Tennessee vs. UGA
- Saturday, January twenty fifth, 2025
- Allan Jones Aquatic Middle, Knoxville, TN
- SCY
- Twin Meet Format
- Streaming on SEC+
- Outcomes on Meet Cell as “Tennesee vs. Georgia”
The oldest males’s all-time yards file in an NCAA championship occasion lastly fell, as Georgia’s Luca Urlando took down the all-time mark within the 200 fly right this moment in Knoxville.
The 22 year-old Urlando began the day without work with a relatively-unremarkable 19.94 fly cut up on the Bulldogs’ 200 medley relay, however he let it free on the 200 fly, ripping a 1:37.17 that breaks the earlier file of 1:37.35 that Texas Longhorn Jack Conger set on the 2017 NCAA Championships.
Comparative Splits
| Urlando, 2025 | Conger, 2017 |
| 22.03 | 21.65 |
| 24.15 (46.18) | 24.13 (45.78) |
| 24.93 (1:11.11) | 25.09 (1:10.87) |
| 26.06 (1:37.17) | 26.48 (1:37.35) |
The largest distinction between the 2 swims got here on the opening and shutting 50s — Conger went out considerably quicker on the primary lap, whereas Urlando closed on Conger’s file on the ultimate lap, outsplitting him by 0.42s.
All-Time Prime Performers, 200 Yard Butterly
- Luca Urlando (Georgia), 2025 – 1:37.17
- Jack Conger (Texas), 2017 – 1:37.35
- Nick Albiero (Lousivlle), 2022 – 1:37.92
- Ilya Kharun (Arizona State), 2024 – 1:37.93
- Joe Education (Texas), 2016 – 1:37.97
Urlando now owns the U.S. Open, American, and NCAA data within the 200 fly. After all, that’s additionally the quickest twin meet swim ever. Heading into right this moment, it appeared like if the file was going to fall this yr, it’d come on the hand of ASU’s Ilya Kharun. He’s been 1:37.93 earlier than, his season-best time is a 1:38.74, and he was competing in an electrical environment on the Eddie Reese Showdown in Austin. However Kharun was “solely” 1:39.18 right this moment, so he’ll have to attend for an additional probability to sort out the file.
Urlando, in the meantime got here into right this moment with a private better of 1:38.82 from the 2022 NCAA Championships. There was a time about 5 years in the past when it appeared like Urlando would turn out to be the subsequent massive US swimmer within the 200 fly, as he broke a number of Nationwide Age Group data in each the yards and LCM variations of the occasion between 2018 and 2020.
He’s struggled with some shoulder points over the previous few years, however largely appears to have regained his butterfly type. He made the US Olympic workforce within the occasion final yr, ending seventeenth in prelims in Paris. So, whereas right this moment’s swim could have been one thing of a shock within the quick time period, in one other sense it looks like the achievement of the promise he confirmed 5 – 6 years in the past. He hasn’t set a protracted course private greatest within the occasion since 2019, however certainly that’ll be within the sights this summer season.
That is the second time that Urlando has popped an surprising all-time file. At those self same 2022 NCAA championships, he led off the Bulldogs’ 400 medley relay in 43.35, setting the U.S. Open, American, and NCAA Information within the 100 again within the course of.
Urlando seems to be the primary male swimmer ever to set all-time yards data within the 100 again and 200 fly. Natalie Coughlin owned the American Information within the 200 fly and the 100 again from 2002 to 2009.
Clark Smith nonetheless holds the oldest males’s yards U.S. Open File (the quickest time ever on U.S. soil) with a 8:33.93 within the 1000 free from 2015, though the 1000 free isn’t frequently contested at school championship meets. That point can be the American and NCAA file within the occasion. Amongst commonplace NCAA championship occasions, the oldest males’s American File (quickest swim by somebody eligible to signify the U.S. in worldwide competitors) stays Will Licon‘s 200 breaststroke time of 1:47.91, set minutes earlier than Conger’s swim on the 2017 NCAA Championships.
