Luca Urlando Downs NCAA Record in 200 Fly as Georgia, Tennessee Split
Luca Urlando lowered the eight-year-old NCAA record in the men’s 200 butterfly Saturday afternoon in a dual meet with Tennessee.
Urlando went 1:37.17 at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatics Center, which takes down the NCAA record of 1:37.35 set in 2017 by Jack Conger of Texas. That was the American and U.S. Open record, as well. (Ilya Kharun won the event at NCAAs last year in 1:38.26.)
Urlando also owns the SCY American record in the men’s 100 backstroke. Urlando had owned the Georgia record at 1:38.82, dating to 2022.
🇺🇸 Luca Urlando sets the American, NCAA, U.S. Open, SEC, and Georgia record in the 200y butterfly with a time of 1:37.17!
Urlando now holds the American records in both the 100y backstroke and 200y butterfly!#GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/8fpkexqaVp
— Georgia Swim & Dive (@UGASwimDive) January 25, 2025
Urlando also downed his school record in the 100 fly by winning in 43.62. That shaves .09 off the mark he set in 2022 at 43.71. He did it head-to-head with Jordan Crooks, who had the NCAA-leading time this year at 43.77, though Urlando supplants him. Crooks finished second in 45.21.
With Urlando’s record setting day, Georgia’s men’s team beat Tennessee, 155-144. The Tennessee women won, 209-91.
Urlando helped seal the win by going 1:41.86 to win the 200 individual medley. That was a 1-2 result with teammate Drew Hitchcock. Hitchcock had been third in the 200 fly.
Crooks did plenty of damage on his own. He won the 50 freestyle in 18.44 seconds, leading a 1-2-3 finish with Gui Caribe (19.16) and Nikoli Blackman (19.76). Tennessee also swept the 100 free, Caribe winning in 42.16. Blackman followed in 42.37, with Lamar Taylor third in 42.89.
Taylor, 100 breast winner Kevin Houseman, Caribe (19.65 split) and Crooks (17.66 off the end) set the fourth-fastest time in program history in the 200 medley relay in 1:21.90. The 400 free relay of Taylor, Caribe (41.59), Blackman and Crooks (40.62) went 2:46.77, also fourth in program history. Houseman’s winning time in the 100 breast of 52.76 moved the Northwestern transfer into 10th in Vols history.
Georgia started strong with a 1-2-3 in the 1,000 free, led by Jake Magahey’s winning time of 9:00.99. He followed by finishing second in the 200 free an event later, behind teammate Tomas Koski’s winning time of 1:31.80. Koski won the 500 free in 4:14.99, with Magahey second and Tommy Lee Camblong, who had been the 1,000 free runner-up, third. Ruard van Renen swept backstroke for Georgia, going 1-2 with Sam Powe in the 200.
Jed Garner made it a breaststroke sweep for UT, going 1:56.62 in the 200. Diving included two intriguing battles. Tennessee’s Bennett Greene won 1-meter with 354.90 points, just 5.05 ahead of Georgia’s Renato Calderaro, then Greene scored 387.00 to take 3-meter.
McKenzie Siroky was the standout for the Lady Vols. She won the 100 breast in 57.80 seconds, the second-fastest time in program history, then claimed the 200 breast in 2:07.12. That moves her into fourth place in program history. Siroky also swam breaststroke on the Vols’ winning 200 medley relay.
Her 100 breaststroke win was the first of a trio of stroke sweeps that guided Tennessee in the rout. Sara Stolter followed with a win in the 200 fly, then Josephine Fuller led a similar sweep in the 200 back. Fuller had earlier won the 100 back.
Camille Spink also won all three of her races. She led a 1-2 result in the 200 free with Julia Mrozinski, Spink winning in 1:42.78. Her time of 21.46 bested the field by nearly three-quarters of a second, and she won the 100 free in 46.94. Spink finished up by leading off the Vols’ winning 400 free relay in 3:13.46, joining Mrozinski, Jillian Crooks and Brooklyn Douthwright.
Ella Jansen, third in the 200 fly, won the 500 free ahead of Mrozinski. Stolter won the 100 fly. Lynae Shorter swept both diving events for Tennessee.
Georgia started strong with a sweep in the 1,000 free led by Dune Coetzee, but they couldn’t sustain it. The Bulldogs didn’t win another individual event until Ieva Maluka claimed the 200 IM.
