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2025 ACC Champs: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

By Robert Gibbs

2025 ACC Champs: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

There should be plenty of great racing in store tonight, with all-time record holders and Olympians highlighting almost every event.

UVA's Alex Walsh swam the fastest 200 yard butterfly ever to win this event last year, and she'll have the opportunity to do so again this year after leading prelims this morning. On the men's side, Stanford's Andrei Minakov, who won the 100 fly last night, will be swimming for the fly sweep out of lane 4.

Alex's sister, Gretchen Walsh, is the fastest women ever in the 100 back, and just like her sister in the 200 fly, Gretchen set the all-time mark in this event last year, and she'll be in lane 4 tonight. Four-time ACC champion Kacper Stokowski of NC State has graduated, but two former teammates, Hudson Williams and Quintin McCarty, will try to extend the Wolfpack's streak to five-straight titles. However, the top seed from this morning was Stanford's Aaron Sequeira. Also keep an eye on lane 1, where Cal's Mewen Tomac, who was an Olympic semi-finalist in the long course version of this event in Paris, is swimming tonight.

The Cavaliers also have the top seed in the women's 100 breast, thanks to Emma Weber, who was part of the US Olympic team last year. UVA has won the last two titles in this event, with Alex Walsh winning in 2023 and Jasmine Nocentini winning last year. Stanford posted the top prelims time in all three events on the men's side as well; Israeli Olympian Ron Polonsky will swim in lane 4 tonight. This could be one of the tightest events of the evening, as he'll face three men who've already been under 51.0 this season in Carles Coll Marti (Virginia Tech), Yamato Okadome (Cal), and Denis Petrashov (Louisville).

After the individual competitions are done, the evening will conclude with the championship final of the men's platform diving event, along with timed finals of the medley relays.

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