2025 CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge
- November 21-23, 2025
- Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatics Center, Knoxville, TN
- Dual Meet Bracket Format
- Teams:
- Arizona State (Big 12)
- Michigan (Big Ten)
- Tennessee (SEC)
- Virginia (ACC)
- Live Results
- Live stream available on the USA Swimming Network app and ESPN+
- Results on Meet Mobile as “CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge Meet 2 12PM”
As the 5-time defending NCAA Champion Virginia women find their new identities in the post-Walsh era, a new generation of freestyle fiends are emerging this week during the CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge.
In the team’s Saturday afternoon meet against Michigan, sophomore Anna Moesch moved into the top five performers of all-time in both the 100 and 200 yard freestyles; and freshman Sara Curtis moved into the top five performers of all-time in both the 50 freestyle and 50 back.
Moesch won both the 200 free (1:40.25) and 100 free (45.98) as her team dominated Michigan.
Her swim in the 200 free now ranks her as the 4th-best woman in the history of the event, bumping the greatest female swimmer of all-time Katie Ledecky from that spot.
Top 5 Performers, Women’s 200 SCY Freestyle
- Missy Franklin, Cal – 1:39.10
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 1:39.34
- Mallory Comerford, Louisville – 1:39.80
- Anna Moesch, Virginia – 1:40.25
- Katie Ledecky, Stanford – 1:40.36
Her best time last year was 1:42.39, but she already surpassed that this season in the team’s dual meet against Florida, swimming 1:41.42. Her improvements really came in the back-half of her race: on Saturday she split 49.74/50.51, whereas at NCAAs last year she split 50.37/52.02.
In her next race, Moesch swam 45.98 to win the 100 free, which makes her just the 5th woman in history to go under 46 seconds in the event.
Top 5 Performers, Women’s 100 SCY Freestyle
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 44.71
- Simone Manuel, Stanford – 45.56
- Erika Brown, Tennessee – 45.83
- Kate Douglass, Virginia – 45.86
- Anna Moesch, Virginia – 45.98
She again bumped an Olympic gold medalist from that list: Torri Huske, who swam 46.01 at last year’s NCAA Championship meet. Moesch’s previous best was again from a dual meet earlier this year: she swam 46.53 against UNC a month ago. Her best coming into the season was 46.76.
Moesch’s swims come after only doing relays in the team’s opening round matchup with Arizona State on Friday.
Moesch wasn’t the only Cavalier to climb the all-time rankings on Saturday. The freshman Curtis was 2nd in the 100 free in 46.62, which moves her to 17th place all-time, and in the 50 free she swam 21.19, which ties her for 13th-best in history.
Not to be overlooked, Michigan senior Brady Kendall swam 21.34 for 2nd, which also moved her into the top 25 in history.
But Curtis’ most head-turning performances may have come in her relay swims. She split 20.77 on the team’s 200 free relay on a rolling start (the live recap has the relays reversed), and also split 22.83 on the leadoff leg of the team’s winning 200 medley relay.
While Curtis is best-known as a sprint freestyler, she has the kind of speed that really plays in all four strokes, especially in short course.
That 50 back split is the 10th-best performance and makes her the 4th-best performer in history.
Top 5 Performers, Women’s 50 SCY Backstroke
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 22.10
- Maggie MacNeil, Michigan – 22.52
- Katharine Berkoff, NC State – 22.76
- Sara Curtis, Virginia – 22.83
- Claire Curzan, Virginia – 2025
While the loss of a star of the power of Gretchen Walsh, maybe the best college swimmer in history, will inevitably leave a hole, this Virginia team is still deep enough to feel secure in their quest for a 6th consecutive title.
Title on 2nd list, correct to 100 SCY.
Cheers.
Moesch is a second year.
It’s a shame she didn’t make the pan pacs roster I think she go a 52 this summer assuming she does a big tapered meet instead of pan pacs
made no sense to pick pan pac team one year out
a trials meet in June makes more sense
knocked Simone Manuel, Taylor Ruck, and Torri Huske out of the top 5, not bad
Holy shit
Huge. LOVE to see it.
And on a side note, I wonder what Rylee Erisman will think when she sees these swims … there aren’t too many recruiting tools better than swims like that.
get ready for the downvotes…
I bet you weren’t saying this when Heilman + Williamson committed to UVA lol
I’d take Dave^2 and Huger training a female sprint freestyler over UVA’s staff training a male middle distance flyer and middle distance freestyler/IMer any day of the week
The best women’s sprint practices in the World are in Charlottesville and it’s not close. Lawhoo get used to the reflective, uninformed biases.
I feel like Virginia fans are genuinely on a different planet sometimes. I don’t think there’s another school this bad. I feel like you can tell who’s joking/being a troll when it comes to other schools but with UVA, it genuinely is like they believe every word they type
I mean objectively women sprinters at uva kill it. It’s seems like a close equivalent of bowman with Imers. If we objectively look at data it’s right.
I meant the “reflective, uninformed biases” piece
I answered your point. You brought it on mate.
Just like you with Maximus Williamson and Texas?
They are ridiculous lol. Great for women sprinters but ngl Katie Grimes and Alex Walsh will have to try something new if they want to improve
Maybe Katie but Alex is consistently top 3 200 imers only behind kd and summer? Also most versatile college swimmer ever? That makes zero sense.
Literally what happened to Katie Grimes
She’s hardly the first Sandpiper female superstar to struggle away from Ron.
Remember those who said the same about Bella Sims (re: Katie)? Chill. And Alex is an elite swimmer, one of the best college swimmers of all time and finding her way in pro.
No, I wouldn’t have said that. I have no pretenses about the UVA men’s poor performances over the past few years. I do hope they can turn it around.
Clearly Todd was able to entice Thomas and Maximus using a different recruiting tool. Someone else might do that with Rylee too.
I was merely pointing out that if I were a top high school recruit who wanted to make world championship and Olympic teams, watching swimmers with similar talents (i.e. sprinters) consistently develop into absolute world-class athletes through a specific coach/program would be a big draw.
Clearly there *are* better recruiting tools since zero girls from the class of 2027 have committed to swim at UVA. And it’s almost December…
I hope Rylee goes where its the best fit —likely Cal or UVA.
She never took a trip to UVA
You found a year! Let’s see what happens when it is final.