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

Un-Beata-ble Nelson For an entire season, Beata Nelson had prepared for the end of the grueling 200 backstroke: hitting that pace in practice, holding that pace when she was tired and then working the walls every time. That meant sticking to at least 10 dolphin kicks off every wall, even when the sw...

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...

The second morning of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas, will have the heats of the 200 free relay, 500 free, 200 IM, 50 free and 400 medley relay. Stanford has the lead in the team standings after winning the 800 free relay on Wednesday night. Stanf...

Michigan was hoping for a fast start to the 2019 NCAA Division I Women’s Championships — some momentum that could build toward their goal of reaching third place. But when their best swimmer was disqualified in the 200 IM, they had to rally. The result was more powerful than the points Siobhan Haugh...

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 ...

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...

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...

What do you do if you are the best swimmer in the world and you are back watching your former team aim for an NCAA title? Be a counter for the mile of course. Former Stanford national champion Katie Ledecky was the official counter in the 1650 yard freestyle for her former college teammate Leah Stev...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The California foursome of Izzy Ivey, Katie McLaughlin, Amy Bilquist and Abbey Weitzeil finished the NCAA championships on a strong note as they captured first in the 400 free relay while recording the fastest time in history. Afterwards, the four women broke down their effort in capturing three of ...

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 ...

Last year, Katie McLaughlin, in her own words, "snuck into eighth" in the 200 free prelims at the NCAA Championships to make the final, and give her a tough double with the 100 fly. Making the finals in both events was a rare feat — at least it was last year. This year, the Cal senior is focused on ...

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...

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...

Editor's Note: Swimming World Magazine's March issue featured our annual prediction. Did we get it right? The Stanford women’s swim team repeated as NCAA champions last year. It was expected, and the meet wasn’t even close. The Cardinal scored a stunning 593 points and cruised to their second consec...