Swim and Dive readies for 2025 Big 12 Championships

PROVO, Utah — BYU men’s and women’s swim and dive begins postseason competition with the 2025 Big 12 Swim and Dive Championships in Federal Way, Washington Feb. 25-March 1.

2025 Big 12 Swim & Dive Championships | Feb. 25 - March 1
Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center | Federal Way, WA
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In its inaugural Big 12 Championships a season ago, BYU men’s swim and dive finished third with 21 all-conference honorees, including nine first teamers. The Cougars won two individual titles with Jordan Tiffany in the 100 fly and Brad Prolo in the 200 fly.

Tiffany returns to Big 12’s with BYU in 2025 looking to defend his 100 fly title.

BYU women’s swim and dive finished its first Big 12 title meet in fifth with eight all-conference performers. The BYU women move into the 2025 meet seeking to improve on last year’s team finish and post their first Big 12 individual champion and first team finishers.

Men’s Preview
BYU men’s swim and dive arrives in Federal Way ranked third among seven Big 12 teams in SwimCloud’s dual meet rankings. When facing Big 12 competition this season, the Cougars defeated TCU 195-177, Utah 168-132, and took first at the Utah Dive Invite while falling at Arizona 107-240.

BYU enters the conference championship meet with 19 individual performances ranked among the top 10 in the Big 12 this season.

Tanner Nelson leads BYU with five of his performances this season ranking top 10 in the Big 12. Nelson occupies the league’s third-fastest 500 free time with a season-best 4:17.67 while ranking fifth in the 400 individual medley, seventh in both 200 free and IM along with eighth in the 200 breast.

Luigi Riva ranks fifth among Big 12 100 flyers at 46.39 along with ninth in the 100 free. Emerson Edwards will look to build on the league’s ninth-best times in both 100 and 200 breast. Despite competing in just three meeting this season, 2024 All-American Jordan Tiffany has worked his way back from injury and stands at eighth in the Big 12’s 100 back rankings along with an 11^th in the 100 fly.

Darwin Anderson (500 free), Jacob Ballard (200 fly) and Peter Etzold (100 breast) round out BYU’s top swimmers in the Big 12 standings. Each of the Cougars’ four relay squads rank fourth of seven.  

Chase Hindmarsh leads BYU men’s dive with a spot among the top 10 platform and 3-meter divers in the Big 12. Hindmarsh’s season-best 318.25 is the conference’s third-best platform score in 2024-25. Marti Llop and Ezra Purcell are also in the Big 12’s platform standings and fifth and ninth, respectively, while Llop ranks sixth on 1-meter.

Women’s Preview
BYU women’s swim and dive enters the 2025 conference title meet ranked seventh in SwimCloud’s Big 12 dual meet rankings. The BYU women have dropped dual meets at Arizona (131-217) and Utah (131-169) but topped TCU 192.5-179.5 in dual meet scoring at the Texas A&M Tri-Meet Oct. 18-19.

Mackenzie Miller Lung swept the 100 and 200 breast races in both meets versus Utah and TCU. Miller Lung holds the Big 12’s second-fastest women’s 200 breast time with a season-best 2:09.61. BYU freshmen Jasmine Anderson and Lucy Warnick rank eighth and 10^th, respectively. Only the Cougars and No. 17 Arizona State have three women ranked in the Big 12’s 200 breast top 10. Miller Lung also ranks seventh in the conference in the 100 breast.

In addition to her top-10 200 breast time, Warnick ranks sixth in the Big 12 with a season-best 400 IM of 4:15.93. Freshman Sarah Eliason gives the Cougars a sixth top-10 women’s individual time with her 54.00 100 fly ranking seventh.

BYU women’s dive brings three league top-10 performances into the championship meet. Alexia Jackson Hansen’s season-best 239.25 is good for second among Big 12 women’s divers. Jackson Hansen also ranks fourth in the Big 12 on 3-meter while Sophia DeBergh stands at 10^th on platform.