2024 NCAA Championship ‘B’ finalist in both the 100 fly and 200 IM Jordan Tiffany of BYU has entered the transfer portal looking into graduate options for the 2025-2026 school year.
Tiffany began his undergraduate career at Tennessee during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 year. After his freshman year, he returned home to Utah and worked a landscaping job while doing out-of-the-water workouts.
In November 2022, he made the proposition to longtime BYU head coach Shari Skabelund to try out sprinting, a big change from his 400 IM and 200 fly lineup during his time in high school and as a freshman at Tennessee. Skabelund notably announced her retirement earlier this month.
Tiffany joined the Cougars in the middle of the 2022-2023 season and told SwimSwam that he was a redshirt during that season. This past season, he competed for the Cougars and was “academically a junior.”
Tiffany helped lead the team to their first relay qualification at NCAAs in over 15 years. They earned the ‘A’ cut in the 200 medley relay and ‘B’ cut in the 400 free and 400 medley relay.
Tiffany also earned an individual invite at 2024 NCAAs. Tiffany was 16th in prelims of the 200 IM and finished 14th in finals. He was 10th in prelims of the 100 fly and finished 13th in finals. He also swam in prelims of the 100 free, finishing 35th. He was the only individual scorer for BYU as he scored seven points, helping the team to a 35th place finish.
Tiffany’s best SCY times are:
- 100 free: 42.25
- 100 fly: 44.51
- 200 IM: 1:41.88
In addition to his NCAA impact, Tiffany also had big swims at the Big-12 Championships. Tiffany won the 100 butterfly in a 44.51. His win was one of three events won by a non-Texas swimmer of diver. Teammate Brad Prolo won the 200 fly and West Virginia’s Danny Berlitz won the 400 IM.
Tiffany told SwimSwam that he has one year left of undergrad and then he will look to transfer. He also said that he still is “figuring out” his NCAA eligibility status. As seen in the headline, he does not plan to transfer until next fall in 2025.
His eligibility is a touchy subject… he was swimming in club meets and attached to different clubs during his 2 year hiatus, which is a no no for redshirting purposes.
academic year 1/athletic year 1: Tennessee year- Covid, so it didn’t count athletically
academic year 2/athletic year 1 repeat – sat out (competed and attached at club meets)
academic year 3/athletic year 2, sat out (attached in club meets)
academic year 4/athletic year 3: first year at BYU
academic year 5/athletic year 4: BYU
rumor is he is going to ASU with Herbie. Hope he knows what he’s getting himself into.
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SMU, Alabama, TCU – anywhere but UT please….
Sounds like he is transferring after his undergrad is complete to pursue a masters, etc at another school which most kids do. Very cool to see a kid come back and find a love for swimming again! Props to him and his coaches.
So will he be competing for BYU ‘24-‘25 or is he leaving already?
article says fall 2025. Assuming he still wants to swim which entering a portal would recommend, I am sure he plans to swim since he will age out of eligibility
why was this guy ever swimming the 4 IM?
This is for 2025/26?… Surely BYU is the only program where it wouldn’t be awkward as heck to have team mates that are nearly a decade younger than you? 22 year old BYU “freshman” 😳
This is true, but the head coach did just retire and that was the reason he was there, she gave him the chance again. Don’t think it is because he doesn’t like it there, just looking for another opportunity due to the changes.
Ummmm…nearly a decade younger?
By 2026 he’ll be 25, and some incoming freshman have barely turned 18. Yes, nearly a decade.
7, 10…whatever, I guess you’re saying. Almost all seniors are roughly 4 years older than the freshmen so the difference here is actually only about 3 years compared to “normal “, and not nearly 6 as your comment suggests.
Bet you’re fun at parties.
he is ‘figuring out’ his NCAA eligibility status.
I feel like it is simple, no? He graduated high school in 2020, swam 20-21 season (which grants an extra year), sat out 21-22 and 22-23 seasons, swam 23-24 season. So he has swam 2 seasons of the past 4 years and has 6 years to complete 5 seasons of eligibility (since he swam 20-21), meaning he has 2 years of eligibility left.
NOt sure freshman year at T counted for eligibility which he is probably trying to figure out.
Doesn’t matter if he swam at Tennessee his FR year or not. If he was enrolled in a 4 year school his clock started.
He’ll probably go where he feels he can get the best education for his interests. That’s what school is for, right?