Swimming & Diving

2024 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships Begin Tuesday

GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) - The 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Championships will be contested Tuesday, Feb. 20, through Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC).

ACC Network Extra will have live coverage of the entire event, with Craig Minervini on play-by-play joined by analysts Amy Van Dyken (swimming) and Jason Baumann (diving).

This is the ninth ACC Swimming & Diving Championship at the GAC, one of the premier aquatics facilities in the country. 

Last year at the GAC, the NC State men and Virginia women captured the ACC team titles following five days of competition. NC State won its 32nd ACC title, including its seventh in the last eight years and third straight, while Virginia earned its fourth straight ACC championship and 19th in program history.

Noting ACC Swimming and Diving:
  • Virginia women’s swimming and diving lead the six ACC teams in the CSCAA Top 25 poll followed by Louisville and NC State at No. 9 and No. 10, respectively. Three in the top 10 is the most of any conference.
  • North Carolina is No. 18, Duke is No. 19 and Virginia Tech is No. 20. Six teams in the top 20 is tied for the most of any conference.
  • Seven men’s ACC teams are in the top 25 of the February CSCAA poll led by No. 3 NC State who is followed by No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 14 Louisville, No. 15 Virginia Tech, No. 16 Florida State, No. 20 Virginia and No. 23 Georgia Tech. Seven teams in the top 25 is the most of any conference.  
  • At the 2024 World Aquatics Championships:
    • Virginia’s Kate Douglass set an American record in the 50M Freestyle (23.91) on the final day of competition, taking home silver in the event and breaking Simone Manuel’s record. She is just the second American woman to break the 24-second barrier in the event.
    • Virginia’s Claire Curzan was named the Best Female Swimmer at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships after securing a total of six medals: four gold, one silver and one bronze.
    • Jack Aikins swam in the leadoff backstroke leg of the 4X100 Medley Relay prelim, helping the U.S. to record the top time of 3:32.53 in the prelims. In the night session, the American squad went on to win the gold, earning Aikins his third relay medal of the meet and his second gold.
    • Douglass, Aikins, and Claire Curzan won a combined 15 medals at the championship, including eight golds.
    • Former Florida State diver Molly Carlson won the silver medal in high diving at her second World Championships.
    • Louisville alumnus Zach Harting won gold medal as part of the Team USA 4 x 100 Medley Relay.
  • Curzan won gold in all three of the backstroke events, making her just the third swimmer in World Championships history to sweep the 50, 100, and 200 distances of a single stroke, and just the second female. She also won an individual silver in the 100 fly. She won two relay medals: a gold in the Mixed 4x100M Medley and a bronze in the Mixed 4x100M Freestyle. 
  • Louisville diver Else Praasterink qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics and will be diving for her native Netherlands.
  • The Cardinals’ Gabi Albiero won individual gold at the 2023 PanAms when she tied NCAA Champion Maggie MacNeil in the 50 freestyle finals with a time of 24.84.
  • Murilo Sartori won gold as part of Brazil's 4x200 relay team. Brazil's foursome set a Pan American Games record by three full seconds. He led off the relay with a split of 1:47.52 as Brazil put up a 7:07.53 to sit atop the podium.
  • Virginia women’s swimmers own 10 of the fastest times in the nation, with sisters Gretchen and Alex Walsh owning eight of them. Gretchen sits with the top time in the 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 100 back and 100 fly, while Alex owns the 200 breast, 100 IM and 400 IM. The sisters are also part of the fastest 200 free and 400 free relay squads in the nation.
Full schedule of events and times can be found on the ACC Swimming and Diving Championships page HERE.