ACC Swimming and Diving Championships Begin Tuesday in Atlanta

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Virginia males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups are set to compete within the 2026 ACC Championships Tuesday (Feb. 17) via Saturday (Feb. 21) on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga.

Virginia ladies’s swimming & diving will problem for its seventh-straight ACC Championship and twenty second total. The ladies’s championship dates again to 1979. The UVA males have gained 16 titles in the course of the historical past of the occasion that dates again to 1962.

The Cavalier ladies enter the meet ranked No. 1 within the CSCAA ballot whereas the UVA males are No. 25.

HOW TO FOLLOW
Prelims and finals will probably be streamed dwell on ACCNX. Links for the dwell streams and dwell outcomes every day will probably be obtainable on VirginiaSports activities.com.

SCHEDULE

• Tuesday: Finals 5:30 pm
• Weds.-Sat. – Prelims 9:30 am; Finals 5:30 pm

ORDER OF EVENTS
Tuesday: 200 Medley Relay, 800 Free Relay
Wednesday: 200 Free Relay, 500 Free, 200 IM, 50 Free
Thursday: 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Free
Friday: 200 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 400 Medley Relay
Saturday: 1650 Free, 200 Back, 100 Free, 200 Breast, 400 Free Relay

SCHEDULED TO COMPETE FOR THE HOOS

SWIMMERS:
Men: Jack Aikins, Hayden Bellotti, Jay Gerloff, Matthew Heilman, Thomas Heilman, Josh Howat, David King, Davin Lindholm, Thomas Mercer, Grant Murphy, Spencer Nicholas, Noah Powers, Nathan Szobota, Will Thompson, Maximus Williamson

Women: Aimee Canny, Katie Christopherson, Sara Curtis, Claire Curzan, Cavan Gormsen, Bryn Greenwaldt, Katie Grimes, Bailey Hartman, Leah Hayes, Tess Howley, Nina Jazy, Madi Mintenko, Anna Moesch, Carly Novelline, Melissa Nwakalor, Lana Pudar, Zoe Skirboll, Sophia Umstead, Emma Weber, Charlotte Wilson

Past ACC Individual Champions Competing this Year (doesn’t embrace relays)

2025 ACC CHAMPIONSHIP

• The Cavalier ladies gained 13 occasions (50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 500 Free, 100 Back, 200 Back, 200 Fly, 200 Breast, 400 IM, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 800 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay)
• UVA posted 1451.5 factors. Second-place Stanford had 1141 factors

VIRGINIA WOMEN’S NOTES

• Virginia has six swimmers ranked within the prime 11 of the ACC within the 50 Free, together with three within the prime 5 (Sara Curtis, Anna Moesch, Claire Curzan) and 5 within the prime 11 of the 200 Free together with three of the highest 4 (Anna Moesch, Madi Mintenko, Aimee Canny)
• Virginia has 4 of the highest 5 instances within the 500 Free
• Anna Moesch has the highest time within the ACC within the 100 & 200 Free
• Claire Curzan has the highest time within the ACC within the 100 & 200 Back and 200 Fly and is second within the 100 Fly
• Aimee Canny has the highest time within the ACC within the 500 Free and ranks within the prime 5 in 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 Free, 1000 Free and 200 Breast
• Katie Grimes has the highest time within the ACC within the 1000 Free, however is second within the 1650 behind Claire Weinstein. The distinction between their seed instances within the latter is 0.67 seconds (15:52.28 vs 15:52.95)
• Virginia at the moment holds all 5 ladies’s NCAA Relay data
• Virginia holds all the ACC ladies’s swimming data

VIRGINIA MEN’S NOTES

• David King was All-ACC final yr within the 100 and 200 Back as a freshman
• The Virginia males are available with the highest time within the ACC in three occasions: Thomas Heilman within the 200 Fly, Maximus Williamson within the 200 IM and David King within the 200 Back. Heilman is second within the 100 Fly and fourth within the 200 IM

SMITHFIELD COMMONWEALTH CLASH

• The Smithfield Commonwealth Clash is a rivalry between Virginia and Virginia Tech throughout all school-sponsored sports activities, with 21 particular person occasion factors on the road
• The faculty that accumulates 11 factors or extra will probably be topped the winner of the Smithfield Commonwealth Clash
• There is one level within the Clash awarded for the boys’s and one for the ladies’s finishes on the ACC Swimming Championship
• The Cavaliers lead this yr’s Clash 5.5-2.5
• UVA captured the Clash in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025 whereas Virginia Tech gained the Clash in 2017, 2018 and 2022. The 2020 and 2021 clashes have been canceled as a result of COVID 19 pandemic