{"id":581596,"date":"2024-03-22T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=581596"},"modified":"2024-03-22T08:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:44:56","slug":"ncaa-womens-championships-gretchen-walsh-misses-100-fly-record-by-one-hundredth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-womens-championships-gretchen-walsh-misses-100-fly-record-by-one-hundredth\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Women’s Championships: Gretchen Walsh Misses 100 Fly Record By One Hundredth"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA Women’s Championships: Gretchen Walsh Misses 100 Fly Record By One Hundredth<\/strong><\/p>\n

The unstoppable\u00a0Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> rolls on at the NCAA Women’s Championships. Just a prelims race? Does not matter, with Walsh lowering her American and NCAA records in the 50 freestyle Thursday before knocking off another four hundredths in the final<\/a>. Similarly, Walsh dominated the 100 butterfly in prelims and came within the slimmest of margins of setting her third individual standard of the meet.<\/p>\n

Walsh was out in 22.34 at the 50-yard mark, seven hundredths faster than her 22.41 split clocked on the way to her record time of 48.25 at the ACC Championships last month. The 21-year-old was slightly slower on the back half, but she still finished in 48.26, merely one hundredth adrift of her record \u2014 giving Walsh eight hours to figure out how to drop a little bit more time in the final and beat the record again.<\/p>\n

The performance did beat the NCAA Championships record of 48.46 established by former Virginia teammate\u00a0Kate Douglass<\/strong> last season, when Douglass won a sizzling final against 100-meter fly Olympic gold medalist\u00a0Maggie Mac Neil<\/strong> and world champion\u00a0Torri Huske<\/strong>. That race produced the three fastest swimmers in history at the time, but just one season later, those times have been left behind as Walsh continues to shock the world with her short course yards performances.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the more-competitive race for second place,\u00a0Emma Sticklen<\/strong> of the University of Texas showed some fight with a big prelims swim, with the senior clocking 49.73 to clip her personal-best time by six hundredths. Sticklen remains the 10th-fastest swimmer ever in the event. More importantly for the Longhorns, chasing a top-two finish at the NCAAs for a third consecutive year, Texas finished second, third and fourth in this event, with\u00a0Olivia Bray<\/strong> (50.33) and\u00a0Kelly Pash<\/strong> (50.69) both clocking season-best times.<\/p>\n

Texas was already in third place in the team race without having a single A-finalist in an individual swimming event thus far, so performances like this will be huge in the Longhorns’ attempts to run down the current second-place team, Florida.<\/p>\n

Auburn’s\u00a0Meghan Lee\u00a0<\/strong>and Florida’s\u00a0Olivia Peoples<\/strong> tied for fifth in 50.85, followed by Stanford’s\u00a0Gigi Johnson<\/strong> (51.01) and Cal’s\u00a0Mia Kragh<\/strong> (51.07).<\/p>\n

Event 9  Women 100 Yard Butterfly<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 48.25  2\/22\/2024 Gretchen Walsh, Virginia\r\n         Meet: M 48.46  3\/17\/2023 Kate Douglass, Virginia\r\n     American: A 48.25  2\/22\/2024 Gretchen Walsh, Virginia\r\n      US Open: O 48.25  2\/22\/2024 Gretchen Walsh, Virginia\r\n         Pool: P 49.85  2\/21\/2019 Erika Brown, Tennessee\r\n    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        \r\n==================================================================\r\n                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Walsh, Gretchen        JR Virginia            48.25      48.26M \r\n    r:+0.77  10.30        22.34 (12.04)\r\n          35.09 (12.75)       48.26 (13.17)\r\n  2 Sticklen, Emma         SR Texas               50.36      49.73P \r\n    r:+0.65  10.75        23.02 (12.27)\r\n          36.23 (13.21)       49.73 (13.50)\r\n  3 Bray, Olivia           SR Texas               50.47      50.33  \r\n    r:+0.70  10.65        23.52 (12.87)\r\n          36.75 (13.23)       50.33 (13.58)\r\n  4 Pash, Kelly            5Y Texas               50.37      50.69  \r\n    r:+0.68  10.97        23.75 (12.78)\r\n          37.02 (13.27)       50.69 (13.67)\r\n  5 Lee, Meghan            SR Auburn              50.66      50.85  \r\n    r:+0.66  10.98        24.08 (13.10)\r\n          37.25 (13.17)       50.85 (13.60)\r\n  5 Peoples, Olivia        JR Florida             50.47      50.85  \r\n    r:+0.65  10.74        23.72 (12.98)\r\n          36.93 (13.21)       50.85 (13.92)\r\n  7 Johnson, Gigi          SO Stanford            51.17      51.01  \r\n    r:+0.71  10.94        23.92 (12.98)\r\n          37.19 (13.27)       51.01 (13.82)\r\n  8 Kragh, Mia             JR California          50.89      51.07  \r\n    r:+0.71  10.93        23.85 (12.92)\r\n          37.24 (13.39)       51.07 (13.83)<\/pre>\n
The middle morning of prelims at the NCAA Women’s Championships began with the 400 individual medley and also included the 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke. The Virginia Cavaliers were looking to extend their 47.5-point advantage on Florida while the Gators entered the day ahead of Texas by 22 points in the battle for second place.<\/p>\n
Women - Team Rankings - Through Event 7                      \r\n \r\n  1. Virginia                        210.5   2. Florida                           163\r\n  3. Texas                             141   4. Stanford                          105\r\n  5. Tennessee                         104   6. Louisville                         99\r\n  7. Southern California                94   8. Indiana                            87\r\n  9. Michigan                         80.5  10. Georgia                            75\r\n 11. Ohio St                            61  12. California                         59\r\n 13. NC State                           50  14. Wisconsin                          40\r\n 15. UNC                                34  16. Duke                               33\r\n 17. Texas A&M                          26  18. Utah                               14\r\n 19. Minnesota                          13  20. Auburn                             12\r\n 20. Alabama                            12  22. Arizona St                         11\r\n 23. