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

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....

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...

Tennessee's team of Meghan Small, Nikol Popov, Maddy Banic and Erika Brown won the 200 medley relay on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships as the Vols won their fourth relay title in school history. Banic swam the butterfly leg and talked about what the...

Indiana senior Lilly King won her fourth straight NCAA title in the 100 breaststroke on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. King reflected on her four year journey to this moment and how much she has learned along the way. She said she...

Penn State senior Ally McHugh won the first ever NCAA title for the Nittany Lions on Saturday night in the 1650 with a 15:39.22 to win the fastest seeded heat in Austin, Texas at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. McHugh took control of the race early and remained ca...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Swimming World Magazine's March issue featured our annual prediction. Did we get it right? The Stanford women’s swim team repeated as NCAA champions last year. It was expected, and the meet wasn’t even close. The Cardinal scored a stunning 593 points and cruised to their second consec...

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...

It isn’t surprising that a freshman from Canada has become one of the fastest swimmers in the NCAA. After all, Stanford’s Taylor Ruck was an Olympian and Pan Pacific champion before starting college. But Ruck isn’t the only freshman phenom from Canada tearing up the NCAA lanes. Michigan’s Maggie Mac...

The final morning of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas, will have the heats of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, 400 free relay. After one of the strongest sessions in recent memory, one that saw three NCAA records, two American records, a...

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...

Wisconsin junior Beata Nelson, fresh off the second fastest 200 IM ever last night, came back Friday night at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with a new NCAA American Record in the 100 back. Nelson swam a 49.18, lowering her NCAA record of 49.67 from the Texas Invite in...

The psych sheets for the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships have been finalized with the line set at 37 and 38. The meet will be held two weeks from today at the University of Texas. Stanford is the two-time defending champion but will have its hands full with arch rival ...

USC junior Louise Hansson won her second NCAA title of the meet on Saturday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. Hansson swam a 1:50.28 and held off a hard charging Ella Eastin (1:50.46) of Stanford as she was going for her third straight win ...

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 ...

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...

Stanford's Taylor Ruck and Brooke Forde swam on Stanford's winning 800 free relay on Wednesday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Ruck had the fastest split for the Cardinal as she split a 1:39.80 on the third leg. Forde went last for Stanford as she split a...