KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Virginia women’s swimming & diving team became the fifth program to win three consecutive NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday night at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center. UVA joins Texas, Stanford, Georgia and Auburn as three-peat Champions. The Cavaliers totaled 541.5 points with 11 total wins, sweeping all five relay races and adding six individual NCAA Championships. UVA becomes just the fourth program to win all five relays at the NCAAs. The 11 wins matches UVA’s 11 from 2022. The last time a team won three-straight NCAA Champions was Stanford’s 2017-2019 team with multiple-time champions Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel and Ella Eastin. The win is UVA’s third overall for the women’s swimming & diving program and 32nd NCAA team title won by a UVA program. Texas finished second with Senior Kate Douglass led Virginia with three individual wins, winning the 200-yard IM, 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard breaststroke, all in NCAA, American and US Open record times. Douglass has seven individual NCAA Championships in her career, sweeping all three events in 2022 and 2023. She closed out her NCAA career with a 2:01.29 to win the 200-yard breast on Saturday. Sophomore Gretchen Walsh won her
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Virginia Wins Third Straight NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship
