Blue vs Orange Intrasquad
- September 25, 2025
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Full Meet Results
- Final Score: Orange Team 256 — 212 Blue Team
Virginia hosted their annual Blue vs Orange Intrasquad meet at the end of September, with the swimmers suiting up to race a few interesting race distances along with the 100 IM and 200 medley and freestyle relays.
Ultimately, the Orange Team, buoyed by performances from Claire Curzan, Katie Grimes, and Thomas Heilman came out on top, scoring 256 points to the Blue Team’s 212.
Heilman set a new meet record in all three of his individual events, leading the Orange men’s team.
All the race videos can be found on UVA’s Youtube Channel, along with a few pro races that are not in the results.
Relay Recap
The individual events were all separated by gender but the relays were mixed both between team and gender.
The first relay of the meet was the 200 medley relay, which wasn’t scored, and was separated by class.
Mixed 200 Medley Relay:
- 1st years, 1:30.42– Curtis (23.75), Williamson (24.22), Heilman (20.09), Mintenko (22.36)
- 3rd years, 1:31.79– Thompson (22.76), Gerloff (24.84), Curzan (22.20), Nwakalor (21.99)
- 4th years, 1:34.85– Aikins (22.97), Heilman (26.58), Novelline (23.98), Greenwaldt (21.32)
- 2nd years, 1:36.43
The 1st years won with the team of Sara Curtis (23.75), Maximus Williamson (24.22), Thomas Heilman (20.09), and Madi Mintenko (22.36) coming together to swim 1:30.42, winning by more than a second.
The 3rd years finished 2nd, highlighted by Claire Curzan splitting 22.20 on the fly leg.
The 4th years finished 3rd and the 2nd years finished 4th. The 2nd years order seems to be incorrect as printed with Dillon Wright listed as the butterflyer and Charlotte Wilson as the backstroker. When watching the video, it appears that the two swapped positions. This would make sense as the backstroker on the relay swam 23.17, more than a second faster than Wilson’s PB and the butterflyer split 25.00.
Bryn Greenwaldt built on her monster beginning of the season and anchored the 4th year relay in 21.32, which was the fastest freestyle split int he field.
Mixed 200 Freestyle Relay
- Blue Team ‘A’, 1:23.13– Williamson (19.91), Nicholas (19.99), Moesch (21.48), Greenwaldt (21.75)
- Orange Team ‘A’, 1:23.30– Heilman (19.80), Amlicke (20.35), Curzan (21.65), Curtis (21.50)
- Orange Team ‘B’, 1:25.28– Powers (20.42), Bellotti (20.31), Ficken (22.57), Nwakalor (21.98)
- Blue Team ‘B’, 1:26.42– Aikins, Thompson, Canny, Novelline (no splits)
While the Orange Team won the meet, the Blue Team took the final relay with Maximus Williamson leading them off in 19.91. Nicholas Spencer swam 2nd, splitting 19.99, Anna Moesch was 3rd in 21.48, and Bryn Greenwaldt anchored the team in 21.75,
Thomas Heilman led off the Orange ‘A’ team in 19.80 before handing off to Blake Amlicke in 20.35. Claire Curzan swam 21.65 in 3rd and Sara Curtis was the anchor, splitting 21.50.
Women’s Recap
Katie Grimes opened the meet with a win in the 600 yard freestyle for the orange team, swimming a new meet record time of 5:40.66. This time was two seconds faster than the previous meet recored of 5:42.56 set by Cavan Gormsen back in 2023.
Gormsen finished 2nd for the Orange Team, also coming in under her old meet record time in 5:42.52 and freshman Madi Mintenko was 3rd, the top finisher for the Blue team, in 5:46.63
The Orange team took the next event too with Claire Curzan winning the 150 freestyle in 1:14.93. This time was just under two tenths off her meet record time of 1:14.76 from 2023. Anna Moesch was 2nd for the Blue Team in 1:15.11, and freshman Sara Curtis finished 4th in 1:20.08.
Leah Hayes continued the winning streak for the Orange Team, taking the top spot in the women’s 300 IM with her time of 3:02.87. She touched five seconds ahead of Orange teammate Sophia Umstead who touched in 3:07.66 for 2nd.
Bryn Greenwaldt won the first Blue Team event for the women, taking the 50 backstroke in 23.88, her fastest time ever in the event. Freshman Sara Curtis was 2nd in 23.99 for Orange and Charlotte Wilson finished 3rd in 25.02 for Blue.
Blue also took the 50 breaststroke with Aimee Canny winning in 27.34, two tenths ahead of Zoe Skirboll who finished 2nd in 27.58.
Tess Howley swam 1:24.01 to grab another event win for the Orange Team, coming in eight tenths ahead of teammate Lawson Ficken, who swam 1:24.88.
Sara Curtis took the 50 freestyle in 22.09 for Orange just ahead of Blue’s Anna Moesch, who swam 22.11, and Bryn Greenwaldt, who was 22.31.
Claire Curzan won the 150 backstroke in dominant fashion, touching in 1:21.59. Tess Howley finished 2nd in 1:24.43, and Katie Grimes was 3rd in 1:24.68 to make an Orange sweep of the top three places.
Canny made it a sweep of the breaststroke events, swimming the 150 in 1:33.28 to come less than a second away from Alex Walsh‘s meet record of 1:32.57. Emma Weber was 2nd (1:35.06), and Zoe Skirboll was 3rd (1:35.30).
She also won the last event of the meet, the women’s 100 IM, touching in 54.28 to beat Orange Team finishers Zoe Skirboll (54.94) and Leah Hayes (54.95).
