Virginia, California win 2026 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships

ATLANTA, Ga. (theACC.com) – The Virginia ladies’s crew and the California males’s crew are the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming & Diving Champions after the ultimate day of competitors on Saturday on the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

With the ladies’s title, Virginia claimed its seventh-straight convention championship, the seventeenth since 2008 and twenty second total. The Cavaliers completed with a complete of 1410.5 factors.

In simply its second season as a member of the convention, California earned its second straight males’s ACC Championship title. The Golden Bears completed with a complete of 1154 factors.

Virginia’s Claire Curzan was named the 2026 ACC Most Valuable Women’s Swimmer of the meet after profitable 4 gold medals within the 100 again, 200 again, 400 medley relay and 400 free relay.

 

California’s Yamato Okadome was named the 2026 ACC Most Valuable Men’s Swimmer of the meet after profitable three gold medals within the 100 breast, 200 breast and 400 medley relay. 

Virginia’s Katie Grimes snagged her second particular person ACC title of the meet, swimming a 15:45.20 within the ladies’s 1650 free to set the highest time within the league this season. NC State’s Max Carlsen earned the fifth-straight males’s 1650 free title for the Wolfpack, ending in a time of 14:32.68 to assert the best finest time within the convention this season.

 

Virginia swept the 200 again as Claire Curzan swam a time of 1:46.09 to interrupt her personal meet, convention, US Open, NCAA and American file and win her second gold medal of the meet, whereas David King swam a time of 1:38.14 within the 200 again to snag the primary particular person ACC title of his profession.

Virginia’s Anna Moesch set a season-best time of 45.71, breaking her personal NCAA top-time of the season by 0.27 seconds, to assert her second particular person gold medal of the meet.  Virginia Tech’s Brendan Whitfield swam a time of 40.93 within the males’s 100 free to assert the primary particular person ACC title of his profession.

Reigning ladies’s 200 breast NCAA Champion Lucy Bell clocked a time of two:02.67 for Stanford to win the primary particular person convention title of her profession within the occasion. California’s Yamato Okadome racked up his second particular person title of the meet, swimming a time of 1:48.87 to win gold within the males’s 200 breast and set a brand new convention file.

 

Virginia’s squad of Curzan, Anna Moesch, Aimee Canny and Sara Curtis set a brand new meet, convention and NCAA file within the 400 free relay with a time of three:05.30, profitable the Cavaliers seventh straight gold medal within the occasion. 

 

The NC State crew of Kaii Winkler, Quintin McCarty, Jerry Fox and Hudson Williams set a brand new meet and convention file within the males’s 400 free relay to take a seat atop the rostrum in first place with a time of two:43.53.

 

The high three finishers in every occasion, plus all members of the first-place relay groups on the ACC Championships, can be named to the All-ACC Team.

Final Women’s Standings

1. Virginia, 1410.5

2. Stanford, 1039

3. California, 1027.5

4. Louisville, 925

5. NC State, 851.5

6. Pitt, 552

7. North Carolina, 522.5

8. Duke, 432.5

9. Virginia Tech, 409.5

10. Florida State, 371

11. Notre Dame, 366

12. Miami, 322

13. Georgia Tech, 274

14. SMU, 261

15. Boston College, 98

Final Men’s Standings

1. California, 1154

2. Stanford, 1076

3. NC State, 973

4. Louisville, 844

5. Virginia Tech, 715.5

6. Florida State, 624.5

7. Virginia, 577.5

8. North Carolina, 572.5

9. Notre Dame, 488

10. SMU, 407

11. Pitt, 401

12. Georgia Tech, 357

13. Miami, 162

14. Duke, 138

15. Boston College, 112

Award Winners

Most Valuable Women’s Diver: Chiara Pellacani, Miami

Most Valuable Women’s Swimmer: Claire Curzan, Virginia

Most Valuable Men’s Diver: Max Fowler, Georgia Tech

Most Valuable Men’s Swimmer: Yamato Okadome, California

Event Winners

Women’s 3-meter diving: Chiara Pellacani, Miami | 352.50

Men’s 1-meter diving: Luke Sitz, SMU | 429.75

Men’s 3-meter diving: Max Fowler, Georgia Tech | 459.75

Women’s 1-meter diving: Margo O’Meara, Miami | 333.45

Women’s 200 Medley Relay: Louisville | 1:32.26

Men’s 200 Medley Relay: Florida State | 1:22.28

Women’s Platform Diving: Ellie Cole, Stanford | 392.40

Women’s 800 Free Relay: Virginia | 6:45.34

Men’s 800 Free Relay: Stanford | 6:07.40

Men’s Platform Diving: Misha Andriyuk, Stanford | 412.30

Women’s 200 Free Relay: Virginia | 1:23.75

Men’s 200 Free Relay: NC State | 1:14.02

Women’s 500 Free: Katie Grimes, Virginia | 4:33.78

Men’s 500 Free: Max Carlsen, NC State | 4:09.44

Women’s 200 IM: Torri Huske, Stanford | 1:51.27

Men’s 200 IM: Arsenio Bustos, NC State | 1:40.39

Women’s 50 Free: Sara Curtis, Virginia | 21.09

Men’s 50 Free: Quintin McCarty, NC State | 18.63

Women’s 400 IM: Lucy Bell, Stanford | 3:59.11

Men’s 400 IM: Josh Zuchowski, Stanford | 3:38.58

Women’s 100 Fly: Torri Huske, Stanford | 48.26

Men’s 100 Fly: Aiden Hayes, NC State | 44.07

Women’s 200 Free: Anna Moesch, Virginia | 1:39.72

Men’s 200 Free: Henry McFadden, Stanford | 1:31.05

Women’s 200 Fly: Mia West, California | 1:51.52

Men’s 200 Fly: Logan Robinson, Florida State | 1:38.78

Women’s 100 Back: Claire Curzan, Virginia | 48.38

Men’s 100 Back: Evan Petty, California | 44.21

Women’s 100 Breast: Eneli Jefimova, NC State | 56.77

Men’s 100 Breast: Yamato Okadome, California | 50.32

Women’s 400 Medley Relay: Virginia, 3:20.42

Men’s 400 Medley Relay: California, 3:00.74

Women’s 1650 Free: Katie Grimes, Virginia | 15:25.

Men’s 1650 Free: Max Carlsen, NC State | 14:32.68

Women’s 200 Back: Claire Curzan, Virginia | 1:46.09

Men’s 200 Back: David King, Virginia | 1:38.14

Women’s 100 Free: Anna Moesch, Virginia | 45.71

Men’s 100 Free: Brendan Whitfield, Virginia Tech | 40.93

Women’s 200 Breast: Lucy Bell, Stanford | 2:02.67

Men’s 200 Breast: Yamato Okadome, California | 1:48.87

Women’s 400 Free Relay: Virginia | 3:05.30

Men’s 400 Free Relay: NC State | 2:43.53