2012 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships

2012 NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships
Host city	Federal Way, Washington
Date	March 22–24, 2012
Venue	Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Center
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The 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested from March 22–24, 2012 at the Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington at the 89th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.

California again topped the team standings, finishing 44.5 points ahead of Texas. It was the Golden Bears' fourth team national title.

Team standings

• Note: Top 10 only
• ^(DC) = Defending champions
• Full results ^[1]

Rank	Team	Points
	California (DC)	5351⁄2
	Texas	491
	Stanford	4261⁄2
4	Arizona	396
5	Michigan	271
6	Auburn	2541⁄2
7	USC	192
8	Florida	157
9	Louisville	156
10	Indiana	166

Swimming results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Jimmy Feigen Texas	19.01	Vladimir Morozov USC	19.08	Jason Schnur Ohio State	19.46
100 freestyle	Jimmy Feigen Texas	41.95	Marcelo Chierighini Auburn	42.34	Vladimir Morozov USC	42.44
200 freestyle	Daxon Hill Texas	1:32.51	Dimitri Colupaev USC	1:33.49	Joao de Lucca Louisville	1:34.00
500 freestyle	Martin Grodzki Georgia	4:12.95	Cristian Quintero USC	4:13.07	Chad La Tourette Stanford	4:13.92
1650 freestyle	Martin Grodzki Georgia	14:24.08 US	Chad La Tourette Stanford	14:24.35 AR	Connor Jaeger Michigan	14:25.14
100 backstroke	Tom Shields California	44.86	David Nolan Stanford	45.53	Cole Cragin Texas	45.89
200 backstroke	Cory Chitwood Arizona	1:39.66	David Nolan Stanford	1:39.74	Matthew Thompson California	1:41.81
100 breaststroke	Kevin Cordes Arizona	51.71	Carlos Almeida Louisville	51.78	Martin Liivamagi California	51.93
200 breaststroke	Carlos Almeida Louisville	1:51.88	Trevor Hoyt California	1:51.90	Kevin Cordes Arizona	1:51.97
100 butterfly	Tom Shields California	44.76	Giles Smith Arizona	45.77	Marcin Cieslak Florida	45.86
200 butterfly	Will Hamilton California	1:40.94	Tom Shields California	1:41.07	Marcin Cieslak Florida	1:41.36
200 IM	Marcin Tarczynski California	1:41.97	Marcin Cieslak Florida	1:42.26	David Nolan Stanford	1:42.85
400 IM	Austen Thompson Arizona	3:39.15	Kyle Whitaker Michigan	3:41.37	Michael Weiss Wisconsin	3:43.12
200 freestyle relay	California Tyler Messerschmidt (19.37) Shayne Fleming (18.94) Fabio Gimondi (19.27) Seth Stubblefield (19.00)	1:16.58	Auburn Drew Modrov (19.44) Karl Krug (18.95) TJ Leon (19.26) Marcelo Chierighini (19.02)	1:16.67	Arizona Adam Small (19.38) Kelley Wyman (18.83) Mitchell Friedemann (19.02) Thomas Gutman (19.48)	1:16.71
400 freestyle relay	Texas Daxon Hill (42.70) Clay Youngquist (42.82) Austin Surhoff (42.99) Jimmy Feigen (41.32)	2:49.83	California Tyler Messerschmidt (43.19) Shayne Fleming (42.71) Fabio Gimondi (42.65) Tom Shields (41.79) Auburn Drew Modrov (43.11) Karl Krug (43.02) James Disney-May (42.21) Marcelo Chierighini (42.00)	2:50.34	None awarded
800 freestyle relay	Texas Daxon Hill (1:33.80) Clay Youngquist (1:33.41) Kip Darmody (1:35.08) Neil Caskey (1:33.26)	6:15.55	California Tom Shields (1:33.72) Samuel Metz (1:33.81) Will Hamilton (1:33.19) Benjamin Hinshaw (1:34.98)	6:15.70	Stanford Aaron Wayne (1:33.24) David Mosko (1:35.63) Bobby Bollier (1:35.10) Robert Andrews (1:35.22)	6:19.19
200 medley relay	Arizona Mitchell Friedemann (21.28) Kevin Cordes (23.25) Giles Smith (20.22) Adam Small (18.78)	1:23.53 AR	California Mathias Gydesen (21.67) Martin Liivamagi (23.61) Tom Shields (19.80) Tyler Messerschmidt (18.83)	1:23.91	Auburn Kyle Owens (21.24) Stuart Ferguson (24.02) Marcelo Chierighini (20.36) Karl Krug (19.08)	1:24.70
400 medley relay	California Mathias Gydesen (46.07) Nolan Koon (51.93) Tom Shields (43.56) Tyler Messerschmidt (41.68)	3:03.24	Arizona Mitchell Friedemann (45.93) Kevin Cordes (50.52) Giles Smith (45.45) Kelley Wyman (42.83)	3:04.83	Texas Cole Cragin (45.92) Eric Friedland (52.15) Neil Caskey (45.97) Jimmy Feigen (41.64)	3:05.68

Legend: US – U.S. Open record; AR – American record;

Diving results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1 m diving	Drew Livingston Texas	448.10	Kristian Ipsen Stanford	410.15	Cameron Bradshaw Arizona State	402.95
3 m diving	Kristian Ipsen Stanford	469.20	Drew Livingston Texas	454.25	David Bonuchi Missouri	434.50
Platform diving	Ben Grado Arizona	487.25	David Bonuchi Missouri	456.00	Matt Cooper Texas	449.15

See also

• List of college swimming and diving teams

References

1. "NCAA Men's Division I Swimming and Diving Championship" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. p. 16. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
2. "2012 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships Results" (PDF). SwimSwam. Retrieved 28 December 2025.