NCAA Division 1 Women's Swimming and Diving Championship: Day two – Preview
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship will conduct day two on March 18, in Austin, Texas. The championship will have the events of the 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard Individual Medley, 100-yard
butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breast-stroke, 100-yard back-stroke and the 800-yard freestyle relay.
Day two will begin with the 200-yard medley relay, which will display a close combat among the top seven teams, as they all have timed between 1:35.61 and 1:36.99 minutes. Like the 400-yard medley relay, Cal Berkeley is also the fastest team for the 200-yard
event in a time of 1:35.62 minutes followed by Auburn and Texas A&M in the second and third spots in 1:36.11 and 1:36.62 minutes, respectively. Wisconsin is next on the table in 1:36.68 minutes ahead of Arizona in 1:36.90 minutes, Louisiana in 1:36.91 minutes
and Texas on the seventh spot in 1:36.98 minutes. Although California is not in a comfortable winning position like they have in the 400-yard IM event, but they still have a lead over Auburn.
The second event of the day will be the 400-yard Individual Medley, which will be one of the most crucial meets of the session. The event is expected to be dominated by the 200-yard IM’s favourite swimmer, Katinka Hosszu, in a time of 4:00.03 minutes against
her rival, Elizabeth Beisel’s time of 4:00.83 minutes. There will also be a fight for the third spot between Stanford’s Madeline Dirado and Cal Berkeley’s Caitlin Leverenz, who have qualified in a time of 4:02.48 and 4:02.72 minutes, respectively.
The third event of the championship will be the 100-yard butterfly event, which has Southern California’s Lyndsay De Paul as the top qualifying swimmer in a time of 51.34 seconds. She is followed by the Cal Berkeley’s Amanda Sims in a fighting time of 51.64
seconds, a timing exactly tied with Tennessee’s Jennifer Connolly. Both swimmers are followed by Claire Donahue and Auburn’s junior, Arianna Vanderpool Wallace, in 51.95 and 51.98 seconds, respectively.
The fourth event of the day will be the 200-yard freestyle, which has the fastest four qualifiers between 1:42.46 and 1:43.94 minutes and the next ten swimmers posting a time under 1:44.95 minutes. The fastest qualifier for the swim is Morgan Scroggy in
1:42.46 minutes, followed by Texas Karlee Bispo in 1:43.43 minutes, Virginia’s Lauren Perdue in 1:43.73 minutes and Indiana’s Brittany Strumbel in 1:43.93 minutes. Undoubtedly, Scroggy, with her timing and spirit is the hot favourite swimmer to reach at the
top of podium.
The fifth event of the evening will be the 100-yard breast-stroke, which has the top four qualifiers under the 59.00 seconds mark. Minnesota’s Jillian Tyler is the fastest in 58.08 seconds, followed by Texas Laura Sogar, Arizona’s Rebecca Ejdervik and Louisiana’s
Jane Trepp in 58.83, 58.90 and 58.94 seconds, respectively.
The next event of the day will be the 100-yard back-stroke, which could be the best event of the session with the presence of national champion, Cindy Tran, at the top of the list in 51.22 seconds. She is followed by Jennifer Connolly in 51.39 seconds and
Wisconsin’s Margaret Meyer in 51.66 seconds.
The last event of the session will be the 800-yard freestyle relay, which is expected to be dominated by Georgia, who has a qualifying time of 6:53.58 minutes ahead of last year’s champions, Florida, in 6:59.10 minutes. Cal Berkeley is the third fastest
qualifier in a time of 7:00.75 minutes.
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