Sun Devil Swim and Dive collects 4 Big 12 yearly awards

IRVING, Texas – The Big 12 Conference introduced its yearly award recipients on Wednesday and Sun Devil Swim and Dive took residence 4 Big 12 end-of-season awards after its profitable season with a pair of convention championships for the second-straight yr. 

Junior Ilya Kharun was named Big 12 Men’s Swimmer of the Year together with head coach Herbie Behm being named Big 12 Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year, each of them profitable for the second-consecutive yr. Freshman Albane Cachot was named Big 12 Women’s Freshman of the Year and senior Jonny Kulow was tabbed as Men’s Scholar Athlete of the Year.

To add, 38 totally different Sun Devils from the boys’s and girls’s groups took residence All-Big 12 First and Second Team honors that are determined based mostly off of the outcomes of the 2026 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championship. The high 4 finishers obtained First Team All-Big 12 recognition and people ending fifth by eighth obtained Second Team All-Big 12 recognition

Kharun received his second particular person nationwide championship within the 200 fly with a profitable time of 1:37.66 on the NCAA Swim and Dive Championships. The junior additionally helped the Sun Devils win 4 relay titles at NCAAs and earned seven All-American honors with three top-three finishes in his particular person occasions (50 free, 100 fly, 200 fly) for 52 factors which ranked third amongst males’s swimmers at NCAAs.

Additionally, Kharun was named Big 12 males’s swimmer of the meet for profitable three particular person titles and 4 relay wins for the Sun Devils, serving to the workforce defend its Big 12 Conference title. Kharun set two Big 12 information within the 50 free (18.24) and the 100 fly (42.92) on the NCAA Championships. 

Leaving her mark in her first season as a Sun Devil, Cachot scored 96 particular person factors on the Big 12 Championships to steer all girls’s swimmers. The freshman swept the freestyle occasions, profitable the 50 free (21.80), 100 free (47.42) and the 200 free (1:44.58) and turning into the primary girl in program historical past to win all three freestyle titles at a convention championship. Additionally, Cachot led the Sun Devil girls to 3 relay titles on the convention championships, setting a faculty document within the 400 medley relay.

Cachot, a local of Toulouse, France, was named Big 12 Women’s Freshman Swimmer of the Meet on the Big 12 Championships and certified for her first NCAA Championships, the place she took residence second workforce All-American honors within the 200 medley relay swimming a 21.48, 50 free anchor leg. 

Behm earns his second-straight Men’s Big 12 Coach of the Year honor after main the Sun Devils to its second-straight Big 12 championship and their fourth-consecutive convention title. In his second season on the helm of this system, he led the workforce to a fourth-place end at NCAAs, for the workforce’s third top-five end in 4 years. 

Behm coached 4 nationwide championship relay groups, which set two NCAA information within the 200 free relay (1:12.46) and the 400 free relay (2:42.15). The Sun Devil alum coached 5 Sun Devils to 9 particular person Big 12 titles and 5 relay titles on the Big 12 Championships final February.

Kulow earned one other tutorial honor after profitable the Elite Scholar-Athlete Award on the NCAA Championships for having the best cumulative GPA. The microbiology main with an emphasis in medical microbiology carries a 4.00 cumulative GPA and is a 23-time All-American as a Sun Devil. Kulow is a two time CSC All-America Team Member of the Year for his tutorial excellence within the classroom and within the pool and was a part of the 2024 nationwide championship workforce. 

2025-26 Big 12 Swimming and Diving of the Year Award Winners:
Men’s Swimmer of the Year – Ilya Kharun, Arizona State
Women’s Swimmer of the Year – Joleigh Crye, Cincinnati
Men’s Diver of the Year – Elias Petersen, Utah
Women’s Diver of the Year – Shiyun Lai, Kansas
Men’s Freshman of the Year – Luke Hernandez, Arizona
Women’s Freshman of the Year – Albane Cachot, Arizona State
Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year – Herbie Behm, Arizona State
Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year – Ben Loorz, Arizona
Men’s Diving Co-Coaches of the Year – Dwight Dumais, Arizona and Richard Marschner, Utah
Women’s Diving Co-Coaches of the Year – Robert Gunter, Houston and Allen Feng, Kansas
Men’s Scholar Athlete of the Year – Jonny Kulow, Arizona State
Women’s Scholar Athlete of the Year – Mia Hensley, Cincinnati
 
Men’s All-Big 12 First Team (14)
Adam Chaney, Arizona State
Andy Dobrzanski, Arizona State
JT Ewing, Arizona State
Remi Fabiani, Arizona State
Reece Grady, Arizona State
Jonathan Itzhaki, Arizona State
Ilya Kharun, Arizona State
Jonny Kulow, Arizona State
Noah Mudadu, Arizona State
Quin Seider, Arizona State
Filip Senc-Samardzic, Arizona State
Brayden Taivassalo, Arizona State
Jordan Tiffany, Arizona State
Lucien Vergnes, Arizona State

Men’s All-Big 12 Second Team (12)
Reece Grady, Arizona State
Michael Hochwalt, Arizona State
Ryan King, Arizona State
Jonny Kulow, Arizona State
Mattia Mauri, Arizona State
Noah Mudadu, Arizona State
Tommy Palmer, Arizona State
Jon Reiter, Arizona State
Quin Seider, Arizona State
Filip Senc-Samardzic, Arizona State
Brayden Taivassalo, Arizona State
Tolu Young, Arizona State

Women’s All-Big 12 First Team (11)
Albane Cachot, Arizona State
Deniz Ertan, Arizona State
Jordan Greber, Arizona State
Kayden Hayes, Arizona State
Grace Lindberg, Arizona State
Alexa Reyna, Arizona State
Miriam Sheehan, Arizona State
Gerda Szilagyi, Arizona State
Julia Ullmann, Arizona State
Sonia Vaishnani, Arizona State
Lucie Vasquez, Arizona State

Women’s All-Big 12 Second Team (12)
Ariel Beltran, Arizona State
Lia Csulak, Arizona State
Shane Golland, Arizona State
Jordan Greber, Arizona State
Ella Guilfoil, Arizona State
Grace Lindberg, Arizona State
Ginger McMahon, Arizona State
Miriam Sheehan, Arizona State
Gerda Szilagyi, Arizona State
Zoe Summar, Arizona State
Sonia Vaishnani, Arizona State
Lucie Vasquez, Arizona State

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