NCAA Girls’s Championships, Day 3 Finals: Virginia Caps Off Dominant Evening With Second-Quickest 400 Medley Relay Ever
Three particular person winners from Friday night teamed as much as placed on a present of dominance within the 400 medley relay, the kind of efficiency faculty swimming followers have come to count on from the College of Virginia on the NCAA Championships. The Cavaliers have now captured the 400 medley relay title in 4 consecutive seasons, all with sisters Alex Walsh and Gretchen Walsh on the squad whereas newcomers Claire Curzan and Anna Moesch dealt with the bookend legs.
Recent off her 100 again win an hour-and-a-half earlier, Curzan confronted a rematch with Florida’s Bella Sims on the opening leg. This time, the Virginia leadoff swimmer couldn’t maintain off her counterpart, coming in 9 hundredths behind (49.54 to 49.63), however then the Walsh sisters went to work. Alex clocked 56.37 on the breaststroke leg, virtually a second faster than anybody else in historical past, earlier than Gretchen went 47.35 on fly. By comparability, the next-best break up belonged to Stanford’s Torri Huske at 48.71.
Moesch has been thrown into the fireplace alongside Virginia’s Olympians, and the freshman has now gone final in all three of the crew’s relay wins. A break up of 46.85 was ample to assist Virginia to the wall in 3:30.20, beating the sector by 4.79 seconds. The crew was simply behind the American and NCAA data of three:19.58 set by the identical foursome finally month’s ACC Championships, however they did eclipse the meet report of three:21.01 set by the Walsh sisters, Jasmine Nocentini and Maxine Parker final season.
One other 40 factors offers Virginia 383 factors for the competitors, 89 factors away from another crew and really a lot on monitor for consecutive nationwide title No. 5. Whereas Virginia’s level complete by Wednesday was larger than in any of the crew’s earlier triumphs, this time the crew is barely behind the 386.5 factors scored at this level within the 2022 meet however nonetheless barely forward of the totals from 2023 and 2024.
The race for second place went to Tennessee, with Woman Vols anchor Camille Spink splitting 46.45 to return from virtually a second behind and cross Florida for second place. Josephine Fuller, Mona McSharry and Sara Stotler dealt with the primary three legs on a crew that completed in 3:24.99. Florida took third in 3:25.18 with Sims, Anita Bottazzo, Olivia Peoples and Micayla Cronk.
Miranda Grana completed off an enormous night time wherein she positioned fourth within the 100 fly and third within the 100 again by serving to Indiana to a fourth-place outcome right here, with the crew ending in 3:25.83. In the meantime, Texas and Stanford had been squaring off in lanes six and 7, and the Longhorns narrowly received the battle for fifth place, 3:26.11 to three:26.34. That lowered Stanford’s edge over Texas for second place within the crew competitors to 4 factors (292 to 288), with the Longhorns batting again from a tough Thursday with strong swims Friday mixed with a 1-7-10 end in 3-meter diving.
The Cavaliers, Cardinal and Longhorns will virtually certainly stroll away with the crew trophies on the finish of Saturday night time, however fourth place may come right down to the wire between Indiana (209) and Tennessee (195), with Florida (177) and Louisville (160.5) additionally in rivalry.
