Swim and Dive lifts lid on 2025-26 marketing campaign towards UNLV

TEMPE  – The Sun Devil males’s and girls’s swim and dive groups open the 2025-26 season on Friday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. MST at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center. 

The meet is not going to be livestreamed, however could be adopted on Meet Mobile (with a subscription) in addition to this system’s social media accounts: Twitter/X (@ASUSwimDive) and Instagram (@Sundevilswimdive). 

Friday’s duel towards the UNLV Rebels is the primary of 5 house meets for the Sun Devils. The subsequent house twin will characteristic UCLA’s girls’s workforce touring to Tempe to face ASU’s girls’s workforce on Friday, Nov. 7 at 3 p.m.  

UNLV swam towards ASU to open the 2024 season, when the Sun Devils gained 28 occasions. It’s the second straight season each groups meet underneath the lights in Tempe. Last season, UNLV’s males gained the WAC title for the fifth consecutive season, whereas its girls’s workforce completed second on the Mountain West Championships.

The Sun Devils are coming off a pair of Big 12 Championships on the lads’s and girls’s facet throughout their first season within the league. The males’s facet had a Sixth-place displaying on the NCAA Championships final March, and the ladies positioned nineteenth nationally for his or her highest end since 2019. The males’s workforce has gained three straight convention championships, relationship again to 2023.

At the Big 12 Championships final season, the Sun Devils took house 31 Big 12 particular person titles, which helped hoist each workforce trophies.

Jonny Kulow represented the United States on the World Aquatic Championships, incomes a gold medal within the 4×100 blended free relay, and in addition gained bronze within the 4x100m free relay this summer time. Kulow was named to the nationwide workforce roster for the second time in his profession, and had three podium finishes on the NCAA Championships final March. 

Miriam Sheehan and Julia Ullmann are returning All-Americans on the ladies’s facet after being a part of a number of relays that earned factors at NCAAs in March. Ullmann, the butterfly specialist, represented Switzerland on the FISU World University Games, inserting seventh within the 100m fly (59.44) and the 50m fly (26.69). She was additionally named Big 12 Freshman of the Year and the swimmer of the meet.

Ilya Kharun represented Canada on the World Aquatic Championships this previous summer time, incomes a bronze medal within the 100m fly. Kharun was named Big 12 Swimmer of the Year and had three podium finishes on the NCAA Championships final March

This season, the Sun Devils welcome 24 newcomers, together with 15 student-athletes from 10 totally different nations.

Following Friday’s meet, ASU will journey to Tucson on Friday, October 10 for the second annual All-Arizona Invite set for 1 p.m. MST.

How to Follow:
Follow the meet on Meet cell and on the workforce’s social media accounts: Twitter/X @ASUSwimDive and on Instagram @sundevilswimdive.