The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges Stags secured a sixth consecutive conference title on the final day of the 2025 SCIAC Swimming & Diving Championship.
Championship Central
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Day Two Recap
Day Three Recap
Full Results
CMS outpaced the field through the entirety of the meet, leading wire-to-wire ahead of Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, which compiled 751 points. Chapman University matched last year’s program-record third-place finish with a score of 497 to beat out Caltech by 57, while California Lutheran University narrowly edged out Occidental College, 314-296. The University of Redlands, with 264 points, held its seventh-place position ahead of Whittier College (186) and the University of La Verne rounded out the standings on 103 points.
Defending 1650-yard freestyle national champion
Lucas Lang of CMS lowered his own meet record set in 2022 by half a second to 15:22.23 while Whittier College’s
Thomas Langlois put himself in good position to qualify for the NCAA Championship with what currently ranks as the sixth-fastest time in the country (15:33.32). Rookie
Garrett Krattiger delivered a highlight with the Bulldogs’ first individual event championship since
Aaron Bauer in 2019. The first-year stretched to out-touch
Jeremy Tan of CMS by the slimmest of margins at .01, with the pair followed by Sagehen rookie
Diego Hodge who was the first of three Pomona-Pitzer rookies to finish chronologically.
Casey Jacobs picked up another two championship titles with wins in the 100 Free (44.54) and 400 Free Relay, alongside
Adrian Clement, Hodge and
Kyle Huang, as the only sub three-minute team (2:59.73) with Jacobs anchoring in 43.99. Chapman’s
Simon Jacobs added another silver medal to his haul from the meet as the only other sub 45-second 100 freestyler, ahead of Clement in third place. California Lutheran’s
Lincoln Hall finally reached the summit of the conference after back-to-back years of bronze-medal performances, winning the 200 Breast with a 1:59.43 that puts him on the bubble for NCAA selection while junior college All-American transfer teammate
Markus Stegbuchner placed third to bookend CMS’s
Evan Deedy. Huang, Hodge and
Gordon Kenny closed out the individual events with a 200 Fly sweep for the Sagehens, with Huang clocking a 1:48.57. The night concluded with CMS finishing second in the 400 Free Relay and Chapman third.
Those with NCAA ‘B’ cuts will await potential selection to the Division III Championship, for which the top 16 individual and additional at-large bids will be announced on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
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