The Teams Arrive In Federal Way For 2025 Women’s NCAAs: Social Media Edition

Anya Pelshaw
by Anya Pelshaw 32

March 18th, 2025 News

2025 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

The 2025 Women’s Division I NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships begin tomorrow night with the 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay. Most teams made the trip out to Seattle on Sunday or Monday. Some teams had 17 hour travel days, and the 4x defending champions of Virginia flew on a charter jet.

Since arriving, a few teams did some sight seeing. Florida’s Jojo Ramey even caught a fish while at the Seattle Public Market.

See the adventures as shown on social media below.

Travel Day

@anna_peplowski

Seemless travel day with half the girls⚪️🔴 #ncaa #swimming #indianauniversity #travelday

♬ Unlock it x better off alone NO JAY PARK – YeehawBrotherrrrr

@kat1e.drumm

Fly with us to NCAA’s!☘️ South Bend ➡️ Federal Way #nd #swim #ncaa

♬ original sound – nicole

@bradsisrad

Just the most isane travel day ever. Hiiii west coast😀

♬ original sound – Iamdjayeli

@gracecooper665

Travel with me to Federal Way, WA! ✈️ #fyp #travelday #washington #texas #flight #tacoma #ncaa #swimminganddiving

♬ original sound – gracecooper66

@peg.hall

DIML travel day!! Last NCAAs🥹 #ohiostate #swimming #studentathlete #ohiostateathletics #bigten #ncaa

♬ Say You Love Me – Fleetwood Mac

@skylerasmithhh

I have never been so happy to shower and go to bed in my life #travel #ncaa #swimming #diml #d1athlete

♬ OUT OF MY LEAGUE – xpepporoniz

@boothanggg11

PJ to NCAAs ✈️🪐✨✨ #uvaswimming

♬ Finesse (feat. Koncept P, willnosleep & avonosleep) – Michael Prince

 

Arriving At The Pool

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Queens
6 hours ago

Is Stanford staying for the entire meet? 🌲💥💪

Last edited 6 hours ago by Queens
Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
Reply to  Queens
6 hours ago

LOL!

pea brain
Reply to  Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
52 seconds ago

stfu

Snowstorm
6 hours ago

I’d love to see the SwimSwam team’s version. I hope you all have matching sweats.

Bill Shunheisen
7 hours ago

Nothing says class like wearing sweats at the airport.

owen
Reply to  Bill Shunheisen
6 hours ago

do you want them in pantsuits

M L
Reply to  Bill Shunheisen
6 hours ago

Nothing says class like criticizing the appearance of happy young women.

The Original Aquadog
Reply to  Bill Shunheisen
6 hours ago

Go to bed, grandpa. No one dresses up for team travel anymore.

Scoobsnak
Reply to  Bill Shunheisen
5 hours ago

shut up, nerd.

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
7 hours ago

UVa must have stuffed the coaching staff in baggage.

This Guy
Reply to  Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
6 hours ago

Todd was flying it

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
Reply to  This Guy
5 hours ago

He took a puddle jumper to Washington, D.C. and is flying first class on a Boeing 767 non-stop to Seattle, WA. Head coach status has its privileges.

YeeHaw
Reply to  Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
3 hours ago

Rude

sjostrom stan
Reply to  This Guy
1 hour ago

dude strikes me as someone who randomly has a pilot license

Noah
7 hours ago

Surprised teams waited until so close to the meet to travel with the 3 hour time difference for some

IU Swammer
Reply to  Noah
6 hours ago

NCAA rules don’t give much travel time.

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
7 hours ago

I hated flying on the Embraer Jets. The seats have practically no padding, so it’s sitting on a piece of plywood.

This Guy
7 hours ago

So UVA cuts diving but takes a PJ?

Crooked lane lines
Reply to  This Guy
7 hours ago

Maybe the jet was sponsored by Celsius and sporti… (wink)

MigBike
Reply to  This Guy
7 hours ago

They deserve to take a private jet!

Gatorswammer
Reply to  This Guy
7 hours ago

It’s not a private jet, it’s a chartered flight. If you need 30 spots flying out of these college towns, you book all the seats. Happens all the time.

This Guy
Reply to  Gatorswammer
6 hours ago

They literally captioned and hashtagged PrivateJet #PJ

Scoobsnak
Reply to  This Guy
5 hours ago

I mean they can call it whatever they want, its pretty clearly from the video a chartered flight via Denver Air Connection, which is a commercial airline.

Edna Mode
Reply to  This Guy
7 hours ago

And cut 7 swimmers

swimgeek
Reply to  This Guy
6 hours ago

Looks like a charter – not exactly a luxury jet. They have almost 20 athletes. Cville is a small airport – doubtful any direct flights. It makes sense.

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
Reply to  swimgeek
6 hours ago

There is no first class on an Embraer Jet.

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
Reply to  This Guy
6 hours ago

As if the University of Virginia can afford to even lease a private jet.

Snowstorm
Reply to  This Guy
6 hours ago

It honestly doesn’t look very comfortable, especially if they were flying all the way to Seattle and not just the closest major airport.

Walsh-Madden-Grimes-Weinstein
Reply to  Snowstorm
5 hours ago

It isn’t. Virtually no leg room, narrow seats, plywood seating (the seat cushions are wafer thin).

SwimtotheMoon24
Reply to  This Guy
4 hours ago

Will the men take a PJ 🤔

FastSwimming
Reply to  SwimtotheMoon24
4 hours ago

They’d be lucky to be in cargo

YeeHaw
Reply to  SwimtotheMoon24
3 hours ago

They’re loading up in a second hand school bus as we speak.

Saving the PJ for next year.

About Anya Pelshaw

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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