NCAA Division I Women’s Championships: Sarah Haase Touches Out Kaylin Burchell for 100 Breast Title

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In one of the closest NCAA 100-yard breast finishes ever, Stanford’s Sarah Haase touched out Alabama’s Kaylin Burchell at the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships.

Haase earned Stanford’s seventh 100-yard breast title of all time with a 58.32-58.38 victory over Burchell.  That’s a .06 second triumph, just off the NCAA record for the smallest margin of victory.

SMU’s Susan Lipscomb downed Texas’ Dorsey Tierney, 1:01.28 to 1:01.31, back in 1992.

Sarah Haase, Stanford

On the tight finish
“I had no idea.. I mean, I saw we were all pretty close in that last 25 and actually, I looked over at my teammates and saw they went crazy before I even looked at the time so I was like, maybe that’s a good thing? But, I mean I couldn’t be more happy.”

What do you think makes a difference in a race like this that is so tightly bunched?
“Yeah, I mean I think it’s mainly sticking to your own race plan. A lot of times people can get in your head and there’s so many fast people up there that you just want to go after it, but keeping some kind of calmness and control, that at least just really helped me.”

Haase put up a lifetime best of 58.19 this morning to stand ninth all time, but still had enough in the tank for the win this evening.

Previous Stanford wins:

1991 Lori Heisick, Stanford, 1:01.37
2001 Tara Kirk, Stanford, 59.18
2002 Tara Kirk, Stanford, 59.03
2003 Tara Kirk, Stanford, 58.62
2004 Tara Kirk, Stanford, 1:04.79 *
2005 Caroline Bruce, Stanford, 59.55

Burchell’s time moved her to 13th all time in the event’s history, while Notre Dame’s Emma Reaney, the 200-yard breast American record holder, took third in 58.43.

California held a 294-252 lead over Georgia following the race.

  1 Haase, Sarah     JR Stanford-PC         58.19      58.32 D1-A    20  
    r:+0.71  27.66        58.32 (30.66)
  2 Burchell, Kayli  SR Alabama-SE          58.72      58.38 D1-A    17  
    r:+0.67  27.75        58.38 (30.63)
  3 Reaney, Emma     SR Notre Dame-IN       59.30      58.43 D1-A    16  
    r:+0.69  27.74        58.43 (30.69)
  4 Simon, Laura     SO Virginia-VA         58.69      58.53 D1-A    15  
    r:+0.76  27.70        58.53 (30.83)
  5 Hannis, Molly    SR Tennessee-SE        58.49      58.77 D1-A    14  
    r:+0.71  27.95        58.77 (30.82)
  6 Jaques, Gretche  SR Texas-ST            58.86      58.81 D1-A    13  
    r:+0.70  27.74        58.81 (31.07)
  7 Smith, Kierra    JR Minnesota-MN        59.00      59.02 D1-A    12  
    r:+0.81  28.03        59.02 (30.99)
  8 Nicol, Rachel    SR So. Methodist-NT    59.49      59.89 D1-B    11  
    r:+0.74  28.28        59.89 (31.61)
  1. California                        294   2. Georgia                           252
  3. Stanford                          202   4. Louisville                        151
  5. Virginia                          133   6. Texas A&M                       123.5
  7. Tennessee                         110   8. Texas                              95
  9. Southern California                89  10. Missouri                           78
 11. Wisconsin                          59  12. Florida                            52
 13. NC State                           51  14. Arizona                            48
 15. Minnesota                          44  16. Notre Dame                         40
 17. Kentucky                           34  17. Auburn                             34
 19. UNC                              30.5  20. Florida State                      30
 21. Florida Gulf Coast               26.5  22. Penn State                         26
 23. So. Methodist                    25.5  24. Indiana                            24
 25. Denver                             17  25. Alabama                            17
 27. Purdue                             14  28. Illinois State University          12
 29. Nevada                              9  30. Miami University (Ohio)             7
 30. UCLA                                7  32. University of Miami (Florida)       6
 33. Ohio State                          5  34. San Diego State                     4
 34. Kansas                              4  34. Iowa                                4
 37. Hawaii (W)                          3  37. Lsu                                 3
 37. Michigan                            3  40. Arkansas                            2
 41. Cincinnati                          1

2015 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving, Live Results – Results

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Bill Bell
9 years ago

And Haase won PC-12s too.

Sarah Hassan
9 years ago

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