Sunday, March 18, 2018

Short notes about the NCAA Division I women's swimming championships


While a great majority of sports watchers are watching the first round of the NCAA basketball championships (men and women, hopefully), a few of us watched -- or will watch -- the NCAA D1 women's swimming championships.

Reviewing the results, the swimmer of the meet was either Ella Eastin of Stanford or Lilly King of Indiana.  Both of them set national records (as well as meet, pool, U.S. Open, and NCAA) in their two individual events.  Eastin did it in the 200 and 400 IM (where second place was Katie Ledecky), while King did it in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.  All of these are short-course yards records.

Ledecky won the 500 and 1650, and was also on the winning 800 freestyle relay, but no records. Considering the level at which she set the records, that's understandable.

Stanford nearly doubled the point total of the second-place team, so no drama there.

Simone Manuel of Stanford won the 50 and 100 freestyle in pool records.  Her 50 freestyle was 0.01 second off her national record, so still pretty good.

I'll see if I can find a couple of videos of the national record swims.

Eastin in action below.





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