2025 ACC SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
MEN’S 200 MEDLEY RELAY – TIMED FINALS
- NCAA Report: 1:20.15, Florida – 2024 NCAA Championships
- ACC Report: 1:20.67, NC State – 2023 NCAA Championships
ACC Championship Report: 1:21.84,Louisville – 2022- NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 1:23.62
- NCAA ‘B’ Minimize: 1:23.90
High 8:
- Cal – 1:21.54 (A)
- FSU – 1:21.98 (A)
- NC State – 1:22.06 (A)
- Stanford – 1:22.74 (A)
- Louisville – 1:23.02 (A)
- NC State – 1:23.20 (A)
- Virginia – 1:24.14
- Pitt – 1:24.32
MEN’S 800 FREE RELAY – TIMED FINALS
- NCAA Report: 6:02.26, California – 2024 NCAA Championships
- ACC Report: 6:05.31 – 2018 NCAA Championships
ACC Championship Report: 6:08.35, NC State (2022)- NCAA ‘A’ Minimize: 6:15.80
- NCAA ‘B’ Minimize: 6:18.42
High 8:
- Cal – 6:06.66
- Stanford – 6:08.70
- NC State – 6:09.18
- Louisville – 6:11.55
- Florida State – 6:12.68
- Virginia – 6:13.00
- UNC – 6:15.39
- Southern Methodist – 6:15.42
- Virginia Tech – 6:15.55
Cal made an enormous splash of their ACC debut tonight, taking down the ACC Championship information in each males’s relays to start out the meet. It began with the 200 medley relay, the place Cal’s quartet of Bjorn Seeliger (20.85), Yamato Okadome (22.91), Dare Rose (19.68), and Jack Alexy (18.10) mixed for a 1:21.54. Alexy managed to drag away from FSU to safe the win for the Golden Bears of their first ACC males’s race.
With the efficiency, Cal downed the ACC meet document of 1:21.84, which Louisville had set again in 2022. It’s value stating that regardless of Cal having added a number of excessive profile swimmers within the final month or so, this relay was made up of three swimmers who’ve spent their complete careers at Cal and a freshman.
Right here’s a cut up comparability between Cal’s relay tonight and Louisville’s earlier meet document of 1:21.84:
Cal – 2025 ACC Championships | Louisville – 2022 ACC Championships | |
Again | Bjorn Seeliger (20.85) | Mitchell Whyte (20.94) |
Breast | Yamato Okadome (22.91) | Evgenii Somov (22.85) |
Fly | Dare Rose (19.68) | Dalton Lowe (19.50) |
Free | Jack Alexy (18.10) | Abdelrahman Elaraby (18.55) |
FINAL TIME | 1:21.54 | 1:21.84 |
Cal would then go on to win the lads’s 800 free relay by a snug 2-second margin, swimming a 6:06.66. Alexy was on that relay as effectively, main off in 1:32.98, and was adopted by Gabriel Jett (1:30.66), Destin Lasco (1:31.38), and Lucas Henveaux (1:31.64). They shattered the ACC Championship document on this occasion, blowing away the earlier mark of 6:08.35, which NC State set in 2022.
It’s value stating that this Cal crew is 3/4 of the crew that set the NCAA document on this occasion final season. Jett, Lasco, Alexy, and Robin Hanson swam a 6:02.26 eventually yr’s NCAAs, which stands because the NCAA document.
Right here’s how the splits evaluate between this Cal relay and NC State’s 2022 championship document:
Cal – 2025 ACC Championships | NC State – 2022 ACC Championships | |
1st Swimmer | Jack Alexy (1:32.98) | Sam Hoover (1:32.62) |
2nd Swimmer | Gabriel Jett (1:30.66) | Luke Miller (1:31.03) |
third Swimmer | Destin Lasco (1:31.38) | Eric Knowles (1:32.73) |
4th Swimmer | Lucas Henveaux (1:31.64) | Hunter Tapp (1:31.97) |
FINAL TIME | 6:06.66 | 6:08.35 |