PROVO, Utah — Under the leadership of first-year head coach Tamber McAllister, BYU women’s swim and dive completed a historic 2024-25 season that culminated in a 23rd-place finish at NCAA Championships – the program’s best in 34 years.
In total, the BYU women finished the season with two All-American honors, five NCAA Championship entries, five NCAA Zone E Championship entries, nine all-conference honors, 16 school record and 47 top 10 performances along with 113 new personal best times.
The story of junior Mackenzie Miller Lung overtook BYU women’s swim and dive headlines down the stretch of the season as the Clovis, California native improved meet after meet on her way to the Big 12 200 breast individual title and three entries at the 2025 NCAA Women’s Swim and Dive Championships in Federal Way, Washington March 20-22.
Miller Lung became BYU’s first woman to reach the national meet since 2021 and made the most of her time there with All-American finishes in both 100 and 200 breast. In three days at nationals, Miller Lung broke her own school records four times across both breaststroke events and the 200 individual medley with a combined improvement of 2.61 seconds.
Miller Lung saved her best for last in Federal Way with a national runner-up 2:05.03 in the 200 breast. With a second in the 200 breast and seventh in the 100, Miller Lung became just the second woman ever at BYU in the NCAA era to garner multiple All-America honors, and the first since K.C. Cline Lemon in 1990. Miller Lung’s 29 points gave BYU its best team finish (23rd) and score total since 1991.
The 2024-25 season saw Miller Lung win 17 races, total 11 individual school-record performances and cut a combined 14.5 seconds across her three events. From season’s start to finish, Miller Lung improved by 3.02 seconds in the 200 IM, 3.51 in the 100 breast and a whopping 7.97 on her way to a national runner-up in the 200 breast.
Miller Lung is set to return and vie once again for the 200 breast NCAA crown as a senior in 2025-26.