Day three of the NCAA Division 1 Women's Swimming and Diving Championship – Preview
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship will continue with the event’s day three on March 19, at the University of Texas, in Austin.
Day three of the championship will include the events of the 1,650yard freestyle, 200yard backstroke, 100yard freestyle, 200yard breaststroke, 200yard butterfly and 400yard freestyle relay.
The session’s first event will be the 1650yard freestyle, which includes Southern Cali’s Haley Anderson with the top qualification time of 15:48.64 minutes. She is followed by Towson’s senior, Meredith Budner and Georgia’s junior, Wendy Trott in a time of
15:52.05 and 15:53.24 minutes, respectively. Duke’s Ashley Twichell is in the fourth place with a qualification time of 15:54.15 minutes.
The next event of the Championship will be the 200yard backstroke that has Florida’s Elizabeth Beisel as the top qualifier in a time of 1:51.55 minutes. She is followed by Wisconsin’s senior, Margaret Meyer in a close time of 1:55.59 minutes and another
Florida Gator, Teresa Crippen in a time of 1:51.71 minutes.
The next three finishers have qualified between 1:52.01 and 1:52.71 minutes. Missouri’s Dominique Bouchard is fourth fastest qualifier in 1:52.02 minutes, followed by Stanford’s Madeline Dirado and Southern Cali’s Presely Bard in 1:52.04 and 1:52.70 minutes,
respectively. The event will be a fierce battle between Beisel and Crippen, as Beisel finished just before Crippen at the SEC Championships.
The third event of the day will be the 100yard freestyle, where Arianna Vanderpool Wallace is the fastest swimmer to qualify in a time of 46.81 seconds. Georgia’s senior, Morgan Scroggy, Virginia’s Lauren Perdue, Louisiana’s Amanda Kendall and Karlee Bispo
will be in a battle for the second position. Vanderpool seems to be in a comfortable position to win the title, as she has a lead of almost one second.
Next will be the 200yard breast-stroke in which Cal Berkeley’s Caitlin Leverenz is the top qualifier in a time of 2:06.55 minutes. There will be a battle for second position between Minnesota’s Jillian Tyler, Texas’s Laura Sogar and Haley Spencer who have
qualified in a time of 2:07.11, 2:07.43 and 2:07.61 minutes, respectively. Leverenz being one second faster from her following competitors will not be facing any trouble in occupying the title for the event.
Southern Cali’s Katinka Hosszu and Lyndsay De Paul are the top two fastest swimmers for the 200yard butterfly. Hosszu qualified in a time of 1:51.02 minutes in contrast to her team-member’s 1:52.79, whereas, the third place faces a battle between Texas A&M’s
Natalie Adams and Florida’s Teresa Crippen, who have a time of 1:53.66 and 1:53.95 minutes, respectively.
The final event of the championship will be the 400yard freestyle relay. The title of the event faces a close fight between the teams of Auburn and Cal Berkeley, who have qualified in a time of 3:13.03 and 3:13.59 minutes, respectively. The same scenario
is seen for the third spot between Stanford and Georgia, who qualified in a time of 3:13.84 and 3:13.89 minutes, respectively.
Tags: