Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we are talking Mid-Season weekend and Golden Goggles.
- 0:00 SwimSwam Breakdown Introduction
- 2:23 Claire Curzan 200 Back American Record
- 7:19 Gretchen Walsh 1:48 200 Back
- 9:36 Rex Maurer 500 Free NCAA Prediction
- 13:29 Jordan Crooks 39.89 100 Free Split
- 20:03 Ilya Kharun 18.89 50 Fly
- 21:07 ASU 800 Free Relay DQ
- 29:03 Dual Meet Records
- 33:00 Golden Goggles
SINK or SWIM
- 43:30 Out of the 36 Events swum at Men’s & Women’s NCAAs, 20 US Open Records will go down
- 49:16 Texas Men win NCAAs
- 54:08 Women’s NCAAs will be within 40 Points
- 57:55 Which NCAA Record do you want to get SUNK?
The University of Texas women’s swimming won’t be within 100 points of the University of Virginia women’s swimming.
Coleman — don’t forget about katie grimes for virginia! alex, gretchen, claire, aimee, leah, AND katie (also anna moesch) make the hoos untouchable. I think the battle for 2-6 will be much, much closer (maybe within that 40 point range).
honestly was shocked they both forgot about her. immediate scorer in 3 individual events, and should be favored to win 1 or 2 of them? If we are assuming 500/1650 free (has the fastest PBs in the NCAA) and 4 IM (only AW has been faster than her)
i also think its super interesting to look ahead at uva vs texas next year as well. adding grimes makes uva MUCH stronger looking forward, and texas will have some big losses of their own after this season as well
I was thinking the same thing(s)! I think every team will take a sizeable step back next year because of the definitive end of Covid years. All of the top teams lose multiple top scorers. I think UVA retains the most intact top-tier group with Curzan, Canny, Hayes, Grimes, and Moesch.
UVA loses a lot, especially in the sprint relays post-Walshes and Parker, but Texas will have challenges of their own in that regard after losing Sticklen, Longi, and Cooper. Plus Hailey Hernandez, Abby Arens, and Olivia Bray depart (has Bray been swimming yet this season?). They might lose (hot take) more of their NCAA scoring points than UVA.
I’d put Florida in the mix, although they will lose Emma… Read more »
University of Virginia women’s swimming
Individual Events (list in chronological order)
Canny, A. – 500 FR, 200 FR, 200 BR
Curzen, C. – 100 FL, 100 BK, 200 BK
Grimes, K. – 500 FR, 400 IM, 1650 FR
Hayes, L. – 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 BR
Moesch, A. – 50 FR, 200 FR, 100 FR
Parker, M. – 50 FR, 200 FR, 100 FR
Walsh, A. – 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 BR
Walsh, G. – 50 FR, 100 FL, 100 FR
C. Gormsen is a wildcard in the W 500 FR if she hits her taper.
Tess Howley and Emma Weber are almost definite points scorers as well. Novelline, Wilson, Skirboll, Tiltmann, Bathurst are on the cusp.