Indiana men’s swimming and diving finished third at the 2025 NCAA championships.
Their Saturday night ended with a third place national finish, the program’s best since 2019. The Hoosiers scored a program record 431 points, placing close behind champion Texas (466) and Cal (441).
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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Zalán Sárkány was the first Hoosier to embrace Jassen Yep out of the pool.
Within an hour, Sárkány and Yep had both won national titles at the 2025 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships, and both set the No. 3-fastest times ever in their events. By the end of the night, Carson Tyler won IU another NCAA title on platform – clinching Indiana’s sweep of the diving events.
Indiana’s Saturday night ended with a third place national finish, the program’s best finish since 2019. The Hoosiers scored a program record 431 points, placing close behind champion Texas (466) and Cal (441).
During the week, Indiana set 10 program records, six Big Ten records and captured the American record in the 200-yard medley relay at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center. Seventeen Hoosiers totaled 50 All-America honors, tying 1974’s program record.
IU captured three NCAA titles on the final night to bring its meet total to five – its best haul since 1973, the last time the program won the team national title.
1973 was also the last time Indiana had won the 1,650-yard freestyle before Sárkány made history Saturday night. The junior Arizona State transfer defended his 2024 mile title with a wire-to-wire victory in the distance freestyle event. Sárkány won the event by nearly five seconds as his 14:21.29 set a Big Ten and program record and made him the fastest non-American in the event. He also set program records in the 500 free (4:09.22) and 400 IM (3:40.64) this week.
Yep out-touched Penn senior Matt Fallon by over half a second with his 1:48.30, dropping over a second off the personal best he set in prelims. The fifth-year athlete that started his collegiate career as a walk-on had only scored at one NCAA Championships prior, in 2024, when he placed 12th in the 200 breast, ends his career as Indiana’s fastest swimmer in the event by 1.5 seconds.
Indiana’s three-event diving sweep is the second in NCAA history and first since Miami first completed the feat in 1997. Senior Quinn Henninger’s first-career title on the 1-meter springboard Thursday was followed up by his classmate Tyler defending his championships in both the 3-meter and platform events.
With his victory Saturday, Tyler became the first diver to win three consecutive NCAA platform titles and joined Duke’s Nick McCrory (4) and Miami’s Tyce Routson (3) as the only divers to win three championships on the tower. Tyler completes his collegiate career a five-time champion.
Indiana diving eclipsed 100 points for the third consecutive season, totaling 117 points from the well – an amount that would have finished 10th in the swimming and diving team standings. The next-best diving program produced 60 points. Tyler scored 49 points on his own.
Over the last three seasons, Indiana divers won seven of the nine available national championships, capturing the 3-meter and platform titles all three years. In that span, Hoosier divers combined for 13 medals and 342 points.
“What a great way for Carson and Quinn to finish their careers,” IU head diving coach Drew Johansen said. “The two of them in the finals helping the team to a third place finish while sweeping all diving events was so special.
“I am so proud of this entire team – the way they dive, the way they carry themselves, the way they support each other. They are such great representatives of IU.”
“Tonight was a fantastic end to a magical season,” IU head swimming coach Ray Looze said,” “With three individual national champions in Zalán Sárkány, Jassen Yap and Carson Tyler. Although we came up short for the national title, I have never been prouder of a group of men.”
PROGRAM RECORDS (Team)
| NEW | Previous | |
| Points | 431 | 427 (1969) |
| All-America Honors | 50 | Tied 1974 |
| Relay Podiums | 5/5 | 4/5 (Four times – last in 2024) |
PROGRAM RECORDS (Events)
| Event | Time | Athlete(s) | Note |
| 50 Freestyle | 18.86 | Finn Brooks | |
| 100 Freestyle | 41.14 | Matt King | |
| 500 Freestyle | 4:09.22 | Zalán Sárkány | |
| 1,650 Freestyle | 14:21.29 | Zalán Sárkány | Big Ten Record No. 3 All-Time |
| 200 Breaststroke | 1:48.30 | Jassen Yep | Big Ten Record No. 3 All-Time |
| 200 IM | 1:39.42 | Owen McDonald | Big Ten Record |
| 400 IM | 3:40.64 | Zalán Sárkány | Tied Program Record |
| 200 Freestyle Relay | 1:14.67 | Brooks, King, Lee, Smiley | Big Ten Record |
| 400 Freestyle Relay | 2:45.08 | McDonald, King, Smiley, Miroslaw | Big Ten Record |
| 200 Medley Relay | 1:20.92 | Barr, Benzing, Brooks, King | American Record, Big Ten Record |
MEDAL TRACKER
Quinn Henninger – 1-meter (champion), 3-meter (silver)
Owen McDonald – 200 IM (bronze)
Zalán Sárkány – 1,650 freestyle (champion)
Carson Tyler – 3-meter (champion), platform (champion)
Jassen Yep – 200 breaststroke (champion)
RESULTS (SATURDAY)
1,650 FREESTYLE
1. Zalán Sárkány – 14:21.29 (NCAA Champion, All-America, Big Ten Record, Program Record, Career Best)
100 BACKSTROKE
6. Owen McDonald – 1:37.59 (All-America)
10. Kai van Westering – 1:38.29 (Second-team All-America, Career Best)
100 FREESTYLE
8. Matt King – 41.28 (All-America)
200 BREASTSTROKE
1. Jassen Yep – 1:48.30 (NCAA Champion, Big Ten Record, Program Record, Career Best)
5. Caspar Corbeau – 1:50.04 (All-America)
14. Josh Matheny – 1:51.61 (Second-team All-America)
PLATFORM DIVING
1. Carson Tyler – 480.45 (NCAA Champion, All-America)
7. Quinn Henninger – 390.50 (All-America)
10. Maxwell Weinrich – 387.40 (Second-team All-America)
400 FREESTYLE RELAY
5. Owen McDonald, Matt King, Drew Smiley, Rafael Miroslaw – 2:45.08 (All-America, Big Ten Record, Program Record)
HOOSIER ALL-AMERICANS
Luke Barr – 200 medley relay, 200 IM*, 100 breaststroke*
Brian Benzing – 200 medley relay, 100 breaststroke*
Finn Brooks – 200 medley relay, 50 free*, 200 freestyle relay, 100 butterfly*, 100 breaststroke, 400 medley relay
Caspar Corbeau – 100 breaststroke , 200 breaststroke
Tomer Frankel – 800 freestyle relay, 100 butterfly*, 400 medley relay
Quinn Henninger – 1-meter, 3-meter, platform
Matt King – 200 medley relay, 50 free*, 400 medley relay, 100 freestyle, 400 freestyle relay
Mikkel Lee – 200 freestyle relay
Josh Matheny – 100 breaststroke*, 200 breaststroke*
Owen McDonald – 800 freestyle relay, 200 IM, 100 backstroke, 400 medley relay, 200 backstroke, 400 freestyle relay
Rafael Miroslaw – 800 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle*, 400 freestyle relay
Zalán Sárkány – 500 freestyle, 1,650 freestyle
Dylan Smiley – 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay
Carson Tyler – 1-meter*, 3-meter, platform
Maxwell Weinrich – 3-meter, platform*
Kai van Westering – 800 freestyle relay, 100 backstroke*, 200 backstroke*
Jassen Yep – 100 breaststroke*, 200 breaststroke
