6 eye-popping info round UVA’s historic 6 straight NCAA ladies’s swimming titles

Before leaping within the pool collectively for his or her annual celebratory splash following an NCAA championship, the University of Virginia ladies’s swimming staff voiced a becoming countdown.

“One, two, three, four, five, six!”

And off the Cavaliers went Saturday evening into the 14-foot waters of the McCauley Aquatic Center pool in Atlanta. It was a becoming method to wrap their record sixth straight NCAA title.

There have been different Division I swimming dynasties. But till now, none have featured a championship streak of this size.

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“The first couple of days of the meet are really what’s exciting and nerve-wracking and makes you anxious and stuff,” UVA coach Todd DeSorbo mentioned, “but now that it’s over, it’s been a little bit surreal.”

DeSorbo, a former assistant coach at North Carolina State University, took over the Wahoo program in 2017. They’ve now gained a nationwide title in 67% of his 9 seasons in Charlottesville.

Here are 5 different eye-popping numbers to place UVA’s continued dominance within the pool in perspective.

0 For the primary time for the reason that championship streak started in 2021, the Cavaliers conquered the NCAA meet with out getting a single level from their legendary trio of Kate Douglass and Alex and Gretchen Walsh. With these stars graduated, UVA nonetheless rolled the competitors because of standout performances from the likes of Claire Curzan, Aimee Canny and Sara Curtis.

208.5 Of the six NCAA wins, UVA’s newest conquest got here with the biggest margin of victory. The Cavaliers completed 208.5 factors forward of second-place Stanford University. Sixteen of UVA’s 18 swimmers scored factors and earned both a first- or second-team All-America distinction. Curzan, a junior, gained two particular person titles and was a part of 4 relay victories.

3 Women’s swimming now has the third-most NCAA titles amongst UVA packages, matching males’s tennis with six championships. DeSorbo’s program is one title away from tying UVA males’s lacrosse and males’s soccer for essentially the most on Grounds. Virginia now has 36 NCAA staff championships total, courting to a boxing title in 1938.