2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
Women’s 400 IM
- NCAA Record: 3:54.60 — Ella Eastin, Stanford (2018)
- Championship Record: 3:54.60 — Ella Eastin, Stanford (2018)
- American Record: 3:54.60 — Ella Eastin, Stanford (2018)
- U.S. Open Record: 3:54.60 — Ella Eastin, Stanford (2018)
- 2024 Champion: Alex Walsh, Virginia — 3:55.97
TOP 8 FINISHERS:
- Caroline Bricker (Stanford) – 3:57.36
- Emma Weyant (Florida) – 3:59.05
- Lucy Bell (Stanford) – 4:00.24
- Katie Grimes (Virginia) – 4:01.10
- Leah Hayes (Virginia) – 4:01.62
- Mabel Zavaros (Florida) – 4:03.99
- Callahan Dunn (Wisconsin) – 4:04.20
- Sienna Angove (Ohio State) – 4:07.83
Stanford sophomore Caroline Bricker won the women’s 400 IM by more than a second-and-a-half, coming in at 3:57.36. This was a huge improvement from the 4th place finish she secured at last year’s Championships, and a new best time as well.
Bricker has seen significant improvement since being in college, dropping 12 seconds over the course of her college career so far, a standard that is almost unheard of at the collegiate level. She came into college at 4:09.57 from the Speedo Sectionals in March of 2023, and has continuously gotten faster since then.
At her first midseason meet, the 2023 Texas Invite, she dropped to 4:03.49, which accounts for six of the 12 total seconds. She went on to go another second faster at Pac-12s, swimming 4:02.32 before dropping another two tenths at last year’s NCAAs.
She had another breakthrough at this year’s Texas Invite, where she went under 4:00 to swim 3:59.88 for the first time. She was just off this time at last month’s ACCs, where she came in at 4:01.40, but she dropped another huge chunk tonight to come in at 3:57.36, and she still has two more years left of college.
Progression
**(Times are notated in total seconds– 3:57.36 is 237.36 seconds)**
