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.
Huske taking on the Walsh sisters needs to be applauded, she’s basically going against Batman and Superman at the same time
plus I always felt like she’s better in the 2im than the 50 free anyways
It’s takes a unique skill set to overlap with both of them, given they swim such different programs. Kate is the other one to do it, though she could pretty reliably beat Alex post 2021 and back then she could beat Gretchen. Luckily for Torri she has 2? years left in the NCAA to dominate the sprints and 2 IM!
Huske was on the 2021-2022 and 2023-2024 rosters previously. Do 5th years continue after this season or next season? Otherwise she’s done after 2026 NCAAs
5th years are done except for the small minority of swimmers who have redshirted since the 2020-2021 season. If they competed in 2020-2021, and then redshirted a season after that, like Luke Hobson at Texas, they could still use a 5th year.
Torri did not compete in the 2020-2021 season, so she was never granted a 5th year of eligibility.
Ah ok, I couldn’t remember how many seasons she actually competed, i know she deferred for the Olympics in 2021 and red shirted last year and lost track of how many years that would be!
Makes sense, she’s way closer to beating Alex than she is Gretchen in the 50 free. Really looking forward to seeing a rested 200IM in yards after her huge drops in LC next summer.
im pretty curious how she ends the season in the 200 im and fr (if she leads off the 800 relay)! in the former since going 150 in scy back in 2023 shes dropped over 1 sec in lcm and in the latter she hit a pb this year in season which i dont think shes done before in scy
Huske vs A Walsh will be a great race