By Claire Wong on SwimSwam
2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships
Dates: Diving: Sunday, February 15–Tuesday, February 17 Swimming: Tuesday, February 17–Saturday, February 21 Location: McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA Defending champions: UVA women (6x); Cal men (1x) Live Results Live Video: ESPN+ ($) Schedule of Events (PDF) Championship Central Pre-Scratch Psych Sheet Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 4|Day 5|Day 6 Finals: Day 1|Day 2|Day 3|Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Teams: Boston College, Cal, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami (women swimming & diving/men diving), NC State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Virginia, Virginia TechOn the penultimate day of the 2026 ACC Championships, swim fans were treated to yet another exciting set of races. Both the 200 fly and 100 breast were determined by less than half a second; in the former, Cal’s Mia West out-touched Virginia’s Tess Howley by 0.08 seconds. In the latter, Eneli Jefimova came from behind to take the crown over Anastasia Gorbenko to become the fastest freshman in history of the event. In the 100 backstroke however, Claire Curzan dominated the race from start to finish, leaving no question as to who the winner might be. Curzan posted the #4 performance in history and became the #2 performer, behind only Gretchen Walsh. Virginia went on to win the 4×100 medley relay by 4 seconds, posting one of the fastest times in history.
On the men’s side, FSU’s Logan Robinson continued his breakout meet with a commanding win in the 200 fly. Cal went on win the rest of the events, as Evan Petty took gold in the 100 back, Yamato Okadome dominated the 100 breast, and the Bears hit 3:00 in the 400 medley relay.
Linked below are the race videos for tonight’s session.
WOMEN’S 200 Butterfly – Finals
NCAA Record: 1:49.11, Emma Sticklen (Texas) – 2025 ACC Record: 1:49.16, Alex Walsh (Virginia) – 2024 ACC Championship Record: 1:49.16, Alex Walsh (Virginia) – 2024 Pool Record: 1:50.61, Kelsi Worrell (Louisville) – 2016 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:57.11Final:
Mia West (Cal) — 1:51.52 Tess Howley (Virginia) — 1:51.60 Caroline Bricker (Stanford) — 1:52.46 Carli Cronk (Notre Dame) — 1:52.59 Bailey Hartman (Virginia) — 1:53.33 Charlotte Hook (Stanford)/Lilou Ressencourt (Cal) — 1:54.92 — Ava Chavez (Cal) — 1:55.21In a breakthrough year, California’s Mia West has reached yet another level, becoming an individual ACC champion. The sophomore took the women’s 200 butterfly championship final out hard, opening her race in 24.67. She led the race from start to finish, turning at the halfway point in 52.96. Virginia’s Tess Howley outsplit her on the final three 50s but West’s opening speed had given her too much of a lead for Howley to overcome.
West touched in a lifetime best 1:51.52, dropping 1.37 seconds from the lifetime best 1:52.89 she swam in prelims this morning. Before today, West had never broken 1:53.
Howley grabbed the silver medal in 1:51.60, swimming a lifetime best of her own. She dropped from the 1:51.79 she swam at the 2025 NCAA Championships.
Caroline Bricker rounded out the top three with a season-best 1:52.46. She had the championship final’s fastest final 50 yards with a 29.57 closing split, which helped her out-touch Notre Dame’s Carli Cronk (1:52.59).
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MEN’S 200 Butterfly – Finals
NCAA Record: 1:36.41, Luca Urlando (Georgia) – 2025 ACC Record: 1:37.92, Nicolas Albiero (Louisville) – 2022 ACC Championship Record: 1:37.92, Nicolas Albiero (Louisville) – 2022 Pool Record: 1:37.92, Nicolas Albiero (Louisville) – 2022 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:43.79Final:
Logan Robinson (Florida State) — 1:38.78 Thomas Heilman (Virginia) — 1:39.35 Seb Lunak (UNC) — 1:39.75 Josh Zuchowski (Stanford) — 1:40.69 Casper Puggaard (Cal) — 1:40.77 Gibson Holmes (Stanford) — 1:40.81 Landon Gentry (Virginia Tech) — 1:41.49 Hayden Bellotti (Virginia) — 1:42.26After a fifth-place finish last year, Logan Robinson is the 200 butterfly ACC champion. Robinson attacked the race from the first 50 yards like West did in the women’s championship final. He opened his race in 21.75 and was the only man in the ‘A’ final sub-22 seconds at the beginning of the race. He was also the only swimmer under 47-seconds at the halfway mark as he turned in 46.98 with 2025 bronze medalist Seb Lunak in second at 47.48 and Virginia freshman Thomas Heilman in third at 47.64.
Robinson split 25.72 on his third 50, then came home in 26.08 to stop the clock in a lifetime best 1:38.78. This is Robinson’s first sub-1:40 swim, breaking his previous personal best (1:40.23) by skipping past the 1:39-mark entirely.
