By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 26-29, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center, Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- SwimSwam Pick’Em Contest
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Psych Sheet
The NCAA Championships starts tomorrow, and there has been one more change to the psych sheets since we last reported.
The California men’s team qualified exactly 18 swimmers to the meet, which left no room for divers. After the conclusion of the diving zones meets a few weeks ago, they decided to scratch freshman Frederick Klein, who was entered in the 1650 freestyle, in order to make room for the divers.
Junior Joshua Thai and sophomore Geoffrey Vavitsas are the two Cal divers entered in the meet. Both will be competing in the 3-meter and Platform diving events, where they scored 21 points combined last year.
Samuel Campbell, from Ohio State University was the first swimming alternate once Texas completed their scratches earlier in the month, due to his 30th rank in the 1650 freestyle at 14:49.25. Since he earned an invite in the 1650, he is also eligible to swim the 500 freestyle, where he comes in as the 51st seed, and the 400 IM, where he is the 38th seed.
Klein had been entered in the same three events, coming in as the 56th seed in the 500, the 40th seed in the 400 IM, and the 28th seed in the 1650 at 14:48.74. It is just a coincidence that he was invited in the 1650 and the first alternate was awaiting an invite in the event. The swimmer scratched and the swimmer added do not need to have any correlation in events and Campbell still would have been in had he swam the 100 breaststroke.
The psych sheets and meet information available on the USA Swimming page have not been updated to reflect this change, but you can find the new psych sheet on the NCAA.org page, or here.
Read the full story on SwimSwam: Cal Adds Two Divers, OSU’s Sam Campbell off Alternate List