2025 EDDIE REESE SHOWDOWN
- January 24-25, 2025
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center — Austin, Texas
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Meet Info
- Live Results, also available on MeetMobile as “Eddie Reese Texas Showdown”
- Friday Morning Live Recap
- Friday Night Livestream
- Live Recap Session 2
Women’s 400 Medley Relay
- NCAA Record: 3:21.01, Virginia-2024
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 3:30.89
Top 8:
- UVA ‘A’ – 3:21.48 **American Record**
- Texas ‘A’ – 3:28.00
- NC State ‘A’ – 3:29.39
- UVA ‘B’ – 3:32.34
- ASU ‘A’ – 3:32.79
- Texas ‘B’ – 3:32.97
- NC State ‘B’ – 3:34.69
- ASU ‘B’ – 3:36.69
The Virginia women broke their own American Record in the 400 medley relay swimming to a 3:21.48 at the Eddie Reese Showdown. That broke the previous record of a 3:22.34 that they set three years ago at both ACCs and NCAAs.
Split Comparison
| Virginia- Eddie Reese Showdown | Virginia–2022 ACC Championships |
Virginia–2022 NCAA Championships
|
| Claire Curzan – 50.05 | Gretchen Walsh–49.71 |
Gretchen Walsh–49.44
|
| Alex Walsh – 56.67 | Alexis Wenger–56.79 |
Alexis Wenger–57.27
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| Gretchen Walsh – 47.15 | Alex Walsh–49.59 |
Alex Walsh–49.45
|
| Anna Moesch– 47.61 | Kate Douglass–46.25 |
Kate Douglass-46.18
|
| 3:21.48 | 3:22.34 | 3:22.34 |
The Virginia lineup had some changes since 2022 as Alexis Wenger and Kate Douglass graduated. Claire Curzan arrived from Stanford and Anna Moesch began her freshman season this fall.
The biggest difference tonight was the butterfly leg as Gretchen Walsh was over two seconds faster than her sister Alex Walsh was two years ago. Alex was slightly faster on the breaststroke leg tonight than Wenger was.
Virginia also holds the NCAA record as that record stands at a 3:21.01 set at 2024 NCAAs. That relay included Jasmine Nocentini from Italy so it did not count as an American Record.
Both of Gretchen’s relay fly splits out-split every other girl who swam freestyle this weekend. She’s in a completely different dimension
If this rate of progress continues in the big pool as well we’re going to have to start worrying about her getting bored lol
I still think of 49.5, 49.4 as being… really good fly splits? There aren’t even that many women that can throw down a split like that. Only… 13 women have broken 50 (and Alex Walsh isn’t one of them).
To go 47.1 is just… what word do you even use to describe a split like that? Disrespectful, lol?
It was only 10 years ago that Kelsi Dahlia first broke through the 50 point barrier after Coughlin went 50.01 in the early 2000s. Gretchen going almost 3 seconds faster the Natalie is just superhuman lol
Question for the experts: Does the ASU men’s 200 free relay also count as an American Record? Reason I ask is because all four swimmers are American citizens. Ilya Kharun holds dual American and Canadian citizen ship and Tulu Young is an American citizen from Fuji Island which is an American territory. What is the official NCAA position on situations such as this.
Ilya doesn’t have American citizenship and even if he did, records are based on your sporting nationality and he can only set national records for the country he competes for.
I think Vlad Morozov had NAG records that they retroactively removed when he began to represent Russia internationally.
Yes Ilya Kharun does have dual citizenship for at least a year. In addition there have been many NCAA American athletes in many sports who competed in the NCAAs as Americans but represented other countries in the Olympics for example due to dual citizenship
https://swimswam.com/ilya-kharun-removed-from-junior-pan-pacs-team-among-citizenship-confusion/
https://swimswam.com/ilya-kharun-becomes-u-s-citizen-still-plans-to-race-for-team-canada-moving-forward/
They should give Alex a shot on back and free just so she has each leg of NCAA/American record relays on her resume
Love!
Ho-hum. Just another day at the office for the University of Virginia women’s swimming program.
with 1st and 4th legs closer to PBs and all four legs rested and tapered this relay has a shot at sub 3:20
That would be awesome.
You’re right. If they merely go flat start PR times from CC and Moesch, this is the aggregate:
49.3
56.5
47.1
46.7
3:19.6