NCAA Division I Women’s Championships: Kelsi Worrell Vaults to 3rd All Time in 200 Fly With Fly Sweep

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Louisville’s Kelsi Worrell is now Louisville’s first two-time NCAA champion after sweeping the butterfly events with a 200-yard fly victory at the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships.

Worrell uncorked a smoking time of 1:51.11 for the win.  That swim vaulted her to third ever in the 200-yard fly.

All Time 200 Fly

Rank Name Time
1 Elaine Breeden 1:49.92
2 Katinka Hosszu 1:51.02
3 Kelsi Worrell 1:51.11
4 Kathleen Hersey 1:51.18
5 Mary DeScenza 1:51.28

Entering the meet, Louisville had never had a female NCAA champion, and now Worrell is a two-time victor after becoming the first person to break 50 seconds in the 100-yard fly.

Kelsi Worrell, Louisville

“I’m so shocked…my time! I’m just so shocked.”

“Oh, it’s all Jesus right now, that’s for sure. My leg’s hurting and this was like the 13th swim or something so it’s all… Jesus, my legs, my body… Just get to the wall, I didn’t want to t-rex it like this morning.”

Kentucky’s Christina Bechtel hit the wall second in 1:52.08 to jump to seventh in the all time history, while Georgia’s Hali Flickinger placed third in 1:52.73.

  1 Worrell, Kelsi   JR Louisville-KY     1:53.24    1:51.11PD1-A    20  
    r:+0.70  24.99        53.55 (28.56)
        1:21.92 (28.37)     1:51.11 (29.19)
  2 Bechtel, Christ  SR Kentucky-KY       1:53.49    1:52.08PD1-A    17  
    r:+0.79  25.86        53.99 (28.13)
        1:22.87 (28.88)     1:52.08 (29.21)
  3 Flickinger, Hal  JR Georgia-GA        1:52.97    1:52.73PD1-A    16  
    r:+0.80  25.94        54.60 (28.66)
        1:23.51 (28.91)     1:52.73 (29.22)
  4 Harrington, Lau  SR Georgia-GA        1:53.76    1:53.92 D1-A    15  
    r:+0.71  25.94        55.11 (29.17)
        1:24.45 (29.34)     1:53.92 (29.47)
  5 Kylliainen, Tan  SR Louisville-KY     1:54.18    1:54.62 D1-B    14  
    r:+0.65  25.63        54.95 (29.32)
        1:24.24 (29.29)     1:54.62 (30.38)
  6 Dalesandro, Gia  SO Indiana-IN        1:54.93    1:54.66 D1-B    13  
    r:+0.69  25.60        54.43 (28.83)
        1:24.37 (29.94)     1:54.66 (30.29)
  7 Thomas, Noemie   FR California-PC     1:54.80    1:54.94 D1-B    12  
    r:+0.68  25.79        54.84 (29.05)
        1:24.26 (29.42)     1:54.94 (30.68)
  8 Britt, Chelsea   SO Florida State-FL  1:54.49    1:55.98 D1-B    11  
    r:+0.67  24.76        53.37 (28.61)
        1:23.35 (29.98)     1:55.98 (32.63)
  1. California                        479   2. Georgia                           420
  3. Stanford                          319   4. Virginia                          223
  5. Texas A&M                         201   6. Louisville                        185
  7. Southern California               146   8. Texas                             130
  9. Tennessee                         123  10. Indiana                           106
 11. Florida                           105  12. Missouri                          100
 13. Arizona                          95.5  14. Minnesota                          86
 15. Kentucky                           80  16. Wisconsin                          77
 17. Penn State                         56  18. Notre Dame                         55
 19. NC State                           51  20. UNC                              45.5
 21. Florida State                      45  22. Auburn                             44
 23. Michigan                           38  24. Florida Gulf Coast               37.5
 25. Denver                             33  25. UCLA                               33
 27. Alabama                            31  28. Virginia Tech                      27
 28. So. Methodist                      27  30. University of Miami (Florida)      26
 31. Miami University (Ohio)            24  31. Purdue                             24
 33. Nevada                             16  34. Lsu                                13
 35. Illinois State University          12  35. Oregon State                       12
 37. Iowa                               10  38. San Diego State                     9
 39. Ohio State                          5  40. Kansas                              4
 40. Hawaii (W)                          4  42. Umbc (W)                          2.5
 43. Pittsburgh                          2  43. Arkansas                            2
 45. Cincinnati                          1

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

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