Virginia Women Break NCAA Meet Record With 6:45.21 800 Free Relay

2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

• Wednesday, March 18 – Saturday, March 21, 2026
• McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
• Defending Champions: Virginia (5x)
• Championship Central
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• Live Results
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  • Prelims: Day 1
  • Finals: Day 1

Women’s 800 Free Relay – Final Heat

• NCAA Record: 6:44.13 – Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Canny, Curzan), 2025
• American Record: 6:45.91 – Stanford (Manuel, Neal, Eastin, Ledecky), 2017
• U.S. Open Record: 6:44.13 – Virginia (G. Walsh, A. Walsh, Canny, Curzan), 2025
• Championship Record: 6:45.91 – Stanford (Manuel, Neal, Eastin, Ledecky), 2017
• 2025 Champion: Stanford (Bricker, Roghair, Nordmann, Wilson) – 6:46.98
• 2025 8th/16th Place Times: 6:55.14/7:01.17
• Current Leader: Tennessee (Jansen, Armen, Mason Brown) — 6:53.78

Top 8 Teams

1. Virginia (Canny, Mintenko, Hartman, Moesch) — 6:45.21
2. Texas (Padar, Nesty, Chase, Gemmell) — 6:46.91
3. Cal (West, Weinstein, O’Dell, Cosgrove) — 6:47.68
4. Michigan  — 6:48.05
5. Indiana – 6:48.85
6. Stanford — 6:50.12
7. USC — 6:51.17
8. Tennessee — 6:53.78

Virginia’s 800 free relay swam to a new NCAA meet record with a 6:45.21. That broke the previous NCAA meet record of a 6:45.91 set by Stanford back in 2017. Stanford’s meet record notably stood as the NCAA record for eight years until Virginia swam a 6:44.13 at the 2025 ACC Championships. Virginia now holds the two fastest relay performances all-time.

Split Comparison

The biggest difference today was Anna Moesch‘s 1:39.03 anchor leg, notably over a second faster than Katie Ledecky‘s anchor leg of a 1:40.46 for Stanford back in 2017. That marked the fastest relay split of all-time. Madi Mintenko also had a strong 2nd leg for Virginia, over half a second faster than Lia Neal‘s split of a 1:42.15.