10 Arizona State ladies swimmers set to race at NCAA Championships starting Wednesday

 

TEMPE – Starting Wednesday, 10 ladies swimmers representing Sun Devil Swim and Dive will race at this week’s NCAA Women’s Swim and Dive Championships (March 18-21) at McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

The full schedule of occasions is listed beneath with preliminary swims beginning Wednesday at 7 a.m. MST and finals beginning at 3 p.m. The Championships could be streamed on ESPN+.

Meet Schedule:
Wednesday, March 18
1,650 free, 200 medley relay, 800 free relay
Thursday, March 19
100 fly, 400 IM, 200 free, 100 breast, 200 free relay
Friday, March 20
100 again, 200 breast, 500 free, 50 free, 400 medley relay
Saturday, March 21
200 IM, 100 free, 200 fly, 200 again, 400 free relay

Freshman Albane Cachot will compete within the 50 free, 100 free and the 200 free, all three occasions she received on the Big 12 Championships. Cachot may also seem on the workforce’s relays all through the meet. Cachot set a meet file within the 100 free (47.42) and garnered Big 12 Women’s Newcomer of the Meet for her efficiency throughout the convention championships. 

Senior Deniz Ertan begins her week within the 1,650 freestyle on Wednesday, the occasion that she defended her title for on the Big 12 Championships with a 16:05.98 successful time. Ertan may also seem within the 200 fly and the five hundred free later within the week, incomes the auto-bid in each occasions.

Sophomore Julia Ullmann will make her second NCAA championships look, competing in each the 100 fly and 200 fly. Junior Alexa Reyna will seem within the 400 IM after incomes the auto-bid and setting a private finest in 4:09.22 on the Big 12 Championships. 

Junior Sonia Vaishnani and sophomore Jordan Greber will each seem within the 200 IM on Saturday after incomes the qualifying time on the Big 12 Championships. Juniors Miriam Sheehan and Grace Lindberg will seem as relay swimmers all through the week together with seniors Gerda Szilagyi and Ginger McMahon.

At the 2026 Big 12 Championships, the ladies’s workforce got here away with 9 particular person titles and three relay wins throughout the week. Szilagyi, Ullmann, Lindberg and Cachot set a faculty file within the 400 free relay with a successful time of three:12.86. 

Additionally, the ladies received titles within the 400 medley relay in 3:30.68 and the 800 free relay in 7:01.39 on the Big 12 Championships. Ertan got here away with three particular person titles within the 1650 free, 500 free and the 200 IM and earned Big 12 Women’s Swimmer of the Meet. 

In 2025, the Sun Devil ladies positioned nineteenth at NCAAs for its finest end since 2012 and the workforce’s first top-20 exhibiting since 2019. Graduate Caroline Bentz accounted for 41.5 factors for the Sun Devils. The workforce’s 200 medley, 400 medley and 200 free relay all scored factors final 12 months at NCAAs.

From the workforce:
Arizona State Head Coach Herbie Behm:
On the ladies’s workforce successful back-to-back Big 12 titles:
“It’s definitely cool. At one point, the total team scores were like, ‘Okay, who can score more points,’ because they were kind of battling on that. But it’s been really cool to see the women’s team grow. Last year, when it was more of a struggle to get it done, they just weren’t as confident. And then this year, the first day they were lights out. And seeing that shift is a really cool thing, and now it’s, ‘Okay, how do we continue that growth and just keep raising the bar as we go.’”

Arizona State sophomore Jordan Greber:
On competing on the NCAA Championships:
“Since it’s my first NCAAs, I’m just really excited to be able to experience such fast and high-level swimming. I think it’s going to be just a really cool experience for me overall. I’m hoping to have some top-16 finishes in my 200 IM and my 200 Free, that would be really cool. That’s always the goal, to kind of get into that point range and to come back with some more points for our team. I know our relays, like our 800 Free relay, are ranked, I think 16th or 17th, so we’re super close to point scoring, and I know that we can do that this time, so I’m really excited.”

Participants (10):
Albane Cachot – 50 free, 100 free, 200 free
Deniz Ertan – 200 fly, 500 free, 1,650 free
Jordan Greber – 200 IM
Alexa Reyna – 400 IM
Julia Ullmann – 100 fly, 200 fly
Sonia Vaishnani – 200 IM
Miriam Sheehan – 400 medley relay
Grace Lindberg – 800 free relay, 400 free relay
Gerda Szilagyi – 400 free relay
Ginger McMahon – 400 medley relay

2026 Women’s Big 12 Champions (12)
Women’s 50 free – Albane Cachot – 21.80
Women’s 100 free – Albane Cachot – 47.42 – Meet Record
Women’s 200 free – Albane Cachot – 1:44.58 
Women’s 500 free – Deniz Ertan – 4:41.34
Women’s 1650 free – Deniz Ertan – 16:06.04
Women’s 100 fly – Julia Ullmann – 51.97
Women’s 200 fly – Deniz Ertan – 1:56.31
Women’s 200 IM – Sonia Vaishnani – 1:57.16
Women’s 400 IM – Alexa Reyna – 4:09.22
Women’s 400 free relay – Gerda Szilagyi, Julia Ullmann, Grace Lindberg, Albane Cachot – 3:12.86 – School Record
Women’s 400 medley relay – Miriam Sheehan, Ginger McMahon, Julia Ullmann, Albane Cachot – 3:30.68
Women’s 800 free relay – Jordan Greber, Gerda Szilagyi, Grace Lindberg, Albane Cachot – 7:01.39

SUN DEVIL WOMEN’S SWIMMING POSTSEASON FINISHES (PAC-12/BIG 12/NCAA) – Last 10 NCAAs
2026: 1st (Big 12)/
2025: 1st (Big 12)/nineteenth
2024: fifth/twenty fourth
2023: fifth/twenty seventh
2022: sixth/twenty sixth
2021: DNC (whole program redshirted on account of COVID-19)
2020: fifth/No NCAA on account of COVID-19
2019: 4th/twentieth
2018: third/twenty third
2017: sixth/twenty ninth
2016: eighth/thirty first
2015: seventh/thirty fourth(T)
2014: seventh/forty first

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Big 12
2025-26: males’s swimming, ladies’s swimming, volleyball
2024-25: soccer, males’s swimming, ladies’s swimming, volleyball

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