Heilman turned in a season-best by over two seconds to pick up the silver medal in 1:39.35. He out-touched Lunak by four-tenths as Lunak repeated as the bronze medalist for the second-straight year. Lunak’s 1:39.75 is also his first time breaking the 1:40-barrier, improving from the 1:40.12 he swam for bronze last year.
Casper Puggaard improved on the 1:41.46 lifetime best he swam in prelims with a 1:40.77 for 5th. The 4th through 6th place finishers–Zuchowski, Puggaard, and Gibson Holmes, were separated by .12 seconds.
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WOMEN’S 100 Backstroke – Finals
NCAA Record: 48.10, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 2024 ACC Record: 48.10, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 2024 ACC Championship Record: 48.10, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 2024 Pool Record: 48.74, Katharine Berkoff (NC State) – 2022 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 52.65Final:
Claire Curzan (Virginia) — 48.38 *Pool Record* Erika Pelaez (NC State) — 49.54 Mary-Ambre Moluh (Cal) — 49.64 Claire Jansen (Pitt) — 50.32 Leah Shackley (NC State) — 50.48 Ali Pfaff (Duke) — 50.73 Kennedy Noble (NC State) — 51.07 Camille Murray (Louisville) — 51.23Curzan electrified the women’s 100 backstroke prelims this morning by becoming the third-fastest performer in event history. She one-upped herself during the championship final, dropping another .45 seconds and posting a 48.38 to pass Katharine Berkoff (48.55) and become the second-fastest performer all-time.
This morning, Curzan split 23.51/25.35. Tonight, she swam 23.30/25.08, out-splitting her prelims self on both the first and second 50 yards. Coming into the meet, Curzan’s lifetime best was the 49.11 she swam to win the 2025 NCAA title.
Curzan sped away from the competition but there was also an exciting race for silver behind her. California’s Mary-Ambre Moluh was out in 23.89 compared to NC State’s Erika Pelaez opening in 24.16. But Pelaez pushed her second 50, closing in 25.38 and hitting the wall second. The time is a lifetime best for Pelaez and her first time cracking the 49-second barrier for the first time in her career. Moluh swam a lifetime best herself, touching in 49.64 for third and shaving four-hundredths from her best.
Pelaez’s swim makes her the eighth-fastest performer in event history, which bumps Moluh to 10th in spite of her new lifetime best.
All-Time Performers, Women’s 100 Back (SCY)
Gretchen Walsh (Virginia), 48.10 – 2024 Claire Curzan (Virginia), 48.38 — 2026 Katharine Berkoff (NC State), 48.55 – 2024 Bella Sims (Florida), 48.97 – 2025 Regan Smith (Riptide), 49.16 – 2021 Beata Nelson (Wisconsin), 49.18 — 2019 Charlotte Crush (Lakeside), 49.46 — 2024 Erika Pelaez (NC State), 49.54 — 2026 Miranda Grana (Indiana), 49.62 — 2025 Mary-Ambre Moluh (Cal), 49.64 — 2026CONSOLATION FINAL:
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MEN’S 100 Backstroke – Finals
NCAA Record: 43.20, Hubert Kos (Texas) – 2025 ACC Record: 43.83, Kacper Stokowski (NC State) – 2023 ACC Championship Record: 44.04, Coleman Stewart (NC State) / Kacper Stokowski (NC State) – 2020/2023 Pool Record: 43.35, Luca Urland0 (Georgia) – 2022 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 46.29Final:
Evan Petty (Cal) — 44.21 Quintin McCarty (NC State) — 44.46 Kaii Winkler (NC State) — 44.62 Tommy Janton (Notre Dame) — 44.68 Hudson Williams (NC State) — 44.83 Aiden Hayes (NC State) — 44.93 Max Wilson (Florida State) — 44.99 Marcus Reyes-Gentry (Notre Dame) — 45.06Fifth-year Evan Petty broke away from the field to win the men’s 100 backstroke ACC title. Tommy Janton led the race at the halfway mark with a 21.08 opening split. Petty flipped second in 21.13, three-hundredths ahead of Quintin McCarty. Petty came home in 23.08 to win in a lifetime best 44.21. His lifetime best coming into the meet stood at 44.83 from earlier this season. That ranked him sixth in the Golden Bears’ history and he now ranks 5th, passing Gabriel Jett (44.54).
McCarty earned silver in a lifetime best 44.46. He and his sophomore teammate Winkler made it two NC State swimmers on the podium as Winkler clocked 44.62. Winkler shaved another .12 seconds from his lifetime best with a 44.62. Three weeks ago, Winkler raced the 100-yard backstroke for the first time in more than two years.
