2025-26: Season in Assessment – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford males’s swimming and diving completed its second season within the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2025-26, incomes a second-place end on the convention championship and one other top-10 end on the NCAA Championship.

SHINING IN THE POSTSEASON

The Cardinal completed second at this 12 months’s ACC Championships, incomes 4 convention champions. The star was Henry McFadden, who anchored the Cardinal’s 800 free relay workforce that gained the convention title. After taking first with Andres Dupont Cabrera, Ethan Ekk, and Jason Zhao, McFadden defended his 200 free title with a brand new ACC Championship document time of 1:31.05.

In his closing ACC Championship look, Josh Zuchowski turned a first-time convention champion, taking first within the 400 IM with a large private greatest of three:38.58. Among the divers, Misha Andriyuk gained his first convention title, turning into the ACC champion in platform diving.

Four weeks later, the Cardinal returned to Georgia Tech, the place the ACC Championships had been held, for the 2026 NCAA Championships. The week obtained off to a fantastic begin for the Cardinal, which shattered the college document within the 800 free relay (6:06.39), ending because the nation runner-up, this system’s greatest relay end on the NCAAs in over a decade. McFadden was at it once more the following night time, ending third within the 200 free with a Stanford-record time of 1:30.13, higher than his prelim time from the morning swim that additionally set the college document.

On the ultimate day of competitors, Stanford put another into the finals, coming in platform diving courtesy of Andriyuk. He completed second within the trials throughout the afternoon, and after struggling by the primary three rounds of the finals, he scored 93.50 on his fifth dive, the highest-scoring dive of the finals, serving to him end fifth general for his second First Team All-America honors on the platform, simply the third diver in program historical past to take action.

As a workforce, Stanford completed tenth general, its fifth consecutive season with a top-10 end on the NCAA Championships.

BEAT CAL

Senior Day was practically good for Stanford, because the Cardinal took down then-No. 5 California 181-119 within the closing common season twin meet, successful all however three occasions on the day. Ethan Ekk started the day sweeping the long-distance occasions, setting the usual for what the remainder of his teammates would accomplish. Daniel Li set the Stanford document within the 200 breast with a time of 1:50.79, resulting in ACC Swimmer of the Week honors for the primary time in his profession. On the opposite aspect of Avery Aquatics Center, Gunnar Grubbs gained in 1-meter diving and completed because the highest-scoring diver of the meet.

It wasn’t the one time this season the Cardinal defeated the Golden Bears. In the double twin in opposition to each California and Arizona State, Stanford pulled off its first win of the season over its cross-bay rival, with a 205-134 win. Ekk set the Stanford document within the 1000 free to earn the Cardinal’s first particular person winner within the double twin, and he was adopted by Jason Zhao successful within the 200 free and Gibson Holmes taking first within the 200 fly.

SCHOOL RECORDS SET

HONORS

Misha Andriyuk

• All-America First Team (Platform)
• ACC Platform Diving Champion
• All-ACC (3-Meter, Platform)
• ACC All-Academic

Liam Custer

• All-America First Team (1650 free)
• All-ACC (1650 free)
• CSC Academic All-America Second Team
• CSC Academic All-District
• ACC All-Academic

Andres Dupont Cabrera

• All-America First Team (800 free relay)
• All-America Second Team (200 free relay, 400 free relay)
• ACC 800 Free Relay Champion
• All-ACC (100 free, 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay)
• CSC Academic All-America Third Team
• CSC Academic All-District
• ACC All-Academic

Ethan Ekk

• All-America First Team (800 free relay)
• All-America Second Team (200 again, 500 free)
• ACC 800 Free Relay Champion
• All-ACC (400 IM, 500 free, 1650 free, 800 free relay)

Zhier Fan

• All-ACC (200 medley relay)

Gunnar Grubbs

• All-America Second Team (1-meter, Platform)
• All-ACC (Platform)
• ACC Men’s Diver of the Week (Oct. 28)

Rafael Gu

• All-America Second Team (200 free relay, 400 free relay)
• All-ACC (100 fly, 200 free relay, 200 medley relay, 400 free relay, 400 medley relay)
• ACC All-Academic

Finn Harland

• All-ACC (400 medley relay)

Ethan Harrington

• All-America Second Team (200 free relay)
• All-ACC (200 free relay, 200 medley relay)
• ACC All-Academic

Gibson Holmes

• All-America Second Team (200 fly)
• All-ACC (200 fly, 200 IM)
• ACC All-Academic

Hayden Kwan

Daniel Li

• All-America Second Team (200 breast)
• All-ACC (100 breast, 200 breast, 400 medley relay)
• ACC Men’s Swimmer of the Week (Feb. 3)
• ACC All-Academic

Henry McFadden

• All-America First Team (200 free, 800 free relay)
• All-America Second Team (400 free relay)
• ACC 200 Free Champion
• ACC 800 Free Relay Champion
• All-ACC (200 free, 400 medley relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay)
• ACC Men’s Swimmer of the Week (Jan. 20)
• CSC Academic All-America Second Team
• CSC Academic All-District
• ACC Men’s Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• ACC All-Academic

Henry Morrissey

Abram Mueller

Go Nagaoka

• All-ACC (200 breast)
• ACC All-Academic

Jonathan Tan

• All-America Second Team (200 free relay, 400 free relay)
• All-ACC (200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay)
• ACC All-Academic

Omer Wiener

Jason Zhao

• All-America First Team (800 free relay)
• ACC 800 Free Relay Champion
• All-ACC (800 free relay)

Josh Zuchowski

• All-America Second Team (400 IM, 200 again)
• ACC 400 IM Champion
• All-ACC (200 again, 200 fly, 400 IM)
• CSC Academic All-America First Team
• CSC Academic All-District
• ACC All-Academic