Curzan won her final event of the meet, the 50 fly in 23.15, exactly a second ahead of Lawson Ficken‘s 24.15 for 2nd. Both for the Orange team.
Cavan Gormsen just eked out Katie Grimes in the 300 freestyle, touching in 2:44.62 to beat Grimes’ 2:44.75 by just over a tenth. Grimes started the race in the lead, turning half-a-second ahead at the 200 mark before Gormsen turned on the gas for the final 100 .
Men’s Recap
David King won the men’s 600 freestyle for Orange, coming in at 5:25.14 to beat Orange teammate Dillon Wright‘s 5:26.59 by just over a second.
Thomas Heilman set a new meet record in the 150 freestyle for Orange in the next event, swimming 1:08.76 to take down the tied record of 1:08.95 by Brownstead and Aikins from 2021 and 2023 respectively.
Maximus Williamson won Blue’s first event of the meet, taking the men’s 300 IM in 2:45.44, coming less than a second away from the meet record of 2:44.64 set by Sean Conway in 2021. Thomas Mercer finished 2nd for Orange in 2:50.45.
Spencer Nicholas won the 50 backstroke in 21.81 for the Blue team with Blake Amlicke coming just behind in 22.25.
The 50 breaststroke also went to Blue with Jay Gerloff taking the trophy in 25.01, four tenths ahead of Orange’s Noah Dyer.
Heilman won his 2nd event of th meet, the 150 fly in another meet record time of 1:13.28. This time absolutely shattered the former record of 1:15.65 set by Kamal Muhammad in 2023. The 2nd place finisher was Hayden Bellotti in 1:18.56.
Williamson also won his 2nd event, the 50 freestyle in a time of 19.87. He was the only swimmer in the event under 20 seconds, coming in ahead of Josh Howat‘s 20.26 for 2nd for the Orange team.
David King also won his 2nd event in the 150 backstroke, touching in 1:14.30 for the Orange team to win by three seconds ahead of teammate Thomas Mercer in 1:17.27. Will Thompson was 3rd, Blue’s highest finisher in 1:18.43.
Blue took the top two spots in the 150 breaststroke with Jay Gerloff taking the win in 1:27.03, his 2nd win of the meet, and Matthew Heilman finishing 2nd in 1:28.61.
Thomas Heilman won his 3rd event and set his 3rd meet record in the 50 fly, touching in 20.75 to break Spencer Nicholas‘ record of 20.82 from last season. Nicholas was also in the event, swimming 21.04 to finish 2nd for Blue
Williamson also won his 3rd event right after, taking the 300 freestyle in 2:33.58. This time was less than a second over King’s 2024 meet record time of 2:32.82. King ended up finishing 2nd overall in 2:39.13.
Jack Aikins won the final individual event of the meet for the Blue Team, taking the 100 IM in 49.48 to beat Orange’s Thomas Mercer by half-a-second.
Pro Recap
Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, and Gretchen Walsh each swam three events over the course of the meet, though their results do not appear in the pdf document.
Douglass swam the 200 IM in 1:52.35, four seconds off her lifetime best of 1:48.37 from the 2023 NCAA championships.
She also won the 100 breaststroke, swimming 57.35 to come in ahead of Alex Walsh‘s 58.89. This was a new best time for Douglass, dropping from the 58.14 she swam at the Tennessee Invitational in 2022.
A. Walsh also swam the 100 IM, touching in 53.22 to come in 2nd to Gretchen Walsh who swam 52.45.
G. Walsh also swam the 50 free in 21.50.
April 2026 Heilman Enters transfer portal.
Thomas Heilman: breaks 3 records
swimws: dude is definitely gonna transfer
Elite commenting.
Is suiting up for Intrasquads the norm nowadays?
Well most high end programs suit up in practice fairly often to simulate racing suited so really this is just a glorified practice for them.
Called practicing the way you are going to race.
Honestly, feeling kinda whelmed from the showing from the navy meet and the intrasquad. Then again, its impossible to actually measure performance when they swim odd distances instead of their actual events.
Crazy that asu has faster freshman
ASU swam a meet with 2500 people uva swam an inter squad not the same
Both 25 yards.
underdogs
Katie Grimes’ 300 and 600 at this meet are slower than her 300 and 600 splits from the 1000 she swam the month before she arrived at UVA. 💔
It’s a freaking inter squad meet. Calm down.
Shocking that swimmers are faster at taper meets than they are at intrasquads —in your case, Speedo Winter Juniors and a September intrasquad meet in which the 600 time was a meet record (better than Paige Madden’s best time, and Madden was an NCAA champion in the 200, 500, and 1,650).
The horror that Gretchen Walsh was almost a full second (!!) slower in her 50 fly (22.68) at last year’s intradquad than she was at NCAAs the previous March on her first 50 of her 100 fly race (21.75).
Such a non-serious post from a non-serious poster.
I have always wanted to do a triple distance meet.
The times are unfamiliar to me, like swimming 1:08 for a 150 free or a 600 yard event.
great showing – but 2 meets in a row of non traditional events … I’m ready to see what they can actually do in a real meet lol.
at Florida on Friday!
Heilman needed a suit to lose to what Hudson Williams went unsuited by over a second. Hudskinny forever!!!!!!!
They are teammates now. No need to pit them against each other
I thought the savage 7 were ready to throw down. Crazy some unsuited times at nc states intrasquad are faster 😬
Does anyone know where to find the results of the NC state intrasquad?