2026 Cavalier Invite
- February 5th-7th, 2026
- Aquatic and Fitness Center, Charlottesville, VAS
- Invite Format
- Results on Meet Mobile as “2026 Cavalier Invite”
- Day 1 Prelims Results
- Day 1 Finals Results
This morning, the UVA women put on a sprint show, with three women dipping under the 22-second mark. Tonight the UVA men’s sprint crew suited up and took down a pool record.
The team of Maximus Williamson (19.17), Thomas Heilman (19.03), Jack Aikins (18.86), and Noah Powers (19.10) combined for a 200 free relay time of 1:16.16. That breaks the UVA pool record of 1:16.37 from 2024, and also moves the Cavalier men up to 10th in the nation this season. Except Aikins, the entire relay was made of up of freshmen.
UVA was the only school entered in the event, so they were swimming in fairly clean water, but the Cavaliers did swim a ‘B’ relay, which featured a 19.22 split from Spencer Nicholas. Of those five men we mentioned, only Powers swam this morning, where he went 19.86 for the top seed in the 50 free. If UVA holds to form, expect to see most of their top swimmers, men and women, swim more over the next two days, albeit possibly in “off” events.
The Cavalier men also won the 50 free, courtesy of a 19.92 swim from freshman Josh Howat. With two of the seeds from this morning scratching tonight’s events, a pair of Towson swimmers picked up event wins. First, Teddy Ament beat teammate Christian Johnson in the 500 free, 4:31.21 to 4:38.80. Next, Jackson Cummins took the 200 IM in 1:53.17, setting a new personal best.
On the women’s side, all of the top seeds from this morning retained their positions this evening. Bryn Greenwaldt took 1st in the 50 free, about 0.07s off of her lifetime best of 21.58 from prelims. Cavalier teammate Lily Gormsen won the 500 free in 4:48.56, about two seconds faster than her prelims-leading time from this morning. In the 200 IM, Emma Redman went 1:58.56, about 1.3s off of her lifetime best from this meet last year.
Whereas only teams from UVA swam the 200 free relay on the men’s side, the Cavaliers didn’t enter a team in the women’s event, and William & Mary took the win with a time of 1:33.20.
Action continues tomorrow morning with prelims of the 100 fly, 400 IM, 200 free, 100 back, and 100 breast.
Counter ongoing SS narrative … Look forward to ACCs and NCAAs.
No 18+ from the studs of this class? Tick tok…
Seems clear the objective was to get an A cut in the 200 free relay. That box is checked. Given how top heavy UVa men are, can’t load up all 5 relays at ACCs. Would expect UVa to load up the 800 free relay at ACCs with this box now checked.
Could most certainly see 2 in the 1:29s on that 800 free relay in a couple weeks. We’ll see.
Which other one is likely to go 1:29? Heilman? King?
9th yr Jack Aikens lol
Same year as Tori Huske.
Look forward to seeing “9th year Torri (sp) Huske lol” from you on Stanford’s next writeup.
bet
and can’t forget about Luca urlando
Feel like this is gonna end really good for the UVA men or raelly bad. No in between
Yeah, we’ll see. They had a shiny season years ago and poof, flash in the pan
It looks like the Cavalier fans will have to wait until the 2026 ACC Championships for the trio of C. Gormsen, K. Grimes, M. Mintenko to post sub 4:35 performances in the 500 FR. In the case of K. Grimes, it should be no worse than a sub 4:34 performance. As for B. Hartman, you are welcome to join the party.
You do know that everyone of these athletes will only taper one time in the NCAA season for NCAA’s right? Why would you want to peak in January or February?
Based upon the lackluster performances during the month of January, the women don’t deserve to swim “off” events. Furthermore, the women’s team don’t have the Walsh sisters as an insurance policy heading into the conference/national championships.
Twrue but this UVA team is still stacked to the gills – Reminiscent of Longhorn men under Coach Reese.