By Spencer Penland on SwimSwam
2025 NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championship
March 11-15, 2025 IU Natatorium — Indianapolis, IN SCY (25 Yards) Defending Champions: Women: Nova Southeastern (2x) Men: University of Tampa (1x) Women’s Psych Sheets Men’s Psych Sheets Live Results Live Stream Recaps: Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 Prelims: Day 2Day 3 of the 2025 NCAA Division II Championships is underway in Indy. This morning’s prelims will feature heats of the 100 fly, 400 IM, and 200 free. Through the first two days of the meet, Nova Southeastern is leading the women’s team standings, while Drury is in the lead on the men’s side of the ledger.
Lynn 5th year Luna Mertins enters this morning as the heavy favorite in the women’s 100 fly. Mertins set the DII record at her conference championship meet last month with a 51.85. She comes into the event this morning as the only swimmer in the field to have been under 53 seconds this season.
While Mertins is of course live to set a record today, it looks like U Indy’s Cedric Buessing could do the same. Buessing is the top seed in the men’s 400 IM, coming in with a season best of 3:41.07. With that time, Buessing is less than a second off the DII record of 3:40.22, which was set at last year’s DII Championships.
WOMEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
NCAA DII Record: 51.85 – Luna Mertins, Lynn (2025) Meet Record: 52.06 – Ann Carozza, West Chester (2022)TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Luna Mertins (Lynn) – 52.00 (Meet Record) Tehani Kong (CSU East Bay) – 53.40 Mellie Wijk (Drury) – 53.60 Emily Mears-Bentley (Findlay) – 53.96 Andrea Paaske (U Indy) – 54.31 (TIE) Justice Glasgow (Southern Connecticut St) – 54.31 (TIE) Mikayla Kloth (Delta State) – 54.69 Eniko Onofer (Catawba) – 54.76Luna Mertins cracked the meet record with her prelims performance of 52.00 this morning. Mertins broke the DII record in this event last month with a 51.81, and now holds the championship record as well. As expected, she looks like the clear favorite as we head into tonight’s final, as she was the fastest swimmer in the field by 1.4 seconds this morning.
CSU East Bay’s Tehani Kong put up a 53.40 to finish 2nd this morning, taking nearly a second off her season best of 54.19. The strength of Kong’s swim this morning came on the back half of the race, where she split 28.28, which was the 2nd-fastest 2nd 50 split in the field to Mertins.
Drury’s Mellie Wijk and Findlay’s Emily Mears-Bentley were also under 54 seconds this morning.
MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
NCAA DII Record: 44.32 – Marius Kusch, Queens (NC) (2019) Meet Record: 44.32 – Marius Kusch, Queens (NC) (2019)TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Jackson Lustig (McKendree) – 46.35 Oskar Sawicki (U Indy) – 46.46 Alejandro Villarejo (Drury) – 46.53 Parker Knollman (Tampa) – 46.61 Antoine Pieterse (Roberts Wesleyan) – 46.66 Nino Viallon (Florida Southern) – 46.79 Aleksei Kolesnikov (Montevallo) – 46.81 Lance Godard (St. Cloud State) – 46.84A tight prelims of the men’s 100 fly this morning saw the top 8 finishers separated by just 0.49 seconds. Leading the way was McKendree’s Jackson Lustig, who swam a season best 46.35. Lustig’s career best sits at 46.17, which he swam at the 2023 DII NCAA Championships. This morning, he won the race on the back half, swimming a 24.55 on the 2nd 50, which was the fastest split in the field.
U Indy’s Oskar Sawicki came in 2nd with a 46.46, clipping his career best in the race.
Roberts Wesleyan freshman Antoine Pieterse made a statement this morning, swimming a 46.66 for 5th, advancing to the final tonight. That performance marks a career best for Pieterse.
WOMEN’S 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – PRELIMS
NCAA DII Record: 4:08.56 – Patricia Castro Ortega, Queens (NC) (2016) Meet Record: 4:08.56 – Patricia Castro Ortega, Queens (NC) (2016)TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
May Lowy (Nova Southeastern) – 4:16.40 Claire Conover (Drury) – 4:18.52 Katie O’Connell (Grand Valley) – 4:19.04 Andrea Gomez Espinoza (U Indy) – 4:19.07 Sophia Bains (Colorado Mesa) – 4:19.87 Burlingtyn Bokos (Tampa) – 4:20.78 Gwen Bergum (Drury) – 4:21.17 Isabell Schiller (Emmanuel) – 4:21.36Nova Southeastern’s May Lowy, the runner-up in last night’s 200 IM final, led prelims of the women’s 400 IM this morning with a 4:16.40. She was close to her season best of 4:14.84. Lowy got out to a quick start, splitting 57.88 on fly and 1:04.37 on back, for a 2:02.25 on the opening 200.
Drury’s Claire Conover swam a 4:18.52 for 2nd this morning, which comes in about 4 seconds off her season best of 4:14.70. Conover had the fastest breaststroke split of anyone who made the ‘A’ final splitting 1:10.07 on that leg of the race.
Andrea Gomez Espinosa was the top seed coming into the race this morning, holding a season best of 4:13.31, but ended up swimming a 4:19.07 for 4th.
Tampa freshman Burlingtyn Bokos made it into the ‘A’ final for tonight, swimming a 4:20.78 this morning to finish 6th. Bokos has been as fast as 4:16.89 this season, which means this freshman could make some noise in finals tonight.
MEN’S 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – PRELIMS
NCAA DII Record: 3:40.22 – Ben Sampson, Colorado Mesa (2024) Meet Record: 3:40.22 – Ben Sampson, Colorado Mesa (2024)TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
WOMEN’S 200 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
NCAA DII Record: 1:44.44 – Patricia Castro Ortega, Queens (NC) (2016) Meet Record: 1:45.27TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
MEN’S 200 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
NCAA DII Record: 1:32.46 – Dion Dreesens, Queens (NC) (2016) Meet Record: 1:32.46 – Dion Dreesens, Queens (NC) (2016)TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
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