights:
3 teams went under 1:20 at the same mid-season meet: Kenyon swam 1:19.83, led by a 19.35 split from Djordje Dragojlovic; SUNY Geneseo swam 1:19.63 with two 19-second splits and a 20.03 leadoff from Brian Pabisch; and Carnegie Melon won in 1:18.54. For CMU, that’s the 4th-fastest relay in school history, all four swimmers were under 20 seconds, and Matt Peitler split 19.03 on a rolling start. Djordje Dragojlovic, a senior, later dropped a personal best of *19.53 to win the 50 free, under the NCAA A cut of 19.56, and is now tied for 7th all time in D3 history as the top time in the nation for D3. He also swam a best time of 1:36.00 in the 200 free final, breaking a legendary school record of 1:36.63 done by Denis Mulvihill in 1988. He is now the 9th-fastest in NCAA D3 history. He also won the 100 free in 43.13, tying Tobe Obochi as the 4th fastest D3 swimmer in history. He swam the exact same time leading off Kenyon’s 400 free relay later in the day, as they broke their own school record in 2:54.84. Kenyon later won the 400 medley relay in 3:13.40, with Dragojlovic splitting 42.4 on the anchor leg. Carnegie Melon won the 200 medley relay in a school record of 1:26.72, which is the fastest D3 time of the year and puts then in a 3 way tie for the 6th-hbest relay in D3 history. Carnegie Melon also won the 800 free relay in 6:32.70, including a school record of 1:36.04 on the leadoff from Matt Peitler. That’s the 10th-fastest D3 time ever. He also swam 43.08 in prelims of the 100 free, now the third-fastest time in D3 history and only .20 away from the D3 record set in March, before ceding to Dragojlovic in finals. That will be a big matchup in March. In the prelims of the women’s 100 breast, Kenyon sophomore Kelsey Van Eldik swam the fastest time in the country in 1:01.08, a best time and the 10th fastest D3 performer in history.
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