{"id":578901,"date":"2024-02-24T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=578901"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T18:13:17","slug":"acc-championships-day-5-prelims-chris-guiliano-gretchen-walsh-swim-countrys-fastest-times-in-100-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/acc-championships-day-5-prelims-chris-guiliano-gretchen-walsh-swim-countrys-fastest-times-in-100-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Championships, Day 5 Prelims: Chris Guiliano, Gretchen Walsh Swim Country’s Fastest Times in 100 Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACC Championships, Day 5 Prelims: Chris Guiliano, Gretchen Walsh Swim Country’s Fastest Times in 100 Freestyle<\/strong><\/p>\n

The march toward Atlantic Coast Conference team titles is on for the University of Virginia women and North Carolina State men, with both holding down leads of more than 300 points entering the final day before setting themselves up well in Saturday’s prelims. The UVA women, who have captured first place in all but one swimming event thus far, hold down the top seed in all three events for finals, with\u00a0Reilly Tiltmann<\/strong> first in the 200 backstroke,\u00a0Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> aiming for a third record-breaking swim in the 100 freestyle and\u00a0Ella Nelson<\/strong> atop the 200 breaststroke while the NC State men are led by Daniel Diehl<\/strong>, who paced the 200 back.<\/p>\n

The 100 freestyles produced the top swims of the morning, with Walsh setting the country’s fastest time in the women’s event while\u00a0Chris Guiliano<\/strong> did the same in the men’s 100 free. The Notre Dame senior, fresh off a summer in which he qualified for his first senior-level international competition, clocked a time of 40.84 in the prelims, which moved him ahead of Florida’s Josh Liendo<\/strong> (40.95) for the country’s fastest time thus far.<\/p>\n

Women - Team Rankings - Through Event 30                     \r\n \r\n  1. Virginia, University of        1178.5   2. North Carolina State Universit    869\r\n  3. Louisville, University of         841   4. Duke University                 673.5\r\n  5. North Carolina, University of   625.5   6. Florida State University          433\r\n  7. VA Tech                         423.5   8. Georgia Institute of Technolog    390\r\n  9. Notre Dame, University of         364  10. Pittsburgh, University of         330\r\n 11. University of Miami (Florida)     295<\/pre>\n
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 31                      \r\n \r\n  1. North Carolina State Universit 1063.5   2. Notre Dame, University of       746.5\r\n  3. VA Tech                         666.5   4. Louisville, University of         664\r\n  5. Florida State University          538   6. Virginia, University of         534.5\r\n  7. North Carolina, University of     529   8. Pittsburgh, University of         438\r\n  9. Georgia Institute of Technolog    392  10. Duke University                   198\r\n 11. University of Miami (Florida)      94<\/pre>\n