THE STANFORD MEN'S swimming and diving team made an impact in its first season Atlantic Coast Conference, winning four individual titles at the conference championships and placing second as a team.
Stanford, under Dan Schemmel, The Goldman Family Director of Men’s Swimming, and head diving coach Patrick Jeffrey, went on to place eighth at the NCAA Championships.
The Cardinal was led by an outstanding senior class that featured ACC Diver of the Year Jack Ryan, 26-time All-American Andrei Minakov, and 23-time All-American Ron Polonsky.
Ryan became the program’s first ACC champion, winning 1-meter diving at the conference meet in Greensboro, North Carolina, by coming from behind on his sixth and final dive of the final to win.
Ryan followed up his 2024 Pac-12 Diver of the Year award by earning the ACC’s honor, and Jeffrey was named ACC Men’s Diving Coach of the Year. Ryan’s final ACC honor was being named ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men’s swimming and diving.
For the second consecutive year, Ryan was Stanford’s highest placer at the NCAA Championships, placing second in 1-meter diving and third at 3-meter.
Minakov won ACC titles in the 100-yard butterfly and 200 fly. He collected eight All-America honors this year, with four on the first team, including in the 100 fly and 200 fly. His top NCAA finish this year was fourth in the 200 fly, which also was the highest for a Cardinal swimmer.
A 2021 Olympian for the Russian Olympic Committee, Minakov holds seven school records – in the 100 free, 100 fly, 200 fly, and four relays. Polonsky, a two-time Israeli Olympian, holds Stanford records in the 100 breaststroke, 200 breast, and three relays.
Together, Minakov and Polonsky own 49 All-America honors and hold school records in five individual events and are part of four school-record relays.
Sophomore Henry McFadden won an ACC title in the 200 freestyle, reached the NCAA final, and twice broke the school record in that event, with a best of 1:30.83.
McFadden joined Polonsky, and Liam Custer as Academic All-Americans, with Polonsky earning first-team honors for the third consecutive year.
Polonsky set five school records during the NCAA Championships – in the 100 breast (50.47), 200 breast (1:50.95), 800 free relay (6:06.69), 200 medley relay (1:22.23), and 400 medley relay (3:00.91). He was fifth in the 100 breast and fifth in the 200 IM at the NCAA Championships.
Two freshmen reached the NCAA Championships and performed well there. Misha Andriyuk was the ACC runner-up in platform diving and reached the NCAA final, placing eighth.
Li earned second-team All-America honors in the 200 breast, placing 15th overall. He also moved up to No. 3 on Stanford’s all-time Top-15 list in that event.
Stanford swimmers set six school records in 2025 and 14 swimmers and divers earned All-America honors – the third-most of any school in the country.
Honors
Misha Andriyuk
All-America First Team (platform diving)
NCAA Zone E platform diving champion
All-ACC (platform diving)
ACC All-Academic
Liam Custer
All-America Second Team (1,650 freestyle)
All-ACC (1,650 freestyle)
Academic All-American Second Team
Academic All-District
ACC All-Academic
Ethan Dang
ACC All-Academic
Andres Dupont Cabrera
All-America First Team (800 free relay, 400 medley relay)
All-America Second Team (400 free relay)
ACC All-Academic
Kaihan Gu
All-America Second Team (200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay)
ACC All-Academic
Ethan Harrington
ACC All-Academic
Hunter Hollenbeck
ACC Excellence Award
Gibson Holmes
All-America Second Team (200 butterfly)
Patrick Jeffrey
ACC Men’s Diving Coach of the Year
Daniel Li
All-America Second Team (200 breaststroke)
ACC All-Academic
Gabe Machado
ACC All-Academic
Henry McFadden
All-America First Team (200 freestyle, 800 free relay)
All-America Second Team (400 free relay)
ACC 200 freestyle champion
All-ACC (200 freestyle, 500 freestyle)
ACC Swimmer of the Week (Nov. 26)
Academic All-American Third Team
Academic All-District
ACC All-Academic
Rick Mihm
ACC All-Academic
Andrei Minakov
All-America First Team (100 butterfly, 200 butterfly, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay)
All-America Second Team (200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay)
ACC 100 butterfly champion
ACC 200 butterfly champion
All-ACC (100 butterfly, 200 butterfly)
ACC Swimmer of the Week (Feb. 4)
ACC All-Academic
Go Nagaoka
ACC All-Academic
Ron Polonsky
All-America First Team (100 breaststroke, 200 individual medley, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay)
All-America Second Team (200 breaststroke, 200 medley relay)
All-ACC (100 breaststroke, 200 individual medley)
ACC Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 22)
Academic All-American First Team
Academic All-District
ACC All-Academic
Jack Ryan
ACC Diver of the Year
ACC Men’s Swimming Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year
All-America First Team (1-meter diving, 3-meter diving)
NCAA Zone E 3-meter diving champion
ACC 1-meter diving champion
All-ACC (1-meter diving)
ACC Diver of the Week (Nov. 19)
ACC Diver of the Week (Feb. 4)
ACC All-Academic
Aaron Sequeira
All-America First Team (400 medley relay)
All-America Second Team (100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 200 medley relay)
Academic All-District
ACC All-Academic
Jonathan Tan
All-America Second Team (200 free relay)
ACC All-Academic
Avery Voss
All-America Second Team (200 free relay)
ACC All-Academic
Josh Zuchowski
All-America Second Team (200 backstroke)
ACC All-Academic