Occasion 14 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
College Seed Finals Factors
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1 Virginia 3:19.58 3:20.20M 40
1) Curzan, Claire JR 2) r:0.31 Walsh, Alex 5Y
3) r:0.11 Walsh, Gretchen SR 4) r:0.11 Moesch, Anna FR
r:+0.67 23.88 49.63 (49.63)
1:15.73 (26.10) 1:46.00 (56.37)
2:07.46 (21.46) 2:33.35 (47.35)
2:55.70 (22.35) 3:20.20 (46.85)
2 Tennessee 3:25.18 3:24.99 34
1) Fuller, Josephine SR 2) r:0.34 McSharry, Mona 5Y
3) r:0.11 Stotler, Sara SR 4) r:0.35 Spink, Camille SO
r:+0.65 24.43 50.21 (50.21)
1:16.76 (26.55) 1:47.53 (57.32)
2:10.75 (23.22) 2:38.54 (51.01)
3:00.31 (21.77) 3:24.99 (46.45)
3 Florida 3:24.78 3:25.18 32
1) Sims, Bella SO 2) r:0.06 Bottazzo, Anita FR
3) r:0.26 Peoples, Olivia SR 4) r:0.36 Cronk, Micayla SR
r:+0.57 24.18 49.54 (49.54)
1:16.00 (26.46) 1:46.90 (57.36)
2:09.93 (23.03) 2:37.55 (50.65)
2:59.96 (22.41) 3:25.18 (47.63)
4 Indiana 3:26.64 3:25.83 30
1) Dewitt, Mya JR 2) r:0.04 Crawford, Brearna SR
3) r:0.12 Grana, Miranda SO 4) r:0.32 Paegle, Kristina JR
r:+0.54 24.51 50.79 (50.79)
1:17.50 (26.71) 1:48.87 (58.08)
2:11.93 (23.06) 2:38.49 (49.62)
3:00.88 (22.39) 3:25.83 (47.34)
5 Texas 3:25.49 3:26.11 28
1) Bray, Olivia 5Y 2) r:0.18 Enge, Piper FR
3) r:0.23 Sticklen, Emma 5Y 4) r:0.19 Nesty, Lillian FR
r:+0.70 24.65 51.62 (51.62)
1:18.49 (26.87) 1:49.88 (58.26)
2:12.34 (22.46) 2:39.05 (49.17)
3:01.45 (22.40) 3:26.11 (47.06)
6 Stanford 3:26.98 3:26.34 26
1) Parkhe, Annika FR 2) r:0.19 Thomas, Lucy SO
3) r:0.26 Huske, Torri JR 4) r:0.25 Nordmann, Lillie SR
r:+0.65 24.92 52.38 (52.38)
1:18.93 (26.55) 1:50.40 (58.02)
2:12.62 (22.22) 2:39.11 (48.71)
3:01.81 (22.70) 3:26.34 (47.23)
7 USC 3:28.85 3:26.82 24
1) Well-known, Caroline 5Y 2) r:0.17 Dobler, Kaitlyn 5Y
3) r:0.25 Sasseville, Gigi SR 4) r:0.14 Abraham, Minna SO
r:+0.70 24.56 51.22 (51.22)
1:17.92 (26.70) 1:48.89 (57.67)
2:12.08 (23.19) 2:40.28 (51.39)
3:02.25 (21.97) 3:26.82 (46.54)
8 Louisville 3:28.82 3:27.76 22
1) Murray, Camille FR 2) r:0.45 Cheatwood, Mia JR
3) r:0.22 Welch, Ella JR 4) r:0.19 Dennis, Julia JR
r:+0.71 24.37 51.65 (51.65)
1:19.42 (27.77) 1:50.94 (59.29)
2:14.11 (23.17) 2:41.37 (50.43)
3:03.04 (21.67) 3:27.76 (46.39)
Girls – Workforce Rankings – Via Occasion 14
1. Virginia 383 2. Stanford 292
3. Texas 288 4. Indiana 209
5. Tennessee 195 6. Florida 177
7. Louisville 160.5 8. California 139.5
9. Michigan 121 10. NC State 114
11. Wisconsin 93 12. Southern California 90
13. Miami (Fl) 75.5 14. UNC 50
15. Arizona St 41.5 16. Alabama 41
17. Georgia 38 18. Ohio St 37
19. Kansas 25 19. Purdue 25
21. Pittsburgh 21 22. Arizona 20
23. Duke 18 24. Virginia Tech 17
25. South Carolina 15 25. Siu 15
25. Lsu 15 25. Cincinnati 15
29. Houston 13 30. Brigham Younger 12
31. Texas A&M 11 32. Auburn 6
32. Princeton 6 34. Arkansas 4
35. Minnesota 2 35. Florida St 2
35. Akron 2 38. Washington St. 1
