Torri Huske Chooses the 200 IM Over the 50 Free for Day 2 of NCAA Championships

2025 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

• March 19-22, 2025
• Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center, Federal Way, Washington
• Short Course Yards (25 yards)
• Pre-Scratch Psych Sheets

The pre-selection psych sheets for the 2025 Women’s NCAA Championships have been released, and among the more interesting event choices that were revealed on Tuesday was Torri Huske‘s day 2 event.

Huske will swim the 200 IM (#1 seed ahead of Alex Walsh), the 100 fly (#2 seed behind Gretchen Walsh), and 100 free (#2 seed behind Gretchen Walsh), giving us three marque matchups in Federal Way.

The redshirt junior and Olympic Champion in the 100 fly in long course then will swim the same three events as she did at the ACC Championships, where she won the 200 IM and 100 fly (with no Walsh sister entered in either) and was 2nd in the 100 free (behind Gretchen).

The reality is that this is basically the lineup that she has always swum at big championship meets, though a 21.04 in the 50 free on a relay leadoff at ACCs did provide some pause as to what she might do. That would make her the #2 seed in that event, though thanks to Gretchen’s presence, the 200 IM is probably a much more likely win.

In total, Huske has dropped .35 seconds off her 50 free this season, going from a 21.39 in 2021 to a 21.04 at ACCs, though she did go a best time in her best event, the 100 fly, there, so we can’t use the transitive property of swimming to project any more drop in that 50 free.

Huske finished 2nd in the 200 IM at the 2023 and 2022 NCAA Championship meets, placing behind Virginia’s Kate Douglass in 2023 and behind Alex Walsh in 2022.

But the good news is that we still get three big head-to-head showdowns in Federal Way in a couple of weeks.