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2025 Women’s Division I NCAA Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

The 200 backstroke will be a rematch of the 100 back last night, where Claire Curzan and Bella Sims had a photo finish.

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2025 Women’s Division I NCAA Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

It’s been an incredible week of racing in Federal Way, and we’re in for even more excitement today.

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2025 NCAA Women’s Championships: Day 3 Relay Analysis – 56.3 Breast and 47.3 Fly for Walshes

Claire Curzan (49.63), Alex Walsh (56.37), Gretchen Walsh (47.35), and Anna Moesch (46.85) lowered their own 400 free relay meet record with 3:20.20.

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2025 Women’s Division I NCAA Championships: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

Welcome to day 3 finals of the 2025 Women’s Division I NCAA Championships!

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How Has the New Day 3 Event Lineup Affected Swimmers at 2025 Women’s NCAAs?

The extra 23 minutes helped Miranda Grana, now at Indiana, make the A finals in both the 100 fly and 100 back.

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2025 NCAA Women’s Champs: Day 1 Relays Analysis – 20s for Walsh (Fly), Huske, Dennis, Paegle

Caroline Bricker got the Cardinal off to a strong start in the last heat of women’s 800 free relays on Day 1 at 2025 NCAA Women’s Championships.

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2025 Women’s NCAA Pick’ems: Who are the Overwhelming Favorites and What is the Closest Race?

Gretchen Walsh is the overwhelming favorite in all of her events, but she earned 99.4% of the pick’ems votes in the women’s 50 freestyle.

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2025 W. NCAA Previews: Virginia Women Look to Pick Up More Wins in 200/400 Free Relay

The Virginia Cavaliers could sweep the women’s relays at this year’s NCAA Championships, and the 200 and 400 freestyle relays seem locked up in their favor.

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2025 W. NCAA Previews: US Olympians Looking for Redemption Highlight 100 Backstroke

Bella Sims and Claire Curzan are both looking for redemption after missing the US Olympic Team last summer and will lead the NCAA 100 back field.

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2025 W. NCAA Previews: Here She Goes Again – Gretchen Walsh Flying Towards Victory in 100 Fly

Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh is almost guaranteed to win gold in the 100 fly, but Stanford’s will be doing her best to chase her down.

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2024-25 Women’s NCAA Power Rankings: Final Edition

The Walsh sisters are poised to lead the Virginia women to a fifth straight national title, but how do the rest of our final power rankings shake out?

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2025 W. NCAA Previews: Curzan’s The Favorite In A Loaded 200 Backstroke Field

After breaking the 200 back NCAA and American records at midseason, Claire Curzan is in a strong position to reclaim the NCAA title after a year absence.

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Breaking Down The 2025 Women’s NCAA Qualifiers By Class

Gretchen Walsh is one of 66 senior swimmers headed for Women’s NCAAs, tying with the junior class for most qualifiers for the meet.

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Walsh, Coll Marti Named ACC Swimmers of the Meet; 2025 All-ACC Swim & Dive Team Announced

Gretchen Walsh went undefeated throughout the competition, sweeping the women’s 50 free (20.60), 100 free (45.20) and 100 back (48.95) individually.

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2025 ACC Championships: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

We’re on 100 free record watch tonight after Gretchen Walsh went 45.50 in prelims, and there should be plenty of other exciting races in store tonight.

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