2025 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships
- February 18-22, 2025
- Greensboro Aquatic Center — Greensboro, North Carolina
- Full Event Schedule (pre-scratch timeline)
- Championship Central
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- Live Results
- Live Streaming
- Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap |Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap| Day 4 Finals Live Recap
The Virginia women have long since proven there’s no limits to what they can achieve. Even so, the amount they continue to push swimming events forward is jaw-dropping. That’s never more on display than when the loaded roster combines forces on the relays, as they did tonight in the women’s 400 medley relay at the 2025 ACC Championships.
Claire Curzan, Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh, and Anna Moesch smashed the NCAA record in the event to close the Day Four finals session, ripping a 3:19.58. Virginia owned the previous record, which they set at 3:21.01 during the 2024 NCAA Championships. No team had ever been 3:20-point and that’s technically still true, as the Cavaliers bypassed 3:20 and went straight to 3:19.58, breaking the record by 1.43-seconds.
Split Comparison, Women’s 400 Medley Relay NCAA Record
| 2025 ACCs | 2024 NCAAs | 2023 NCAAs | |
| Back | Claire Curzan (49.35) | Gretchen Walsh (48.26) | Gretchen Walsh (49.25) |
| Breast | Alex Walsh (57.05) | Jasmine Nocentini (56.34) | Alex Walsh (57.45) |
| Fly | Gretchen Walsh (47.00) | Alex Walsh (49.15) | Kate Douglass (48.25) |
| Free | Anna Moesch (46.18) | Maxine Parker (47.26) | Aimee Canny (46.85) |
| Final | 3:19.58 | 3:21.01 | 3:21.80 |
As the Cavaliers built their reign at the top of the NCAA, they attracted versatile, high-level swimmers they could slot on multiple legs of a medley relay. A. Walsh swam butterfly on the NCAA record-setting relay last season. In fact, none of the 100 of stroke swimmers swam their respective 100 of stroke at this ACC Championship, as Curzan swam the 100 fly and G. Walsh the 100 back.
Despite that, they were both the fastest swimmers on their respective legs of the race. With Curzan eligible to race in the NCAA this season, she was able to take over backstroke duties and allow Walsh to shine on the butterfly. The move paid off for her as she sliced two-hundredths off her 100 backstroke best in 49.35.
We’ve seen Walsh swim backstroke on this relay the past couple seasons, which also lets her get a flat-start 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke in at an NCAA Championships. She chose to race the individual 100 backstroke at these championships and took over the butterfly leg, ripping a 47.00, which is the fastest 100 fly split in history.
Walsh set that standard last month with a 47.15 at the Eddie Reese Invite. Virginia put this record on notice at that meet, swimming a 3:21.48 to break the American record. In addition to the historic split from G. Walsh, Moesch, a freshman, also out-split the freestyle leg of the two previous NCAA records by .67 seconds with a speedy 46.18.
The Virginia women have taken dominance in collegiate sports to a new level at the 2025 ACC Championships. Earlier in the meet, they broke the long-standing women’s NCAA 800 freestyle relay record. The record means they now hols all five NCAA relay records and G. Walsh’s lead-off (1:39.34) means the Cavaliers own every ACC swimming record. Virginia has been at the top of the all-time rankings in the women’s 400 medley for season now, but still continue to find ways to push the event further than previously thought possible.
What if? Would this have been Regan’s Sr yr (or. 5Y)? What would this race have been like if Stanford was Regan, breastroker, Torri and Claire? What would UVA’s line up be then?
Optimistically Stanford could probably go 6 seconds faster? Like 46 low for Curzan, 48 mid for Regan would put them at 3:21.0ish.
UVA should still have the same back half, and then either Wilson-A.Walsh or like A.Walsh-Weber on the front half. Feel like the second one is better but Alex hasn’t swam the 100 back in ages (her 50.88 PB is from 2018 lol). Probably would be around as fast as the Stanford relay
So if people didn’t tranfer out of Stanford, their relay would have been faster?
47.00 👀🥵 I AM SHOOK
Waiting for her to beat that flat start in a few weeks
Talk about consistent, perennial versatility. Of those three years where the splits are displayed, there was a different person swimming each leg, each year, for butterfly and freestyle; and two different people across three years for the backstroke and two for the breaststroke. That is legendary.
Gretchen’s Best Time/Relay Splits:
Back- 48.10
Breast- 56.86
Fly- 47.00
Free- 44.83
Total: 3:16.79
How crazy is Gretchen lol!
this is wild. not many programs can average 49.2 doing freestyle…
I said it on the recap thread but if you had told me Kate Douglass era relays would almost all be eliminated from the record books in the next 2 years I’d have never believed you.
I bears repeating! They’re phenomenal. It doesn’t matter who you root for or don’t root for, and no matter the sport, it’s always fun to see a team build and maintain a dynasty (IMO).
I was thinking the same.
The previous American record (before tonight) was 3:22 and it was Gretchen, Alexis Wenger, Alex, and KD…
and the team tonight went 3 SECONDS FASTER than that team. WITHOUT KD.
Does not compute.
Oooh, it computes, just hard to fathom how they do it!
Just think about 2 years ago how phenomenal Kate’s year was, her worst stroke was the 100 back and she had the fourth fastest time. Forward to now and Gretchen is over a second faster than Kate in each stroke of the hundreds.
Curzan and Moesch had the day off today and it showed in their splits
Damn they really stepped up here and went for it. Very impressed with Moesch as a freshman and her first ACCs. She will be the future of America women’s sprinting
Her 50 and 200 Free did not have as much improvement as her 100 so that middle is her sweet spot.
Sad A Walsh didn’t go 56 low in the relay, but still happy they broke the record!