2024 WOMEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
DAY 3 PRELIMS HEAT SHEET
Hola, Amigos!!! It’s not solely Friday but in addition ‘Shifting Day’. Groups like Texas and Cal will look to make massive strikes up the leaderboard after yesterday was a quiet day for the 2 groups. We’ll get our first take a look at Texas’s Lydia Jacoby (57.27), who’s the defending champion within the 100 breast, who will look to tangle with not solely her teammate Anna Elendt (57.51) however Mona McSharry (56.87) and Kaitlyn Dobler (56.99), who enter as the highest seeds, with entry instances beneath Jacoby’s profitable time from final 12 months.
Within the 400 IM, 100 Fly, and 200 Free, we are going to see a trio of winners from final night time as the highest seeds. Main the cost is Virginia’s Alex Walsh (4:00.52) , the 200 IM winner. Her time of 1:49.20 made her the second swimmer ever to swim beneath 1:50, behind solely her former teammate Kate Douglass. Trying to play spoiler to A. Walsh is Emma Weyant (4:01.20) and Caroline Bricker (4:02.32), each of whom are seeded inside two seconds of Walsh however should have the right swim to overhaul final 12 months’s champ.
No person is seeded inside two seconds of Gretchen Walsh (48.25) within the 100 fly, a completely sensible truth, however not fully that shocking as Walsh set the NCAA file at ACCs. Each time G. Walsh has began a race right here at NCAAs, she has walked away with a brand new all the things file, a streak she saved alive yesterday, swimming all-time greatest marks within the 50 free twice. Behind Walsh, and taking part in out like a microcosm of the group race are a bunch of swimmers desperate to get Texas again on observe.
Texas hasn’t carried out exceptionally effectively however was buoyed by advancing two divers into the A-final. Trying to transfer on and up are Emma Sticklen (50.36), Kelly Pash (50.37), and Olivia Bray (50.47), who enter because the 2nd-4th seeds and can like to make Shifting Day a hit for the Longhorns. Attempting to throw a wrench in these plans is Florida’s Olivia Peoples. The SEC champ enters tied with Bray because the #4 seed (50.47) and will have a bonus over the Longhorns as she raced butterfly final night time. Sure, final night time, Peoples opted to swim fly as an alternative of free on the 200 Free Relay.
Peoples is the one Gator ranked within the high 24 of the 100 fly, however the Gators will probably be anticipated to battle again in opposition to Texas 100 fly energy with their very own within the 200 free. Main the best way and the third of our occasion winners from final night time is freshman Bella Sims. Final night time, Sims swam 4:32.47 to win her first NCAA particular person title and go 1-2 with teammate Weyant. Within the 200, Sims, the highest seed (1:40.90), will look to group up with Isabel Ivey (1:41.85) to repeat the feat. Standing between them within the seedings is USC’s Minna Abraham (1:41.85), however the greatest menace to Gator Freestyle dominance is perhaps Indiana’s Anna Peplowski, who completed third final night time within the 500 and set a brand new private better of 1:41.16 main off Indiana’s 800 free relay.
Ending off the morning, we are going to get our first take a look at Katharine Berkoff‘s backstroke. The NC State senior (48.70), will look to assist NC State bounce up the rankings after a relay DQ on night time 1. In rivalry to hitch her within the A-final is teammate Kennedy Noble (50.79), however she at present sits within the unenviable eighth place. Like Berkoff, Cal’s Isabelle Stadden, the #2 seed (50.26), will look to proper the course for her group as they suffered a Relay DQ final night time. After a third place end within the 200 IM, Tennessee, Josephine Fuller (#4 – 50.59) will look to proceed her success and acquire precious second swims for the Woman Vols.
