ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Dates:
- Diving: Sunday, February 15–Tuesday, February 17
- Swimming: Tuesday, February 17–Saturday, February 21
- Location: McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending champions: UVA women (6x); Cal men (1x)
- Live Results
- Live Video: ESPN+ ($)
- Schedule of Events (PDF)
- Championship Central
- Pre-Scratch Psych Sheet
- Teams: Boston College, Cal, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami (women swimming & diving/men diving), NC State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Virginia, Virginia Tech
Women’s 800 Free Relay – Timed Finals
- NCAA Record: 6:44.13- Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Canny, Curzan), 2025
- ACC Record: 6:44.13- Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Canny, Curzan), 2025
- ACC Championship Record: 6:44.13- Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Canny, Curzan), 2025
Pool Record: 6:48.30- Stanford (Huske, Ruck, Smith, Forde), 2022- 2026 NCAA Championships Qualifying Time: 7:00.86
- 2026 NCAA Championships Provisional Qualifying Time: 7:05.18
Top 8:
- Virginia – 6:45.34
- Cal – 6:50.15
- Stanford – 6:54.09
- Louisville – 6:54.75
- NC State – 6:57.54
- Pitt – 7:00.42
- Virginia Tech – 7:03.27
- Notre Dame – 7:03.70
Virginia swam to the second-fastest time in history in the 800 free relay tonight, faster than the 2016 Stanford team of Simone Manuel, Lia Neal, Ella Eastin, and Katie Ledecky, and only a second slower than they were last year despite graduating both Walsh sisters and electing not to swim Claire Curzan on this relay.
Virginia led off tonight with Aimee Canny, who shaved 0.04 seconds off her best time to go 1:41.81. That was two tenths faster than she managed off a flying start last year, and she handed over to Madi Mintenko with a lead over the field of more than a second and a half.
Mintenko was half a second under her flat-start best of 1:41.70 to go 1:41.25. That almost matched Cal’s Mia West, who split 1:40.95 to continue her breakout sophomore season and pulled the Bears into 2nd place at halfway. Louisville’s Anastasia Gorbenko, who had just swum the third-fastest 50 breast split in history on the Cardinals victorious 200 medley relay, split 1:41.61 to overtake Stanford.
Cavan Gormsen had the fastest third leg in the field, swimming 1:41.86 to come in 1.6 seconds faster than her flat-start best. She handed over to Anna Moesch with a lead of more than three seconds, before the sophomore ran away from the field on the anchor leg. She had the fastest split of anyone tonight to go 1:40.42, 1.4 seconds quicker than 200 free world championships bronze medalist Claire Weinstein from Cal.
Virginia were faster than they were last year, and Stanford were in 2017, on every leg bar the leadoff.
Split Analysis
| Leg | Stanford – 2017 NCAAs | Virginia – 2025 ACCs | Virginia – 2026 ACCs |
| 1 | Simone Manuel – 1:41.41 | Gretchen Walsh – 1:39.35 | Aimee Canny – 1:41.81 |
| 2 | Lia Neal – 1:42.15 | Alex Walsh – 1:41.87 | Madi Mintenko – 1:41.25 |
| 3 | Ella Eastin – 1:41.89 | Aimee Canny – 1:42.03 | Cavan Gormsen – 1:41.86 |
| 4 | Katie Ledecky – 1:40.46 | Claire Curzan – 1:40.89 | Anna Moesch – 1:40.42 |
| Total | 6:45.91 | 6:44.13 | 6:45.34 |
Cal took 2nd tonight in 6:50.15, nearly four seconds ahead of Stanford, 6:54.09 in 3rd. Louisville held on for 4th overall in 6:65.74, getting a 1:43.73 leadoff from Daria Golovaty as well as Gorbenko’s 1:41-point split.
No surpises by Canny and Moesch. But the 1:41 splits by Mintenko and especially Gormsen really made this really roll
C. Gormsen was the surprise:
https://www.swimcloud.com/country/usa/times/?dont_group=false&event=1%7C200%7C1&gender=F&page=1®ion=division_1&season_id=29&team_id&year
It will be interesting to see what they do at NCAAs. Leave Anna off and put her on the 200 Medley, double up, or leave her on the 800 Free Relay and go for the record? I guess it’s a matter of if they want to try to sweep the relays too. Let’s see how Katie Grimes swims this week, because even if she goes a 1:43 on this relay they probably still win it at NCAAs if the rest of the relay swims as well as they did tonight.
Nope!
2026 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships
University of Virginia
Day 1
Lessons Learned
W 4 x 50 M-R
Practice relay exchanges until the cows come home
still think UVA 4×50 medley could win NCAA with same lineup
but need better exchanges and swims from 2nd and 4th legs
That was the case at the 2025 CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge (Virginia vs Michigan):
22 Nov 2025
W 4 x 50 M-R
Splits
Weber, E. – 26.24
Greenwaldt, B. – 20.94
The 2 Med lineup they swam here is perfectly capable of winning an NCAA title if they all swim well. Greenwaldt has had 3 splits this year of 21.1 or better with her fastest being a 20.94 at midseason. Curtis and Weber were slightly off their season best splits, but if they do what they did here and Greenwaldt matches what she’s already done then this quartet will very likely win the NCAA title.
this same four line up went the 4×50 medley relay at CSCAA dual meet in 1:31.91
so a good chance for a NCAA win
and leave the 4×200 as is!
Stanford really assembled the avengers in 2017
with espn giving us lousy video, audio,
showing graphics not matching the correct teams, or starting blocks or even not the correct number of teams
then during the race showing wrong team leading, and teams behind,
made this a confusing race until until I could confirm from commentors UVA 6:45
hope tomorrow we can get swimmer introductions, correct lane graphics, and time progressions
so we can enjoy this meet!!!!
Just hope we watch the actual races instead of a shot of the diving well and listen to the race announcer call the race in the background
We were all sold this idea that college swimming needed to give up the B Finals at NCAA’s so that ESPN could make a better program for the viewers is an absolute joke.
Add Claire in and they can get that record
Yeah, Cavan!
Job well done! Job well done!