Virginia Breaks Own NCAA Meet Record With 3:20.20 400 Medley Relay

2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

Women’s 400 Medley Relay

  • NCAA Record: 3:19.58 – Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch), 2025
  • Championship Record: 3:21.01 – Virginia (Walsh, Nocentini, Walsh, Parker), 2024
  • American Record: 3:19.58 – Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch), 2025
  • U.S. Open Record: 3:19.58 – Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch), 2025
  • 2024 Champion: Virginia (Walsh, Nocentini, Walsh, Parker) – 3:21.01

TOP 8 FINISHERS:

  1. Virginia (Curzan, Walsh, Walsh, Moesch) – 3:20.20 (Meet Record)
  2. Tennessee (Fuller, McSharry, Stotler, Spink) – 3:24.99
  3. Florida (Sims, Bottazzo Peoples, Cronk) – 3:25.18
  4. Indiana (DeWitt, Crawford, Grana, Paegle) – 3:25.83
  5. Texas (Bray, Enge, Sticklen, Nesty) – 3:26.11
  6. Stanford (Parkhe, Thomas, Huske, Nordmann) – 3:26.34
  7. USC (Famous, Dobler, Sasseville, Abraham) – 3:26.82
  8. Louisville (Murray, Cheatwood, Welch, Dennis) – 3:27.76

The Virginia women’s 400 medley relay of Claire Curzan, Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh, and Anna Moesch swam to a new NCAA meet record posting a 3:20.20. The relay also swam the #2 performance of all-time sitting right behind their own NCAA and American Records of a 3:18.58 that they swam at ACCs last month.

Split Comparison

New Meet Record (2025 NCAAs)
NCAA/American/US Open Record (2025 ACCs)
Old Meet Record (2024 NCAAs)
2023 NCAAs
Claire Curzan 49.63 Claire Curzan 49.35 Gretchen Walsh 48.26 Gretchen Walsh 49.25
Alex Walsh 56.37 Alex Walsh 57.05 Jasmine Nocentini 56.34 Alex Walsh 57.45
Gretchen Walsh 47.35 Gretchen Walsh 47.00 Alex Walsh 49.15 Kate Douglass 48.25
Anna Moesch 46.85 Anna Moesch 46.18 Maxine Parker 47.26 Aimee Canny 46.85
3:20.20 3:19.58 3:21.01 3:21.80

The biggest difference today was Gretchen Walsh as she split a 47.35 on the fly leg, faster than the 49.15 that sister Alex Walsh swam in the previous meet record.

Notably, Curzan and Gretchen Walsh were all slower in their relay swim tonight compared to their individual wins earlier in the session in their respective stroke 100s. Curzan won the 100 back in a 49.11 while Gretchen Walsh was off her winning time of a 46.97.

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Swimpop
5 hours ago

Oh dear god, they are human.

About Anya Pelshaw

Anya Pelshaw

Anya has been with SwimSwam since June 2021 as both a writer and social media coordinator. She was in attendance at the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Women's NCAA Championships writing and doing social media for SwimSwam. She also attended 2023 US Summer Nationals as well as the 2024 European Championships …

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