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

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...

Who were the best women's swimmers in the 2018-19 season? As the school year is winding down for most of the country, it is time to look at who were the best swimmers this season. Back in September, Swimming World ranked the best NCAA Division I women's swimmers from 1-25 as a "pre-season top 25" ty...

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 ...

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...

Minnesota's Sarah Bacon successfully defended her 1m diving title on Thursday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. The junior broke the meet record with 363.20 points, taking down Cassidy Krug's 361.55 mark from 2007. Bacon is the first woman ...

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...

Stanford senior Ella Eastin won the 400 IM for the fourth consecutive year on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. Eastin swam a 3:57.03 as she led after all four strokes of the race. Eastin is also the first woman to ever win this even...

The final morning of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships will be an intense matchup between Pac-12 rivals Cal and Stanford. The Golden Bears have 28.5 point lead over the Cardinal heading into the final day with the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly and 400 free ...

The California Golden Bears crushed the 200 free relay NCAA, American and US Open Records on Thursday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. The team of Maddie Murphy (21.82), Katie McLaughlin (21.37), Amy Bilquist (20.87) and Abbey Weitzeil (20.49) swam a 1:24....

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...

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 first night of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships only featured the 800 free relay as the Stanford Cardinal dominated the field by getting within a second and a half of the NCAA record. The Cardinal swam a 6:47.22 with Katie Drabot (1:43.99), Ella Eastin (1:41.03)...

2016 Olympian and world record holder Lilly King, the number one professional prospect coming out of this year's NCAA meet, is now eligible to pursue professional swimming. The Indiana senior just put a cap on her final NCAA meet with an American Record in the 100 breast and the second fastest time ...

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...

By David Rieder. The time was shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday night — when Stanford was still two days away from becoming back-to-back national champions. Stanford senior Simone Manuel had given her team the lead in the 4x50 free relay. Freshman Lauren Pitzer had extended the margin, but Abbey Weitzei...

By David Rieder. At his junior year NCAA championships, Andrew Seliskar was a national title waiting to happen—or at least it seemed that way. He went into the 200 IM final as the top seed, only to end up fifth in the fastest final in history. He was the top seed again the next day in the 400 IM, on...

The Stanford women will walk through the doors of the Lee and Joe Jamail Swim Center Saturday morning at the women's NCAA swimming championships in an unusual spot—second place. Only the three seniors on the Cardinal NCAA roster, Ella Eastin, Kim Williams and Leah Stevens, have experienced that befo...

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...

Thursday's night session of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships was an intense one with two American Records falling from the pool in Austin, Texas. Cal got the night started with a new American Record in the 200 free relay, lowering it by almost a full second. Junior ...