[3] The following month, at the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, he placed seventh in the final of the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 41.99 seconds after swimming a personal best time of 41.77 seconds in the prelims heats.

[10] Curry was the first swimmer from the Louisiana State University athletics program, called the LSU Tigers, to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games in swimming.

[13] Once the collegiate season started up again following the 2020 Olympic Games, Curry swam a 19.51 in the 50-yard freestyle for his team, the LSU Tigers, in a dual meet against the Grand Canyon Antelopes on October 9, setting a new pool record for the LSU Natatorium and helping his team win the meet.

[16] One day later, on October 22, Curry won the 50-yard freestyle for his school with a time of 19.59 seconds at the Rocky Mountain Invitational in which LSU competed against three other collegiate teams.

[18] His performances helped his school win each of the three dual meets taking place as part of the two-day Rocky Mountain Invitational where his team competed against the Denver Pioneers, Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls, and Air Force Falcons.

[20][21] On November 17, the first day of the 2021 Art Adamson Invitational, Curry lowered his official personal best time for the season in the 50-yard freestyle in the prelims with a swim of 19.14 seconds.

[25][26] The third and final day of the Invitational, Curry swam a season best time of 42.86 seconds in the prelims of the 100-yard freestyle.

[28][29] Starting off 2022 in advance of the collegiate championships season, Curry nudged out Dean Farris of Harvard University in a virtual duel of a 75-yard freestyle sprint with fins, swimming the distance in 28.6 seconds to Dean Farris's 28.7 seconds.

[30] In a dual meet against Texas A&M University at the LSU Natatorium, Curry broke his own pool record in the 50-yard freestyle with a times of 19.42 seconds.

[35][36] In the evening finals session, Curry started his competition in the 4×50-yard freestyle relay, swimming a 18.50 and helping place eighth.

[40] In the 4×100-yard medley relay on day four, Curry swam the only freestyle split faster than 41.60 seconds with a 40.93, helping finish in seventh-place at 3:07.31.

[56] His two individual titles brought the total number of NCAA titles won by swimmers and divers in LSU program history from two to four and all three of his performances contributed to the highest team finish at a men's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships since 1997.

[51] At the 2022 US International Team Trials in Greensboro, North Carolina in April, Curry ranked fourth in the preliminary heats of the 100-meter freestyle on day one, qualifying for the final with his time of 48.36 seconds.

[64] In the evening semifinals of the event, he qualified for the final with a personal best time of 47.90 seconds and overall rank of seventh.

[72][73] On October 28, Curry swam a personal best time of 21.35 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 50-meter freestyle at his first FINA Swimming World Cup, the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup conducted in short course meters in Toronto, Canada, and qualified for the final tied for third rank.

[81] Twelve days later, he won the 50-yard freestyle at the 2022 Art Adamson Invitational, in Texas, with a time of 18.94 seconds.

[83] The third and final day of swimming competition, he won the 100-yard freestyle with an NCAA season-leading time of 41.86 seconds.

[91][92] The third day, he went out in a 1:31.94 in the preliminaries of the 200-yard freestyle, qualified for the final, and improved upon his placing from sixth at the 2022 NCAA Division I Championships to fourth in the final with a personal best time of 1:31.30, which set a new men's LSU Tigers swim program record in the event.