400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Prelims
- NCAA Report: 3:54.60, Ella Eastin (Stanford) – 2018
- Meet Report: 3:54.60, Ella Eastin (Stanford) – 2018
- American Report: 3:54.60, Ella Eastin (Stanford) – 2018
- US Open Report: 3:54.60, Ella Eastin (Stanford) – 2018
- Pool Report: 3:59.26, Elizabeth Beisel (Florida) – 2014
- 2023 Champion: Alex Walsh (Virginia) – 3:57.24
High 16:
- Emma Weyant (Florida) – 4:00.98
- Caroline Bricker (Stanford) – 4:02.20
- Megan Van Berkom (Minnesota) – 4:02.53
- Alex Walsh (Virginia) – 4:02.85
- Ella Nelson (Virginia) – 4:02.93
- Lucy Bell (Stanford) – 4:04.26
- Paige Maceachern (UCLA) – 4:05.38
- Zoe Dixon (Florida) – 4:06.03
- Rosie Murphy (UCLA) – 4:06.23
- Lea Polonsky (Cal) – 4:06.51
- Kathryn Ackerman (Michigan) – 4:06.88
- Campbell Stoll (Texas) – 4:07.39
- Giulia Goerigk (Texas A&M) – 4:07.78
- Callahan Dunn (Wisconsin) – 4:07.98
- Nicole Maier (Miami (Ohio))/Angie Coe (Texas) – 4:08.14
It was a a lot smaller subject to begin our day without work than yesterday’s 500, so it solely took two heats to get to the circle-seeded ones. Posting the quickest time from these first two heats was Michigan’s Kathryn Ackerman with a time of 4:06.88. The Wolverine was simply 4th at Large-Tens with a time of 4:09.54 and put herself in place to doubtlessly make it again, as 4:09.61 was sixteenth final 12 months.
The primary of the circle-seeded heats was a younger affair with 4 freshmen. Stanford’s Caroline Bricker took over the lead within the backstroke however was surpassed by Florida’s Zoe Dixon by the point the breaststroke rolled round. Bricker used a robust breaststroke to outsplit the Gator by over a second in simply the primary 50 to take the lead. She was trailed by Minnesota’s Megan Van Berkom into the wall because the pair touched at 4:02.20 and 4:02.53, respectively.
Warmth 4 introduced expertise to the sphere, because it noticed final 12 months’s runner-up, Ella Nelson, and fourth-place finisher, Emma Weyant, dive in. The Gator held the lead by way of the midway level, however Nelson used a trademark robust breaststroke to shut the hole on Weyant with 1 / 4 of a second. Weyant, nonetheless, the runner-up within the 500, cleared the problem posed by Nelson and would win by a physique size in a time of 4:00.98. Nelson would maintain onto second place with a 4:02.93, and UCLA’s Rosie Murphy nabbed third in 4:06.
Alex Walsh confirmed off an impressively speedy entrance half, splitting 1:55.36, however actually took cost of the race within the breaststroke, opening up a two-body size lead over Stanford’s Lucy Bell and Cal’s Lea Polonsky. Walsh might have let up a bit of bit on the finish as she appeared to have determined to save lots of the legs for tonight, in the end touching in 4:02.85. Bell would contact second behind her in 4:04.26 and UCLA’s Paige Maceachern surged residence to steal third place in a time of 4:05.38.
100 BUTTERFLY – Prelims
High 16:
- Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 48.26 ***New Meet and Pool Report***
- Emma Sticklen (Texas) – 49.73
- Olivia Bray (Texas) – 50.33
- Kelly Pash (Texas) – 50.69
- Meghan Lee (Auburn)/ Olivia Peoples (Florida)- 50.85
- Gigi Johnson (Stanford) – 51.01
- Mia Kragh (Cal) – 51.07
- Abby Arens (NC State) – 51.10
- Ellie Vannote (UNC) – 51.14
- Christiana Regenauer (Louisville) – 51.17
- Lillie Nordmann (Stanford) – 51.26
- Giulia Carvalho (Miami (FL)) – 51.31
- Gabi Albiero (Louisville) – 51.32
- Equipment Kat Zenick (OSU) – 51.32
- Abby Daniel (Akron) – 51.34
The quickest time by way of the primary 5 heats had been put up by a pair of PAC-12 rivals. Caroline Well-known out-touched Morgan Brophy 51.48 to 51.49, with each knocking two-tenths off their seed instances. Their place atop the leaderboard didn’t final lengthy as within the subsequent warmth, Texas’s Kelly Pash swam a managed 50.69 and was joined beneath 51 by Auburn’s Megan Lee at 50.85.
