NCAA Qualifier Melissa Nwakalor Transferring From Richmond To Virginia ...Middle East

By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam

2025 NCAA Championship qualifier Melissa Nwakalor will transfer to the University of Virginia for the upcoming 2025-2026 season. Nwakalor spent her freshman and sophomore seasons at the University of Richmond and has two years of eligibility remaining.

As a freshman, Nwakalor swam to lifetime best times at the 2024 Atlantic-10 Championships. She earned the conference title in the 50 free with a 22.78 but was slightly faster in prelims with a 22.55.

She made huge strides as sophomore and defended her title in the 50 free with a 21.98, marking a new Atlantic-10 conference record as well. She also added a conference title in the 100 free posting a lifetime best of a 48.78.

After earning an invite to the 2025 NCAA Championships, Nwakalor finished 24th in the 50 free in a 22.01. She also was 70th in the 100 free in a 49.48.

Nwakalor’s lifetime best SCY times are:

50 free: 21.98 100 free: 48.78

The Virginia women captured the 2025 ACC title and went on to win their 5th-straight NCAA team title. Senior Gretchen Walsh led the way at NCAAs with wins in the 50 free, 100 fly, and 100 free.

Nwakalor helps fill a gap in the sprint group as Gretchen Walsh and Maxine Parker were both on the team’s NCAA winning 200 free relay. Parker just finished her fifth year and split a 21.56 on the 3rd leg of the relay. The team won that relay in a 1:24.45 touching over half a second ahead of Louisville (1:25.04).

Nwakalor is the latest sprint freestyle transfer to join the team as Division II record-holder Bryn Greenwaldt will join the team this fall as well. Greenwaldt has a lifetime best of a 21.92 in the 50 and a 49.03 in the 100.

Nwakalor’s best time in the 50 free would have been 5th on the roster for Virginia this past season while her 100 free would have been 6th.

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