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The Star
4 days ago
- Sport
- The Star
Virginia swimmer Gretchen Walsh wins Honda Cup as top woman athlete
Jun 5, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana, UNITED STATES; Gretchen Walsh swims in the womenÕs 100 meter butterfly at the Toyota National Championships swimming meet at Indiana University Natatorium. Mandatory Credit: Robert Goddin-Imagn Images/File Photo Virginia star swimmer Gretchen Walsh won the prestigious Honda Cup as the top Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The other two finalists were UConn basketball star Paige Bueckers and Texas Tech softball player NiJaree Canady. Walsh joins basketball legend Dawn Staley (1991) as the only Cavaliers to win the honor. Walsh is the ninth swimmer to win the award, a list that includes two-time winner Tracy Caulkins (1982, 1984), Missy Franklin (2015) and Katie Ledecky (2017). "I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now," Walsh said after being named the winner. "Honestly, being nominated for this award last year was a big deal to me. To win it this year is obviously unreal. It's interesting this sport, you know, it's all-year-round, and it feels like it never stops. But to have these moments of knowing that all the hard work and the never-ending training is coming to fruition, and it's worth it. "It's really nice to have this recognition and to win this award among such an amazing group of athletes. And these women, all of us, different disciplines, different sports, but just excelling in all fields, it is really cool to be represented in a group like this." Walsh won NCAA individual titles in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter butterfly this season to raise her total to nine titles. She also holds nine NCAA records (four individual, five relays). The Cavaliers won four straight team titles during Walsh's career. Of course, Walsh is also known for her international profile and she won three gold medals and one silver at last month's U.S. national championships. She set the world record with a time of 54.60 seconds in the 100 butterfly at the TYR Pro Swim Series. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Walsh won two gold medals and two silvers. --Field Level Media
Straits Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- Straits Times
Virginia swimmer Gretchen Walsh wins Honda Cup as top woman athlete
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Virginia star swimmer Gretchen Walsh won the prestigious Honda Cup as the top Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The other two finalists were UConn basketball star Paige Bueckers and Texas Tech softball player NiJaree Canady. Walsh joins basketball legend Dawn Staley (1991) as the only Cavaliers to win the honor. Walsh is the ninth swimmer to win the award, a list that includes two-time winner Tracy Caulkins (1982, 1984), Missy Franklin (2015) and Katie Ledecky (2017). "I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now," Walsh said after being named the winner. "Honestly, being nominated for this award last year was a big deal to me. To win it this year is obviously unreal. It's interesting this sport, you know, it's all-year-round, and it feels like it never stops. But to have these moments of knowing that all the hard work and the never-ending training is coming to fruition, and it's worth it. "It's really nice to have this recognition and to win this award among such an amazing group of athletes. And these women, all of us, different disciplines, different sports, but just excelling in all fields, it is really cool to be represented in a group like this." Walsh won NCAA individual titles in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter butterfly this season to raise her total to nine titles. She also holds nine NCAA records (four individual, five relays). The Cavaliers won four straight team titles during Walsh's career. Of course, Walsh is also known for her international profile and she won three gold medals and one silver at last month's U.S. national championships. She set the world record with a time of 54.60 seconds in the 100 butterfly at the TYR Pro Swim Series. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Walsh won two gold medals and two silvers. --Field Level Media REUTERS
Los Angeles Times
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh sets two world swimming records in three days
On Monday night, Summer McIntosh won the 200-meter individual medley at the 2025 Canadian swimming trials to set her second world record in just three days. She had already achieved one world record at the trials in Victoria. McIntosh won the 200-meter individual medley in 2 minutes, 5.7 seconds. The previous world record of 2:06.12, set by Hungary's Katinka Hosszú, had stood for 10 years. After shaving a second off her previous best time on the backstroke leg, McIntosh was still a tenth of a second off Hosszú's previous record pace at the final turn. But McIntosh crushed the freestyle leg in 29.65 seconds, another personal best, to finish in world-record time. 'It's been one of those records that's always been in the back of my mind since trials two years ago,' the 18-year-old Toronto native said afterward. 'I've been knocking on the door on this one. I've just tried to chip away, chip away at it. To finally do it, it's kind of like 'Wow, I've finally got that done.'' Two days earlier, McIntosh had reclaimed the world record in the 400 freestyle. She first set the mark with 3:56.18 in 2023, but was bested the same year by Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus' 3:55.38. But on Saturday, McIntosh was back on top of the world after swimming a 3:54.18. 'That last 100, I'm usually really, really hurting. But I flipped at the 200, and I was just cruising,' McIntosh said. 'I knew I was having a strong swim and I could tell by the crowd and the way they were cheering that I was probably close to the world record, so I really tried to push that last part for them.' In between those two historic swims, McIntosh also improved on her Canadian record in the 800 freestyle, with a time of 8:05.07. U.S. swimming star Katie Ledecky holds the world record in that event after finishing in 8:04.12 at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month. McIntosh won four medals at the Paris Olympics last year — three golds (200 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM) and one silver (400 freestyle). She holds the world record in the 400 IM; she swam it in 4:24.38 at last year's Canadian swimming finals. With three more days of competition, is there a chance she'll grab a fourth world record before the event is over? Maybe. The 400 IM is scheduled for Wednesday.
