In 2025, Cuesta Swimmer Grant Huston won three 3C2A State titles in the three most popular events, the 50, 100 and 200-freestyles, but shared the 2025 Swimmer of the Year Award with two other swimmers, who also won three events.  This year, Huston would not entertain any equals.  Huston, like all great champions, motivated himself to a higher purpose.  After earned all-Conference First Team honors in water polo during the Fall, he set his sights on swimming.  He obliterated the Cougars' record board and currently holds every record on the books, except for the non-championship 50-backstroke and the 1-meter and 3-meter diving marks.  He led the State in nearly every event, but was limited, by rule, to only three events at the championships.  He watched as his backstroke marks fell but demonstrated his dominance and versatility with a display with a performance that awed any pretenders to his title.  Huston entered all three individual medley events, the 100, 200 and 400, and proceeded to break the 3C2A State Record in all three events.  He also joined fellow all-Americans Brady Lind and Zach Pechan for a win in the 200-medley relay and a Silver in the 400-medley Relay.  Lind came back from his Redshirt season and re-established his all-American credentials by finishing 5th in the 50-freestyle (:20.83) and 3rd (1:52.19) and 6th (:49.64) in the 200 and 100 butterflies.  Pechan, who spoiled Huston's clean sweep of the Cuesta record board, posted all-American times in the 100 (:49.64) and 200-backstrokes (1:54.59).

The Cougars won their third straight Western State Conference title under Coach Greg Enloe and their sixth straight title dating back to the pandemic.  The men's team remains the department's third winningest program and is tied with baseball, which began in 1966, with 21 conference titles.  However, fellow their fellow Cuesta "Aqua-Jocks", Men's Water Polo and Women's Swimming, which also began in 1979, lead the title chase with 32 and 21 titles, respectively.