NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships: Day three – Swimming News
Day three of the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships is set to commence at the Allan Jones Aquatic Centre in Knoxville, Tennesse.
Until now, Kenyon has a clear lead of 258 points ahead of Denison’s 217 points, while the championship will conclude tomorrow after the completion of all swimming and diving events.
Today’s first session will include the preliminary rounds of the 200-yard butterfly, 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard breast-stroke and 800-yard freestyle relay for the Men’s and Women’s events. Moreover, the second session will conclude with the finals of
the same events.
The session will start with the Women’s 200-yard butterfly, where Kenyon’s senior Hannah Saiz is the fastest participant appearing in the preliminary rounds with her timing of 2:01.27 minutes. She is only a few micro seconds ahead of the current record holder
for the same event, Williams’s Logan Todhunter, who had a participation time of 2:01.64 minutes this year, while she made the record last year in 1:57.46 minutes. They are followed by Emory’s freshman, Laura Manor, who has a time of 2:02.96 minutes.
In the Men’s corner, the equivalent event is expected to be conquered by Stevens’s John Hu, who has clocked 1:48.90 minutes to make an appearance in the preliminary rounds. Hu is followed by two of Emory’s swimmers, Patrick Augustyn and Mackenzie Perry,
who have a time of 1:48.93 and 1:49.60 minutes, respectively.
The next event will be the Women’s 100-yard backstroke, which is expected to be dominated by Hamilton’s freshman, Margaret Rosenbaum, who has clocked a time of 55.70 seconds this year. IWU’s Andrea Peterson and Johns Hopkins’s Taylor Kitayama are expected
to be the second and third fastest qualifiers for the final in a time of 55.74 and 55.81 seconds, respectively.
In the Men’s event, 34 swimmers will race with each other in the 100-yard backstroke to qualify for the final. These swimmers will be accommodated in four heats and Denison’s Robert Barry is the most favourite swimmer to proceed to the finals as the fastest
swimmer, as he has a time of 49.36 seconds. His time is slightly ahead of his following swimmers, Connecticut’s Timothy Walsh and Emory’s Ross Spock, who have an entrance time of 49.43 and 49.47 seconds, respectively.
In the Women’s 100-yard breast-stroke, Grinnell’s freshman, Imelda Wistey, is set to qualify as the fastest swimmer into the finals but she faces a tough competition from Emory’s April Whitley and Denison’s Ksenia Golovkina, as Wistey has a time of 1:02.55
minutes against Whitley’s 1:02.86 and Golovkina’s 1:02.91 minutes.
On the other hand, the equivalent event is expected to be dominated by Whitworth’s junior, Rory Buck, who has a time of 55.83 seconds. Staten Island’s Pavel Buyanov and Emory’s Peter O’ Brien are strong contenders for the second and third fastest qualification
spots with 55.84 and 56.11 seconds, respectively.
In the Women’s 800-yard freestyle relay, the teams of Denison, Emory, Kenyon, Johns Hopkins and Amherst are the top five contenders to qualify for the finals. Denison has a clear fastest qualification time of 7:27.33 minutes, ahead of the Emory’s 7:30.16,
Kenyon’s 7:31.16, John Hopkins’s 7:32.25 and Amherst’s 7:33.75 minutes. In 2009, Emory set the record for the event in a time of 7:21.05.
The last event of the session will be the Men’s 800-yard freestyle relay heats, where once again Denison is the top contender for the fastest qualification into the finals with a time of 6:42.45 minutes. Kenyon and Amherst are expected to follow Denison
as the second and third fastest teams in a time of 6:42.87 and 6:43.54 minutes, respectively.
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