Forbes
02-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
NBC Sports Announces Deal To Air Swimming Beyond Olympics Through 2028
NBC Sports and USA Swimming announced that NBC Sports will continue to cover the sport's top domestic events every year through 2028 on NBC, Peacock and CNBC. This includes the TYR Pro Swim Series, Toyota National Championships and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. The partnership aims to make competitive swimming more accessible to fans nationwide, not just during the Olympic Trials or Olympic Games, but throughout the entire year. The most recent 2025 TYR Pro Swim Series was held in Fort Lauderdale in April, where Katie Ledecky broke her own world record in the 800 freestyle. The meet ran from April 30 to May 3, and Ledecky also posted her fastest 400 freestyle time since the 2016 Rio Olympics. The 28-year-old clocked her second-fastest 1500 freestyle ever as well—a time that would have been faster than the one that won her gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Two nights of finals were streamed live on Peacock, and all sessions were also available on the USA Swimming Network. The series featured several other Olympic gold medalists, including Bobby Finke, Caeleb Dressel, Gretchen Walsh and more. Walsh, fresh off helping the Virginia Cavaliers win their fifth consecutive NCAA championship, also broke the world record in the 100 butterfly and became the first woman to swim the event in under 55 seconds. The 2025 Toyota National Championships, set for June 3–7, will be held at the Indiana University Natatorium. It's a major meet for swimmers, including Ledecky and Walsh, and fans, especially since it will decide the U.S. team for the World Championships in Singapore this July and August. All sessions will stream on the USA Swimming Network, with finals airing on Peacock. Looking ahead, the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships will return in August 2026 in Irvine, California, marking the event's first appearance on NBC Sports in eight years. Typically held every four years, the meet rotates among the U.S., Canada, Japan and Australia. The U.S. roster will include up to 26 men and 26 women, selected based on results from key 2025 meets, including the National Championships, World Aquatics Championships, World University Games, World Aquatics Junior Championships and the TYR Pro Summer Championships. According to USA Swimming, the full Pan Pacs roster will be announced on or before September 8, 2025. In addition to the new swimming deal, NBC will also broadcast the 2028 U.S. Olympic Trials and the Los Angeles Olympic Games. NBCUniversal holds U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games through 2036, including Milan Cortina (2026), Los Angeles (2028), French Alps (2030), Brisbane (2032), Salt Lake City (2034) and the 2036 Summer Olympics. NBC has been broadcasting the Olympics for decades. It first aired the Summer Games in 1964 and has covered every Summer Olympics since 1988. Over the years, NBC has introduced innovations in swimming and diving coverage, such as the debut of the Moby-Cam underwater camera at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the Emmy-winning Dive-Cam at the 1996 Atlanta Games. With rights secured through 2036, NBCUniversal will have broadcast a total of 24 Olympic Games by that year.
NBC Sports
02-06-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
KATIE LEDECKY HEADLINES TOYOTA NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS BEGINNING TOMORROW, JUNE 3, AT 7 P.M. ET LIVE EXCLUSIVELY ON PEACOCK
Olympic Gold Medalists Kate Douglass, Torri Huske, and Regan Smith Expected to Compete at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, June 3-7 Commentators: Jason Knapp (Play-by-Play), Rowdy Gaines (Analyst), Nicole Auerbach (Reporter) USA Swimming and NBC Sports Agree to Media Rights Extension Through 2028; Click Here for More STAMFORD, Conn. – June 2, 2025 – Beginning tomorrow, Peacock will stream five consecutive nights of live swimming competition as 14-time Olympic medalist Katie Ledecky leads the United States' top swimmers in the Toyota National Championships at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis. Live coverage begins tomorrow, June 3, at 7 p.m. ET exclusively on Peacock. Daily live coverage of the National Championships streams exclusively on Peacock, beginning tomorrow, June 3, at 7 p.m. ET through the final day of competition on Saturday, June 7. NBC will present two encore presentations on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET and Sunday at 3 p.m. ET. The top two finishers per event — plus up to the top six in the 100m and 200m freestyles for relay purposes — make the team for the World Championships in Singapore from July 11-Aug. 3, should they meet a minimum qualifying time and the total roster not exceed 26 swimmers per gender. Ledecky is coming off a momentous performance at the TYR Pro Swim Series event in Fort Lauderdale on April 30-May 3, where the nine-time Olympic gold medalist swam the second-fastest time in history in the 1500m freestyle, her second-fastest time ever in the 400m free and her first world record in the 800m free, her trademark event, since the 2016 Rio Games. Ledecky is expected to contest the 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m frees, and can add on to her 30 career U.S. titles. She is also the most decorated U.S. female Olympian of all time. The U.S., which led the swimming medal count at the Olympics (28) for a ninth consecutive Games this past summer in Paris, is expected to have an elite roster on display this week, including five-time Olympic medalist Kate Douglass, three-time Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske, eight-time Olympic medalist Regan Smith, and four-time Olympic medalist Gretchen Walsh. On the men's side, U.S. Olympic gold medalists Bobby Finke, Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano are also expected to line up. NBC Sports' Jason Knapp will call the action alongside three-time Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines. Nicole Auerbach will serve as reporter. Last week, USA Swimming and NBC Sports agreed to a multi-year extension of their media rights partnership through 2028. NBC Sports will continue to present USA Swimming's premier domestic events, such as the Toyota National Championships, the TYR Pro Swim Series, and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a once-per-quad international competition featuring the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan. The event will return to NBC Sports in 2026 after an eight-year hiatus. To learn more, click here. Broadcast Team Play-by-play: Jason Knapp Analyst: Rowdy Gaines Reporter: Nicole Auerbach How To Watch – Tuesday, June 3 – Sunday, June 8 (all times ET) Streaming: Peacock (LIVE) TV: NBC *Encore coverage --NBC SPORTS--