The Wolfpack finished 2-3-5-6 in this race as Williams and Hayes clocked 44.83 and 44.93, respectively. Seven of the eight ‘A’ finalists were sub-45 seconds.
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WOMEN’S 100 Breaststroke – Finals
NCAA Record: 55.73, Lilly King (Indiana) – 2019 ACC Record: 56.09, Jasmine Nocentini (Virginia) – 2024 ACC Championship Record: 56.72, Sophie Hansson (NC State) – 2022 Pool Record: 56.85, Lilly King (Indiana) – 2016 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 1:00.30Final:
Eneli Jefimova (NC State) — 56.77 *Pool Record* Anastasia Gorbenko (Louisville) — 57.03 Lucy Bell (Stanford) — 57.74 Emma Weber (Virginia) — 57.77 Kaelyn Gridley (Duke) — 57.83 Elle Scott (California) — 58.19 Zoe Skirboll (Virginia) — 58.82 Mia Cheatwood (Louisville) — 58.94This morning, NC State freshman Jefimova and Louisville sophomore Gorbenko tied for the top time of the morning. Tonight, Jefimova left no doubt, pulling away from Gorbenko and the rest of the championship final over the back half of the race to win the women’s 100 breaststroke title.
Gorbenko led the race at the 50-yard mark, splitting 26.56 with Jefimova turning second in 26.71. Jefimova came home in 30.06, passing Gorbenko and hitting the wall in a lifetime best 56.77 that takes down Lilly King‘s 56.85 pool record from 2016. She also narrowly missed Sophie Hansson‘s championship meet record by five-hundredths.
Jefimova now ranks 9th all-time in event history.
Gorbenko swam a lifetime best 57.03 for the silver medal, which ties her with Lydia Jacoby for 12th fastest all-time. Gorbenko had the fastest final 25 yards in the field (15.03) but her third 25 split was 15.44, the second-slowest in the field, which Jefimova took full advantage of.
Lucy Bell took bronze in a season-best 57.74, just .14 seconds from her lifetime best.
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MEN’S 100 Breaststroke – Finals
NCAA Record: 49.51, Julian Smith (Florida) – 2025 ACC Record: 50.27, Denis Petrashov (Louisville) – 2025 ACC Championship Record: 50.62, Denis Petrashov (Louisville) – 2025 Pool Record: 49.90, Max McHugh (Minnesota) – 2022 2026 NCAA Qualifying Time: 52.58Final:
Yamato Okadome (Cal) — 50.32 *ACC Championship Record* Eli Martin (Virginia Tech) — 51.36 Luca Gissendaner (Cal) — 51.48 Daniel Li (Stanford) — 51.63 Hank Rivers (Cal) — 51.68 Ben Delmar (UNC) — 51.69 Tommaso Baravelli (Florida State) — 52.15 Ethan Maloney (Virginia Tech) — 52.18Yamato Okadome jumped from a third-place finish in the 100 breaststroke at last year’s ACC Championships to winning the title this season in championship record time.
It was Okadome’s teammate Luca Gissendaner that led the race at the halfway point, turning in 23.90 five-hundredths head of Okadome. Okadome turned on the jets on the third 25, splitting a field best 13.04 to move into the lead with 25 yards to go. He closed in a field best 13.33 (for a 26.37 second 50 split), hitting the wall in 50.32. His time erases the championship record Denis Petrashov swam last year and also improves his position as the second-fastest swimmer in Cal’s history. Okadome’s former lifetime best was a 50.48.
Okadome won the race by over a second with Virginia Tech sophomore Eli Martin winning silver in 51.36. Martin’s time added six-hundredths from the lifetime best he swam this morning. After leading at the halfway point, Gissendaner held on for bronze in 51.48. The Golden Bears went 1-3-5 in this race, with Hank Rivers clocking 51.68 for 5th, sandwiched between Daniel Li (51.63) and Ben Delmar (51.69). Delmar also finished 6th last year.
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Women’s 400 Medley Relay — Finals
NCAA Record: 3:19.58, Virginia (Curzan, A. Walsh, G. Walsh, Moesch) — 2025 ACC Record: 3:19.58, Virginia (Curzan, A. Walsh, G. Walsh, Moesch) — 2025 ACC Championship Record: 3:19.58, Virginia (Curzan, A. Walsh, G. Walsh, Moesch) — 2025 Pool Record: 3:26.14, Stanford (Howe, Haase, Hu, Neal) — 2016 2026 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Cuts: 3:30.89/3:32.51Final:
Virginia (Curtis, Canny, Curzan, Moesch) — 3:20.42 NC State (Pelaez, Jefimova, Shackley, Nel) — 3:24.65 Louisville (Murray, Gorbenko, Welch, Dennis) — 3:25.16 California — 3:27.15 Duke — 3:28.64 UNC — 3:30.83 Notre Dame — 3:32.63 Pitt — 3:32.86DQ: Stanford
The Virginia women ran away with the women’s 400 medley relay title, popping a 3:20.42 that puts them within a second of the NCAA record Curzan, Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh, and Anna Moesch swam a year ago.
