Swimming and diving aims to reassert national dominance in opening meet Saturday
By Lauren Halak | September 27, 2024The women's team is aiming for a fifth consecutive national championship.
The women's team is aiming for a fifth consecutive national championship.
Current and former Cavaliers cleaned house, earning over 10 medals.
Douglass, a 2023 alumna of the University, won the women's 200-meter breaststroke in Paris.
This summer represents the fifth consecutive Olympic Games in which Virginia has had a swimmer appear.
Virginia's superstar continues to impress as she receives the highest honor for an ACC student-athlete.
A quintuple of Cavaliers will be making the trip to Paris this summer, off the back of historic performances at the Olympic trials.
In the end, regardless of which school is heralded as the greatest of all time historically, it is glaringly obvious that Virginia is the greatest women’s swimming school of the modern era.
The Cavaliers took home 11 gold medals over the course of the week, becoming the first program since 1996 to claim four consecutive NCAA Championship team titles.
Gretchen Walsh was named the ACC’s most valuable swimmer after smashing three individual NCAA records.
Virginia Swim and Dive hosted the Cavalier Invite over the weekend and yet again showed its depth in a dominating performance.
The Cavaliers put on a show over the weekend, setting numerous facility and nationwide records in the process.
The women’s team defeated the Longhorns 113-71, while the men took down their opponents 99-89.
A game-changing recruiting class is just what the Cavalier men have been missing.
While familiar faces may have departed for the season, the Cavaliers still expect to compete at the top of the collegiate sport.
Virginia joins the company of Stanford, Texas, Auburn and Georgia as the only schools to three-peat in Women’s Swimming and Diving.
The No. 1 ranked Virginia women came into the meet as heavy favorites.
The Cavaliers won 14 of 18 swimming events, and finished ahead of N.C. State and Louisville to pick up their 19th championship overall.
The Cavalier Invite was an excellent opportunity for Virginia to fine tune its engines ahead of championship meets, and the Cavaliers did so in historic fashion.
The women's team started off their national championship defense strong, while the men fell to a tough Gators squad.
The Cavaliers had a number of strong performances across the five days of competition, earning at least one top-three finish every night including a total of four gold medals.