{"id":655156,"date":"2026-10-10T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=655156"},"modified":"2026-10-10T16:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:58:51","slug":"ilya-kharun-albane-cachot-dominate-as-arizona-state-sun-devils-sweep-smu-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ilya-kharun-albane-cachot-dominate-as-arizona-state-sun-devils-sweep-smu-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Kharun, Albane Cachot Dominate as Arizona State Sun Devils Sweep SMU Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilya Kharun, Albane Cachot Dominate as Arizona State Sun Devils Sweep SMU Classic<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Arizona State Sun Devils put on an impressive performance this weekend in Dallas at SMU Classic, wrapping up wins in the men’s and women’s competition. Led by Ilya Kharun<\/strong>, the men scored 324 points to comfortably defeat Virginia Tech (256), Southern Methodist (234), Missouri (259) and Arizona (183). For the women’s competition, ASU had 369 points to surpass Arkansas (310), SMU (271), Missouri (246), Virginia Tech (238) and Arizona (228).<\/p>\n

The Sun Devil men produced a time of 3:01.93 for a dominant performance in the 400 medley relay.\u00a0Nathan Muratory <\/strong>and Oliver Munn<\/strong> handled the opening legs before Kharun blasted a 43.37 butterfly split and\u00a0Quin Seider<\/strong> came home in 41.36. Kharun turned his attention to the 50 freestyle and produced a winning time of 18.72. Later on, he swam a time of 44.39 in the 100 fly.<\/p>\n

The second day of the meet opened with Muratory, Munn, Kharun and\u00a0Tolu Young\u00a0<\/strong>winning the 200 medley relay in 1:22.39, Kharun returning to speed quickly with his 19.10 butterfly split. He produced a time of 1:40.75 to win the 200 fly, about three seconds behind his winning time of 1:37.66 from last season’s NCAA Championships. To conclude the meet, Kharun led off his team’s 200 free relay in 18.60, and he was joined by\u00a0Filip Senc-Samardzic<\/strong>,\u00a0Seider and Young in the winning effort. Young came home in 18.48 as the team recorded a time of 1:15.44.<\/p>\n

Seider had ASU’s first individual win Friday, clocking a time of 1:33.26 in the 200 freestyle, and he later split 1:31.78 anchoring the Sun Devils’ 800 free relay. Filip Senc-Samardzic<\/strong>, JT Ewing<\/strong> and Mattia Mauri<\/strong> joined Seider on that squad, which finished in 6:15.91.<\/p>\n

JT Ewing<\/strong> grabbed the win in the 400 IM in 3:45.21, using a sizzling 24.86 closing split to run down SMU’s\u00a0Andy Baklanov<\/strong> (3:45.42). Ewing later picked up the win in the 200 IM at 1:45.79. Muratory topped the 100 backstroke (46.12) as well as the 200-yard race (1:39.77), and Munn finished first in the 100 breaststroke (52.35).<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech’s Eli Martin<\/strong> was the winner of the 200 breast, finishing in 1:53.14 as he came from behind to beat Munn (1:53.59). Brendan Whitfield<\/strong>, who opened his meet with a 41.68 anchor split on Virginia Tech’s 400 medley relay, won the individual 100 free in 41.93. SMU’s Francis Brennan<\/strong> won the 500 free in 4:18.54, and in diving, Luke Sitz<\/strong> topped 1-meter (358.35) and 3-meter (427.25).<\/p>\n