Florida vs. Virginia
- October 18, 2024
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- 25 Meters (SCM)
- Results on Meet Mobile: “Virginia vs Florida”
- Full Meet Recap
Gretchen Walsh had herself a day on Friday in the University of Virginia’s dual meet against Florida. After a banner-raising ceremony to celebrate the Cavaliers’ fourth-straight NCAA Championship, Walsh broke three American Records in the first hour of the meet before eventually finishing her day with a new World Record in the women’s 100 IM during a time trial race.
The University of Virginia has posted race videos of these swims.
Gretchen Walsh – 55.98 World Record, 100 IM
Gretchen Walsh – 25.37 in the 50 Backstroke (Medley Relay Leadoff Leg), New American Record
Lane 4, from the top.
Gretchen Walsh – 54.89 in the 100 Backstroke, New American Record
Lane 4, from the top
Gretchen Walsh – 23.10 in the 50 Freestyle, New American Record
Lane 4, from the top
That was fancy as hell
This video is a very sad state of affairs for swimming. Crowd isn’t into it. The swimmers on deck don’t cheer or stand up.
Kyle Sockwell- this is why swimming is dying. A WR gets crushed, and nobody on deck cares.
Gretchen did her part. UVA fans didn’t
I think she was on her stomach on the back to breast turn. If she does that at SC worlds she gets dq certainly
And how could you see that in a distant video when nobody on deck standing right over her didn’t?
Actually … the official isn’t standing over her… she is a lane and a bit to the side having moved from being the starter… and the swimmer is rotating towards the official… so official is not well sighted to determine if she has rotated ‘towards the front’ before her touch.
Shall we be honest?
1. The NCAA’s refusal to transition from SCY to SCMs is costing college swimmers a lot of fame, publicity and straight up cash in both NIL revenue possibilities, and prize money.
Could this be intentional?
2. The dive can be followed by 15m underwater, but if we want to retain the strokes, after the turns there should be no more than 10m underwater (except breastroke, where the rules should stay as is).
Shall we be honest? What country are you from, Swifter?
I don’t disagree that SCM makes a lot more sense for a number of reasons, but there is a major infrastructure hurdle. Its not exactly easy or cheap to add 3 more meters to every pool, not to mention all the thousands of high schools, YMCAs etc.
yeah its literally mostly an infrastructure problem. Not to mention, if the demanded SCM only for meets, many many programs outside of the power 4 (5) conferences would likely be marked as an easy program to cut.
I could see more encouragement to do SCM during the season, especially if they nail down the conversion factors a bit better. You could for sure see more dual meet or even invites in SCM and that could slowly encourage the transition. Maybe even a USAS SCM meet or two (maybe a PSS OR a summer SCM champs mid quad)
The infrastructure issue is too big for a rule that all meets MUST be scm, but another option exists. They could just switch championship meets to scm and say that schools who can do scm need to do it. That would immediately switch most of D1 while allowing scy to continue elsewhere.
NIL has nothing to with meters vs yards….
The point is that breaking a WORLD RECORD creates more buzz and would drive more NIL money to swimmers