UVA Swimming has won its sixth straight women’s team national championship, taking the top honor at the 2026 NCAA meet that concluded on Saturday in Atlanta, Ga.
The Virginia team lapped the field, beating the runner-up, Stanford, by 208.5 points.
UVA won all five relay events and saw its swimmers take gold in three individual events.
The team closed out the competition on Saturday by winning two golds on the final day, with junior Claire Curzan repeating as the 200 Back champion (1:46.10), and the 400 Free Relay (3:05.26) taking first place.
Sophomore Anna Moesch took the silver in the 100 Free (45.54), with freshman Sara Curtis winning bronze (45.77).
Junior Tess Howley placed fourth in the 200 Fly (1:51.69). Senior Aimee Canny was sixth in the 200 IM (1:53.49), and Leah Hayes was seventh (1:53.56).
The head coach, Todd DeSorbo, is under fire in the local swim community for giving a contract extension to his associate head coach, Gary Taylor, who was placed on a two-year probation a year ago this week for emotional misconduct at three previous coaching jobs.
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On Saturday night, his focus was on six.
“Tyler Fenwick (his senior associate head coach) actually was talking to me before the trophy ceremony. He was like, Who would have thought in 2017 in August that we’d be sitting here winning our sixth title in a row. It hasn’t sunk in yet. I’m gonna have to take a couple steps back and let it sink in, but it’s pretty impressive, for sure,” DeSorbo said.
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