2022 NCAA Women’s Division I Championships: Day 2 Prelims Heat Sheets
The heat sheets have been released for the Day 2 prelims of the 2022 NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta.
The events on the docket are the 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley, 50 freestyle and 1-meter diving. There will be eight heats of the 500 freestyle to start Thursday’s prelims session.
The NCAA top seed is Penn’s Lia Thomas, who will be in Lane 4 in the final race of the event. Her seed time is 4:34.06. Next to her will be Stanford’s Brooke Forde. Arizona State’s Emma Nordin has Lane 4 in the seventh heat and will be next to Virginia’s Emma Weyant. Texas has Erica Sullivan and Evie Pfeifer in that seventh heat.
The NCAA 200 IM is next with 10 heats. Defending champion Alex Walsh has the top seed at 1:52.38 and will go head-to-head with Cal’s Isabel Ivey in the final heat. Stanford freshman Torri Huske has the second seed and will be in Lane 4 of the ninth heat. All three are off to strong starts at the NCAA Championships with strong relay splits on Day 1.
The final individual NCAA swimming event of the morning is the 50 freestyle. The event will have nine heats and the last three are loaded with top sprinters.
The overall top seed is Virginia junior Kate Douglass (21.00) and will be in Lane 4 of the ninth heat. Teammate Gretchen Walsh (21.04) will be in Lane 4 in the eighth heat, while Michigan’s Maggie Mac Neil (21.32) will be in Lane 4 of the seventh heat, possibly setting up a remarkable showdown in the finals.
Douglass and Mac Neil had several battles for NCAA titles last year, and this could be the next chapter in their friendly rivalry.