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 200 Free Relay – Final Heat
- NCAA Record: 1:23.63 – Virginia (Nocentini, G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Parker), 2024
- American Record: 1:23.87 – Virginia (Douglass, G. Walsh, Cuomo, A. Walsh), 2023
- U.S. Open Record: 1:23.63 – Virginia (Nocentini, G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Parker), 2024
- Championship Record: 1:24.05 – Virginia (Nocentini, G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Parker), 2024
- 2025 Champion: Virginia (G. Walsh, Curzan, Parker, Moesch) – 1:24.45
- 2025 8th/16th Times: 1:27.00/1:28.01
- Current Leader: Texas (Okaro, Nesty, Mehraban, Gemmell) — 1:26.42
Top 8 Teams
- Virginia (Curzan, Greenwaldt, Moesch, Curtis) — 1:24.11
- Stanford (Olasewere, Huske, Johnson, Thomas) — 1:25.57
- Indiana (Clark, Paegle, Hoeper, Shackell) — 1:25.67
- Michigan — 1:25.92
- Cal — 1:26.10
- Tennessee — 1:26.25
- Texas — 1:26.42
- NC State — 1:26.45
Virginia won the 200 free relay in dominant fashion tonight, clocking a 1:24.11. That performance marks a new pool record for UVA, and was just off their championship record of 1:24.05, which was set in 2024. Moreover, the pool record tonight led to a very interesting dynamic, which is maybe the best way to illustrate the exceptional nature of this UVA dynasty. UVA now holds the NCAA, American, Championship, and this pool record in the 200 free relay, and all 4 records came from different swims.
Here is a breakdown of the 4 unique record performances:
| 2024 ACC Championships | 2024 NCAA Championships |
2023 ACC Championships
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2026 NCAA Championships | |
| 1st Swimmer | Jasmine Nocentini (21.55) | Jasmine Nocenti (21.26) | Kate Douglass (20.95) | Claire Curzan (20.85) |
| 2nd Swimmer | Gretchen Walsh (19.95) | Gretchen Walsh (20.23) | Gretchen Walsh (20.48) | Bryn Greenwaldt (21.75) |
| 3rd Swimmer | Alex Walsh (20.82) | Alex Walsh (21.23) | Lexi Cuomo (21.14) | Anna Moesch (20.96) |
| 4th Swimmer | Maxine Parker (21.31) | Maxine Parker (21.33) | Alex Walsh (21.30) | Sara Curtis (20.55) |
| Final Time | 1:23.63 | 1:24.05 | 1:23.87 | 1:24.11 |
| Which Record? | NCAA | Championship | American | Pool |
There’s a few things to note here. Once again, to highlight the dominance of this UVA dynasty, these 4 performances span across 4 years and include 10 unique swimmers. Moreover, all but Greenwaldt will return for UVA next year, so they could very easily keep this streak rolling.
We’ve seen impressive relay runs before in college swimming, but this one stands alone, although maybe not for long.
There are also, of course, some incredible splits in this list, most notably, Gretchen Walsh‘s 19.95 split from the 2024 ACC Championships.
Can’t believe UVA didn’t have a better 4th than Greenwaldt. Her 21.7 spli is pedestrian and wouldn’t even have made many of the other teams top 4. When they replace her next year they’ll be faster. Be interesting to know what that 21.7 split ranks out of all splits, lead offs excluded.
She was 21.0 on the 200 MR night before and was 21.5 this morning. Probably nerves. But yeah they have probably 4 people coming in next year who are capable of splitting 21.5 in a 50 after a year of Desorbo (Pavalic, Workman, Martin, Thompson) on top of Nwakalor and Jazy.
This photo shows the 800 free relay winners, not the 200.
If N. Jazy and/or M. Nwakalor continues to improve, next season another record could go down.
or incoming Jana Pavalic 23.86 SCM
Gretchen Walsh – the ultimate relay cheat code