Torri Huske earns ACC Swimmer of the Year award

Torri Huske’s standout season within the pool earned one other main honor final Thursday when the Stanford swimmer turned the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Women’s Swimmer of the Year. Huske was additionally named the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Swimmer of the Year this month.

This marks the primary time since 2018 {that a} Stanford swimmer has swept each the convention and nationwide Swimmer of the Year awards in the identical season. It can be the second time that Huske has been named convention Swimmer of the Year, having beforehand earned the title in 2023. With this 12 months’s award, she turned the seventeenth recipient of this award in program historical past, and the primary to take action as a member of the ACC. Finally, Huske is a four-time ACC champion, including to an already embellished convention profession.  

The announcement adopted a standout season, wherein the Olympian dominated in her ultimate NCAA look. The redshirt senior swept all three of the person occasions — the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly. Her efficiency within the freestyle sprints was notably historic, with record-breaking swims of 20.66 within the 50 freestyle and 44.16 within the 100 freestyle. These instances formally cemented her because the second-fastest lady of all-time in each occasions, whereas bringing her profession whole to 5 NCAA titles. 

Huske’s efforts performed a serious position in serving to Stanford safe a nationwide runner-up end for the second season in a row. The outcome additionally marked this system’s finest nationwide end underneath a first-year head coach since 1989, highlighting a formidable debut season for Chris Lindauer, the Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming.

Beyond her particular person titles, Huske added 4 All-American honors in relay occasions this season. She will conclude her time on The Farm as a 28-time All-American — the utmost variety of honors a swimmer can obtain over their four-year profession. She joins Catherine Fox, Misty Hyman and Julia Smith because the fourth swimmer in Stanford historical past to realize this feat.