Cards Ready to Blast Off Blocks at NCAAs
March 18, 2025 | Swimming & Diving
Relays begin on Wednesday evening in Federal Way, Washington
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The No. 8-ranked University of Louisville women's swimming & diving team blast off the blocks on Tuesday evening in the first day of competition at the 2025 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Federal Way, Washington.Â
Louisville qualified all five relays and will be competing in the 200 Medley Relay and the 800 Free Relay. UofL has 14 swimmers and two divers at the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships which the NCAA unveiled the field on Wednesday, March 5.
The group tied the largest group of individual swimming qualifiers in school history and is the third biggest group overall trailing only Virginia (18) and Texas (15).
The women's championships will be held at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Washington, from Wednesday, March 19 to Saturday, March 22 and will be streamed on ESPN+. Also, ESPN+ will provide live digital coverage for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday. Tape-delayed coverage of the women's championships will be on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, March 26.
Swimmers qualified for the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events they entered.
Divers will be determined by performances at the Zone Diving Championships, held March 10-12 in Piscataway, N.J. Selected divers will be announced on Thursday, March 13.
Gabi Albiero, Amelia Bodenstab, Summer Cardwell, Fernanda Celidonio, Mia Cheatwood, Julia Dennis, Daria Golovaty, Kim Herkle, Caroline Larsen, Lucy Mehraban, Leticia Romao, Rye Ulett, Tristen Ulett and Ella Welch along with relay swimmers Abby Karl and Camille Murray will head west to race in the NCAAs.
Cardinal Qualifiers
Gabi Albiero (100 fly, 50 free, 100 free)
Amelia Bodenstab (200 free)
Summer Cardwell (200 free)
Fernanda Celidonio (200 IM)
Mia Cheatwood (100 breast, 200 breast)
Julia Dennis (50 free, 100 free)
Daria Golovaty (500 free, 200 free)
Kim Herkle (200 IM, 400 IM)
Caroline Larsen (50 free)
Lucy Mehraban (100 free)
Leticia Romao (1650 free)
Rye Ulett (200 back)
Tristen Ulett (200 fly, 200 IM, 100 fly)
Ella Welch (100 fly)
Diving
Lindsay Gizzi (1-meter)
Samm Helmboldt (plaform, 1-meter)
The Cardinals are also qualified in the 200 medley relay, the 800 free relay, 200 free relay, 400 medley relay and the 400 free relay.
How to Follow the Cardinals
Louisville qualified all five relays and will be competing in the 200 Medley Relay and the 800 Free Relay. UofL has 14 swimmers and two divers at the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships which the NCAA unveiled the field on Wednesday, March 5.
The group tied the largest group of individual swimming qualifiers in school history and is the third biggest group overall trailing only Virginia (18) and Texas (15).
The women's championships will be held at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Washington, from Wednesday, March 19 to Saturday, March 22 and will be streamed on ESPN+. Also, ESPN+ will provide live digital coverage for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday. Tape-delayed coverage of the women's championships will be on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, March 26.
Swimmers qualified for the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events they entered.
Divers will be determined by performances at the Zone Diving Championships, held March 10-12 in Piscataway, N.J. Selected divers will be announced on Thursday, March 13.
Gabi Albiero, Amelia Bodenstab, Summer Cardwell, Fernanda Celidonio, Mia Cheatwood, Julia Dennis, Daria Golovaty, Kim Herkle, Caroline Larsen, Lucy Mehraban, Leticia Romao, Rye Ulett, Tristen Ulett and Ella Welch along with relay swimmers Abby Karl and Camille Murray will head west to race in the NCAAs.
Cardinal Qualifiers
Gabi Albiero (100 fly, 50 free, 100 free)
Amelia Bodenstab (200 free)
Summer Cardwell (200 free)
Fernanda Celidonio (200 IM)
Mia Cheatwood (100 breast, 200 breast)
Julia Dennis (50 free, 100 free)
Daria Golovaty (500 free, 200 free)
Kim Herkle (200 IM, 400 IM)
Caroline Larsen (50 free)
Lucy Mehraban (100 free)
Leticia Romao (1650 free)
Rye Ulett (200 back)
Tristen Ulett (200 fly, 200 IM, 100 fly)
Ella Welch (100 fly)
Diving
Lindsay Gizzi (1-meter)
Samm Helmboldt (plaform, 1-meter)
The Cardinals are also qualified in the 200 medley relay, the 800 free relay, 200 free relay, 400 medley relay and the 400 free relay.
How to Follow the Cardinals
- Wednesday, March 19Â |Â Watch live on ESPN+
- Finals | 6 p.m.
- 200-yard medley relay
- 800-yard freestyle relay
- Finals | 6 p.m.
- Thursday, March 20 |Â Watch live on ESPN+
- Trials | 10 a.m.Â
- Finals | 6 p.m.
- 500-yard freestyle
- 200-yard individual medley
- 50-yard freestyle
- One-meter divingÂ
- 200-yard freestyle relay
- Friday, March 21Â |Â Watch live on ESPN+
- Trials | 10 a.m.Â
- Finals | 6 p.m.
- 400-yard individual medley
- 100-yard butterfly 10. 200-yard freestyle
- 100-yard breaststroke 12. 100-yard backstroke
- Three-meter divingÂ
- 400-yard medley relay
- Saturday, March 22Â |Â Watch live on ESPN+
- Trials | 10 a.m.
- Finals | 6Â p.m.
- 1,650-yard freestyle
- 200-yard backstroke
- 100-yard freestyle
- 200-yard breaststroke
- 200-yard butterfly
- Platform diving
- 400-yard freestyle relay
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