2025 Professional Swim Sequence – Fort Lauderdale
Girls’s 100 Freestyle – Last
High 8:
Gretchen Walsh (NYAC) — 52.90
Torri Huske (AAC) — 52.95
Kate Douglass (NYAC) — 53.61
Rylee Erisman (LAKR) — 53.78
Penny Oleksiak (CAN) — 53.89
Simone Manuel (TXLA) — 53.99
Sarah Fournier (CHI) — 54.96
Erin Gemmell (TXLA) — 55.11
Gretchen Walsh, the fastest-ever swimmer within the yards pool, is constant to make inroads into the meters.
After inserting first this morning at a time of 54.09, G. Walsh was the favourite for tonight. Out in 25.22 to the toes, Walsh held off a surging Torri Huske to take the win in 52.90, with Huske ending simply .05 again in 52.95.
Earlier than this night, Walsh had by no means damaged the 53.00-second barrier. She first received shut in 2023, going 53.14 at US Nationals. Final 12 months, she dropped two new PBs, going 53.13 at Olympic trials, then once more dropping a brand new PB of 53.04 in Paris.
In her first season as an expert swimmer, the NCAA champion within the 100 seems to have reached new heights, as her efficiency tonight reveals.
New PB (2025 Fort Lauderdale PSS)
Earlier PB (Paris Olympics)
1st 50
25.22
25.22
2nd 50
27.68
27.82
Last Time
52.90
53.04
In evaluating the 2 splits, Walsh made all of her enchancment within the backhalf as she took out the first 50 in an identical 25.22 however got here dwelling in .14 of a second quicker. Walsh’s efforts tonight bounce her from seventh to fifth within the all-time US Performers, passing each Abbey Weitzeil and Amanda Weir. For reference, all the performers above Walsh, save Mallory Commerford, have been within the area this night. Huske completed 2nd, as talked about above, Kate Douglass took third in 53.61, and Simone Manuel took sixth in 53.99
High US Performers of all time:
Simone Manuel – 52.04 (2019)
Torri Huske – 52.29 (2024)
Kate Douglass – 52.56 (2024)
Mallory Comerford – 52.59 (2017)
Gretchen Walsh – 52.90 (2025)
Abbey Weitzeil – 52.92 (2023)
Amanda Weir – 53.02 (2009)
Whereas Walsh now ranks because the fifth quickest American, her time doesn’t crack the World’s high 25 of all time. Rikako Ikee’s 52.79 at the moment occupies that spot. Nonetheless, this season, each Walsh, along with her 52.90, and Huske, along with her 52.95, vault as much as the highest of the World rankings as the one two swimmers to have gone underneath 53.
