Georgia Champion Luca Urlando Out of NCAA Championships With Injury
Luca Urlando has withdrawn from the NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships.
The Georgia graduate student won the 200 butterfly title in an NCAA record last year.
Urlando posted that he has an injury and will miss the meet.
“Tough timing with a minor injury so I won’t be competing at NCAAs next week. I’ll be cheering on my Dawgs,” Luca Urlando wrote on Instagram.
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Luca Urlando won the SEC title in the 200 fly and was third in the 100 fly.
It will be a lot of points left on the table for Georgia and will affect the Bulldog relays.
Luca Urlando broke the 200 butterfly American, NCAA and U.S. Open records three times. He also held the 100 backstroke record.
He finished 17th in 200m butterfly at 2024 Olympic Games. He also was the 2025 World Champion in 200m butterfly with personal-best time of 1:51.87, the second-fastest American time in history and fourth-fastest overall.
He won NCAA championship in 200 butterfly with American, NCAA, U.S. Open, SEC, and school record time of 1:36.43 and earned First Team CSCAA All-America citations in 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly, 800 freestyle relay, 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay, along with second-team honors in the 200 IM and 400 freestyle relay.