2025 NCAA Women’s Division I Championships: Day 4 Prelims Preview ...Middle East

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2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

Saturday Prelims Heat Sheets

Event Lineup

The final prelims session of the 2025 NCAA Championships are here. The 200 backstroke will kick off the day where NCAA record holder Claire Curzan of Virginia enters as the top seed with a 1:46.87.

Curzan is looking for a backstroke sweep after winning the 100 back by 0.01 in a 49.11 last night. Curzan charged on the final 15 meters to earn the win. She just out touched Bella Sims of Florida who swam a 49.12. Sims enters the 200 back as the #2 seed with a 1:48.28. Sims finished 3rd in the event a year ago. Last year’s champion Phoebe Bacon of Wisconsin enters as the #4 seed with a 1:48.75.

Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh will be in search of an individual event sweep after already winning the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly. She became the first woman to break 47 seconds in the 100 fly last night with a 46.97. Walsh holds the NCAA and American records in the 100 free as she swam a 44.83 at this meet a year ago. She has been as fast as 45.20 this season.

Stanford’s Torri Huske is the #2 seed with a 46.09 and already won the 200 IM this week as well as finishing 2nd behind Walsh in the 100 fly. Huske notably won bronze in the LCM 100 free at the Paris Olympics last summer.

Lucy Bell of Stanford swam the 200 fly on the final day of NCAAs a year ago but opted for the 200 breast this year and is the top seed by over a second with a 2:04.60. Duke’s Kaelyn Gridley is the #2 seed with a 2:05.71 and was 4th in the event a year ago. Tennessee’s Mona McSharry is the top returner from a year ago as she was 2nd in 2024 and is the #3 seed with a 2:05.85.

The 200 fly concludes the morning session as Emma Sticklen of Texas is the top seed with a 1:49.17. Sticklen just missed Alex Walsh‘s NCAA record this season as the record stands at a 1:49.16. Sticklen won the event a year ago and will look to defend her title. Walsh looks to battle it out though as the #2 seed after swimming a 1:50.43 this season.

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