2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 19-22, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center — Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Start Times: Prelims: 10 AM ׀ Finals: 6 PM (Pacific Daylight Time)
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Women’s 100 Freestyle
NCAA Record: 44.83 – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)Championship Record: 44.83 – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)American Record: 44.83 – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)U.S. Open Record: 44.83 – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)- 2024 Champion: Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 44.83
Top 8:
- Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 44.71 (NCAA Record)
- Torri Huske (Stanford) – 46.01
- Camille Spink (Tennessee) – 46.68
- Anna Moesch (Virginia) – 46.94
- Minna Abraham (USC) – 46.95
- Stephanie Balduccini (Michigan) – 47.08
- Lindsay Flynn (Michigan) – 47.21
- Julia Dennis (Louisville) – 47.41
Gretchen Walsh broke her own NCAA, American, US Open, and Meet records in the 100 freestyle swimming to a 44.71. That surpassed her swim of a 44.83 that she swam to win the event a year ago.
Walsh is the fastest performer by 0.85 seconds as Simone Manuel is the #2 performer all-time with a 45.56. Only four women (Walsh, Manuel, Erika Brown, and Kate Douglass) have been under the 46-second mark.
Split Comparison
| 2025 NCAA Finals | 2024 NCAAs |
2025 NCAAs Prelims
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| 25 | 10.13 | 10.12 | 10.22 |
| 50 | 21.23 (11.10) | 21.40 (11.28) | 21.44 (11.22) |
| 75 | 32.99 (11.76) | 33.16 (11.76) | 33.32 (11.88) |
| 100 | 44.71 (11.72) | 44.83 (11.67) | 45.19 (11.87) |
Walsh was out faster tonight than she was in the morning and almost equaled her first 25 from last year’s record-setting swim. Her middle 50 was the difference maker tonight as she was 0.17 seconds faster on the 2nd 25 as well as 0.17 faster on the 3rd 25.
Walsh has now gone three for three in individual titles this week. She also won the 50 free and 100 fly this week. Her 100 fly record-setting time of a 46.97 would notably have finished 6th in tonight’s final of the 100 free.
It’s giving Caeleb Dressel 39.90, could potentially be faster had it been day 1 of the meet, still a lights out swim!
Except Dressel had to swim prelims relays and therefore actually had a reason to be tired.
Gretch is just tired because she swims at UVA and their yardage is laughable compared to UF, as shown by her lack of closing speed in a LC pool
And Bella Sims choking the 500 free and Emma Weyant taking a bath in the mile….
yet they came home with the title 5 years in a row and have the finest female swimmers on the planet. Gretchen’s combined swims at this meet are arguably more impressive than anything Caleb has done in a scy pool.
I gotta say, we are so glad that you cleared your schedule this weekend to be able to defend caeleb dressel’s collegiate legacy while minimizing any accomplishment made by gretchen walsh
Laughable was the wrong adjective choice here. It was a hateful choice. Swim volume isn’t everything and no one team can employ all strategies at once.
How about equalled? Dressel was just under 40 and Walsh was just under 47. Only three men (Liendo, Jack, Guiliano) and three women (Manuel, Brown, Douglass) have been under 41 and 48, respectively. They are both in a class of their own.
Greatest short course swimmer ever
the more i see these comments I can’t decide if people are dumb, have a recency bias, or are just baiting me specifically.
oh well
You post your comment in response to someone’s opinion that Gretchen is the greatest short course swimmer. I don’t think most here would fault someone for thinking otherwise. You’ve made it quite clear that you support Caeleb Dressel.
You love to compare NCAA performances, but so far have ignored that both Dressel and Walsh attended one Short Course Worlds. Walsh set 11 world records (9 individual) on her way to 7 gold medals (5 individual). Dressel had 6 gold and three silver (1 gold and 2 silver individually) and earned two relay world records. On this score, declaring Gretchen as the greatest short course swimmer is justified.
As for long course, it’s only fair to compare the two at… Read more »
Nobody is thinking about you, dude.