Top 3 Times in Each NCAA Women’s Event After 2025 Midseason Meets

Before midseason meets, SwimSwam compiled the top three times in every event. With the Minnesota Invite wrapping up on Saturday, a lot of the times got faster, though some did not.

• Related: Men’s Updated Top Three

Here is an updated list of the top three times in every event after midseasons with the changes in bold.

The top time in almost every event got faster, and in many events, the top time before midseasons would not even make the current top three.

In many events, the same person leads the rankings, just with a faster time. Going into invites, Anna Moesch and Claire Curzan were the only swimmers with more than one top time. Both of them still lead two events with Curzan jumping to the top spot in the 100 back (49.12) and maintaining her position in the 200 back (1:47.89) while Moesch still leads the 100 free (45.98) and 200 free (1:40.25).

Joining them at the top in multiple events are Texas sophomore Jillian Cox, who has the top times in the 500 freestyle and 1650 freestyle after not leading a single event coming into the meets, Stanford seniors Torri Huske, who lost her spot on the 400 IM rankings but jumped to the top of the 50 free (21.01) and 100 fly (48.90), and Lucy Bell, who leads the 200 breast (2:04.69) and 200 IM (1:52.65).

Michigan’s Bella Sims and Indiana’s Miranda Grana both make three appearances on the list. Sims has the top time in the country in the 400 IM (3:58.02), the 2nd fastest time in the 100 back (49.17), and the 3rd fastest time in the 200 free (1:41.17) while Grana sits in 3rd in the 100 back (49.89), 200 back (1:49.06), and 100 fly (49.98).

Virginia still makes the most appearances on the list with nine of the 42 available individual spots going to the Cavaliers. They also lead the nation in the 200 free, 400 free, 200 medley, and 400 medley relays and sit 2nd in the 400 free relay behind Stanford. They don’t typically race the 800 freestyle relay before ACCs and this year has been no different.

Stanford has seven individual spots on the list, one more than the six they had before midseasons. Three of the spots belong to Torri Huske, three are Lucy Bell, and one is Caroline Bricker.

When looking at the actual times, all but two events got faster from the beginning of November to now, the 100 breast and the 200 back.

Claire Curzan‘s 200 back time of 1:47.89 from UVA’s meet with UNC in October is still the top time in the country, but Maggie Wanezek jumped up to 2nd on the list with the 1:48.39 she swam at the Texas Hall of Fame Invite and Miranda Grana improved her time to swim 1:49.06, and dropped from 2nd to 3rd.

The women’s 100 breaststroke rankings did not change at all. All three of the top times in the country are from October. Lucy Bell‘s 57.88 from the Texas Invite is the top ranked midseason time at 4th so far this season.

Most of the times are also faster than they were at this point last season. All three of the top times in the 200 freestyle come in ahead of Stephanie Balduccini‘s 1:41.85 that was the top time last season.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, some big name graduations have seen a few events come in quite a bit slower.

The women’s 200 fly top time is two seconds slower than it was last season with UVA’s Tess Howley leading the country in 1:51.81. At this point last year, Emma Sticklen of Texas held the top time in 1:49.54.

Gretchen Walsh led the country in three events after 2024 midseasons. Her 50 free of 20.54 sits about half-a-second ahead of Huske’s 21.01, and her 100 fly of 47.35, which was an NCAA Record at the time, is more than a second-and-a-half faster than Huske’s current top time of 48.90.