2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 19-22, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center — Federal Way, Washington
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- Start Times: Prelims: 10 AM ׀ Finals: 6 PM (Pacific Daylight Time)
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The Virginia women made a statement on night 1 of the 2025 NCAA Championships, crushing their own NCAA record in the 200 medley relay with a 1:31.10. Notably, Gretchen Walsh split 20.88 on the butterfly leg, .01 away from the fastest split ever (held by her). She outsplit 24 of the 26 freestyle legs in the event, a benchmark that she says has become the standard for herself.
True humility ceases to exist when one becomes aware of ones’ own humility. A.W Tozer
I wonder where Claire would be if she had stayed at Stanford after that rough 2023 summer. Clearly paid off for Torri and the rest of the team. She’s doing well now obviously and glad she’s happy, but it’s interesting to think about.
We have begun to take this level of dominance for granted on the women’s side. 2025-2026 NCAA season very much has an “up for grabs” feeling to it, especially for the relays.
And I’m excited for it. Seeing this level of dominance is cool and I’m gonna miss the Walshes, but I’m ready for a tight team race for champion again, like back in the 2010s where UGA, Stanford, USC, Michigan, Cal etc. were having to wait until the last few events and fight the entire time to see who was gonna come out on top (excluding Stanford’s dominance with Manuel and Ledecky).
Honestly thought I might have this on 1.5x or 2x speed during Claire’s part of the interview.
she’s such a bathtub swimmer. she needs to work on her freestyle long course. It hasn’t come together at all. girl thinks swimming is all about underwaters lol
mahmoud thinking one interview at NCAA’s is a career defining moment…. just enjoy swimming my man! have fun, you’ll live longer
World record holder “it hasn’t come together at all” 🙄
My goodness you people are endlessly irritating. For one weekend can you please just be quiet? This is the culmination of a five year era of dominance in the NCAA by the Walsh sisters that is extremely meaningful to them and their fans.
I’m also confused why these bathtub comments are still a thing when she dusted everyone in the 100 fly in Paris besides her own USA teammate, split 52.5 in freestyle, and won two Olympic gold medals.
My opinion. Bye. This is an open forum and I’m allowed to express my views. So if you don’t like my perspective – you don’t need too.
I don’t like your perspective – deal with it Mahmoud…. Deal with it
ur perspective SUCKS
We live in a marvelous beautiful world the sun is shining, and bro is upset with a women swimming sub 21 in the 50 fly…
go pick up a baby wombat and calm down, aus
She is a world record holder in an LCM event. I don’t think she or really anyone else cares about your dogwater perspective.
everyone here is allowed to express their views too! I can’t imagine what a “put together” g walsh looks like if she already owns one of the toughest LCM WRs on the books & is a multi time gold medalist. if you don’t like everyone correctly saying you’re wrong, you don’t need to*** either!
She should sweep 50/100 free and fly in Singapore if her current short course prowess translate to LCM.
big if but we’ll see how her lcm freestyle shapes up this summer
She tends to be quite humble but that’s a bit cocky ngl..
nah I think it’s just a normal level of confidence for an athlete that’s so far above the level of anyone else in her events. Quite frankly it wouldn’t make sense for someone who splits sub 21 to compare themselves to other butterflyers. It’s like when Katie Ledecky talks about enjoying training against guys in practice
If Gretchen was a man and said this we’d be salivating and basking him in glory.
Heavy on this honestly. If this were liendo or crooks or dressel, I doubt we see these comments.
We would see these comments regardless of who it was. There are always people that are not fans of the winners. And that’s ok.
Agree. The constant stuff about being “proud” of themselves and “historic” comments about 25-yard underwater swims from Walsh sisters and other Hoos are like fingernails on chalkboard at this point (but do create a good drinking game.) And I’m sure Kate Douglass just loves Gretch’s comments that this is the best UVa team ever (really? nice 800 Free relay there) while her coach and teammates cannibalize all of KD’s relay records. (But that is probably the entire point of Alex’s fifth year.)
Maxine Parker chose the wrong water career — because she sounds like a sailor.
Probably she sounds more like a normal person and less like a standard generic media-trained robot
Good lord — guess I should have used an exclam or a smiley because it was a joke. Lighten up, people.
Honestly I appreciated the profanity because I know I would let my guard down and do that as well lol, i appreciated the laugh