2025 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships
Because the Cal males and Virginia ladies wrapped up their ACC Swimming & Diving Championships this weekend in Greensboro, each groups had spotlight outcomes from Time Trials on the final two days of the meet.
For the Cal males, senior Robin Hanson swam 1:31.87 in a 200 free on Friday night after finals. Hanson completed eleventh within the particular person occasion, swimming 1:33.11 in prelims and 1:33.05 in finals. However after a number of extra days, the 23-year-old smoked a brand new finest time swimming solo in a time trial.
His earlier quickest was a 1:31.95 executed on the 2024 Pac-12 Championships on a relay leadoff.
Whereas on preliminary examine, it would seem that his extra aggressive opening 50 within the common occasion (20.94 versus 21.35 in his earlier PB), he was even sooner within the time trial opener, splitting 20.72 in his first 50.
Splitting within the time trial:
- 20.72
- 43.66 (22.94)
- 1:07.54 (23.88)
- 1:31.87 (24.33)
That point would have positioned him third within the particular person occasion last, and his opening 100 yard break up would have been the quickest within the subject by virtually three tenths of a second. It additionally locks up a 3rd NCAA Championship invite after earlier journeys in 2024 (sixteenth within the 200 free) and 2022 (thirteenth within the 200 free).
The Cal males received the 800 free relay in a brand new ACC Championship Document of 6:06.66. Whereas Hanson’s break up was sooner than Jack Alexy‘s opening break up of 1:32.98 on that relay, it appears unlikely that Alexy would lose his spot at NCAAs given his 1:29.75 opening break up finally 12 months’s nationwide championship meet.
The Swedish-born Hanson, who turns 24 the week after NCAAs, additionally posted finest instances within the 50 free (19.35) and 100 free (42.37) this week at ACCs.
Then, for the Virginia ladies on Saturday, freshman Katie Grimes time trialed a 200 again in 1:53.21. She had no different races on Saturday after already utilizing up her three particular person swims earlier within the meet. That swim was 2.7 seconds slower than her lifetime better of 1:50.56 executed at Sectionals in December earlier than arriving in Virginia.
Beforehand within the meet, Grimes received the five hundred free (4:32.69) and the 400 IM (3:59.69), which appear to be protected bets for her NCAA Championship lineup. That leaves her to decide on between the 200 fly (fifth at ACCs in 1:53.63) and this 200 again for a 3rd particular person occasion. Whereas her 200 fly final week was the higher of the 2 swims, her 200 again is her higher finest time of the 2 races.
Different Notable Friday/Saturday Time Trial Swims:
- Cal fifth 12 months Tyler Kopp time trialed a 1:43.46 within the 200 fly on Friday, and his teammate Humberto Najera swam 1:44.11. Najera later added a 1:41.23 within the 200 again in a Saturday time trial. Kopp’s 200 fly time knocked .78 seconds off his earlier finest time; he additionally swam finest instances within the 500 free (4:12.46) and 1650 free (14:51.43).
- Stanford’s Amy Tang time trialed a 48.30 within the 100 free, which dips her .04 seconds underneath the invited time for the 2024 NCAA Championships. She swam a 48.02 earlier within the meet in a person occasion, which doesn’t lock her in for an NCAA invite, however places her on the correct aspect of the bubble.
