NCAA Division I Women’s Championships: Stanford’s Simone Manuel Moves to 2nd All Time in 50 Free

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Stanford’s Simone Manuel become the second-fastest swimmer all time in the 50-yard free at the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships.

Manuel crushed the rest of the finale with a time of 21.32. That swim pushed her to second behind only Arizona’s Lara Jackson, who clocked an NCAA and American record time of 21.27 in 2009.

All Time 50 Free

Rank	Name	Time
1	Lara Jackson	21.27pr
2	Simone Manuel	21.32
3	Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace	21.34
4	Natalie Coughlin	21.46
5	Liv Jensen	21.48

Simone Manuel, Stanford

On being a national champion
I’m pretty excited. 50 free, first individual event at NCAAs, so I’m really excited for the rest of the week.

On what she was feeling before and after the race
I was a little nervous. I made a couple mistakes on my relay swim, so I just tried to focus on some of the things my coach was telling me. At the same time, you don’t want to think too much because you might mess up something else. So I really just tried to go out there and have as much fun as I could.

The win put Stanford ahead of Georgia for most 50 free wins as a program with nine. But it is Stanford’s first win since three-straight from Catherine Fox in 1997-99.

Former Stanford Cardinal wins:

1984 Krissie Bush, Stanford, 22.98
1986 Jenna Johnson, Stanford, 22.46
1987 Jenna Johnson, Stanford, 22.57
1992 Jenny Thompson, Stanford, 22.14
1993 Jenny Thompson, Stanford, 22.16
1997 Catherine Fox, Stanford, 22.01
1998 Catherine Fox, Stanford, 22.21
1999 Catherine Fox, Stanford, 22.13

Incidentally, although she’s likely well past worrying about them, Manuel’s effort beat the 17-18 U.S. National Age Group record of 21.49 set by Abbey Weitzeil last year.

Wisconsin’s Ivy Martin clinched second tonight in 21.61 with Louisville’s Kelsi Worrell placing third overall in 21.62. Martin just missed her prelim personal best of 21.57, while Worrell moved up to a tie for 10th all time in the event’s history with Amanda Weir.

Georgia had another huge freestyle with three A finalists to take a 150-130 lead heading into diving.

  1 Manuel, Simone   FR Stanford-PC         21.54      21.32PD1-A    20  
    r:+0.68  10.50        21.32 (10.82)
  2 Martin, Ivy      SR Wisconsin-WI        21.57      21.61 D1-A    17  
    r:+0.69  10.43        21.61 (11.18)
  3 Worrell, Kelsi   JR Louisville-KY       21.70      21.62 D1-A    16  
    r:+0.66  10.38        21.62 (11.24)
  4 Osman, Farida    SO California-PC       21.63      21.68 D1-A    15  
    r:+0.72  10.79        21.68 (10.89)
  5 Locus, Madeline  SR Georgia-GA          21.92      21.80 D1-A    14  
    r:+0.69  10.55        21.80 (11.25)
  6 Van Landeghem,   JR Georgia-GA          21.78      21.97 D1-B    13  
    r:+0.72  10.76        21.97 (11.21)
  7 Bonnema, Riki    JR NC State-NC         21.97      22.03 D1-B    12  
    r:+0.76  10.70        22.03 (11.33)
  8 Smoliga, Olivia  SO Georgia-GA          21.96      22.09 D1-B    11  
    r:+0.79  10.78        22.09 (11.31)

  1. Georgia                           150   2. California                        130
  3. Texas A&M                        70.5   4. Stanford                           54
  5. Wisconsin                          52   6. Louisville                         50
  7. Virginia                           42   8. NC State                           36
  9. Auburn                             26  10. Texas                              24
 10. Tennessee                          24  12. Southern California                21
 13. Penn State                         19  14. Notre Dame                         15
 15. Florida                            14  15. Arizona                            14
 17. UNC                                10  18. Florida Gulf Coast                4.5
 19. Iowa                                4  19. San Diego State                     4
 21. Indiana                             3  21. Michigan                            3
 21. Minnesota                           3  24. Ohio State                          2

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

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Bill Bell

9 years ago

Not dissing Jackson’s great record but let’s not forget what kind of suit she was wearing vs. what Manuel swam in.

Put Simone in one of those full body outfits and she’ll go sub- 21.0.