Welcome to the 2025 GHSA Swimming and Diving State Championships held at the Westminster Schools and the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center! We are excited to see all of the spectators out to support our athletes, and the entire event will be streamed live on the NFHS Network as well. These facilities are the premier facilities in the country and Georgia has produced some of the best swimmers and divers in the country, and this year is no di erent.
This year's event is sure to be an exciting one! Special thanks to GHSA Swimming and Diving liaison Andy Cowart, and diving coordinator Vicky Sanchez for coordinating the events, as well as Franke Marsden and Matt Murphy for running the meet. I want to thank the many volunteers who make this event possible and run smoothly. We extend our special appreciation to Georgia Tech and the Westminster Schools for being our hosts. Finally, we thank our sponsors and hope you will support them and our corporate sponsors whenever possible.
Thank you for supporting GHSA Swimming and Diving and please join me in o ering best wishes for all of our competitors.
Dr. Tim Scott
ORDER OF EVENTS
(BOYS EVENTS PRECEDE GIRLS EVENTS)
200-Yard Medley Relay
200-Yard Freestyle
200-Yard Individual Medley
50-Yard Freestyle
1-Meter Diving
100-Yard Butterfly
100-Yard Freestyle
500-Yard Freestyle
200-Yard Freestyle Relay
100-Yard Backstroke
100-Yard Breaststroke
400-Yard Freestyle Relay
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2025 SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS MEET SCHEDULE
DIVING
All diving events will be conducted at Westminster
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
7-8:30 a.m. – Open Warm-Up
8:30-8:50 a.m. – 1-4A Boys Warm-Ups
9-10:30 a.m. – 1-4A Boys Prelims
10:40-11:20 a.m. – 1-4A Boys Finals
11:20-11:50 a.m. – 1-4A Girls Warm-Ups
11:50-2:20 p.m. – 1-4A Girls Prelims
2:30-3 p.m. – 1-4A Girls Finals
3-3:45 p.m. – 5-6A Warm-Ups (boards close to boys only at 3:30 p.m.)
3:45-4:45 p.m. – 5-6A Boys Prelims
4:55-5:25 p.m. – 5-6A Boys Finals
5:25-5:55 p.m. – 5-6A Girls Warm-Ups
5:55-6:55 p.m. – 5-6A Girls Prelims
7:05-7:35 p.m. – 5-6A Girls Finals
SWIMMING
All swimming events will be conducted at Georgia Tech
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 – 1-3A & 4A
7:30-9:20 a.m. – 1-3A & 4A Swimming Warm-Ups
9:30-1 p.m. – 1-3A & 4A Swimming Prelims
Prelims for all 1-4A schools will be conducted in two 10 lane courses. Boys will swim in the west pool. Girls will swim in the east pool.
Thursday, February 6, 2025 – 1-3A & 4A
11:45-1:20 p.m. – 1-3A & 4A Swimming Warm-Ups 1:30-5 p.m. – 1-3A & 4A Swimming Finals
Finals for all 1-4A schools will be conducted in two 10 lane courses. The 1-3A events will swim in the west pool. The 4A events will swim in the east pool.
Friday, February 7, 2025 – 5-6A
7:30-9:30 a.m. – 6A Swimming Warm-Ups
9:30-1 p.m. – 6A Swimming Prelims 4:30-6 p.m. – 5A Swimming Warm-Ups 6-9:30 p.m. – 5A Swimming Prelims
Prelims will be conducted in two 10 lane courses. Boys will swim in the west pool. Girls will swim in the east pool.
Saturday, February 8, 2025 – 5-6A
8:30-10 a.m. – 6A Swimming Warm-Ups 10-1 p.m. – 6A Swimming Finals
4:30-6 p.m. – 5A Swimming Warm-Ups
6-9:30 p.m. – 5A Swimming Finals
All finals events will be swum in the east pool.
SEVEN PROGRAMS LOOK TO THREE-PEAT AT GHSA SWIMMING & DIVING STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Georgia high school swim and dive season will come to an end as the 2025 GHSA Swimming and Diving State Championships will wrap up another season of action in the water.
The state championships take place Feb. 4 to Feb. 8 when swimmers and divers report to the pools for a chance to be crowned champion. The diving events are Tuesday at Westminster and the swimming portion takes place Wednesday through Saturday at the Georgia Tech Aquatics Center.
RETURNING GREATNESS AND CHAMPIONSHIP DEFENSES
Consistency and steadfast determination were the highlights of the 2024 state championships. On the boys side, each of the four classifications had defending champions — Walton (7A), Johns Creek (6A), Chattahoochee (45A) and Wesleyan (A-5A). And for Johns Creek’s, it won the program’s fourth-straight state championship and fifth in six seasons.
On the girls side, three classifications had back-toback champions — Lassiter (6A), Westminster (4-5A) and Wesleyan (A-3A). The Lassiter girls’ team won its fifthstraight championship and look to replicate that success in 2025.
The Westminster girls won their seventh-straight state championship, the program’s 28th title, one year ago. The only team to break the mold as a non-repeat champion in 2024 was Brookwood, which took home the school’s eighth girls swimming state championship and the first since 2019, where the program defended its 2018 title.
BY MAX WOLBORSKY | MWOLBORSKY@SCOREATL.COM
RECLASSIFICATION SHAKE-UP
The reigning champions will compete in new-look classes this season, due to the GHSA reclassification cycle which creates new rivalries or reignites contests of old.
Four reigning state champions will compete in new classifications this season.
The sitting Class 7A champions, Walton’s boys and Brookwood’s girls, are both moving to Class 6A. The Class 6A champions, Johns Creek’s boys and Lassiter’s girls, both move to Class 5A.
Unlike years prior when Class 4A and Class 5A were scored together, the classifications have been split apart in 2025 after the scoring divisions shifted in the reclass cycle.
This year the classes will be scored as Class 6A, Class 5A, Class 4A and Classes 1-3A.
FAMILIAR FACES AND FROWNING FOES
Westminster is seeking the team’s 58th combined boys and girls state title and the expectations are high surrounding the Wildcats. The girls team won its 28th state championship a year ago and have won seven-straight titles. The boys team is seeking the top of the podium once again for the first time since 2022 and look for its 29th state championship. This year, Westminster will be in Class 4A after competing in Class 1A-3A since 2018, when the GHSA expanded from Classes 6A-7A and 1A-5A.
Along with Westminster, the Johns Creek boys dominant run has continued into 2025 as the Gladiators have not lost a state championship meet since 2020, when Dalton won the 6A title. The Gladiators want their sixth state championship while keeping the state championship winning streak alive.
WHO’S WHO?
Coming o its fifth straight state championship, the Lassiter swim team is gunning for its sixth in-a-row. Lassiter swimmers Cody Miles and Kate Bradley will re-enter the water, coming o first place finishes a year ago.
Miles won first place in the 500-Yard Freestyle (4:33:36) while Bradley won multiple events such as the 500-Yard Freestyle (4:59:57) and the 100-Yard Butterfly (55.23) to help the Lassiter girls to their 10th state championship victory since 2005. Miles and the Lassiter boys are seeking the boys’ first state championship victory.
A pair of talented Westminster swimmers will be back in the water after podium finishes a year ago. Connor Christopherson will look to finish in first place this season after a pair of second place finishes a year ago. In last season’s state championships, Christopherson finished second in both the 200-Yard Freestyle (1:39:39) and the 100-Yard Freestyle (45.83) and will attempt to finish first in just his second season of high school swimming.
On the girls side for Westminster, Greta Myers took home multiple first place finishes a year ago as she won the 200-Yard Freestyle (1:51:54) as well as the 100-Yard Butterfly (55.49) as she was able to help the Wildcats win yet another swimming and diving state championship.
A pair of Wesleyan swimmers that played a huge part in the team’s success a year ago are back again this season in Max Perry and Hattie Wasmuth. The two continue to lead the Wesleyan swim team on the quest for its third championship in a row in both girls and boys. Perry made the podium twice in last year’s championships, finishing in first place in the 50-Yard Freestyle (21.03) and second in the 100-Yard Freestyle (46.83). Wasmuth finished first in the 200-Yard IM (2:06:45) and second in the 100-Yard Backstroke (57.14).
