2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 19-22, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center — Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Start Times: Prelims: 10 AM ׀ Finals: 6 PM (Pacific Daylight Time)
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Women’s 100 Butterfly
NCAA Record: 47.35 — Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)Championship Record: 47.42 — Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)American Record: 47.35 — Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)U.S. Open Record: 47.35 — Gretchen Walsh, Virginia (2024)- 2024 Champion: Gretchen Walsh, Virginia — 47.42
Top 16
- Gretchen Walsh (Virginia)- 47.21 **New Everything Record**
- Emma Sticklen (Texas)- 49.76
- Torri Huske (Stanford)- 50.19
- Ella Welch (Louisville)- 50.72
- Miranda Grana (Indiana)- 50.79
- Abby Arens (Texas)- 50.81
- Gabi Albiero (Louisville)- 50.96
- Oliva Peoples (Florida)- 51.02
- Sophie Yendell (Pittsburgh)- 51.05
- Erika Pelaez (NC State)- 51.07
- Leah Shackley (NC State)- 51.08
- Giulia Carvalho (Miami)- 51.15
- Lilou Ressencourt (Cal)- 51.18
- Abby Daniel (Akron)- 51.21
- Lillie Nordmann (Stanford)- 51.29
- Gigi Johnson (Stanford)- 51.35
Gretchen Walsh broke her own NCAA record in prelims of the 100 butterfly swimming to a 47.21. That surpassed her previous record of a 47.35 that she swam in November at midseason.
Split Comparison
| Prelims 2025 NCAAs | Midseason 2024 |
2024 NCAAs Finals
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| 25 | 9.93 | 9.97 | 9.94 |
| 50 | 21.86 (11.93) | 21.90 (11.93) | 21.75 (11.81) |
| 75 | 34.39 (12.53) | 34.43 (12.53) | 34.29 (12.54) |
| 100 | 47.21 (12.82) | 47.35 (12.92) | 47.42 (13.13) |
Walsh was under her previous record by 0.04 exactly for the first three 25s. She then brought it home even stronger to get under the record by 0.14.
With her swim this morning, Walsh now holds the six fastest 100 fly performances all-time including three sub-48 second performances. Kate Douglass is the #2 performer all-time with a 48.46.
Top 100 Fly Performances All-Time
- Gretchen Walsh, 47.21, 2025 NCAA Prelims
- Gretchen Walsh, 47.35, 2024 Midseason
- Gretchen Walsh, 47.42, 2024 NCAA Finals
- Gretchen Walsh, 48.25, 2024 ACCs
- Gretchen Walsh, 48.26, 2024 NCAA Prelims
- Gretchen Walsh, 48.43, Virginia vs UNC Dual
Walsh’s swim this morning was her second individual NCAA record of the meet after she tied her 50 free record last night leading off Virginia’s 200 free relay with a 20.37.
It’s wild that everyone basically just expects this from her at this point. A new SCY everything record for Gretchen Walsh? Katie Ledecky lapping people internationally in the 1500? Another day at the office.
It’s a shame GW is done with the SCY 50 because I was waiting for the day she lapped someone in that, LOL.
Does Ledecky lap people internationally?
She has been pretty close at some championships.
no more than Missy Franklin
ALL HAIL GRETCHEN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBuH_799meU
She swam 47.48 at the Eddie Reese Showdown (#4 performance), but it’s not listed on Swimcloud (under her name) for some reason.
Is that perhaps when she swam fly in a freestyle heat?
That was fall 2023 when she was 48.30
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that she is physically incapable of swimming a functional freestyle and is utterly dependent on her underwaters to carry her through a freestyle race (see Paris 50 free final and Trials 100 free final)
4th in the 50 free at the Olympics, top 8 in the 100…
but yeah, incapable of swimming freestyle. Freezing cold take.
Does 20.3 covert to a 24.1? Does 44.8 convert to a 53.0? Don’t even get me started on her 200. Her technique is laughably inefficient for how naturally gifted and talented she is.
Does she swim the 200 internationally? And given that she still, 22 years old?
The only thing laughable here is the fact that you’re criticizing someone who would dominate you in a race.
Yeah and tom brady cant run – get over it
as if she can’t continue to improve. You don’t appear to understand biology or human nature.
Proof that you will never make people happy:
1st it was GW can’t continue to improve in college.
When she continued to improve, then it was “She will never be good outside of the bathtub” Then she started demolishing long course…well, “She will never be truly elite” only for GW to break a WR, that even SS said she couldn’t touch…..now I guess it’s time to pick on her other strokes.
People ask why my girls don’t have smart phones and unbridled access to the internet/social media.
The quote thread on this topic is a perfect explanation.
If people can bag on a young lady that between LCM and SCM has 5 individual and 4 relay world records with… Read more »
the best comment on this site in the past year, easily 👏🏻 it’s so toxic on here, and the weirdos keep coming out in force the better gretchen does.
(of course when the male sprinters go super fast next week, no one will question their underwaters or 15m marks or their strokes or their abilities… 😐)
Her PB is 24.06 — set when she was 21 last summer. Sjostrom didn’t go sub-24.1 until she was 24 years old.
So chopped
Soooo chopped
Isn’t Penny Oleksiak the same height?
lol there have been plenty of other 6’2″ swimmers
Female*
then she must be the tallest 6’2″ swimmer