Kate Douglass and Todd DeSorbo Earn CSCAA National Swimming Awards

Douglass was named the CSCAA Women's Swimmer of the Meet and DeSorbo was named the CSCAA Women's Swimming Coach of the Year

Author:
Matt Newton
Publish date:
Mar 29, 2022 6:35 PM EDT

The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) released its 2022 NCAA Division I award winners and All-Americans on Tuesday afternoon and Virginia was well represented. Junior Kate Douglass was named the 2022 CSCAA Women's Swimmer of the Meet and head coach Todd DeSorbo was named the CSCAA Women's Swimming Coach of the Year for the second season in a row. Additionally, 22 Virginia women's and men's swimmers earned All-American honors across a total of 75 NCAA events.

DeSorbo coached the Cavalier women to back-to-back national championships, as UVA won 11 of 18 possible events, including four relay titles, to capture the 2022 NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship. Virginia also set new American records in five different events.

Three of those U.S. records were broken by Kate Douglass, who swam what is being widely considered the greatest individual performance at the NCAA Championships of all time. Douglass won the NCAA title in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, and 200-yard backstroke, accomplishing the unprecedented feat of placing first in three different strokes and three different distances, all in record-breaking time. She was also a member of Virginia's title-winning 200-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, and 400-yard medley relay teams. Douglass finished first in each of the seven events in which she competed.

12 members of the Virginia women's swimming team earned All-America honors in a total of 48 events:

Lexi Cuomo: 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay
Maddie Donohoe: 1650-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle
Kate Douglass: 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard backstroke, 200-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard medley relay
Abby Harter: 200-yard butterfly, 200-yard individual medley
Anna Keating: 200-yard breaststroke, 100-yard breaststroke
Jessica Nava: 100-yard butterfly
Ella Nelson: 400-yard individual medley, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard individual medley, 800-yard freestyle relay
Reilly Tiltmann: 100-yard backstroke, 200-yard backstroke, 200-yard freestyle, 400-yard freestyle relay, 800-yard freestyle relay
Alex Walsh: 200-yard butterfly, 200-yard individual medley, 400-yard individual medley, 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard medley relay, 800-yard freestyle relay
Gretchen Walsh: 100-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke, 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard medley relay
Alexis Wenger: 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard medley relay
Emma Weyant: 500-yard freestyle, 400-yard individual medley, 800-yard freestyle relay

10 members of the Virginia men's swimming team earned All-America honors in a total of 27 events:

Jack Aikins: 200-yard backstroke, 400-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard medley relay, 800-yard freestyle relay
Connor Boyle: 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, 800-yard freestyle relay
Matt Brownstead: 100-yard freestyle, 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay
Josh Fong: 400-yard medley relay
Justin Grender: 200-yard backstroke, 800-yard freestyle relay
Matt King: 100-yard freestyle, 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard medley relay
August Lamb: 200-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay
Noah Nichols: 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard medley relay
Casey Storch: 400-yard individual medley
Jack Wright: 800-yard freestyle relay

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