SO cannot find it anywhere live that I have access to, so just looking at the kind of live results of the ladies Div 1. So far after day 2 is eventually over, looks like Florida may have the lead against heavy favorite Virginia. Florida is swimming over their heads for sure, Virginia doing what they do, but a few swimmers missing the finals they may have thought they would be in…
I dont know a ton about womens NCAA, but is this a possible upset in the making? I see Berkoff jumped on the medley relay by just a hair and cost her team 3rd place I believe. That’s a crushing blow when you only have a few swimmers and your team depends on those big relay points. Gretchen Walsh is on fire for Virginia, swam the fastest ever 50 back in the relay(but counts as flat start) of 22.1. She is going to have a really big meet it looks like, but with so few swims per person, you really need a big team to back you up…Lots of olympic hopefuls in this meet too, more than the men I bet…
We are hosting the D3 champs here in Greensboro. This morning lead off relay for Kenyon lady lost her goggles. They fell to the B final tonight while Dennison took 2nd. Tonight Kenyon would have placed 4th but since B final only 9th place points. That may end up being the difference by Sat night. Crazy how close some of these team battles turn into.
I’m pretty sure this is still UVA’s meet to lose. Florida obviously is swimming really well. But I think UVA’s depth will prevail. And when you have 2 swimmers that likely will win all 3 of their individual events in a championship format, you are hard to beat.
For sure the depth will matter, but I just looked over a couple events for tomorrow and Florida has a couple swimmers that can make finals, and in the 200 free they crush Virginia. Of course they won the 4x200 relay, so not surprising. It really comes down to who can eeek their way into the finals, and then who swims over their heads to get bodies in the B final. Looks to me if Florida has another good day tomorrow, they would still maybe hold the lead. And I dont think anyone thought that was possible, some great races coming up!!!
UVA is up by 47.5 points after tonight. Florida’s 200 free lineup is definitely strong. Barring a fiasco, I would still expect UVA to be up after tomorrow.
Edit: we can expect a few swimmers to miss the A and B finals that shouldn’t. Happens every year and some just have a poor prelims swim and just miss it. We’ll see if that affects the final outcome.
Where are you getting the results, because the page I posted only is giving the 200IM for todays finals. Not sure why, all events are in the can, just cannot see them. A reliable link would be much appreciated…
Ya I just saw the final 200 free relay results, Florida choked big time. If they just do their entered time or a few 100ths faster than it, they get 4th instead of 10th, a 16 point swing. Those are the places a team really need to capitalize on to do well overall, but man those relays were close, 3rd to 9th only .6 seconds apart…
It’s funny that’s what happened this morning. I was talking with the Kenyon coach 5 mins after it happened, and all you can do is shrug and move on. These are college kids, shit happens, all you can do is move on, but it’s wild the smallest of “oh shit” moments can have that type of impact (damn goggles fall off on the opening dive). And then of course you see the heart break on their faces, they know they “fucked up”. They came back tonight and finished 9th in B to get max points for what they could, but in the D3 race, it was also going to be basically a 16 point swing. They trail Dennison by 32 points after day 2.
Where are you getting the results, because the page I posted only is giving the 200IM for todays finals. Not sure why, all events are in the can, just cannot see them. A reliable link would be much appreciated…
DII Nationals were last weekend. Those Colorado Mesa women finished second as a team, highest placing ever. Well done Coach Wender. My advisee is a repeat multi-national title holder AND the DII men’s swimmer of the year (again). He’s also qualified for the Trials this summer. #RumbleMavs
So looks like the real battle will be for 2nd between Texas and Florida. Looked ahead to future events, and both teams have strong prospects in different events. Virginia is putting more distance between, but not as much as I think the pre meet calculations predicted. Some really great swims by our olympic hopefuls, lots of PR’s and some records. Trials is going to be brutal having to be top 2 in most events, really have to be on full form for that meet…
Gretchen Walsh split a 48.2 lead off in the 400 medley relay tonight. Faster than any fly split of any other team. Oh and she would have won the individual event with that time.
To be clear in case any non-swimmers come sneaking around… that means her 100 backstroke leadoff in the 400 Medley Relay was faster than anyone’s* 100 butterfly individually.
Gretchen Walsh split a 48.2 lead off in the 400 medley relay tonight. Faster than any backstroke split of any other team. Oh and she would have won the individual event with that time.
I kind of feel sorry for Katharine Berkoff as she has to suspect that she only won the 100 back b/c Gretchen chose to swim the 100 fly. (I know, I know you can only race whoever shows up. :)) Further, it is pretty incredible that Gretchen holds the 100 yd American Record (AR) in 3 out of the 4 strokes: fly, back, and free, plus of course the 50 free AR. She is an amazing talent but her older sister Alex is pretty great also.
I kind of feel sorry for Katharine Berkoff as she has to suspect that she only won the 100 back b/c Gretchen chose to swim the 100 fly//
Well if that makes you feel sorry, how about just about every dude except the 50 sprinters and Leon Marchand?? Dude could win most every event in the program, certainly would podium all the ones he didnt win. And who knows, maybe even a podium in the 50 free too, guy who goes such a fast 50 breast can probably bust out an 18+…
I kind of feel sorry for Katharine Berkoff as she has to suspect that she only won the 100 back b/c Gretchen chose to swim the 100 fly//
Well if that makes you feel sorry, how about just about every dude except the 50 sprinters and Leon Marchand?? Dude could win most every event in the program, certainly would podium all the ones he didn’t win. And who knows, maybe even a podium in the 50 free too, guy who goes such a fast 50 breast can probably bust out an 18+…
For sure, we can talk about that next week during the Men’s NCAAs. For tonight’s finals, the same situation exists with the women’s 200 fly: Alex Walsh has the AR by about 2 sec over the other entries, but she chose to swim the 200 breast where she is the top seed.
Getting close, after 200 back Texas is only 16pts ahead of Florida, and they kind of choked that race. Had 3 finalists who all underperformed in the final. Texas has a huge line up in the 200 fly, but Fla has a few more in the other events. May come down to relay, Fla has a possible scoring diver too…
Wish I could have seen that 200 back too, probably really hard to know who actually won between the top 3…
Great swim by Ivey from Fla in the 100 free to get 3rd, a 2 point difference now for 2nd and 3rd. Virginia is doing their thing, dominating the meet now with so many making A and B finals…
