2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 19-22, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center — Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Start Times: Prelims: 10 AM ׀ Finals: 6 PM (Pacific Daylight Time)
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Women’s 200 Medley Relay
NCAA Record: 1:31.51 — Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Cuomo, Douglass) (2023)Championship Record: 1:31.51 — Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Cuomo, Douglass) (2023)American Record: 1:31.51 — Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Cuomo, Douglass) (2023)U.S. Open Record: 1:31.51 — Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Cuomo, Douglass) (2023)2024 Champion: Virginia (G. Walsh, Nocentini, Novelline, Parker) — 1:31.58
Top 8 Finishers:
- Virginia- 1:31.01 **New Everything Record**
- Stanford- 1:33.00
- Louisville- 1:33.41
- California- 1:33.54
- Florida- 1:33.92
- NC State/Texas- 1:34.00
- ASU- 1:34.54
The Virginia women swam to a new everything record to kick off the 2025 NCAA Championships swimming a 1:31.10 in the 200 medley relay. That broke their own record of a 1:31.51 that the team of Gretchen Walsh, Alex Walsh, Lexi Cuomo, and Kate Douglass swam at the 2023 NCAA Championships.
Split Comparison
| New Record | Old Record | |||
| Back | Claire Curzan | 23.17 | Gretchen Walsh | 22.77 |
| Breast | Alex Walsh | 25.62 | Alex Walsh | 26.3 |
| Fly | Gretchen Walsh | 20.88 | Lexi Cuomo | 22.1 |
| Free | Maxine Parker | 21.43 | Kate Douglass | 20.34 |
Today’s relay moved Gretchen Walsh to the fly leg rather than the backstroke leg and she split a 20.88, out in a 9.16 on her first 25. That split is the #2 fly split of all-time. Gretchen Walsh now holds the top 5 fly splits of all-time.
Alex Walsh also posted a big split and was over half a second faster today than she was two years ago. That is tied for the 9th fastest split of all-time.
Top 50 Fly Splits All-Time
- G. Walsh 20.87 (2025 UVA vs. VT Dual)
- G. Walsh 20.88 (2025 NCAAs)
- G. Walsh 21.07 (2025 Eddie Reese Showdown)
- G. Walsh 21.50 (2024 UVA vs. NC State vs. UNC)
- G. Walsh 21.65 (2024 UVA vs. Navy Combined Intrasquad)
Some stats:
Before UVA’s run, the 200 MR all-time record was 1:33.11 (Stanford ’18 – Howe, Williams, Hu, Manuel).
Other than UVA, the only sub-1:33 200 MRs I can find are NC State (1:32.42 in ’23 and 1:32.96 in ’22).
2025 UVA lineup with all lifetime best splits = 1:30.70.
‘B’ lineup with lifetime bests = 1:34.26 (8th) (Howley 24.34, Canny 26.36, Novelline 22.38, Moesch 21.18)
Theoretically, Douglass and Nocentini could have competed this year (glad they didn’t, but still…).
Curzan 22.94 + Nocentini 25.49 + GWalsh 20.87 + Douglass 20.34 = 1:29.64
All Gretchen (including 26.81 split on flat start 100 breast!) = 1:29.73
All Alex W (including 23.64 bk from 2019, and 20.82 free… Read more »
Kind of crazy that the fastest 50 fly split of all time was actually done at a dual.
You can’t strikethrough 2024 Champion. Eventhough 2025’s Virginia are faster, the 2024 NCAA Champion’s time cannot remove by the time from 2025 NCAA. 😁
Exactly! Stop the strikethrough!
A Walsh was 0.11 faster than Nocentini’s time from last year’s NCAAs (that’s a good sign for Walsh) and Parker was just a little slower (21.38 vs. 21.43).
UVA women always getting those everything bagel records
Free leg so slow
UVA 4x200FR….
Canny, Moesch, Grimes, ???
Walsh maybe and then she isn’t on the 2 free relay?
Either A. Walsh or Hayes maybe??
A walsh
Probably Walsh cause she’s been on this relay for a few years
it may be a “new everything” record but is it a world record?
No. That stands at 1:27.91 by the Univ of Wuhan