NCAA Division I Women’s Championships: Sarah Henry Wins Closest 400 IM Final in NCAA History

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Texas A&M’s Sarah Henry put an exclamation mark on her oft-injured career by joining a handful of other Aggie NCAA champions with a 400-yard IM victory at the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships.

Henry, a senior who has battled through multiple ACL tears in her career, overtook the field with a 4:02.47 to win the NCAA title this evening.

That swim tied her with Alecia Aemisegger of Princeton for 13th all time in the event’s history.

Henry also joined Julia Wilkinson, Alia Atkinson, Breeja Larson and Paige Miller as an NCAA titlist from Texas A&M.

Sarah Henry, Texas A&M

On winning an NCAA title as a senior
“It means everything to me. My sophomore year I tore my ACL so I didn’t even know if I could swim breaststroke after that and just to win a 400 IM title is just amazing.”

What are you feeling about having it be your last year?

“It’s just the cherry on top. I’ve had a fantastic experience at A&M and to get the title for them and myself, I couldn’t have it any other way.”

Georgia had a really strong final with Hali Flickinger (4:02.73) and Amber McDermott (4:03.34) placing second and third. Flickinger moved up to 15th all time in the event’s history with that second-place swim.

Henry’s .26 second margin of victory is the closest ever in NCAA history.

The previous record had been held by Texas’ Patty Sabo with a 4:16.58 to 4:16.87 (.29 second difference) victory against Florida’s Mary Wayte in 1986.

Georgia moved back into the lead, 239-209, against California following the event.

 1 Henry, Sarah     SR Texas A&M-GU      4:02.98    4:02.47PD1-A    20  
    r:+0.77  26.47        56.25 (29.78)
        1:27.23 (30.98)     1:57.69 (30.46)
        2:32.34 (34.65)     3:07.05 (34.71)
        3:34.73 (27.68)     4:02.47 (27.74)
  2 Flickinger, Hal  JR Georgia-GA        4:04.32    4:02.73PD1-A    17  
    r:+0.75  26.07        55.56 (29.49)
        1:26.60 (31.04)     1:56.97 (30.37)
        2:32.68 (35.71)     3:08.63 (35.95)
        3:36.21 (27.58)     4:02.73 (26.52)
  3 McDermott, Ambe  SR Georgia-GA        4:05.62    4:03.34 D1-A    16  
    r:+0.92  26.27        56.00 (29.73)
        1:26.00 (30.00)     1:55.61 (29.61)
        2:31.31 (35.70)     3:06.92 (35.61)
        3:35.36 (28.44)     4:03.34 (27.98)

  1. Georgia                           239   2. California                        209
  3. Stanford                          129   4. Louisville                        125
  5. Texas A&M                       116.5   6. Virginia                          106
  7. Tennessee                          96   8. Texas                              82
  9. Southern California                60  10. Wisconsin                          59
 10. Missouri                           59  12. NC State                           51
 13. Arizona                            44  14. Florida                            38
 15. Auburn                             34  16. Minnesota                          32
 17. Florida Gulf Coast               26.5  18. Notre Dame                         24
 18. UNC                                24  20. Kentucky                           21
 21. Florida State                      19  21. Penn State                         19
 23. Purdue                             14  24. Illinois State University          12
 25. Nevada                              9  26. So. Methodist                       8
 27. Indiana                             7  27. Miami University (Ohio)             7
 29. UCLA                                6  29. University of Miami (Florida)       6
 31. Ohio State                          5  32. San Diego State                     4
 32. Kansas                              4  32. Iowa                                4
 35. Michigan                            3  35. Hawaii (W)                          3

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

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