NCAA Girls’s Championships: Virginia Dominates 400 Medley Relay for Fifth Straight 12 months
Each single swimmer racing for the College of Virginia on the 400 medley relay Friday night on the NCAA Girls’s Championships had already completed second place or larger in a person occasion at this meet. The star-studded roster of Sara Curtis, Aimee Canny, Claire Curzan and Anna Moesch was by no means going to be stopped.
Lower than two hours earlier, Curzan had posted the second-fastest time ever within the 100 backstroke, however the Cavaliers’ roster development meant Curzan could be assigned to the butterfly leg right here, with Curtis swimming backstroke. Canny, in the meantime, could be racing on a medley relay on the NCAA Championships for the primary time in her profession. Irrespective of: all 4 Virginia swimmers had top-three splits on their respective strokes.
Curtis led off in 49.47, a faster time than Bella Sims swam for second within the 100 again earlier within the night time, and he or she additionally beat Sims head-to-head because the Michigan swimmer touched in 49.79. From there, Canny took over on the breaststroke leg with a 56.63 cut up. Recent off a second-place swimmer within the 200 breast, Canny swam a time solely exceeded by Florida’s Anita Bottazzo and Louisville’s Anastasia Gorbenko, however each swimmers entered the water nicely out of competition already.
Curzan fired off a 48.82 cut up on butterfly, only a bit shy of the 48.55 she swam for second place within the particular person occasion Thursday. Then got here Moesch, already with two relay wins and a title-winning efficiency within the 200 free, coming into the water with a bonus of two.68 seconds and lengthening it. A cut up of 45.74 helped Virginia get to the wall in 3:20.66, a time that no different faculty has ever exceeded.
This win marked Virginia’s fifth consecutive nationwide title within the occasion, including to the 4 the Cavaliers gained when Gretchen and Alex Walsh swam on the squad. Virginia continued a streak of NCAA wins in each single 200 and 400-yard relay going again to the beginning of the 2022 meet, additionally held in Atlanta.
The battle right here was for second place, and that went to Tennessee in 3:23.79. Camille Spink provided a forty five.78 anchor cut up for the Woman Vols to storm from fourth place into second on the end. McKenzie Siroky, who tied for second within the 100 breaststroke Thursday, went 56.97 on breaststroke whereas Jillian Crooks swam backstroke and Mizuki Hirai breaststroke.
For Michigan, Letitia Sim, Brady Kendall and Stephanie Balduccini adopted Sims into the pool and positioned third in 3:24.44. Simply behind was the NC State workforce of Leah Shackley, Eneli Jefimova, Erika Pelaez and Olivia Nel in 3:24.49. Jefimova, the winner of the 100 breast at this meet, went 56.69 on her cut up.
Texas, racing within the morning heats, claimed fifth in 3:24.64 due to a 46.00 anchor cut up from Eva Okaro. Cal, with Mary-Ambre Moluh main off with the second-quickest backstroke cut up at 49.76, ended up sixth.
The quickest freestyle cut up belonged to Indiana’s Liberty Clark at 45.67 whereas fast breaststroke legs got here courtesy of Florida’s Anita Bottazzo (56.10), Stanford’s Lucy Bell (56.47) and Louisville’s Anastasia Gorbenko (56.63). The Cardinal missed out on the top-eight by one hundredth on the one relay Torri Huske sat out.
