{"id":531708,"date":"2023-07-03T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=531708"},"modified":"2023-07-03T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T19:48:19","slug":"virginia-swimmers-make-significant-impact-at-u-s-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/virginia-swimmers-make-significant-impact-at-u-s-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Swimmers Make Significant Impact at U.S. Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virginia Swimmers Make Significant Impact at U.S. Nationals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The University of Virginia swimming program has become one of the country&#8217;s most recognized over the past several years, with the women&#8217;s team earning a third consecutive NCAA team championship in March. The Cavaliers have transitioned their success to long course as well, with both\u00a0<strong>Alex Walsh<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong> qualifying for the 2021 Olympics and 2022 World Championships with Walsh supplying a 200 IM world title for the United States last year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Walsh&#8217;s younger sister\u00a0<strong>Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> is set to join the U.S. team alongside her teammates for this year&#8217;s World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. At last week&#8217;s U.S. Nationals, Douglass was one of the top performers of the meet as she won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-kate-douglass-sprints-past-abbey-weitzeil-in-womens-100-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100 freestyle<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-kate-douglass-storms-ahead-of-alex-walsh-to-win-200-im-become-sixth-fastest-swimmer-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200 IM<\/a> while placing second in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-lilly-king-edges-kate-douglass-in-stellar-womens-200-breaststroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200 breaststroke<\/a>, third in the 100 butterfly and tied for third in the 50 free while Gretchen Walsh won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-gretchen-walsh-blasts-american-record-in-50-butterfly-earns-solo-duty-for-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 fly<\/a>, took second in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-torri-huske-overtakes-gretchen-walsh-for-100-fly-title-three-fastest-times-in-the-world-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100 fly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-abbey-weitzeil-scorches-us-open-record-in-50-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 free<\/a> and was third in the 100 free and 50 back. Alex Walsh grabbed second in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-katie-grimes-rallies-late-to-grab-victory-in-400-im-alex-walsh-goes-career-best-for-silver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">both IM events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <strong>Maxine Parker<\/strong> unexpectedly claimed a spot on the Worlds team with her sixth-place finish in the 100 free. Two Virginia men&#8217;s swimmers earned top-three finishes, with <strong>Jack Aikins<\/strong> tying for third in the 200 backstroke and\u00a0<strong>Noah Nichols<\/strong> placing third in both the 50 and 100 breast.\u00a0<strong>Emma Weber<\/strong> was fourth in the women&#8217;s 100 breast while\u00a0<strong>Anna Keating<\/strong> and Weber finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 200 breast.<\/p>\n<p>The official Virginia Swimming and Diving Instagram page posted a statistic that the team &#8220;14 swims at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/event\/2023\/06\/27\/default-calendar\/Phillips-66-National-Championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nationals<\/a> from 6 different college athletes that ranked them as US Swimming Top 20 All-Time Performers. This included five performances inside the Top 5!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CuPoEg9gXuT\/<\/p>\n<p>The top-five swims included Gretchen Walsh setting an American record in the 50 fly and becoming the fourth-quickest American ever in the 100 fly. Douglass moved to second all-time among Americans in the 100 free and 200 IM and fourth-best ever in the 200 breast. Additionally, Walsh&#8217;s 2:07.89 in the 200 IM has only been surpassed by three American swimmers ever, but it was not included in the list since she was off her best time of 2:07.13.<\/p>\n<p>Other swims moving athletes into the all-time top 20 swimmers in national history included Gretchen Walsh&#8217;s 50 free (sixth), 100 free (seventh) and 50 back (10th); Douglass&#8217; 100 fly (seventh), Nichols&#8217; 100 breast (12th) and 50 breast (20th), Parker&#8217;s 100 free (14th), Aikins&#8217; 200 back (15th) and Alex Walsh&#8217;s 400 IM (16th).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Swimmers Make Significant Impact at U.S. Nationals The University of Virginia swimming program has become one of the country&#8217;s most recognized over the past several years, with the women&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":531644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122077,7],"tags":[132678,52974,58437,112820,25010,66754,59784,4509],"class_list":["post-531708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","category-usa","tag-2023-us-national-championships","tag-alex-walsh","tag-gretchen-walsh","tag-jack-aikins","tag-kate-douglass","tag-maxine-parker","tag-noah-nichols","tag-university-of-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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