2023 ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, February 14 to Saturday, February 18, 2023
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, North Carolina
- Defending Champions:
- Women: Virginia (3x)
- Men: NC State (1x)
- Full Event Schedule
- Championship Central
- Pre-Scratch Psych Sheets
- Women’s Fan Guide
- Men’s Fan Guide
- Live Results
Women’s 50 Freestyle Results:
- Gretchen Walsh (UVA) – 20.83
- Gabi Albiero (LOU) – 21.36
- Christina Regenauer (LOU) – 21.58
- Katharine Berkoff (NCS) – 21.73
- Grace Countie (UNC) – 21.84
- Sophie Yendell (PITT)/Ella Welch (LOU) – 21.89
- Kylee Alons (NCS) – 22.09
Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh recorded a 20.83 in the 50 freestyle to win tonight’s final by over half a second.
Her swim marked a new NCAA and ACC meet record by just 0.01. The previous record stood at 20.84, and belonged to Walsh’s teammate Kate Douglass at NCAAs last spring. Douglass was not entered in the event at this meet, and instead opted for the 200 IM.
Walsh’s own previous best time stood at 20.94, which she set this past November at the Tennessee Invitational. Her swim moves her from the 4th fastest performer of all-time, to the first.
Fastest All-Time Performers, Women’s 50 Free:
- Gretchen Walsh – 20.83 (2023)
- Kate Douglass – 20.84 (2022)
- Abbey Weitzeil – 20.90 (2019)
- Erika Brown (2020)/Maggie MacNeil (2022) – 21.03
WATCH
FASTEST 50-YARD FREESTYLE EVER 🌊 #GoHoos
𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡, 𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗔 & 𝗨𝗦 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗
🥇 𝗔𝗖𝗖 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡Gretchen Walsh wins the 50 free in 20.83 💨 pic.twitter.com/veGRj5Dwp7
— Virginia Swimming and Dive (@UVASwimDive) February 16, 2023
Crazy long GLIIIIIDE off the wall-doing nothing fast conserving for the explosive propulsion past the rest! Mermaid swimming !
I was hoping this thread would contain comments about the race. Nope. Bogged down by references to the commentators, just like the unreadable live thread
Incredible race by Gretchen, I’m shocked she broke the record at conference, but that commentary was unbearable. I’ve heard better at age group meets.
When you hire your commentators off Wish.com
The commentators are reading this article and learning this for the first time
I can’t help but wonder if she even knows what SwimSwam is
Yards is so weird. 13 strokes to get a record.
crazy how the officials can’t judge the 15m mark. especially Lexi Cuomo. Why even have officials if they can’t do their job?
Yeah man, your view of it on the livestream is definitely better than the officials view in person
or maybe… just maybe…. I was there in person. Crazy concept I know.
Maybe… just maybe you should learn to take an L. Officials have made the correct call. L.
Here’s the B final of the 50 free. Cuomo in lane 3. Looks clean to me. Second 25 is definitely clean, and the first 25, while close, looks good on slow speed (though it’s worth repeating that those red markers are not the official markers).
For those who don’t know this, using the period and comma keys on your keyboard can move a YouTube video frame by frame. Very useful in situations like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oadgvAQUcpc
Just as the video of Gretchen, it is hard to tell from this terrible live stream. In person, it is easy to tell. Get better officials and learn how to swim legally
Maybe someone can get the rulebook but if I remember correctly it is that your head has the break the horizontal plane for the surface, so you can have water go over your cap and your head can have broken that plane/ be up prior to or at the 15m mark. When I look at the Youtube video (frame by frame slow motion) she looks to be up on time.
Another L comment.
She may have gotten the NCAA/US Open/American record, but did she get the coveted meet record???
I don’t want to downplay a job that I really couldnt do well but.. the commentating on that is hard to listen to.