will do. I have a thread over on CavsCorner for anyone a member there, too.
But will see if I can get any good shots to post.
Shouldn’t be too crowded tonight given the location, traffic, and Thursday night for local kids’ school.
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Women - Team Rankings - Through Event 7
- Virginia 225 2. Stanford 178
- Texas 152 4. Louisville 106.5
- Indiana 102 6. Tennessee 93
- Michigan 92 8. California 89.5
- Florida 71 10. NC State 54
- Wisconsin 53 12. Miami (Fl) 42.5
- Georgia 38 14. Southern California 35
- UNC 34 16. Alabama 33
- Arizona St 31.5 18. Ohio St 23
- Lsu 15 19. Arizona 15
- Pittsburgh 14 22. Kansas 12
- South Carolina 9 24. Duke 7
- Texas A&M 6 25. Auburn 6
- Virginia Tech 6 28. Purdue 5
- Minnesota 2
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Fun finals session. Really good performance.
Not amazing - if your standard is winning every race in American record time 
Which of course is ridiculous.
That said, G. Walsh tied her own American record in the 50 Free leading off the 200 Free relay and has something like the 10+ fastest times ever.
Walsh and Claire Curzan went 1-2 in the 50 Free - great swim by Curzan.
Alex Walsh lost a tight 200IM with Torri Huske, who of course is one of the best swimmers in the world.
Well on their way to a 5th straight championship and fun to watch the fastest NCAA swimmer in history live.
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Thanks for that report. From TV, it looks like a fun atmosphere.
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Gretchen starts the morning with a new 47.21 100 Fly “everything” record - NCAA, American, US Open, unofficial World.
Funny SwimSwam comment - “So GW woke up and chose violence today”
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TEAM SCORES (THRU FRIDAY NIGHT)
Virginia – 383
Stanford – 292
Texas – 288
Indiana – 209
Tennessee – 195
Florida – 177
Louisville – 160.5
California – 139.5
Michigan – 121
NC State – 114
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SwimSwam writer named Gretchen’s 100 Butterfly the “top swim of my lifetime”
Gretchen Walsh 46.97 100 butterfly…
She beat Torri Huske, the Olympic Gold Medalist who out-touched her in Paris, by 2 seconds. Crazy.
Alex Walsh becomes 2nd woman in history to win NCAA titles in 5 unique events, behind only the legendary Tracy Caulkins.
Claire Curzan wins the 100 Back by 0.01 in last second push
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amazing swim. For perspective if you watch that race, the swimmer below Gretchen in lane 3, Torri Huske, actually out-touched her for Gold in Paris in the long-course 100 Butterfly and is probably one of the top 5 swimmers in the world.
No suspense tonight, UVA Women on their way to their 5th straight National Championship.
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@Playgroundhoo @Scribe or anyone else who knows and follows; can UVA keep up it’s dominance when the Walsh sisters move on? Seems like Texas and Stanford are consistently top tier
Gretchen is dominating the sport like few have. That said I think the program will be a contender as long as DeSorbo is coaching. It’s a huge recruiting advantage to be the US national coach in this sport.
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Not an expert by any means, but my impression was that, if anything, the recruiting had picked up in dominance?
The caps they wore tonight were baller. Roman numeral V — badass.
https://x.com/kylesockwell/status/1903621523476279457?s=46&t=PzMfboQ4ofEF6ToybLUcpg
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well I tried to link an IG photo, but not sure how it works here…
anyway, lots of good Natty shots on the uvaswimdive IG.
Gretchen is the GOAT - can’t just replace her, including her impact on relays.
Alex is GOAT2 along with Kate Douglass.
What DeSorbo has going forward are the #1 recruits their years in Claire Curzan and Katie Grimes with a lot of Top 10 recruit depth the past few years.
There may not be a Gretchen - there probably never will be - but they’ll definitely be at the top.
Stanford has Torri Huske coming back next year and will be really strong. Texas loses some top ones, but with Bob Bowman running that program now, don’t count out their NIL budget and full scholarship allotment.
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One impact first-year coming in next year — Madi Mintenko. Her mom and dad were both Olympian swimmers.
She already has NCAA scoring times in the 100, 200, and 500 free, and 100 fly — and close to scoring range in the 200 fly.
She’s a Swiss Army knife.
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This link was on the ESPN home page for me this morning. You are definitely doing something mindblowingly historic as a program when your dominance in a sport that most Americans pay attention to at best every 4 years makes the main page.
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I’ve lost track: is this UVA’s 37th team NCAA championship? The only school that I’m able to keep track of in that category is VA Tech.
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