2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships - (Tag)

Nerves can be detrimental to a swimmer. There is a lot of time behind the blocks that can allow doubt or nerves to overcome even the most talented swimmers. Taylor Ruck embraces the nervousness. It is something that pushes her. “I usually get really nervous for meets, especially the bigger they get,...

The full list of diver qualifiers for the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships has been announced with 42 women and 35 men advancing to Austin, Texas. Purdue and Stanford have three qualifiers on the women's side as Purdue and Miami have three on the men's side. S...

Stanford won the team title with 593 points ahead of second place Cal with 373. The 220 point differential is the third highest in history. 1985: Texas 643, Florida, 200 1993: Stanford 649.5, Florida, 421 2018: Stanford, 593, Cal, 373 2002: Auburn, 536, Georgia, 373 Stanford also became the third te...

The 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships have come to a close with the Stanford Cardinal winning their third straight team title in a nail biter with Pac-12 rival Cal. Because of strict copyright rules, race videos at finals are hard to come by because of ESPN holding the b...

The 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships will begin this week in Austin, Texas. The Stanford Cardinal are looking to win their third straight team title this week with conference rival Cal nipping at their heels. The team title is expected to come down between Stanford and ...

USC junior Louise Hansson won her second NCAA title of the meet on Saturday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. Hansson swam a 1:50.28 and held off a hard charging Ella Eastin (1:50.46) of Stanford as she was going for her third straight win ...

The 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships will begin this week in Austin, Texas. The Stanford Cardinal are looking to win their third straight team title this week. Stanford will have its hands full with California this week as the Golden Bears are heavy favorites to win all...

Currently the NCAA Championship Rules do not allow for an appeal, peer confirmation, or review process on disqualifications that are classified as “judgement calls”. Judgement calls are rulings where an official has the authority to disqualify a swimmer or relay for any number of stroke infractions....

By David Rieder. Swimmers often define themselves by the events that they swim. “I’m a backstroker,” one might say to another, who would then reply, “I’m a breaststroker,” or “I’m a 400 IMer.” But throughout her swimming life, Katie Drabot has had a hard time fitting into one of those categories. Dr...

The final night of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships saw two new NCAA records fall on Saturday night in Austin, Texas with Wisconsin's Beata Nelson breaking the 200 back record and Cal's 400 free relay breaking the record as well. Stanford Cardinal won their third st...

It isn’t surprising that a freshman from Canada has become one of the fastest swimmers in the NCAA. After all, Stanford’s Taylor Ruck was an Olympian and Pan Pacific champion before starting college. But Ruck isn’t the only freshman phenom from Canada tearing up the NCAA lanes. Michigan’s Maggie Mac...

The 2019 NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships featured American and NCAA Records, historic ends to collegiate careers and a Stanford Cardinal three-peat as team champions. With all the glory came a series of unexpected events as well — a tough disqualification on Michigan's Siobhan Haughe...

In four years of coaching Lilly King at Indiana, Ray Looze can remember two occasions when King cried. The first came a few months after King won Olympic gold in the 100 breast, when the post-Games letdown and the prospect of establishing a new normal in life became too much for the then-19-year-old...

When Amy Bilquist and Abbey Weitzeil chose Cal, they knew national-championship performances were in their future. The duo has been part of a handful of relay titles, but there was always the sense that their best was still ahead. There was always an injury or something in the way of their best indi...

Louisville senior Mallory Comerford won her second title of the meet in the 100 free on Saturday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. About 24 hours after winning the 200 free, Comerford ran down Arkansas' Anna Hopkin to take her fourth NCAA t...

The pre-selection psych sheet for the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships have been released. The official psych sheet will be released on Wednesday. The line for the cut-off is usually around 36th or 37th place. Swimming World will publish the official psych sheet when it...

Texas senior diver Murphy Bromberg capped off her collegiate career Saturday night with a victory on the platform at the women's NCAA championships. Bromberg missed two full seasons with injury before returning to place second on platform in 2018 and then capture this championship in her home pool. ...

Mallory Comerford vividly remembers the moment she realized she had reached a truly elite level in swimming. Her good friend and Louisville teammate Kelsi Dahlia was one lane over. In the same pool where she had shocked the country by tying with Katie Ledecky for the 200 free NCAA title three months...

Penn State's Ally McHugh captured her first NCAA title Saturday evening in the 1500 free, touching in 15:39.22 to beat runner-up Molly Kowal by more than five seconds. Afterwards, McHugh discussed finishing her collegiate career with that victory, and she explained in an interview why her senior yea...

When Delaney Duncan finished fourth at last year’s NCAA Championships, it was a big deal for the Mid-American Conference and mid-majors across the country. But the Eastern Michigan swimmer wasn’t finished. Duncan stunningly surged to second place (57.83) behind Indiana’s Lilly King, who set the Amer...