NCAA Women’s Championships: 100 Freestyle and 200s of Stroke in Final Prelims (Heat Sheet)
The last prelims session of the 2025 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships will include qualification in the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke and 200 butterfly. Later in the day in Federal Way, Wash., platform diving, the 1650 free and the 400 free relay will be contested.
Click here to view the Saturday prelims heat sheet.
Two previous champions in the 200 back race in the final heat of the event, with Virginia’s Claire Curzan in lane four and Wisconsin’s Phoebe Bacon in lane four. Florida Bella Sims goes one heat earlier next to Cal’s Isabelle Stadden while the only other swimmer with a sub-1:50 entry time, NC State freshman Leah Shackley is just before in the first circle-seeded heat.
Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh and Stanford’s Torri Huske go in separate heats of the 100 free, with Huske going right before Walsh. The final individual event of Walsh’s college career will begin as she races between teammate Anna Moesch and Michigan’s Stephanie Balduccini while 50 free third-place finisher Julia Dennis of Louisville is next to Huske.
The Tennessee duo of Mona McSharry and McKenzie Siroky have the middle lanes of the first seeded heat of the 200 breast, with Duke Kaelyn Gridley and top-seeded Lucy Bell of Stanford following in lane four in the remaining heats.
As for the 200 fly, the two fastest swimmers in college swimming history will be in separate heats before their first head-to-head race in two years. NCAA-record holder and 2022 winner Alex Walsh swims in heat five before two-time defending champion Emma Sticklen races in heat six. Sticklen came just one hundredth short of Walsh’s mark in the event at the SEC Championships. Texas could again score big points here with Campbell Stoll and Olivia Bray seeded third and seventh, respectively, while Stanford swimmers Lillie Nordmann (fourth) and Caroline Bricker (sixth) are also seeded to do well.
