By james art 
2025 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships
On Friday, the fourth day of the ACC 2025 championship saw a number of significant events to choose events among the best names in the match. This includes a large selection of the two teams leading to the meeting: Virginia Women and Men from Cal.
Virginia
Alex Walsh I had the choice to make between the swimming of 200 fly like #2 seeds and 100 breasts like seed #1. In the end, she chose the former, returning to her more traditional events, despite swimming nation leading 56.85 two weeks ago.
Fifth Walsh is the ACC defense champion in the event, though he did not swim at her first championships, sophomores or junior ACC championships. In the same way, she was the NCAA champion in the event as a sophomore and finished 2 in Ncaas as a junior, but skipped the event in favor of 200 breasts at last year’s NCAA Championship as a senior.
Four -time NCAA Virginia Women’s champion’s defender tend to deal with their ACCS teams, so these events do not necessarily tell us about her federal plans in March.
This leaves to Duke Kaelyn Gridley (58.14) as the largest seed. Stanford Lucy Bell (#5 seeds) and Virginia Amy Kani (58.47) Both have scratched the event.
A similar story applies to the red shirt sophomore Claire KirzanTransfer from Stanford. She will not have individual competitions on Friday after dropping the 100th back, although she can swim a leg of the relay of Virginia 400 medals in the evening. She was the №2 seed behind her teammate Gretchen WalshThe fastest back of 100 yards in history.
Kirzan was 3rd in the 50s free (21.26) and 2nd in 100 flys (49.02) earlier in the meeting: both new best lives. Now it will have a choice of 200 backs (#1 seeds) and 100 free (#4 seeds) on Saturday to end its meeting.
Mud men
Kal Golden Bears, which are among the best back programs in the world, had entered the first two seeds in the match in the 100 back: Gabriel Jet (44.54) and Fifth (44.97).
Jet instead chooses to swim 200 fly where he is # 2 seeds (1: 40.06) behind Stanford Andrey Mutakov (1: 40.01).
Jet was 2 in 500 free (4: 10.27), but it was surprisingly absent from 200 free on Thursday (#5 seeds). This means that he will envelop his meeting with 200 on Saturday, where his 1: 38.31 makes it the best seed in front of his teammate Destin Lasko (1: 39.21), although Lasco is the NCAA record holder.
Jet has always been 200 butterfly, but this season it did a lot of work on underwater peaks-and its back-cane has led to 1.3 seconds declining in the 100 rear season.
The fifth would be the second seed in the absence of a jet, but he also did not swim the 100th back, no other individual event on Friday. He scratches the 50s free of the match, still has not competed and there is only one rest of the record, which suggests that more than the choice of a “best event” is made here. His last recording is the 100 free on Saturday.
Their absence leaves Virginia Tech 5th year Youssef Ramadan Like the largest seed with season the best of 45.07.
Other scratches with high seeds
- NC State Freshman Leah Shakli It will jump over the fly 200 where it is #7 seeds against 100 backs, where it is #4 seeds (50.22). It actually promotes in #3 seeds after the Curzan scratch. It is very possible for Shakley to swim both NCAA championships, where they fall on different days.