Occasion 15 Girls 400 Yard Medley Relay
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NCAA: N 3:19.58 2/21/2025 Virginia
C Curzan, A Walsh, G Walsh, A Moesch
Meet: M 3:20.20 3/21/2025 Virginia
C Curzan, A Walsh, G Walsh, A Moesch
American: A 3:19.58 2/21/2025 Virginia
C Curzan, A Walsh, G Walsh, A Moesch
US Open: O 3:19.58 2/21/2025 Virginia
C Curzan, A Walsh, G Walsh, A Moesch
Pool: P 3:20.42 2/20/2026 Virginia
S Curtis, A Canny, C Curzan, A Moesch
College Seed Finals Factors
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1 Virginia 3:20.42 3:20.66 40
1) Curtis, Sara FR 2) r:0.42 Canny, Aimee SR
3) r:0.39 Curzan, Claire JR 4) r:0.18 Moesch, Anna SO
r:+0.69 24.02 49.47 (49.47)
1:15.83 (26.36) 1:46.10 (56.63)
2:08.41 (22.31) 2:34.92 (48.82)
2:56.67 (21.75) 3:20.66 (45.74)
2 Tennessee 3:24.58 3:23.79 34
1) Crooks, Jillian SO 2) r:0.15 Siroky, McKenzie SO
3) r:0.33 Hirai, Mizuki FR 4) r:0.23 Spink, Camille JR
r:+0.53 24.26 50.94 (50.94)
1:17.31 (26.37) 1:47.91 (56.97)
2:11.19 (23.28) 2:38.01 (50.10)
2:59.57 (21.56) 3:23.79 (45.78)
3 Michigan 3:24.08 3:24.44 32
1) Sims, Bella JR 2) r:0.31 Sim, Letitia SR
3) r:0.27 Kendall, Brady SR 4) r:0.10 Balduccini, Steanie JR
r:+0.57 24.13 49.79 (49.79)
1:16.52 (26.73) 1:47.37 (57.58)
2:10.60 (23.23) 2:37.60 (50.23)
2:59.74 (22.14) 3:24.44 (46.84)
4 NC State 3:24.65 3:24.49 30
1) Shackley, Leah SO 2) r:0.28 Jefimova, Eneli FR
3) r:0.25 Pelaez, Erika SO 4) r:0.07 Nel, Olivia SR
r:+0.65 24.38 50.47 (50.47)
1:16.76 (26.29) 1:47.16 (56.69)
2:10.83 (23.67) 2:37.84 (50.68)
2:59.96 (22.12) 3:24.49 (46.65)
5 Texas 3:26.37 3:24.64 28
1) Kern, Emma JR 2) r:0.14 Enge, Piper SO
3) r:0.32 Stoll, Campbell JR 4) r:0.14 Okaro, Eva FR
r:+0.52 24.35 51.37 (51.37)
1:17.93 (26.56) 1:48.61 (57.24)
2:11.68 (23.07) 2:38.64 (50.03)
3:00.46 (21.82) 3:24.64 (46.00)
6 California 3:25.76 3:25.09 26
1) Moluh, Mary-Ambre SO 2) r:0.35 Scott, Elle FR
3) r:0.07 Jia, Annie FR 4) r:0.19 O’Dell, Teagan FR
r:+0.64 24.18 49.76 (49.76)
1:16.82 (27.06) 1:48.28 (58.52)
2:11.60 (23.32) 2:38.04 (49.76)
3:00.32 (22.28) 3:25.09 (47.05)
7 Indiana 3:26.15 3:25.17 24
1) Grana, Miranda JR 2) r:0.19 Laegreid, Jonette SO
3) r:0.09 Shackell, Alex FR 4) r:0.18 Clark, Liberty FR
r:+0.60 24.17 50.20 (50.20)
1:17.94 (27.74) 1:49.82 (59.62)
2:12.20 (22.38) 2:39.50 (49.68)
3:01.00 (21.50) 3:25.17 (45.67)
8 Louisville 3:25.16 3:25.58 22
1) Murray, Camille SO 2) r:0.05 Gorbenko, Anastasia SO
3) r:0.11 Welch, Ella SR 4) r:0.21 Dennis, Julia SR
r:+0.66 24.55 51.76 (51.76)
1:17.98 (26.22) 1:48.39 (56.63)
2:11.57 (23.18) 2:38.78 (50.39)
3:00.80 (22.02) 3:25.58 (46.80)
