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The Star
02-07-2025
- 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
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--
Fox Sports
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
American swimming star Lilly King announces farewell season, final US competition
Associated Press American three-time Olympic swimming star and world record holder Lilly King has announced the upcoming Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis will be her final meet on U.S. soil as she prepares to call it a career at the conclusion of the 2025 season. The meet will run Tuesday through Saturday. A longtime breaststroke stalwart, King announced her plans Saturday on Instagram and said swimming her final race in the U.S. in her home state and a pool she's known since her youth 'has always been important to me.' 'Well, folks, my time has come. This will be my final season competing," she wrote. "I'm fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled." The 28-year-old King holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.13, set at the 2017 world championships. She won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 breast at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and also captured Olympic titles on relays in Rio and at her final Olympics last year in Paris. The U.S. women's 4x100 medley relay set a world record in 3:49.63. Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske were her teammates in the Americans' victory over defending Olympic champion Australia. 'Just an awesome way to cap off the meet,' King said afterward. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, King earned silver medals in the 200 breaststroke and 4x100 medley relay and a bronze in the 100 breast. She narrowly missed the medal stand in the 100 breast in Paris, with one-hundredth of a second separating bronze medalist Mona McSharry of Ireland and the fourth-place tie between King and Italy's Benedetta Pilato in 1:05.60. For King, being home in Indiana next week will mean so much. It was also in Indianapolis last June during the U.S. Olympic swimming trials that boyfriend and former Indiana University swimmer James Wells proposed to her just off the pool deck — and she said yes. 'I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old," she wrote. "From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn't quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I'm gonna get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time." ___ AP Summer Olympics: in this topic
Hamilton Spectator
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
American swimming star Lilly King announces farewell season, final US competition
American three-time Olympic swimming star and world record holder Lilly King has announced the upcoming Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis will be her final meet on U.S. soil as she prepares to call it a career at the conclusion of the 2025 season. The meet will run Tuesday through Saturday. A longtime breaststroke stalwart, King announced her plans Saturday on Instagram and said swimming her final race in the U.S. in her home state and a pool she's known since her youth 'has always been important to me.' 'Well, folks, my time has come. This will be my final season competing,' she wrote. 'I'm fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled.' The 28-year-old King holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.13, set at the 2017 world championships. She won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 breast at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and also captured Olympic titles on relays in Rio and at her final Olympics last year in Paris. The U.S. women's 4x100 medley relay set a world record in 3:49.63. Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske were her teammates in the Americans' victory over defending Olympic champion Australia. 'Just an awesome way to cap off the meet,' King said afterward. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, King earned silver medals in the 200 breaststroke and 4x100 medley relay and a bronze in the 100 breast. She narrowly missed the medal stand in the 100 breast in Paris, with one-hundredth of a second separating bronze medalist Mona McSharry of Ireland and the fourth-place tie between King and Italy's Benedetta Pilato in 1:05.60. For King, being home in Indiana next week will mean so much. It was also in Indianapolis last June during the U.S. Olympic swimming trials that boyfriend and former Indiana University swimmer James Wells proposed to her just off the pool deck — and she said yes. 'I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old,' she wrote. 'From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn't quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I'm gonna get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time.' ___ AP Summer Olympics:
Winnipeg Free Press
31-05-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
American swimming star Lilly King announces farewell season, final US competition
American three-time Olympic swimming star Lilly King has announced the upcoming Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis will be her final meet on U.S. soil as she prepares to call it a career at the conclusion of the 2025 season. The meet will run Tuesday through Saturday. A longtime breaststroke stalwart, King announced her plans Saturday on Instagram and said swimming her final race in the U.S. in her home state and a pool she's known since her youth 'has always been important to me.' 'Well, folks, my time has come. This will be my final season competing,' she wrote. 'I'm fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled.' The 28-year-old King won a gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and also captured Olympic titles on relays in Rio and at her final Olympics last year in Paris. The U.S. women's 4×100 medley relay set a world record in 3:49.63. Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske were her teammates in the Americans' victory over defending Olympic champion Australia. 'Just an awesome way to cap off the meet,' King said afterward. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, King earned silver medals in the 200 breaststroke and 4×100 medley relay and a bronze in the 100 breast. She narrowly missed the medal stand in the 100 breast in Paris, with one-hundredth of a second separating bronze medalist Mona McSharry of Ireland and the fourth-place tie between King and Italy's Benedetta Pilato in 1:05.60. For King, being home in Indiana next week will mean so much. It was also in Indianapolis last June during the U.S. Olympic swimming trials that boyfriend and former Indiana University swimmer James Wells proposed to her just off the pool deck — and she said yes. 'I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old,' she wrote. 'From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn't quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I'm gonna get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time.' ___ AP Summer Olympics:
