By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
The defending NCAA Champion Arizona State Sun Devil men’s swimming & diving team will take on a deep schedule that includes some of the best programs in the country next season.
Highlights of the team’s schedule include a late-October road trip to NC State, hosting Cal and Stanford two weeks later, back to North Carolina for the NC State Invitational, and then the big one: a two-day quad meet with Virginia, NC State, and Texas in Austin on January 24th and 25th.
That will be the first opportunity for the Sun Devils to face their former head coach Bob Bowman, who takes over as Director of Swimming at Texas for the 2024-2025 season.
Even without knowing who else will be at the NC State Invitational, that sets up a gauntlet of a schedule for ASU in its first year under new head coach Herbie Behm, who was promoted from associate head coach last season.
2024-2025 Arizona State Opponents Who Scored at NCAAs Last Year
| Men | Women |
| #2 Cal | #1 Virginia |
| #5 NC State (x3) | #2 Texas |
| #7 Texas |
#9 NC State (x3)
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| #17 Virginia | #11 Cal |
| #20 Minnesota | #20 Minnesota |
| #27 Arizona (x2) |
The Arizona State men won the program’s first-ever NCAA team title last season, though the core of that team has all departed. Leon Marchand (60 points, 3 individual NCAA titles, 1 relay title) turned pro and is training with Bowman in Texas; Hubert Kos (48 points) is transferring to Texas as a member of the varsity; and Owen McDonald (46 points) is transferring to swim with his younger brother at Indiana.
David Schlicht, their 4th-highest scorer at NCAAs, should have a year of eligibility remaining but has not yet announced what he’ll do with it. Ultimately, the torch falls for sophomore Ilya Kharun, who scored 44 points as a rookie at last year’s NCAA Championships and won the national title in the 200 fly.
The Arizona State women finished 23rd at last year’s NCAA Championship meet and will lose US National Teamer Lindsay Looney next season as she has exhausted her eligibility.
SUN DEVIL 2024-25 SWIM & DIVE SCHEDULE: (All times AZT, Bold means home meet, Italicized means Postseason)
- October 4: vs. UNLV – 6 p.m. AZT
- October 12: vs. Arizona, Grand Canyon and Northern Arizona – 12 p.m. AZT
- October 25-26: at. North Carolina State – TBD
- November 7: vs. California and Stanford – 6 p.m. AZT
- November 8: vs. California and Stanford – 11 a.m. AZT
- November 21-23: NC State GAC Invite in Greensboro, NC. – TBD
- January 3: (Women’s Swim & Dive only) vs. Rice – 2 p.m. AZT
- January 4: vs. Grand Canyon – 12 p.m. AZT
- January 10: vs. Minnesota – 2 p.m. AZT
- January 24-25: at. Virginia, Texas & NC State – TBD in Austin, Texas
- February 8: vs. Arizona – 12 p.m. AZT
- February 25-March 1st: Big 12 Championships at Federal Way, Washington
- March 10-March 12: NCAA Dive Zones Qualifying at Federal Way, Washington
- March 19-March 22: NCAA Women’s Swim Championships in Federal Way, Washington
- March 26-March 29: NCAA Men’s Swim Championships in Federal Way, Washington.
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