Warmth 7 noticed Pash’s teammate Emma Sticklen dive-in. The 2023 runner-up used an incredible again half and underwater to nab the highest time up to now of 49.73 and to assert a brand new pool file with one warmth remaining. Peoples, the Florida “freestyle flier” grabbed second in 50.85.
Sticklen’s new pool file didn’t have time for the ink to dry as Gretchen Walsh posted a 48.26 to take lane 4 tonight. Is it improper to say that it was a little bit of a disappointing swim, as she solely broke the pool and meet file, and I don’t get to put in writing “New Every thing Report” once more? Nonetheless, the time represents the second-fastest efficiency ever, and she or he shows outstanding consistency in all the time being on high of her sport.
200 FREESTYLE – Prelims
- NCAA Report: 1:39.10, Missy Franklin (California) – 2015
- Meet Report: 1:39.10, Missy Franklin (California) – 2015
- American Report: 1:39.10, Missy Franklin (California) – 2015
- US Open Report: 1:39.10, Missy Franklin (California) – 2015
- Pool Report: 1:41.23, Missy Franklin (California) – 2014
- 2023 Champion: Taylor Ruck (Stanford) – 1:42.36
High 16:
- Anna Peplowski (Indiana) – 1:41.85
- Bella Sims (Florida) – 1:41.87
- Minna Abraham (USC) – 1:42.79
- Kayla Wilson (Stanford) – 1:42.88
- Aimee Canny (Virginia) – 1:42.89
- Camille Spink (Tennessee) – 1:42.91
- Isabel Ivey (Flordia) – 1:42.95
- Chloe Stepanek (Texas A&M) – 1:42.96
- Brooklyn Douthwright (Tennessee) – 1:42.99
- Stephanie Balduccini (Michigan) – 1:43.00
- Erin Gemmell (Texas) – 1:43.13
- Aurora Roghair (Stanford) – 1:43.35
- Amy Fulmer (OSU) – 1:43.57
- Ayla Spitz (Northwestern) – 1:43.73
- Paige Hetrick (Louisville) – 1:43.76
- Katelyn Crom (Michigan) – 1:43.78
OSU’s Amy Fulmer threw down a scintillating 1:43.57 to knock off almost 3/4 of a second off her seed time of 1:44.24 and to guide the sphere up by way of the beginning of the circle-seeded heats. Final 12 months 1:43.90 certified into the A-Last in eighth, and with 24 swimmers remaining, this occasion seems to be to be a lot sooner than final 12 months.
Isabel Ivey led a good warmth 6 as she was critically challenged by Texas A&M’s Chloe Stepanek and Texas’s Erin Gemmell. Ivey touched in 1:42.95, simply .01 forward of the Aggie Stepanek. Gemmell, who got here residence in 26.26, was simply on the opposite facet of 1:43, hitting the wall in 1:43.13.
Minna Abraham and Aimee Canny rebounded within the 200 after having off swims earlier within the week to publish the quickest two instances of the morning. Within the penultimate warmth, the pair touched in 1:42.79 and 1:42.89 however needed to work arduous during the last 50 to carry off the Tennesse pair of Camille Spink (1:42.91) and Brooklyn Douthwright (1:42.99).
There’s a cause why we swim within the pool and never on paper as there was a minor upset this morning as Indiana’s Peplowski outdueled Sims to take lane 4 tonight. Peplowski, who has been dropping time left and proper, touched in 1:41.85 however has already been as quick as 1:41.16 this week. Sims wasn’t too far behind and can search for some revenge tonight, as she completed simply .02 again at 1:41.87.
Is there a freestyle revolution occurring proper now? Natalie Mannion’s 1:43.90, which places her in seventeenth would have tied for eighth final 12 months within the prelims. sixteenth place final 12 months would have been simply twenty fifth 12 months.
