2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Championship: NC State’s Sophie Hansson Takes 100 Breaststroke Top Seed
The 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships continued with the second preliminary session of the meet on Friday.
Friday’s prelim events are the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 free, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and 3-meter diving. The relays are all timed finals and will take place during the finals session.
Virginia leads the meet after winning the 800 free relay on opening night of the NCAA Championships, then claiming all three individual titles on Day 2, while also taking runner-up in both relays. The Cavaliers have plenty of fire power in today’s events as well.
NCAA Championships: Women’s 100 Breaststroke
This event has been completely dominated by Indiana’s Lilly King in recent years. She is the NCAA and American record holder at 55.73 and swept the titles the past four championships. It is an event that has seen several repeat winners with Texas A&M’s Breeja Larson winning three from 2012-14, Rebecca Soni and Jessica Hardy each winning two, Stanford’s Tara Kirk sweeping all four from 2001-04 and Georgia’s Kristy Kowal winning three from 1998-2000. Repeat titles also happened with Beata Kaszuba, Stephanie Zunich and Tracey McFarlane of Texas, who actually won three in a four-year span from 1985-88. Georgia’s Zoie Hartman (57.40) and NC State’s Sophie Hansson (57.45) are in the top seven performers all time coming into the meet.
NC State’s Sophie Hansson became the first non-Virginia swimmer of the day to earn a top seed in an individual event.
Hansson, a junior, put together an extremely strong 100 breaststroke to take the top seed in 57.67.
She was the only swimmer under 58 seconds.
Tennessee freshman Mona McSharry took the second seed in 58.16, followed by Ohio State sophomore Hannah Bach (58.21) and USC freshman Kaitlyn Dobler (58.22).
Virginia had one in the top eight with junior Alexis Wenger taking the fifth seed in 58.33, ahead of Georgia sophomore Zoie Hartman (58.49).
Northwestern senior Sophie Angus and NC State junior Andrea Podmanikova tied for the seventh seed at 58.59.
NCAA Championships: top 16
Event 11 Women 100 Yard Breaststroke ================================================================== NCAA: N 55.73 3/22/2019 Lilly King, Indiana Meet: M 55.73 3/22/2019 Lilly King, Indiana American: A 55.73 3/22/2019 Lilly King, Indiana US Open: O 55.73 3/22/2019 Lilly King, Indiana Pool: P 57.45 2/19/2021 Sophie Hansson, NC State Name Year School Seed Prelims ================================================================== === Preliminaries === 1 Hansson, Sophie JR NC State 57.45 57.67 r:+0.71 27.33 57.67 (30.34) 2 McSharry, Mona FR Tennessee 57.82 58.16 r:+0.65 27.35 58.16 (30.81) 3 Bach, Hannah SO Ohio St 58.29 58.21 r:+0.64 27.21 58.21 (31.00) 4 Dobler, Kaitlyn FR USC 57.71 58.22 r:+0.63 27.48 58.22 (30.74) 5 Wenger, Alexis JR Virginia 57.60 58.33 r:+0.60 27.56 58.33 (30.77) 6 Hartman, Zoie SO Georgia 57.40 58.49 r:+0.82 27.84 58.49 (30.65) 7 Angus, Sophie SR Northwestern 58.89 58.59 r:+0.67 27.70 58.59 (30.89) 7 Podmanikova, Andrea JR NC State 58.10 58.59 r:+0.69 27.85 58.59 (30.74) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Brunzell, Hannah SO Northwestern 59.23 58.63 r:+0.76 27.57 58.63 (31.06) 10 Calegan, Olivia SR NC State 59.17 58.88 r:+0.69 27.37 58.88 (31.51) 10 Elendt, Anna FR Texas 58.06 58.88 r:+0.74 27.95 58.88 (30.93) 12 Rajic, Ema JR California 58.45 58.96 r:+0.69 27.74 58.96 (31.22) 13 Raab, Allie JR Stanford 58.74 58.97 r:+0.68 27.95 58.97 (31.02) 14 Wheeler, Kaylee JR Louisville 58.74 59.04 r:+0.66 27.70 59.04 (31.34) 15 Peplowski, Noelle JR Indiana 59.66 59.10 r:+0.73 27.82 59.10 (31.28) 16 Thormalm, Klara SR San Diego St 59.14 59.16 r:+0.77 27.60 59.16 (31.56)