Headlined by arguably the greatest individual performance ever in World Championship swim meet by Gretchen Walsh, Virginia swimmers came home from Budapest with hardware and a whole lot of prize money.
As if the Virginia swimming & diving program needed any more recruiting material... The Cavaliers have already established themselves as the best women's swimming program in the country, winning each of the last four NCAA national championships, but the last five months have cemented their dominance on an international level. UVA swimmers won 11 medals at the, including five gold medals.
🤯 What a week for Gretchen Walsh! A packed World Championships schedule saw her claim 7️⃣ world titles 🥇 and break an incredible 1️⃣1️⃣ World Records! 🔥👏And here's the best part. There was some major money up for grabs at the World Championships and the Cavaliers cashed in big time, especially Gretchen Walsh.
Fellow former Cavalier Kate Douglass had the fourth-most individual total prize money, earning $118,416.67. Douglass won individual world titles in the 200 IM and 200 breast and broke world records in the those two events as well, while also swimming as part of two world record-breaking relay teams. She took silver in the 50 free and the 100 IM, finishing second to Gretchen Walsh in both events.
Former Cavalier Paige Madden, who won Virginia's first national championship back in 2021 and who is having the best year of her professional swimming career, won gold as part of that world record 4x200 relay team and earned $23,916.67.
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