2024 WOMEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The official psych sheets for the 2024 NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships have been launched Wednesday, together with the minimize line, eligible relays, and an inventory of alternates ought to there be any scratches.
The competitors is scheduled for March 20-23 in Athens, Georgia on the College of Georgia pool.
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SwimSwam’s projected cutline from Tuesday was proper on because the cutline fell in the midst of line 37, larger than final yr’s line 39.
The Virginia ladies initially had 19 swimmers projected to make the meet. With a roster restrict of 18, the staff has eliminated Maddie Donohoe from their roster. This moved Michigan’s Kathryn Shanley in for the 1650 freestyle.
The staff might also have one other determination to make after Zone Diving as Lizzie Kaye was seventeenth on each springboards eventually yr’s NCAA Championship. If the staff have been to drop one other swimmer to make room for her, as a result of that’s after the invite lists are out, then Belyakov from Duke would get in.
Earlier than official invite lists are launched, when swimmers are eliminated/scratched, they “transfer up” all the opposite swimmers of their respective occasions. After the invitations, swimmers start to be chosen from the alternate listing. If Virginia scratches a swimmer to permit room for diving, Duke’s Catherine Belyakov shall be chosen from the listing of alternates.
OFFICIAL ALTERNATES LIST
- Catherine Belyakov, Duke 200 IM 1:57.05
- Emma Atkinson, Virginia Tech 200 again 1:54.08
- Ela Noble, Princeton 50 free 22.13
- Lexie Mulvihill, Auburnm 50 free 22.13
- Casey Caffrey, Northern Arizona 1650 free 16:15.27
- Elizaveta Klevanovich, Auburn 100 free 48.37
- Erin Dawson, Colorado State 400 IM 4:11.13
- Jessica Maeda, Denver 200 breast 2:09.75
- Mackenzie Brandt, Alabama 500 free 4:41.31
- Brooke Travis, NC State 1650 free 16:15.76
TOP SEEDS BY EVENT:
- 200 medley relay – Ohio State, 1:33.47
- 800 free relay – Virginia, 6:46.28
- 500 free – Bella Sims, Florida, 4:32.53
- 200 IM – Alex Walsh, Virginia, 1:51.76
- 50 free – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia, 20.57
- 200 free relay – Virginia, 1:23.63
- 400 IM – Alex Walsh, Virginia, 4:00.52
- 100 fly – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia, 48.25
- 200 free – Bella Sims, Florida, 1:40.90
- 100 breast – Mona McSharry, Tennessee, 56.87
- 100 again – Katharine Berkoff, NC State, 48.70
- 400 medley relay – Virginia, 3:22.49
- 1650 free – Abby McCulloh, Georgia, 15:40.96
- 200 again – Bella Sims, Florida, 1:49.04
- 100 free – Gretchen Walsh, Virginia, 45.16
- 200 breast – Alex Walsh, Virginia, 2:02.24
- 200 fly – Emma Sticklen, Texas, 1:50.31
- 400 free relay – Virginia, 3:07.34
Choice course of
1. 35 of the lads’s spots and 41 of the ladies’s spots are put aside for divers, who qualify for the meet at zone competitions nearer the NCAA Championships. That leaves 235 males’s spots and 281 for the ladies.
2. Each ‘A’ minimize put up this season is added.
3. The following quickest swimmers in every occasion are added till each occasion has the identical variety of entries. For instance, if the 50 free have been to have probably the most ‘A’ cuts of any occasion with 10, then each different occasion would get swimmers with the highest 10 quickest instances in.
4. Lastly, one entry is added to every occasion to maintain the entries per occasion even. This course of is repeated till all the swimming spots (235 for males, 281 for girls) are crammed. Needless to say as extra rows are added, swimmers will begin to double and triple up. The #1 seed within the 200 again could be the #15 seed within the 100 again – because the fifteenth row of swimmers is added to every occasion, she’ll be added to the 100 again listing, however gained’t take up one other one of many 281 invite spots, as she already has her official invite.
5. The ultimate row of swimmers added gained’t come out precisely even. Within the closing row, the swimmers with entry instances closest to the NCAA ‘A’ minimize will get added first, and when the 235th man or 281st lady is added, the method stops. So the 100 fly might have 38 ladies and the 200 fly 39 ladies – that may imply the thirty ninth 200 flyer was nearer to the NCAA ‘A’ minimize than the thirty ninth 100 flyer and due to this fact gained the ‘tie-breaker’ for the ultimate spot.
