Swimming & Diving: High-ranked UVA girls start quest for seventh consecutive ACC title

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

The Virginia girls’s crew medaled twice on the opening night time of the swimming competitors on the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming and Diving Championships being held on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga.

The girls’s 800 Medley Relay gained gold whereas the ladies’s 200 Medley Relay gained silver.

Aimee Canny, Madi Mintenko, Cavan Gormsen and Anna Moesch secured UVA’s first title within the second race of the meet, successful the 800 Free Relay with a time of 6:45.34.

The mark set the pool file and is the second-fastest time ever, trailing solely the NCAA-record-setting time of 6:44.13 by the Cavaliers final 12 months.

This was the nineteenth consecutive 12 months that the Cavalier girls gained the ACC title within the 800 Free Relay.

The males’s 800 Free Relay of Maximus Williamson, David King, Thomas Heilman and Hayden Bellotti additionally placed on a present, coming in with a UVA file time of 6:10.17.

Maximus Williamson led off the relay, touching in a time of 1:31.46 to set the varsity file for the 200 Free. Williamson was simply out-touched by Kali Winkler of NC State (1:30.92) to place the Hoos in second place.

David King gave the Cavaliers the lead on the finish of the second leg, splitting 1:31.45. Thomas Heilman swam the third leg, splitting 1:33.09, falling again into second place by a fraction of a second. Hayden Bellotti swam the anchor leg in a 1:34.17, touching third.

The Cavaliers completed fourth within the occasion, as Cal, the winners of the primary warmth, posted a time of 6:09.53 to prime the Cavaliers’ mark of 6:10.17 and take the bronze.

These had been the primary two swimming occasions of the meet, however all three diving occasions have concluded and are mirrored within the present crew standings.

Wednesday would be the first full day of swim motion with prelims and finals of the five hundred Free, 200 IM and 50 Free in addition to the finals of the 200 Free Relay. Prelims begin at 9:30 a.m. with the finals session starting at 5:30 p.m.

The ACC Championships run by means of Saturday. The Cavalier girls enter the meet ranked No. 1 within the CSCAA ballot, and the UVA males are ranked No. 25.

WOMEN’S NOTES

• Sara Curtis, Emma Weber, Claire Cruzan and Bryn Greenwaldt swam within the 200 Medley Relay, ending in second place with a time of 1:32.46

 MEN’S NOTES

• Spencer Nicholas, Davin Lindholm, Thomas Heilman and Jack Aikins swam within the 200 Medley Relay however had been DQed for an early takeoff

TEAM SCORES

Women

1. Stanford 261
2. Pitt 227
3. California 207
4. Miami 204
5. Louisville 174
6. Notre Dame 171
7. Florida State 167
8. North Carolina 165
9. Georgia Tech 149
10. Virginia Tech 124
11. Virginia 120
12. NC State 116
13. Duke 112
14. SMU 97
15. Boston College 24

Men

1. Stanford 244
2. California 218
3. Louisville 205
4. Florida State 202
5. SMU 186
6. Georgia Tech 177
7. Virginia Tech 163
8. Miami 162
9. Notre Dame 147
10. North Carolina 137
11. Pitt 135
12. Duke 68
13. Boston College 58
14. NC State 56
15. Virginia 52