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NCAA Women’s Championships: Day Three Prelims to Set Up Intense Friday Night (Heat Sheet)
After Virginia won all four swimming titles on Thursday night at the NCAA Women’s Championships, the swimmers will return to the pool Friday morning for a prelims session that features five individual events, the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke. Qualifying for three-meter springboard diving will follow after the session.
Check out the full heat sheet for the session here.
In the 400 IM, defending champion Brooke Forde of Stanford will be the top seed, but she will be challenged by 200 IM winner and American-record-setter Alex Walsh of Virginia. The event also features Cavaliers Emma Weyant, the Olympic silver medalist in the 400-meter IM, and Ella Nelson, last year’s NCAA runnerup.
The top three swimmers in the 100 fly are all seeded under 50 seconds and swimming in separate heats: Stanford’s Torri Huske, Michigan’s Maggie Mac Neil and Virginia’s Kate Douglass. Penn’s Lia Thomas will return to the pool for the 200 free, where she is the top seed, but Cal’s Isabel Ivey now owns the top time in the country after an impressive 800 free relay leadoff leg Wednesday.
NC State swimmers are the defending champions in the day’s final two events, the 100 breast and 100 back. Sophie Hansson is seeded on top of the 100 breast field ahead of Alexis Wenger, Kaitlyn Dobler and Anna Elendt. In the 100 back, however, Katharine Berkoff is seeded just behind American-record holder Regan Smith, while Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh has also been under 50 this season.
The session will begin at 10 a.m. ET, and three-meter diving will commence at 12:30 p.m.