With Moesch still on anchoring duties, the Cavaliers put Sara Curtis on the backstroke leg and Curzan (newly minted as the second-fastest 100 backstroker in event history) on the butterfly leg. Curtis led off in 50.07, which would have placed 4th in the individual final earlier today. The Cavaliers took a lead into the breaststroke leg with NC State running second after Pelaez’s 50.15 lead off.
Virginia extended their lead on the breaststroke leg with Aimee Canny splitting 56.38, which puts her in a three-swimmer tie for 8th fastest 100 breaststroke relay split in history. The Wolfpack were about a half-second off Virginia’s pace with Jefimova splitting 56.81 in a follow-up to her 100 breaststroke win this session.
Curzan split 48.44 on the butterfly leg, which marks the 5th fastest 100 butterfly split all-time. It’s Curzan’s first entry on this top 10 list as she had backstroke duty on this relay last year. Finally, Moesch anchored in 45.53, which takes over as the 10th fastest split in history.
The Virginia women clocked 3:20.42, winning by over four seconds ahead of NC State as Pelaez, Jefimova, Leah Shackley (50.70), and Olivia Nel (46.99) clocked 3:24.65. Louisville’s quartet of Camille Murray (51.40), Gorbenko (56.54), Ella Welch (51.07), and Julia Dennis (46.15) swam 3:25.16.
Notably, Stanford’s relay was disqualified for a false start.
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Men’s 400 Medley Relay — Finals
NCAA Record: 2:55.66, Florida (Marshall, Smith, Liendo, Painter) — 2025 ACC Record: 2:59.12, California (Tomac, Okadome, Rose, Lasco) — 2025 ACC Championship Record: 3:01.10, NC State (Stokowski, Hunter, Korstanje, Miller) — 2023 Pool Record: 3:00.36, California (Lasco, Whitley, Julian, Seeliger) — 2022 2026 NCAA ‘A’/’B’ Cuts: 3:04.96/3:06.20Final:
Cal (Petty, Okadome, Puggaard, Wrede) — 3:00.74 *ACC Championship Record* Florida State (Wilson, Baravelli, Arkhangelskiy, Robinson) — 3:01.08 NC State (McCarty, Bustos, Hayes, Fox) — 3:01.66 Virginia — 3:01.75 Virginia Tech — 3:01.86 Stanford — 3:02.58 Louisville — 3:03.04 Pitt — 3:05.02The Golden Bears won the men’s 400 medley relay title to close out the session. The quartet was powered by the newly crowned 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke champions as Petty (44.40) and Okadome (50.20) held things down on the front half of the Golden Bears’ relay.
The pair handed a strong lead to the back-half of the relay which Puggaard (44.96) and Martin Wrede (41.18) held onto. This is a very young relay for Cal, only Petty is an upperclassman; Puggaard and Wrede are freshmen while Okadome is a sophomore.
Florida State’s squad of Max Wilson (44.72), Tommaso Baravelli (51.76), Michel Arkhangelskiy (43.84), and Logan Robinson (40.76) swimming a 3:01.08. They were able to get distance over a tight race for third between NC State, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. The three schools were separated by two-tenths. NC State took bronze with a team of McCarty (44.75), Arsenio Bustos (51.67), Hayes (44.69), and Jerry Fox (40.55). Fox’s 40.55 anchor was the fastest freestyle leg in the field.
Like Cal, the Virginia Cavaliers put two freshmen on the back half of their relay. After a lead off from Jack Aikins (45.43) and a breaststroke leg from Matthew Heilman (51.63), the team turned things over to Thomas Heilman (43.81) and Maximus Williamson (40.88).
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Team Scores Thru Day 5
Women
Virginia, 1028.5 California, 860.5 Stanford, 798 Louisville, 653 NC State, 591.5 Pitt, 450 UNC, 387.5 Duke, 328.5 Notre Dame, 310 Florida State, 304 Miami (FL), 296 Virginia Tech, 274.5 Georgia Tech, 238 SMU, 203 BC, 74Men
California, 827 Stanford, 799 NC State, 665 Louisville, 663 Virginia Tech, 541.5 Florida State, 499.5 UNC, 446.5 Virginia, 433.5 Notre Dame, 397 SMU, 326 Pitt, 324 Georgia Tech, 293 Miami (FL), 162 Duke, 109 BC, 86Read the full story on SwimSwam: WATCH: Claire Curzan’s 48.3 100 Back & Other Races From Friday’s Finals at 2026 ACCs
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