Swimming & Diving Faces Arizona Wildcats in Road Dual

Friday, December 19

Tucson, Ariz.

Texas A&M

Arizona

Photo by: Julianne Shivers/Texas A&M Athletics

Dec 18, 2025 | Swimming and Diving

By: Georgia Bailey, Student Assistant, Athletics Communications

TUCSON – The Texas A&M swimming & diving team faces the Arizona Wildcats in a two-day dual meet on Friday and Saturday at the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center on the University of Arizona campus. The meet begins at 4 p.m. CST on Friday and continues at 10:30 a.m. CST on Saturday. The men's team is currently ranked No. 25 and the women's team is No. 24.

The swim team is coming off of the Texas Invitational where 15 Aggies logged NCAA qualifying cut times, 9 on the men's side and 6 on the women's side.

On the men's side, junior Logan Brown led the way, earning three NCAA qualifying cut times in the 100 breast (52.01), 200 breast (1:54.11), and 200 IM (1:41.59). All three times moved Brown in the school record book for each event. Sophomore Ben Sytsma tallied two qualifying cut times in the 50 free (19.22) and 100 free (42.30). These times also moved Sytsma into the school record book. Senior Munzy Kabbara also logged two qualifying cut times in the 200 IM (1:44.04) and the 400 IM (3:42.59). Also providing qualifying cut times was freshman Bucky Gettys in the 1,650 free (15:05.24), junior Will Heck in the 100 breast (52.51), freshman Alejandro Michelena in the 200 fly (1:42.47), freshman AJ Robinson in the 400 IM (3:43.55), junior Ben Scholl in the 50 free (19.14), and sophomore Chase Swearingen in the 100 fly (45.30).

Leading the way for the women was junior Ava Whitaker and sophomore Ella McQuinn. Whitaker provided two qualifying cut times in the 100 fly (52.34) which also moved her in the school record book and the 200 fly (1:55.01). McQuinn finished with two qualifying cut times in the 100 free (48.54) and the 100 breast (59.42) which also moved her in the school record book. Also logging a qualifying cut time and a program record time was senior Kaitlyn Owens in the 100 back (51.78) and freshman Lillie Sczech in the 200 breast (2:09.25). Junior Halina Panczyszyn and junior Katie Walker also logged qualifying cut times in the 200 back (1:54.76) and 200 fly (1:57.03), respectively.

The Aggie divers also wrapped up the Texas Diving Invitational with four Aggies qualifying for NCAA Zones. Sophomore Gabby Filzen qualified on the platform with a score of 267.05. Sophomore Jaxon Bowshire and freshman Emilio Trevino also qualified on the platform with a score of 336.70 and 426.40, respectively. Sophomore Nathan Stone qualified on both springboards with a score of 307.25 on the 1-meter and 336.05 on the 3-meter.

Live results can be found on the Meet Mobile app.

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In the SEC Top 10
(Women)

Event	Swimmer	Time	Rank
50 backstroke	Kaitlyn Owens	24.01	No. 4
50 backstroke	Halina Panczyszyn	24.58	No. 10
100 backstroke	Kaitlyn Owens	51.78 q	No. 6
50 breaststroke	Claire Gass	28.79	No. 7
100 breaststroke	Ella McQuinn	59.72 q	No. 8
200 breaststroke	Lillie Sczech	2:09.25 q	No. 10
200 butterfly	Ava Whitaker	1:55.01 q	No. 6
100 IM	Ava Whitaker	55.47	No. 1
	Corbyn Reyes	57.12	No. 2
	Hannah O'Leary	57.67	No. 3
	Giulia Goerigk	58.28	No. 4
200 freestyle relay		1:28.77 p	No. 6
400 freestyle relay		3:17.11	No. 10
800 freestyle relay		7:13.54	No. 9
200 medley relay		1:37.95	No. 9
400 medley relay		3:35.10	No. 10

q-denotes NCAA qualifying time
p-denotes NCAA provisional time

(Men)

Event	Swimmer	Time	Rank
50 freestyle	Ben Scholl	19.14 q	No. 8
	Ben Sytsma	19.22 q	No. 9
100 breaststroke	Logan Brown	52.01 q	No. 8
200 breaststroke	Logan Brown	1:52.11 q	No. 5
100 butterfly	Chase Swearingen	45.30 q	No. 4
200 butterfly	Alejandro Michelena	1:42.47 q	No. 8
200 IM	Logan Brown	1:41.59 q	No. 4
400 IM	Munzy Kabbara	3:42.59 q	No. 8
200 freestyle relay		1:16.59 p	No. 8
400 freestyle relay		2:49.38 p	No. 7
800 freestyle relay		6:22.96	No. 7
200 medley relay		1:24.44	No. 9