We are giving you a full preview of the 2025 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
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2025 Women’s NCAA Championships Event-by-Event Preview | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN
We are giving you a full preview of the 2025 Women's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Current photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
Good pick Sophie!
After reviewing the results of the 2025 University of Virginia Sprint Olympics, I honestly don’t see Todd DeSorbo placing E. Weber on the women’s 4 x 50 yard medley relay.
https://staging.swimswam.com/gretchen-walsh-goes-20-75-in-the-50-free-faster-than-anyone-else-ever-at-uva-sprint-olympics/
University of Virginia
Women’s 4 x 50 yard medley relay
C. Curzan-A. Walsh-G. Walsh-M. Parker
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
W 500 FR
A. Roghair? Come on! K. Grimes beat A. Roghair straight up in the final of the W 500 FR at the 2025 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships.
W 200 IM
A. Walsh posted the seventh fastest All-Time Performance in the W 200 IM (SCM) at the 2024 Short Course World Championships. Only K. Douglass and K. Hosszu have been faster in the aforementioned event.
W 50 FR
G. Walsh posts a time of 20.25 in the final of the W 50 FR. The University of Virginia needs M. Parker to somehow sneak into the Championship Final in the W 50 FR to keep the University of Texas at bay.
W 400 IM
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Lmao stop making it seem like this is going to be close between Texas and UVA, just so when UVA inevitably wins by a landslide you can pretend that it was Texas choking.
The 2025 NCAA DI Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships will be won or lost by the depth of the University of Virginia roster:
Swimmers
Canny, A.
Gormsen, C.
Hayes, L.
Howley, T.
Moesch, A.
Novelline, C.
Parker, M.
Weber, E.
Divers
Kaye, E.
Divers need some love, too.
Ah, Aimee Canny is not an individual NCAA Champion but an individual ACC Champion.
It will be impossible for Gretchen Walsh to match her performance at the 2024 Short Course World Championships (7 individual world records) which was one for the ages.
I feel like another name to watch out for would be Rachel Stege. Stege has had a very inconsistent over the past couple years with health issues, but she is seemingly back to form now. 4:34 at SCC’s, and considering how much time she has dropped over the past year and a half (1500 free drop from 6:33 to 16:13 in 2023, and then 16:13 to 16:10 in 2024), I wouldn’t put it past her to drop a significant amount of time in both her 500/1650.
I like the way you think, Sherry.
A significant amount of time? R Stege’s personal best time in the W 500 FR is 4:32.87 (SCY).
I think the time drop is due in her mile. Her mile in LC improved a bunch and she was 5th at OTs I think, I wouldn’t be shocked if she gets back down under 16 mins and gets top 8. I also really expect her to be in the final of the 500, I was surprised SS didn’t pick her to be in there.
I like your thinking, but it’ll be really hard for her to go past Grimes and Sims in the 500, and I definitely think she can drop in the 1650, but definitely not 30 seconds. Maybe more like 10.
Stege will have a very good NCAA meet CERTAINLY A final in the 500!