2025 Women’s Division I NCAA Championships: Swims You Might Have Missed On Night 3

2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

Highlighting night 3 of the NCAA Championships was Wisconsin’s Cal Dunn as she swam to another lifetime best and school record posting a 4:04.20 in the 400 IM after swimming a 4:04.85 in prelims. Dunn entered the season with a lifetime best of a 4:07.26, a time that she swam as a senior for 14th at last year’s NCAAs.

Fellow teammate Phoebe Bacon also had a swim you might have missed as she posted a 50.00 in the 100 back, just missing becoming the 16th swimmer to break 50-seconds in the event. Bacon entered the season with a best time of a 50.39 from 2021 NCAAs.

Sophie Yendell 50.83 100 fly for 11th, faster than her previous life best time of a 50.87 that she swam at 2024 ACCs. Her previous season best was a 51.13 from ACCs.

Stanford senior Lillie Nordmann cracked the 51-second mark for the first time in her career posting a 50.96 for 12th. Nordmann’s previous lifetime best was a 51.26 that she swam last year at NCAAs to finish 12th in prelims before going on to finish 12th in finals in a 51.38.

Cal’s Lea Polonsky swam to a 4th place finish in the 200 free touching in a 1:41.85. That dropped almost a full second off her lifetime best o fa 1:42.71 that she swam last month leading off the team’s 800 free relay. Polonsky switched her event lineup from a year ago as she swam the 400 IM at NCAAs last year.

Texas freshman Lillie Nesty posted a best time en route to a 10th place finish int he 200 free. Nesty touched in a 1:42.86, fastest than her previous lifetime best of a 1:43.21 that she swam in January at the Eddie Reese Showdown. She arrived in Austin this fall with a lifetime best of a 1:43.87.

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Anya Pelshaw

Anya has been with SwimSwam since June 2021 as both a writer and social media coordinator. She was in attendance at the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Women's NCAA Championships writing and doing social media for SwimSwam. She also attended 2023 US Summer Nationals as well as the 2024 European Championships …

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