Story Links Friday Results (PDF) FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Senior Matt Fallon ended his first day of competition at 2025 NCAA Championships on Friday afternoon at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center. He swam the trials of the 100 breaststroke and finished in 22nd place, missing out on swimming the finals Friday evening. Fallon’s time was 51.76, […]
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Senior Matt Fallon ended his first day of competition at 2025 NCAA Championships on Friday afternoon at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center.
He swam the trials of the 100 breaststroke and finished in 22nd place, missing out on swimming the finals Friday evening. Fallon’s time was 51.76, just shy of his Penn school record of 51.45 set back in 2022.
Fallon will turn his attention to his signature event on Saturday, the 200 breast.
He comes into the weekend the top overall seed in that event with a time of 1:48.83, the only sub-1:49 time in the nation this season. He’s slotted just ahead of Virginia Tech’s Carles Coll Marti (1:49.62), Brown’s Jack Kelly, and Indiana’s Josh Matheny (1:49.83) and Jassen Yep (1:49.93).
Fallon was the runner-up in the 200 breast at NCAAs last season, finishing just behind Arizona State’s Leon Marchand with a time of 1:48.48. Marchand, of course, went on to win four gold medals for France at last summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. In 2022, Fallon took third place in his first NCAA appearance as a freshman in Atlanta, swimming a 1:49.16 to place behind Minnesota’s Max McHugh and Marchand.
He’s looking to become Penn’s first men’s national champion since Chris Swanson in 2016 (1,650 free) and just the second in program history.
The trials (1 p.m. ET) and finals (9 p.m. ET) will both be streamed live on ESPN+.
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