Blue Devils Complete Week at ACC Championships

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Blue Devils Complete Week at ACC Championships

2/22/2026 12:05:00 AM | Swimming & Diving

Final Results (PDF)

ATLANTA, Ga. – The Duke swimming and diving team concluded seven days of competition at the ACC Championships Saturday evening.

The Blue Devils' week highlighted by a pair of fourth-place finishes in the women's platform dive (Josie Zillig) and the women's 200-yard breaststroke (Kaelyn Gridley), along with a handful of school records and top-10 program mark being set.

Duke's women totaled 432.5 points to place eighth overall, while the Blue Devil men (138 points) took 14th.

TOP PERFORMANCES

Senior Josie Zillig competed in the women's platform dive and scored a fourth-place finish with 252.65 points.
Tatum Wall turned in a personal-best showing in the prelims of the women's 50-yard freestyle, clocking a program-best 21.57 to secure her spot in the finals. The senior one-upped her 50 free time in the final, swimming 21.47 to smash her own program record and place fifth overall.
Wall recorded a personal best and school-record time of 51.18 in the prelims of the women's 100-yard butterfly to secure her spot in the next round. The Ashburn, Virginia, product once again improved her own school record with a faster time in the final, swimming 51.05 to finish eighth.
Duke took sixth in the women's 200-yard medley relay, with the quartet of junior Ali Pfaff, senior Kaelyn Gridley, freshman Heather White and Wall turning in a time of 1:35.67.
In the women's 200 free relay, Duke's team of Wall, White, Pfaff and sophomore Clare Logan came in at 1:28.14, earning a sixth-place finish.
The Blue Devils saw a pair of individual top-10 program marks stem from the men's and women's 800-yard freestyle relays. White clocked 1:47.25 in her 200 leg, while graduate student Justin Wong posted a mark of 1:36.60 in his. Both times rank eighth all-time.
Junior Milo Shue competed in the men's 50 free and recorded a time of 19.76 seconds. Shue's finish was a personal best in the event and slotted him No. 5 all-time at Duke.
Wong and senior Austin Simpson logged a pair of top-10 Duke marks in the men's 100 fly and men's 500 free, respectively. Wong moved into No. 3 all-time on the program charts with a finish of 46.52, while Simpson swam 4:25.18 for No. 10 all-time.
Gridley (100-yard breaststroke) and Pfaff (100-yard backstroke) posted a pair of Duke records en route to placing fifth and sixth, respectively. Pfaff swam a program-best 51 seconds flat in the 100 breast prelims, then reset her mark with a finish of 50.73 in the final. Gridley powered to the wall in 57.83 to take over the top spot on the Duke charts in the women's 100 back.
The foursome of Pfaff, Gridley, White and Wall recorded another strong outing in the women's 400 medley relay, clocking a school record 3:28.64 en route to a fifth-place finish.
Wong tallied his third top-10 program mark of the week – this one coming in the men's 200 fly. The Mill Valley, California, veteran swam a collegiate best of 1:43.25 and moved up to No. 2 all-time in program lore.
Junior Jack Smith improved his position on the Duke charts with formidable showings in the 100 (52.64) and 200 breast (1:55.77), slotting himself No. 3 and No. 5, respectively, in the program record book.
Wall's stellar prelim race (47.22) in the women's 100 free earned the senior her third school record of the week and a spot in the final. The Ashburn, Virginia, product went on to place seventh overall, touching in 47.58.
Pfaff improved her school-record time in the women's 200 back with a personal best of 1:51.45 in the consolation.
Gridley clocked 2:05.55 in the women's 200 breast en route to placing fourth overall, matching the Blue Devils' highest placement of the week. On the men's side, Smith posted a time of 1:56.92 to move into No. 8 all-time at Duke.

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