The Faculty Swimming and Diving Coaches Affiliation of America (CSCAA) introduced the ladies’s NCAA Division I award winners for the 2024-25 season on Mar. twenty fourth. The announcement comes with the top of the 2025 NCAA Ladies’s Division I Championships in Federal Manner, Washington, the place the College of Virginia received its fifth-straight group title.
Swim Coach & Swimmer of The Yr
Unsurprisingly, the Cavaliers picked up a number of awards, that are decided by a vote of the CSCAA-Member Division I head swimming coaches and head diving coaches. Virginia head coach Todd DeSorbo was named the Ladies’s DI Swim Coach of the Yr for the fifth consecutive 12 months. DeSorbo’s Cavaliers earned gold in 10 occasions, together with 4 relays, profitable the group title with 544 factors, 127 greater than runner-up Stanford.
An important piece of Virginia’s championship roster was Gretchen Walsh, named the Ladies’s DI Swimmer of the Yr award for the second straight 12 months. Walsh swept her particular person occasions for the second 12 months in a row, placing on dominant performances within the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly, and 100 freestyle.
She broke her 100 butterfly and 100 freestyle NCAA information throughout the occasion finals and tied her 50 freestyle mark main off the 200 freestyle relay. She swam 46.97 within the 100 butterfly, breaking her file for the second time that day and turning into the primary girl sub-47 seconds within the occasion. No different girl has damaged 48 seconds. Walsh wrapped up her particular person NCAA profession by establishing a 44.71 all-time mark within the 100 freestyle.
She was the one swimmer to comb her particular person occasions on the 2025 NCAA Championships.
Gretchen Walsh’s Outcomes
50 freestyle: 1st, 20.49
100 butterfly: 1st, 46.97 NCAA Report
100 freestyle: 1st, 44.71 NCAA Report
200 medley relay: 1st, 1:31.10 NCAA Report — 20.88 butterfly break up
200 freestyle relay: 1st, 1:24.45 — 20.37 lead-off =NCAA Report
400 medley relay: 1st, 3:20.20 — 47.35 butterfly break up
400 freestyle relay: 1st, 3:06.01 — 45.04 relay break up
Diving Coach & Diver of The Yr
Texas coach Matt Scoggin received Ladies’s DI Diving Coach of the Yr, incomes the award for the sixth time in his profession. That is the twelfth general NCAA Coach of the Yr honor Scoggin has received in his profession, as he’s additionally been awarded on the lads’s aspect.
The Texas girls’s divers scored a mixed 92 factors in Federal Manner, essentially the most of any diving program. Three divers scored on the 1-meter and 3-meter occasions, with two athletes reaching finals on the platform.
Scoggin coached freshman Alejandra Estudillo to the win on the ladies’s 3-meter occasion. She scored in all three diving occasions, taking sixth on the 1-meter and tenth on the platform. Sophomore Bayleigh Crawford positioned third on the platform and seventh 3-meter, whereas senior Hailey Hernandez completed fifth on the 1-meter board.
Miami-FL’s Chiara Pellacani was named the Ladies’s DI Diver of the Yr for the primary time. A part of a profitable Hurricanes roster, Pellacani scored a team-high 37 factors because the group notched a Thirteenth-place end on the championships.
Pellacani earned her factors by profitable the 1-meter competitors and taking second within the 3-meter.
Chiara Pellacani’s Outcomes
1-meter diving: 1st, 354.65 factors
3-meter diving: 2nd, 387.60 factors
