From the Far East to the West Coast, several current and former University of Virginia student-athletes delivered impressive performances over the weekend.
The five-time reigning national champion UVA women’s swimming program again proved its elite status at the 2025 FINA World Aquatics Championships in Singapore as 13 Cavaliers medaled, including a combined three gold medals apiece for star alumnae Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh.
Walsh won individual golds in the 50-meter butterfly and 100-meter butterfly, the first long-course world titles of her career. She paired with Douglass to help Team USA capture a gold and a world record in the 4x100-meter medley relay. Rising UVA junior Claire Curzan swam the butterfly leg in the preliminary round of the event, helping the Americans earn the top seed for the final.
WHAT. A WAY. TO CLOSE.
The U.S. grabs gold AND a world record in the last event of #AQUASingapore2025 to end the meet ON TOP of the gold and total medal table 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/mdaooxhGY2— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) August 3, 2025
Douglass set an American record and took gold in the 200-meter breaststroke in addition to two relay titles. She earned silver in the 100-meter breaststroke and 4x100-meter free relay. Curzan also won a bronze medal in the 200-meter backstroke.
Other Wahoo medalists included alumna Alex Walsh, who took silver in the 200-meter individual medley, and rising sophomore Anna Moesch, who earned silvers in the 4x100-meter and 4x200-meter freestyle relays.
