2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Wednesday, March 18 – Saturday, March 21, 2026
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending Champions: Virginia (5x)
- Championship Central
- Pre-Selection Psych Sheets
- Live Results
Just one year after winning her first individual NCAA title, Torri Huske won’t defend her 200 IM crown at the 2026 Women’s NCAA Championships. Pre-selection psych sheets released Tuesday show Huske will instead swim the 50 free, 100 fly, and 100 free in her final NCAA appearance.
For the past three years, Huske has swum the 200 IM on day two, the 100 fly on day three, and the 100 free on day four, always opting out of the 50 free on day one. But with the 200 IM moving to day four this year and now back-to-back with the 100 free, the 50 free became an easy swap in on day one.
On paper, the 200 IM seemed the slightly safer bet for a title. Huske owns a personal best of 1:49.67 and enters as the national leader thanks to the 1:51.27 she swam to outtouch Louisville freshman Anastasia Gorbenko (1:51.30) at ACCs. Gorbenko’s time is the closest anyone in the field is to Huske’s personal best.
The 100 free, by contrast, is going to be an absolute bloodbath and by far the deepest in the event’s history with 10 swimmers seeded under 47 seconds. Huske isn’t even the top seed, with that honor belonging to on-fire Virginia sophomore Anna Moesch, who edged Huske 45.71 to 45.79, both personal bests, to win the ACC title. With Tennessee’s Camille Spink and Virginia freshman Sara Curtis seeded in the 46.0s and two others under 46.5, it is much more of an up-in-the-air affair than her odds in the 200 IM would have been.
In the 50 free, Huske enters as the No. 2 seed behind Spink with a season-best 21.01, though her personal best of 20.92 from a relay leadoff at last year’s NCAAs puts her just five-hundredths behind Spink’s national-leading (and lifetime best) of 20.87 from the SEC Championships.
The 100 fly, meanwhile, figures to be Huske’s best shot at an individual win. She enters with a 0.21 advantage over Virginia redshirt junior Claire Curzan, 48.26 to 48.47, with both swimmers posting those lifetime bests at ACCs.
Huske has been one of the most consistent swimmers at NCAAs, going 8 for 9 in personal bests across her first three seasons with Stanford, though individual titles have been hard to come by against Virginia’s dominant trio of Gretchen Walsh, Alex Walsh, and Kate Douglass, all of whom have since graduated.
As a freshman in 2022, she went best times in all three events, placing 2nd in the 100 fly (49.17) and 200 IM (1:51.81) and 9th in the 100 free (46.98). In 2023, she placed 2nd in the 100 free (46.46) and 200 IM (1:50.06) and 3rd in the 100 fly (48.96), lowering her best times in all three.
Returning after an Olympic redshirt, she broke through last season with a win in the 200 IM (1:49.67) after back to back runner up finishes, moving to third all time in the event. She also placed 2nd in the 100 free (46.01) and 100 fly (48.90), events dominated over the past few season by the now-graduated G. Walsh.
Good for her! If you are truly that dawg then sometimes you have to take the harder path. Much respect 🫡
She might shoot herself in the foot but I always have faith in that dog
I just want to say – that photo is fantastic.
Olympic Champ energy
She is The Huskinator!!
GOAT energy
She’s the most intense swimmer behind the blocks for sure. Game face
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Must see TV! Huske vs Moesch, the rematch.