2025 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships
- Dates: Tuesday, February 18–Saturday, February 22
- Location: Greensboro Aquatic Middle, Greensboro, NC
- Defending champions: UVA ladies (5x); NC State males (3x)
- Fan Information
- Reside Outcomes
- Reside Video: ACC NX
- Psych Sheets
- Championship Central
The Cal males have reloaded with the addition of one more Olympian for the postseason, as former LSU star Brooks Curry is entered as a fifth-year senior for the Bears at subsequent week’s ACC Championships.
Curry, who swam 4 years for LSU and final competed collegiately on the 2023 NCAA Championships, has been coaching in Berkeley for the reason that summer time of 2023, and though he appeared within the switch portal earlier this season (with one yr of eligibility remaining), was reportedly not planning on competing for Cal, not less than in 2024-25.
Nonetheless, regardless of not presently being listed on the Cal roster, Curry’s look on the ACC psych sheets inform us he’ll be competing for the Bears subsequent week on the convention meet and in the end the NCAA Championships subsequent month (supplied he qualifies).
The 24-year-old is entered with no time within the males’s 50, 100 and 200 free. His finest occasions would seed him 1st within the 50 free (18.56), 2nd within the 100 free (40.84) and 1st within the 200 free (1:31.30). The one swimmer with a sooner seed time than Curry’s PB within the 100 free is teammate Jack Alexy (40.82).
Curry has not raced in a sanctioned meet for the reason that 2024 Olympics in Paris, the place he break up 1:45.96 on the U.S. males’s 4×200 free relay within the prelims earlier than the workforce earned silver within the closing.
On the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Curry received gold as a member of the U.S. males’s 4×100 free relay, and he additionally received a world title in 2022 on that relay.
Throughout his profession at LSU, Curry solely completed outdoors the highest eight as soon as throughout 9 particular person occasions at three NCAA Championship meets.
He first broke out to win the 2020 SEC title within the 100 free as a freshman, after which at his debut NCAAs the next season, positioned sixth within the 200 free, seventh within the 100 free and tenth within the 50 free.
Throughout his junior yr, he received the SEC title within the 100 free, was the runner-up in each the 50 and 200 free, after which on the 2022 NCAAs, received nationwide titles within the 50 and 100 free whereas inserting sixth within the 200 free.
In 2023, he was 4th within the 50 free, fifth within the 100 free and 4th within the 200 free as a senior at NCAAs.
The addition of Curry comes after the Cal males added Belgian Olympian Lucas Henveaux and French Olympian Mewen Tomac to their roster for the second semester in January.
NOTABLE ENTRIES
- Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh has pre-entered in 5 occasions for ACCs, so she’ll need to drop two from her lineup as soon as the meet rolls round. She’s entered within the three occasions she received final yr at each ACCs and NCAAs, the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly, and in addition holds entries within the 100 and 200 again.
- Claire Curzan has the very same entry listing as Walsh: 50 free, 100 free, 100 again, 200 again, 100 fly.
- Alex Walsh holds six entries coming into the meet, so it’s onerous to gauge what she’ll find yourself swimming. The defending champion within the 200 breast, 200 fly and 200 IM, Walsh has entered in these occasions to associate with the 200 free, 100 breast and 100 fly.
- Virginia freshman Katie Grimes has six entries: 200, 500 and 1650 free, 200 again, 200 fly and 400 IM. Based mostly on what she’s raced to date this semester, Grimes will possible tackle the five hundred free, 400 IM and one of many stroke 200s at NCAAs, however what she races at ACCs stays to be seen.
- Stanford’s Torri Huske has a hybrid of the 2 Walsh sister’s entries. She’s received 4 of the identical occasions as Gretchen with the 50 free, 100 free, 100 again and 100 fly, and can be entered within the 200 IM.
- Cal’s Destin Lasco has pre-entered in 5 occasions—his regular NCAA lineup of 100 again, 200 again and 200 IM, and he’s additionally within the 100 and 200 free.
- His teammate Gabriel Jett has six occasions in his lineup one week out: 200 and 500 free, 100 and 200 again, 200 fly and 200 IM.
