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)
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Women’s 800 Free Relay – Final Heat
- NCAA Record: 6:44.13 – Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Canny, Curzan), 2025
- American Record: 6:45.91 – Stanford (Manuel, Neal, Eastin, Ledecky), 2017
- U.S. Open Record: 6:44.13 – Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Canny, Curzan), 2025
Championship Record: 6:45.91 – Stanford (Manuel, Neal, Eastin, Ledecky), 2017- 2025 Champion: Stanford (Bricker, Roghair, Nordmann, Wilson) – 6:46.98
- 2025 8th/16th Place Times: 6:55.14/7:01.17
- Current Leader: Tennessee (Jansen, Armen, Mason Brown) — 6:53.78
Top 8 Teams
- Virginia (Canny, Mintenko, Hartman, Moesch) — 6:45.21
- Texas (Padar, Nesty, Chase, Gemmell) — 6:46.91
- Cal (West, Weinstein, O’Dell, Cosgrove) — 6:47.68
- Michigan — 6:48.05
- Indiana – 6:48.85
- Stanford — 6:50.12
- USC — 6:51.17
- Tennessee — 6:53.78
Indiana freshman Liberty Clark blasted a 1:39.70 200 freestyle to lead Indiana’s 800 free relay off. With her split, Clark became the #3 performer all-time in the 200 free, and it also was the #3 performance all-time.
The 18 year old also swam to a new 17-18 National Age Group (NAG) record as the previous record stood at a 1:40.31 set by Missy Franklin back in 2014.
All-Time Top Performances, Women’s 200 Free
- Missy Franklin — 1:39.10 — 2015 NCAA DI – Women
- Gretchen Walsh — 1:39.34 — 2025 ACC Championships
- Liberty Clark — 1:39.70 — 2026 NCAA Championships
- Anna Moesch — 1:39.72 — 2026 ACC Championships
- Mallory Comerford — 1:39.80 — 2018 NCAA DI – Women
- Gretchen Walsh — 1:40.23 — 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships
- Anna Moesch — 1:40.25 — CSCAA Dual Meet Challenge
- Mallory Comerford — 1:40.26 — 2019 NCAA DI – Women
- Nikolett Padar – 1:40.30 – 2026 NCAA Championships
- Missy Franklin — 1:40.31 — 2014 NCAA DI – Women
Split Comparison
| Clark | Franklin |
| 23.26 | 23.49 |
| 25.48 | 25.22 |
| 25.35 | 25.82 |
| 25.61 | 25.78 |
| 1:39.70 | 1:40.31 |
Clark entered the meet with a lifetime best 1:40.84, a time that sat as the #14 performer all-time. She gave Indiana the lead at the first exchange, and the Hoosiers ended up finishing 5th in a 6:48.85.
The freshman has made huge strides already with Indiana as she arrived on campus this fall with a lifetime best 1:45.76 in the event. Clark is the #3 seed in the individual 200 free this week, although her time from tonight would have put her as the #1 seed just ahead of Virginia’s Anna Moesch (1:39.72). Moesch notably anchored Virginia’s 800 free relay with the fastest split all-time with a 1:39.03.
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Clark, Moesch, Erisman is quite the pipeline behind Douglass, Walsh, Huske, and Manuel. Going to be some fast times that don’t make that relay in 2027-28
Future Olympian right there
Whoa, before this it was only 4 people in the top 8, two swims each. Weird.
Big Freedom!
Grace Hoeper, another freshman, has gone from 22.5/49.8/1:48 to 21.9/47.9/1:43. Crazy improvement curves!
She has had an astounding freshman year. She is a keeper.
Have to leave this here. I thought she had potential from the beginning
https://swimswam.com/re-rank-top-20-ncaa-swimming-recruits-in-the-girls-high-school-class-of-2025/#comment-1623618
She’s dropped THIRTEEN SECONDS since she committed to IU.
https://swimswam.com/two-sport-athlete-part-time-swimmer-liberty-clark-chooses-indiana-for-fall-2025/