{"id":464947,"date":"2021-03-15T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=464947"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T18:05:36","slug":"off-big-tens-win-kristen-romano-ohio-state-building-to-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/off-big-tens-win-kristen-romano-ohio-state-building-to-ncaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Big Tens Win, Kristen Romano, Ohio State Building to NCAAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Off Big Tens Win, Kristen Romano, Ohio State Building to NCAAs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kristen Romano<\/strong> felt she could see the growth coming when she visited Ohio State in high school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Dorenkott<\/strong> had been in charge of the women\u2019s program for nearly a decade. He\u2019d assume control of the men\u2019s team during Romano\u2019s freshman year.<\/p>\n<p>So while Romano might not have pegged the Buckeyes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2021-big-ten-womens-championships-day-5-finals-live-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">back-to-back Big Ten champions<\/a> by the time her four years had elapsed, she new something special was on the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process of becoming this championship team has started with that senior class and has continued to grow and grow and grow,\u201d Romano told <em>Swimming World<\/em> this week. \u201cAnd that\u2019s been really special. It\u2019s part of the reason why I wanted to come to Ohio State so bad for my collegiate career because I saw from the time I took my (recruiting) trip, I saw the way the team interacted, and I saw that this team was going to go places.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2021-ncaa-division-i-womens-swimming-and-diving-championshipss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCAA Championships meet home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among the places Ohio State is taking Romano is back to her fourth straight NCAA Championships, starting this week. The native of Long Island is seeded fourth in the 200 individual medley, 10th in the 400 IM and 16th in the 200 back at NCAAs. She\u2019s likely to be part of an Ohio State 800 free relay <a href=\"https:\/\/ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/championships\/sports\/swimdive\/d1\/2020-21D1WSW_SELECTIONSEligibleRelays.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that is seeded third<\/a>, having set the 200 free school record at NCAAs in 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_337365\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337365\" data-attachment-id=\"337365\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/off-big-tens-win-kristen-romano-ohio-state-building-to-ncaas\/kristen-romano-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kristen-romano-b1g-vs-acc-2018-0323-e1541949109762.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kristen-romano-b1g-vs-acc-2018 0323\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;3-13-21&lt;br \/&gt;\n11\/11\/18&lt;br \/&gt;\nkristen-romano- 2018, B1GvsACC, Romano Kristen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Kristen Romano; Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kristen-romano-b1g-vs-acc-2018-0323-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kristen-romano-b1g-vs-acc-2018-0323-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-337365\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kristen-romano-b1g-vs-acc-2018-0323-e1541949109762.jpg\" alt=\"kristen-romano-\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kristen-romano-b1g-vs-acc-2018-0323-e1541949109762.jpg 900w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kristen-romano-b1g-vs-acc-2018-0323-e1541949109762-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-337365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Romano; Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Big Ten <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/roster\/kristen-romano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freshman of the year<\/a> has grown her program at NCAAs each year. She was due to swim all three events at last year\u2019s cancelled meet but instead gets that chance this year.<\/p>\n<p>Romano said she\u2019s going to opt for a fifth year, made possible by the NCAA in October. So even this NCAAs won\u2019t be the senior\u2019s last. But she approaches it with a sense of urgency that is reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s in the past that I\u2019m not super upset that it didn\u2019t happen, but I also know that because I didn\u2019t have that opportunity last year, this year is going to be all that much more special,\u201d Romano said. \u201cI know the entire team we were going to take to NCAAs last year is going to be pretty amazing. That gives us a lot of confidence going into this NCAAs, knowing what we could\u2019ve put together last year, a little disappointed that that didn\u2019t happen but knowing that we have that in us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romano said she\u2019s learned a lot in her time out of the pool in 2020. It\u2019s what accentuates her appreciation of what the Buckeyes did at Big 10s, scoring 1,584 points to easily outdistance Michigan (1,326.5). The teams behind them like the Wolverines and Indiana might have more top swimmers, but Romano loves the way her team battles \u2013 the \u201clittle things every day of the season that our entire team did\u201d \u2013 across the lineup. That\u2019s what led them to the title, even as some might have doubted them.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of NCAAs, Romano has a chance to qualify for the Olympics for Puerto Rico. She\u2019s hoping to head to the island for a national long-course meet at the end of April. She holds five Puerto Rican records and represented the island in the 2019 World Championships in the 200 IM.<\/p>\n<p>First thing is first, though, and Romano believes Ohio State can surprise some people at NCAAs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just using that toughness that we\u2019ve gained, that I\u2019ve gained, over the past season in dealing with all the fluctuations and all the different little bullets we had to dodge with COVID and everything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off Big Tens Win, Kristen Romano, Ohio State Building to NCAAs Kristen Romano felt she could see the growth coming when she visited Ohio State in high school. 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