2025 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships
Ladies’s 400 Free Relay – Timed Finals
- NCAA Document: 3:05.84 – Virginia, 2023
- ACC Document: 3:05.84 – Virginia, 2023
ACC Meet Document: 3:06.83 – Virginia, 2023- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 3:13.74
- 2024 NCAA ‘B’ Reduce: 3:15.28
Prime 8:
- Virginia – 3:05.93
- Louisville – 3:09.71
- NC State – 3:10.00
- Stanford – 3:10.71
- Cal – 3:11.92
- Virginia Tech – 3:12.49
- Pitt – 3:14.18
- UNC – 3:14.60
The Virginia girls closed out the ultimate day of the 2025 ACC Championships by setting a brand new meet document within the 400 free relay. The earlier ACC meet document was additionally held by Virginia, and was set in 2023. It featured Gretchen Walsh, Kate Douglass, Lexi Cuomo, and Alex Walsh, and on the time, it was additionally a brand new NCAA document. Though this swim was lower than a tenth off UVA’s personal NCAA Document that they set in 2023 at NCAAs, the UVA girls had been truly sooner at NCAAs final yr; then, their time of three:05.89 was simply .05 off of the document.
Regardless, the quartet of Claire Curzan, Anna Moesch, Alex Walsh, and Gretchen Walsh, the identical 4 swimmers who destroyed the NCAA document within the 400 medley relay final night time, placed on an exhilarating present to mark the third quickest efficiency in historical past.
Splits Comparability:
Whereas Curzan wasn’t fairly in a position to match Douglass’ lead off break up, Moesch had a strong 46.80 leg that saved them even with the document. Whereas Alex, who usually splits within the 46 vary, was 47 tonight, it was Gretchen’s break up, the quickest rolling break up ever, that bought this relay squad near the all-time document. Her 44.93 was practically a full second sooner than her personal 45.85, which she anchored the 2023 workforce house in. Additional, it was faster than over 2 tenths sooner than the 45.17 that she swam on final yr’s NCAA successful relay.
Prime 5 Quickest Relay Splits Of All Time
- Gretchen Walsh (2025 ACCs): 44.93
- Gretchen Walsh (2024 NCAAs): 45.17
- Gretchen Walsh (2023 Tenn. Invite): 45.18
- Maggie MacNeil (2023 SECs): 45.26
- Gretchen Walsh (2024 ACCs): 45.40
Extremely, whereas G.Walsh simply posted the quickest relay break up ever, she has been sooner off of a flat begin: she owns a private greatest and NCAA document of 44.83, a typical that she set at NCAAs final yr. Tonight, Gretchen swam a time of 45.20 to win her third particular person ACC title of the meet.
After breaking the NCAA relay document within the 800 free relay on Day 1, the Virginia girls now maintain the NCAA relay document in all 5 relays. Their dominance on this occasion particularly nevertheless, is to not be understated: since taking the document from Cal for the primary time in 2022, they broke the document twice extra and have been beneath Cal’s earlier document 6 instances. They may have one other likelihood to decrease this document subsequent month at NCAAs, which can happen from March 19-22.
2025 ACC Last Crew Standings:
- UVA: 1451.5
- Stanford: 1141
- Louisville: 935.5
- Cal: 864
- NC State: 787.5
- UNC: 781.5
- FSU: 467
- Pitt: 462
- Virginia Tech: 411.5
- UMiami (FL): 387
- Duke: 376
- Notre Dame: 275
- Georgia Tech: 376
- SMU: 183.5
- Boston Faculty: 103
With this win, UVA secures their sixth consecutive ACC workforce title and twenty first in class historical past.
