2025 BIG WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Dates: Wednesday, February 12–Saturday, February 15
- Location: CRWC Natatorium, Houston, TX
- Defending Champions: N/A (inaugural occasion)
- Dwell Outcomes
- Dwell Video
- Championship Central
- Groups: Cal Poly*, Cal State Bakersfield*, Hawaii*, UC Davis (ladies)*, UC San Diego*, UC Santa Barbara*
- RESULTS
- RECAPS
TEAM SCORES (THRU DAY 3)
WOMEN
- UC Santa Barbara – 514.5
- UC San Diego – 484.5
- Hawaii – 480
- UC Davis – 413
- CSU Bakersfield – 188
- Cal Poly – 178
MEN
- UC Santa Barbara – 545
- Hawaii – 520
- Cal Poly – 409
- UC San Diego – 313
- CSU Bakersfield – 261
Day 3 of the 2025 Huge West Championships noticed a variety of motion within the staff standings. On the ladies’s aspect of issues, UC Santa Barbara moved forward of UC San Diego for the primary time this week. Over on the lads’s aspect, UC Santa Barbara additionally moved into first, dislodging a Hawaii staff that has seemed very robust up up to now within the meet. With another day left, the staff race ought to be one of the vital thrilling elements of this meet.
With essentially the most swimming occasions thus far within the meet, it’s no shock day 3 noticed a ton of Huge West Championship meet information fall. When you haven’t been following up to now, that is the primary Huge West Championships in over a decade, so the document e-book is ripe for the choosing.
One of many greatest document performances of the evening got here within the males’s 400 IM, the place UC Santa Barbara’s Kyle Brill clocked a 3:42.95. The efficiency got here following Brill’s record-setting swim within the 200 IM on Thursday evening. As was the case within the 200 IM, Brill blew away his profession greatest with the swim. His earlier greatest stood at 3:45.46, and was simply swum on the UCSB Invite on February 1st. The Huge West meet document stood at 3:46.02 from 2009. Additionally of notice, Brill’s time final evening was simply 0.02 seconds off the time it took to earn an NCAA invite final season.
UC San Diego’s Chloe Braun received the ladies’s 100 breast in 59.75. She was much better within the morning, nevertheless, ripping a 59.14 in prelims. Her prelims swim marks a brand new meet document, and is nicely below the 59.75 it took to be invited to final 12 months’s NCAAs. It was additionally an enormous swim for Braun individually, as she hadn’t been below 1:00 within the occasion earlier than yesterday.
The meet document additionally got here down within the males’s 100 breast, the place Cal Poly’s Evan Yoo popped a 52.40. He initially broke the document in prelims, the place he swam a 52.87. It was a private greatest for Yoo as nicely, chipping his 52.79 he had set final month.
UCSB’s Matt Driscoll had an enormous swim within the males’s 100 again, successful the race in 45.74. The swim marks Driscoll’s first time below 46 within the occasion.
UC Santa Barbara then snapped Hawaii’s win streak within the males’s relays, successful the lads’s 400 medley relay in 3:05.88. Driscoll led the staff off in 45.98, then Brill break up 52.26 on breast, Justin Wong clocked a forty five.51 on fly, and Austin Sparrow anchored in 42.13. They shattered the meet document, which stood at 3:11.52, with the efficiency. Different notable splits within the area included Yoo’s 51.78 breast break up on Cal Poly’s relay.
Previous to serving to that relay to victory, Austin Sparrow received the lads’s 200 free in 1:34.42. That point is available in simply off his profession better of 1:34.18, which he swam eventually 12 months’s MPSF Championships.
UC Santa Barbara swept the 200 free on the day, seeing Samantha Banos take the ladies’s 200 free in 1:47.03.
After successful the ladies’s 200 IM on Thursday, UC San Diego’s Asia Kozan swam a 4:13.83 en path to victory within the ladies’s 400 IM final evening. Impressively, she was 2 seconds off the 17-year-old meet document, which UC Irvine’s Lyndsay DePaul swam again in 2008. It was a so-so swim for Kozan, who holds a profession better of 4:07.27. Freshman teammate Sydney Niles got here in 2nd final evening with a 4:15.17.
CSU Bakersfield’s Vili Sivec took down the meet document within the males’s 100 fly in the direction of the start of the session. Sivec clocked a forty five.61, clipping the meet document of 45.73 that was again in 2009. It was a giant swim for Sivec, marking his first time below 46 seconds within the occasion.
UC Santa Barbara’s Makena Leacox opened the session final evening with a win within the ladies’s 100 fly, posting a 52.80. That was a really huge efficiency for Leacox, whose private greatest getting into the day sat at 54.13 from the Zippy Invite in early December.
UCSB additionally picked up a win within the ladies’s 100 again, the place Hazel Derr swam a 54.02. She was barely quicker in prelims, the place she completed in 53.82, setting a brand new meet document.
Derr would then go on to steer off the USCB ladies’s 400 medley relay in 53.80, reducing her meet document mark once more. Ashley Ray would break up 1:02.22 on breast, Leacox swam a 53.12 on fly, and Banos clocked a 49.23 on the anchor. They mixed for a 3:38.37. successful the race by 2 seconds. UC San Diego had received the occasion with a time of three:35.43, however was DQ’d. All of the response occasions are listed as constructive, so it will need to have been one thing technical that disqualified them.
Hawaii was as soon as once more dominant on the boards. In ladies’s 3-meter, Macie Wheeler received decisively with a ultimate rating of 367.30, which led the sphere by 66 factors. Teammate Ruby Pickron got here in 2nd with a rating of 301.80.
