2024-25 Women's Swim and Dive Season Review

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.

2024-25 Women's Swim and Dive Season Review2024-25 Women's Swim and Dive Season Review
Rob Tiraphatna / BYU Athletics

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.

"Tamber has been like my rock. She's like my mom away from home. I don't think I could've been able to swim as long as I have or compete as well as I have without Tamber. Having her as our head coach has been the best thing for our swim program."

Mackenzie Miller Lung2025 NCAA 200 Breast National Runner-Up

Diver Alexia Jackson Hansen proved the highlight of the season for BYU women’s dive with her first career national entries and the program’s first since 2022.

Over the last three meets of the season prior to nationals, Jackson Hansen sequentially upped her 3-meter game with scores of 309.60 in a dual meet at Utah to 314 in the Big 12 preliminary and 325.45 at NCAA Zone E Championships. The junior from Mesa, Arizona tallied a season-best 270.95 on platform in the Big 12 prelim then secured her spot on platform at nationals with a 259.85 at zone’s.

After finishing All-Big 12 first and second team on platform and 3-meter, respectively, Jackson Hansen took 33rd and 43rd in the events at nationals.

Upperclassmen Addison Richards and Victoria Schreiber combined for three more all-conference showings in 2025.

Richards took home All-Big 12 Second Team in the 400 IM and 200 breast while clocking three program top five times at Big 12’s. The senior from Orem, Utah finishes her BYU career ranked No. 2 in the 200 breast (2:11.11), No. 3 in the 100 breast (1:01.10) and fourth in the 400 IM (4:16.04).

Schreiber finished the season ranked in the top five all-time at BYU in the 200, 500 and 1650 free. With the program’s third-fastest ever 500 free of 4:49.89, Schreiber garnered All-Big 12 Second Team status. The junior from Brighton, Michigan also anchored the Cougars’ 800 free relay squad to a school-record 7:13.87 at Big 12’s.

Schreiber, Haylee Tiffany, Kara Martinson and Regan Geldmacher opened the Big 12 title meet with the 800 free relay record-breaking race but the BYU women weren’t done there. Halli Williams, Sarah Eliason, Emma Marusakova, Lily Flint and Miller Lung would combine to form relay squads that brought down the program’s 200 free, 200 and 400 medley relay records over the ensuing days in Federal Way.

The future is bright for BYU women’s swimming with the freshman foursome of Lucy Warnick, Sarah Eliason, Haylee Tiffany and Jasmine Anderson delivering 18 of the 47 total top 10 times set throughout the season. Warnick alone contributed eight top 10 times and finishes her first collegiate season ranked third in BYU history in the 400 IM with an All-Big 12 First Team time of 4:15.21.