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

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...

Is the women's senior class of 2015 one of the best of all-time in the sport of swimming? In the fall of 2014 when the seniors were committing (because back then, swimmers waited until they were seniors to commit), the class was definitely stacked. But nobody knew how stacked the class really was. T...

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....

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...

After spending hours at the hospital the night before, Abbey Weitzeil arrived at the pool early on Saturday, knowing no matter what happened, it would be a difficult and painful day. The Cal junior was determined to push through the pain. Weitzeil did more than push through the pain of her elbow inj...

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...

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved allowing the option of video review to determine whether 15-meter violations were called accurately in men’s and women’s swimming on Wednesday. The rule is optional and will go in effect in the 2019-20 school year. The rule will be used during the regu...

Indiana senior Lilly King won her fourth straight 200 breaststroke title on Saturday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with a 2:02.90. King just missed her NCAA and American Record of 2:02.60 that she set last season. King held off a hard charge from Texas A...

Stanford junior Ella Eastin won the CSCAA swimmer of the meet award after winning the 200 IM, 400 IM and the 200 fly, as well as swimming on the winning 800 free and 400 free relays. Eastin crushed the American and NCAA records in the 200 and 400 IM as the junior has won a total of seven individual ...

When the familiar voice of swimming announcer Sam Kendrick called out that Stanford had won the NCAA title in the 800 free relay, everyone looked at the board to see their winning time of 6:47.22. Everybody except Stanford anchor Brooke Forde, who continued to swim an extra 50. Better to be safe tha...

Friday night's session of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships was a pivotal one in the team standings with the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back and 200 medley relay on the heat sheets. Heat Sheets Live Results Live Stream PDF Results Stanford's Ella East...

In one of the most hyped races of the meet, Louisville senior Mallory Comerford won her third straight NCAA title in the 200 free on Friday night at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Comerford swam a 1:40.26 to run down Stanford freshman Taylor Ruck (1:40.37) and Michiga...

Wisconsin junior Beata Nelson, fresh off the second fastest 200 IM ever last night, came back Friday night at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with a new NCAA American Record in the 100 back. Nelson swam a 49.18, lowering her NCAA record of 49.67 from the Texas Invite in...

The NCAA Swimming and Diving Rules Committee is considering a new rule that would allow officials to use video review for 15-meter violations, according to an NCAA release. If approved, the rule would be in effect in Division I in the 2019-20 school year during the regular season as well as the conf...

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. ...

Indiana senior Lilly King won her fourth straight NCAA title in the 100 breaststroke on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. King reflected on her four year journey to this moment and how much she has learned along the way. She said she...

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...

Louisville senior Mallory Comerford won her third straight 200 free on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Despite tying Katie Ledecky in 2017 and taking down Simone Manuel last year, Comerford said this year was the hardest one. Comerford talked on Fr...

Stanford sophomore Brooke Forde won her very first individual NCAA title in the 500 free on Thursday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with a 4:31.34 to move up to fifth all-time in the event. Forde anchored Stanford's 800 free relay on Wednesday night in Au...

Indiana senior Lilly King won her fourth straight NCAA title in the 100 breast with a new American Record of 55.73 as King became just the second woman to win four NCAA titles in the 100 breast. King lowered her American Record she set last month at Big Tens when she broke 56 for the first time in h...