Todd DeSorbo FULL 2024 NCAA Championship Team Title Interview

2024 WOMEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The University of Virginia just won its 4th consecutive women’s swimming & diving team championship title. Head coach Todd DeSorbo spoke with the media afterward to add perspective to this historic accomplishment.

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Beginner Swimmer at 25
8 months ago

Congrats, Desorbo is the goat

Andrew
8 months ago

it’s so puzzling how he does so well with the women. admittedly, it’s hard to NOT do well when you have multiple generational SCY talents, but Desorbo has done a phenomenal job developing the B tier of UVA swimmers.

Compare this to the men, who have had six top-nine recruiting classes in a row and now have only three individual NCAA qualifiers, which is embarrassing, to say the least.

Summer Swim Fan
8 months ago

Funny how he highlighted the other women who swam their last race, but didn’t say whether it was Alex’s last college race ever 🙂

Nice interview – fun to see a lot of great swims from all the teams. Swimming is a breath of fresh air in today’s college sports environment.

Admin
Reply to  Summer Swim Fan
8 months ago

My guess is that Alex hasn’t decided yet.

Joel Lin
Reply to  Braden Keith
8 months ago

No reason to, really. Unless she is retiring after this summer (unlikely), it’s probably a decision that hinges on the economics/earnings potential for 2025. No way of even guessing that until after Trials.

Summer Swim Fan
Reply to  Braden Keith
8 months ago

It seemed like she was standing right next to him when he said that and gave her a little look – that’s why I mentioned it. Or Gretchen was standing there…

Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
8 months ago

Reading between the lines, Anna Keating and Abby Harter are not coming back. As fifth year seniors, Maddie Donohoe and Ella Nelson are definitely not coming back. That leaves Maxine Parker, Alex Walsh as the undecided fourth year seniors on the UVA roster.

Based on the article posted from SwimSwam, Jasmine Nocentini is coming back.

https://swimswam.com/how-does-ncaa-eligibility-work-vis-a-vis-redshirt-seasons-a-case-study/

Bad Man
Reply to  Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
8 months ago

Pretty sure Maxine is coming back.

Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
Reply to  Bad Man
8 months ago

Fifth year senior depth is always welcomed.

Kelsey
8 months ago

Genuinely seems like a fantastic coach who cares for all his athletes whatever Todd’s doing he’s doing it right. For all the hate on the men’s team I think if they had the swimmers of the caliber of the womens team it’d be different. Nelson, Douglass, Walsh x 2, Nocentini, Parker, Canny, next year Curzan, Moesch, Leah Hayes just to name some the mens team just doesn’t have that.

Last edited 8 months ago by Kelsey
Forkfull
Reply to  Kelsey
8 months ago

BREAKING: if team had good swimmers they would be good.

Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
Reply to  Kelsey
8 months ago

High school recruiting is key for a head coach however development is more important.

Kelsey
Reply to  Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
8 months ago

True but they haven’t had any great high school recruiting until next year. Matt King has gone, Jack Aiken a redshirt the transfer they got last year hasn’t even competed and they aren’t getting transfers like Nocentini. It’s like ASU women’s team but if they get Regan Smith you get a key recruit it starts the ball rolling for change. With Heilmann and Maximus let’s hope this is the key change for the recruiting and change for UVA men. What I’m saying is the hate on De Sorbo for the men’s team is not all warranted.

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