Torri Huske, Caroline Bricker Favored

College Swimming Reset (Women’s Butterfly and IM): Torri Huske, Caroline Bricker Hold Favorite Status

The faculty swimming season has entered its dwelling stretch. January options the ultimate twin meets of the season earlier than convention championships in February and the NCAA Championships in March. Prior to the vacation break, swimmers set themselves up for championship season with sturdy performances at numerous midseason invitationals. Here is a have a look at each ladies’s particular person occasion as of proper now, together with the data, the winners from the 2025 NCAA Championships, the highest returning swimmers, the highest occasions within the nation this season and the highest performances in historical past.

Below are the statistics for the ladies’s butterfly and particular person medley occasions. Torri Huske is the large favourite within the 100 fly, however she may drop the 200 IM from her schedule in her senior season. That would give Stanford teammate Caroline Bricker a 3rd occasion as the highest returning finisher.

Part one – ladies’s freestyle
Part two – ladies’s backstroke & breaststroke

100 Butterfly

• U.S. Open Record: Gretchen Walsh – 46.97 (2025)
• American Record: Gretchen Walsh – 46.97 (2025)
• NCAA Record: Gretchen Walsh – 46.97 (2025)
• 2025 Champion: Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 46.97
• Top Returning Finisher: Torri Huske, Stanford – 48.90

Current 2025-26 Rankings:

1. Torri Huske, Stanford – 48.90
2. Claire Curzan, Virginia – 49.68
3. Miranda Grana, Indiana – 49.98
4. Eva Okaro, Texas – 50.82
5. Leah Shackley, NC State – 50.90

All-Time Rankings (daring = presently in faculty):

1. Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 46.97
2. Kate Douglass – 48.46
3. Maggie Mac Neil – 48.51
4. Torri Huske – 48.52
5. Claire Curzan – 49.02
6. Louise Hansson – 49.26
7. Emma Sticklen – 49.38
8. Erika Brown Connolly – 49.38
9. Kelsi Dahlia – 49.43
10. Alex Shackell – 49.49

No extra Gretchen Walsh domination of this occasion after Walsh grew to become the primary swimmer below 48 in 2024 and the primary swimmer below 47 final season. Now, Huske is the large favourite to win this occasion on the nationwide degree. She could have a tough time monitoring down Walsh’s gorgeous document of 46.97, however she might develop into the second lady to swim a time within the 47-range. Claire Curzan may transfer into 48-territory this 12 months. A wildcard is Alex Shackell, a top-10 performer in historical past and becoming a member of the Indiana roster this semester.

200 Butterfly

• U.S. Open Record: Regan Smith – 1:48.33 (2023)
• American Record: Regan Smith – 1:48.33 (2023)
• NCAA Record: Emma Sticklen – 1:49.11 (2025)
• 2025 Champion: Emma Sticklen, Texas – 1:49.11
• Top Returning Finisher: Caroline Bricker, Stanford – 1:51.55

Current 2025-26 Rankings:

1. Tess Howley, Virginia – 1:51.81
2. Campbell Stoll, Texas – 1:52.13
3. Hannah Bellard, Michigan – 1:52.39
4. Caroline Bricker, Stanford – 1:52.39
5. Emily Brown, Tennessee – 1:53.07

All-Time Rankings (daring = presently in faculty):

1. Regan Smith – 1:48.33
2. Emma Sticklen – 1:49.11
3. Alex Walsh – 1:49.16
4. Ella Eastin – 1:49.51
5. Elaine Breeden – 1:49.92
6. Alex Shackell – 1:50.15
7. Louise Hansson – 1:50.28
8. Kelsi Dahlia – 1:50.61
9. Grace Oglesby – 1:50.80
10. Claire Curzan – 1:50.85

Three-time nationwide champion Emma Sticklen has completed her profession at Texas, whereas Alex Walsh, the 2022 titlist and two-time nationwide runnerup, can also be gone. Now, Shackell instantly turns into a co-favorite for the nationwide title as she begins her faculty profession with the Hoosiers. Curzan and Bella Sims, ranked No. 12 all-time within the occasion, now not compete within the 200 fly. The finest bets presently in faculty swimming are Tess Howley and Bricker, who ranked third and fourth on the earth, respectively, within the 200-meter fly final 12 months. Howley broke by way of with a win within the occasion on the World University Games after Bricker shocked Regan Smith for the title at U.S. Nationals.