100 BREASTSTROKE – Prelims
- NCAA Report: 55.73, Lilly King (Indiana) – 2019
- Meet Report: 55.73, Lilly King (Indiana) – 2019
- American Report: 55.73, Lilly King (Indiana) – 2019
- US Open Report: 55.73, Lilly King (Indiana) – 2019
Pool Report: 57.28, Breeja Larson (Texas A&M) – 2014- 2023 Champion: Lydia Jacoby (Texas) – 57.03
High 16:
- Mona McSharry (Tennessee) – 56.76 ***Pool Report***
- Jasmine Nocentini (Virginia) – 56.96
- Kaitlyn Dobler (USC) – 57.18
- Anna Elendt (Texas) – 57.50
- Hannah Bach (OSU) – 57.58
- Lydia Jacoby (Texas) – 57.96
- Josei Panitz (OSU) – 58.06
- Stasya Makarova (Auburn) – 58.15
- Emelie Quick (Tennessee) – 58.21
- Emma Weber (Virginia) – 58.57
- Avery Wiseman (Alabama) – 58.58
- Joleigh Crye (Cincinnati) – 58.61
- Skyler Smith (UNC) – 58.65
- Maddy Huggins (FSU) – 59.16
- Alessia Ferraguti (Arkansas) – 59.17
- Henrietta Fangli (Houston) – 59.23
Houston’s Henrietta Fangli led as much as the circle-seeded warmth with a 59.23 however could be shortly overtaken by a speedy 56.96 by Jasmine Nocentini. The UVA sprinter, who positioned third within the 50 free, dropped .05 off her seed to dip beneath 57 for the primary time this season. OSU confirmed off some depth as Hannah Bach and Josie Panitz completed behind the Cavalier at 57.58 and 58.06.
A duel of returning stars from final 12 months didn’t disappoint, as Kaitlyn Dobler and Anna Elendt went stroke for stroke however the USC Trojan would take the win, pulling forward to the touch at 57.18 to the Longhorn’s 57.50.
The final warmth noticed Mona McSharry take down the Pool file that was simply two heats outdated because the Woman Vol led from begin to end, hitting the wall in 56.76, over a second forward of final 12 months’s winner Jacoby (57.96). McSharru dropped .11 from her seed and private greatest and can look to enhance upon her runner-up end from final 12 months.
100 BACKSTROKE – Prelims
High 16:
- Katharine Berkoff (NC State) – 49.34 ***New Pool Report***
- Kacey McKenna (Indiana) – 50.23
- Josephine Fuller (Tennessee) – 50.25
- Isabelle Stadden (Cal) – 50.42
- Phoebe Bacon (Wisconsin) – 50.48
- Kennedy Noble (NC State) – 50.93
- Celia Pulido (SIU) – 50.98
- Miranda Grana (Texas A&M) – 50.99
- Caroline Well-known (USC) – 51.01
- Berit Berglund (Texas) – 51.14
- Eboni McCarty (Georgia) – 51.33
- Olivia Bray (Texas) – 51.39
- Reilly Tiltmann (Virginia)/ Nyah Funderburke (OSU) / Greer Pattison (UNC) – 51.43
- Emma Kern (Texas) – 51.55
Up by way of warmth 5, Akron’s Maddy Gatrall’s high time was 51.61. Final 12 months, 51.60 was sixteenth, so Gatrall is true on the bubble to doubtlessly make it again, however she must be pleased with dropping .45 from her seed. IU’s Kacey McKenna threw down in warmth 5 to blast a brand new high time, hitting the wall in 50.23, taking off .26 of a second from her seed. the Hoosier simply received the sphere profitable by almost a full second forward of Texas’s Berit Berglund.
McKenna would maintain onto the highest seed at the very least for the subsequent minute or in order Cal’s Isabelle Stadden and NC State’s Kennedy Noble dueled in warmth 6 to complete in 50.42 and 50.93, every including a few .10 of a second however ought to simply again the ultimate because the at present sit in 2nd and third.
The second consecutive occasion to see a pool file fall, Katharine Berkoff posted a speedy 49.34. Whereas she added .64 to her seed time, this occasion, within the absence of Gretchen Walsh, is hers to lose. Tennessee’s Josephine Fuller posted a brand new private greatest of fifty.25, taking .34 of her earlier greatest from SECs.
Having the swim of a lifetime #20 seed Celia Pulido surged into the A-final tonight dropping almost a full second to publish the seventh quickest time this morning at 50.98. The Southern Illinois Saluki’s earlier greatest stood at 51.82.