{"id":604910,"date":"2025-02-18T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=604910"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:39:56","slug":"gretchen-walsh-swims-second-fastest-200-freestyle-in-history-as-virginia-women-crush-800-free-relay-ncaa-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/gretchen-walsh-swims-second-fastest-200-freestyle-in-history-as-virginia-women-crush-800-free-relay-ncaa-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Walsh Swims Second-Fastest 200 Freestyle in History as Virginia Women Crush 800 Free Relay NCAA Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gretchen Walsh Swims Second-Fastest 200 Freestyle in History as Virginia Women Crush 800 Free Relay NCAA Record<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The University of Virginia women have overhauled the college swimming record books over the last four seasons. Individually,\u00a0<strong>Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> holds four NCAA records while\u00a0<strong>Kate Douglass<\/strong> has two and\u00a0<strong>Alex Walsh <\/strong>and <strong>Claire Curzan<\/strong> one apiece. The Cavaliers have repeatedly set records in the 200 and 400-yard freestyle and medley relays, and now they have a clean sweep of relay marks after taking down the U.S. Open and NCAA records in the 800 free relay on night one of the ACC Championships.<\/p>\n<p>On the leadoff leg, Gretchen Walsh came close to adding a fifth individual record to her tally. At last season&#8217;s ACC Championships, Walsh became the third-fastest swimmer ever in the 200-yard free while leading off this relay, and she came in Tuesday evening in pursuit of\u00a0<strong>Missy Franklin&#8217;s<\/strong> individual record of 1:39.10 set in the same Greensboro, N.C., pool 10 years ago. Walsh fell just short with a time of 1:39.34, but swam the second-fastest time in history.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh joined Franklin and <strong>Mallory Comerford<\/strong> as the only swimmers to ever break 1:40 in the event, and naturally, she destroyed the previous top time in the country in the 200 free, <strong>Anna Peplowski&#8217;s<\/strong> 1:41.63.<\/p>\n<p>After Walsh&#8217;s leadoff leg, Virginia was more than two seconds under NCAA-record pace, and her older sister got even further ahead of that clip with a 1:41.87 split on the second leg.\u00a0<strong>Aimee Canny<\/strong> went 1:42.03 on the third leg, and Curzan brought it home in 1:40.89 on the way to a final time of 6:44.13. That obliterated\u00a0Stanford&#8217;s record of 6:45.91 that had stood as the fastest in history since 2017.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/acc-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC Swimming Coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sidearmstats.com\/acc\/swimming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theacc.com\/feature\/swimdive-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/category\/college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More College Swimming News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/acc-championships-day-1-stanford-women-cal-men-enter-conference-with-relay-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 1 Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stanford finished second here in 6:51.79.\u00a0<strong>Torri Huske<\/strong> led off in 1:42.52, and teammates\u00a0<strong>Caroline Bricker<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lillie Nordmann<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Kayla Wilson<\/strong> all hit 1:43-low splits. Only Virginia, Tennessee and Texas have surpassed that time thus far this season. Cal placed third in 6:55.98 behind a team of\u00a0<strong>Lea Polonsky<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Ava Chavez<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mia West<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Lilou Ressencourt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Like Virginia&#8217;s foursome here, the Cardinal&#8217;s star-studded squad from eight years ago included decorated Olympians and national champions, with individual gold medalists <strong>Simone Manuel<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> bookending the squad while <strong>Lia Neal<\/strong>, a two-time Olympian, and\u00a0<strong>Ella Eastin<\/strong>, who would win eight individual NCAA titles, swam the middle legs.<\/p>\n<p>Because Canny is from South Africa, Virginia&#8217;s time does not count as the American record, and Stanford retains that mark. However, Virginia would surely have beaten that record with a squad of all U.S. swimmers had freshman <strong>Anna Moesch<\/strong>, who has a season-best time of 1:43.12 in the 200 free, been in the lineup instead of Canny.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Walsh sisters and Curzan would typically have comprised the first three legs of the Cavaliers&#8217; 200 medley relay, which was contested earlier in the session, but they skipped that relay to prepare for a record run in this longer relay.<\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 5  Women 800 Yard Freestyle Relay<\/b>\r\n==================================================================================\r\n         MEET: @ 6:46.28  2\/20\/2024 Virginia, University of, UVA-A\r\n                          G Walsh, A Walsh, A Canny, M Nelson\r\n         CONF: # 6:46.28  2\/20\/2024 Virginia, University of, UVA-A\r\n                          G Walsh, A Walsh, A Canny, M Nelson\r\n         AMER: $ 6:45.91  3\/15\/2017 Stanford\r\n                          S Manuel, L 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