200 Individual Medley

• U.S. Open Record: Kate Douglass – 1:48.37 (2023)
• American Record: Kate Douglass – 1:48.37 (2023)
• NCAA Record: Kate Douglass – 1:48.37 (2023)
• 2025 Champion: Torri Huske, Stanford – 1:49.67
• Top Returning Finisher: Torri Huske, Stanford – 1:49.67 (Bricker 1:52.01)

Current 2025-26 Rankings:

1. Lucy Bell, Stanford – 1:52.65
2. Campbell Chase, Texas – 1:53.48
3. Aimee Canny, Virginia – 1:54.05
4. Leah Hayes, Virginia – 1:54.10
5. Angie Coe, Texas – 1:54.18

All-Time Rankings (daring = presently in faculty):

1. Kate Douglass – 1:48.37
2. Alex Walsh – 1:49.20
3. Torri Huske – 1:49.67
4. Ella Eastin – 1:50.67
5. Beata Nelson – 1:50.79
6. Kathleen Baker – 1:51.25
7. Lea Polonsky – 1:51.51
8. Meghan Small – 1:51.62
9. Sydney Pickrem – 1:51.66
10. Caitlin Leverenz – 1:51.77

Huske can be the clear favourite to defend her nationwide title within the 200 IM, however she could skip the race this 12 months and goal dash freestyle and butterfly. Such a call would make sense from a staff perspective as fellow Stanford swimmers Bricker and Lucy Bell are the one different swimmers getting back from final 12 months’s A-final. Bricker is the Fifteenth-ranked swimmer in historical past at 1:52.01 whereas Bell has been as quick as 1:52.47. Sims additionally has a fast lifetime finest (1:51.86) however appears more likely to concentrate on different races. This is one other race with quite a few big-name graduations, together with Walsh, Leah Polonsky, Phoebe Bacon, Josephine Fuller and Sticklen.

400 Individual Medley

• U.S. Open Record: Ella Eastin – 3:54.60 (2018)
• American Record: Ella Eastin – 3:54.60 (2018)
• NCAA Record: Ella Eastin – 3:54.60 (2018)
• 2025 Champion: Caroline Bricker, Stanford – 3:57.36
• Top Returning Finisher: Caroline Bricker, Stanford- 3:57.36

Current 2025-26 Rankings:

1. Bella Sims, Michigan – 3:58.02
2. Caroline Bricker, Stanford – 3:59.70
3. Lucy Bell, Stanford – 4:01.13
4. Katie Grimes, Virginia – 4:03.34
5. Leah Hayes, Virginia – 4:04.01

All-Time Rankings (daring = presently in faculty):

1. Ella Eastin – 3:54.60
2. Alex Walsh – 3:55.97
3. Katie Ledecky – 3:56.53
4. Katinka Hosszu – 3:56.54
5. Bella Sims – 3:56.59
6. Katie Grimes – 3:57.02
7. Caroline Bricker – 3:57.36
8. Summer McIntosh – 3:57.59
9. Caitlin Leverenz – 3:57.89
10. Maya DiRado – 3:58.12

At final season’s NCAA Championships, Stanford made an announcement with Bricker profitable the occasion and Bell inserting third, each ladies beating out Virginia heavyweights Katie Grimes and Leah Hayes. Those 4 return to the sector this 12 months whereas Sims has thrown her title into rivalry with a 3:58 efficiency at midseason. The 400 IM was by no means a part of her slate throughout her two years of faculty swimming at Florida, however she should take into account racing it in her first season as a Wolverine. Sims and Grimes each excel at butterfly, backstroke and freestyle however wrestle on breaststroke, whereas Bricker, Bell and Hayes all surge throughout that essential third portion of the race.