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

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Wednesday, March 13, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: What is more likely to happen at Women's Division I NCAAs? We asked and you answered with… Here are the answers: 20 point 50 Free (43%) 48 seco...

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...

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...

Currently the NCAA Championship Rules do not allow for an appeal, peer confirmation, or review process on disqualifications that are classified as “judgement calls”. Judgement calls are rulings where an official has the authority to disqualify a swimmer or relay for any number of stroke infractions....

Wisconsin junior Beata Nelson stunned the field in the 200 IM final on Thursday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with a 1:50.79. Nelson moved up to second all-time in the 200 IM as she narrowly missed Ella Eastin's American Record set in 2018 of 1:50.67. Ne...

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...

Lilly's Legacy It is tough to perform when everyone expects you to win—especially yourself. That is what Lilly King has done for four years, and her ability to handle that pressure has led to Olympic gold as well as becoming the most dominant collegiate breaststroker in history. She expects to win e...

No Ledecky... No Manuel... No Problem AUSTIN, Texas Stanford won its third straight team title at the women’s NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships, March 20-23, but it was not as easy as the first two. Without the luxury of Olympians Simone Manuel and Katie Ledecky scoring boatloads of ...

The California Golden Bears crushed the 200 free relay NCAA, American and US Open Records on Thursday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. The team of Maddie Murphy (21.82), Katie McLaughlin (21.37), Amy Bilquist (20.87) and Abbey Weitzeil (20.49) swam a 1:24....

By David Rieder. Amid a long swim meet, momentum can be too strong a force to overcome. Start off strong, and fatigue can’t squelch the resulting upswell of positivity. But open up with a rough performance, and it may be hard to rebound, to stay positive for the important races to come. This summer ...

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...

After spending hours at the hospital the night before, Abbey Weitzeil arrived at the pool early on Saturday, knowing no matter what happened, it would be a difficult and painful day. The Cal junior was determined to push through the pain. Weitzeil did more than push through the pain of her elbow inj...

Stanford junior Ella Eastin won the CSCAA swimmer of the meet award after winning the 200 IM, 400 IM and the 200 fly, as well as swimming on the winning 800 free and 400 free relays. Eastin crushed the American and NCAA records in the 200 and 400 IM as the junior has won a total of seven individual ...

The California Golden Bears won the 400 medley relay on Thursday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with a 3:25.24 for their second relay win of the night. Amy Bilquist (50.84), Ema Rajic (58.53), Katie McLaughlin (50.00) and Abbey Weitzeil (45.87) won the ti...

The Stanford women will walk through the doors of the Lee and Joe Jamail Swim Center Saturday morning at the women's NCAA swimming championships in an unusual spot—second place. Only the three seniors on the Cardinal NCAA roster, Ella Eastin, Kim Williams and Leah Stevens, have experienced that befo...

By David Rieder. Swimmers often define themselves by the events that they swim. “I’m a backstroker,” one might say to another, who would then reply, “I’m a breaststroker,” or “I’m a 400 IMer.” But throughout her swimming life, Katie Drabot has had a hard time fitting into one of those categories. Dr...

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...

Stanford won the team title with 593 points ahead of second place Cal with 373. The 220 point differential is the third highest in history. 1985: Texas 643, Florida, 200 1993: Stanford 649.5, Florida, 421 2018: Stanford, 593, Cal, 373 2002: Auburn, 536, Georgia, 373 Stanford also became the third te...

Indiana senior Lilly King won her fourth straight 200 breaststroke title on Saturday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with a 2:02.90. King just missed her NCAA and American Record of 2:02.60 that she set last season. King held off a hard charge from Texas A...

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 ...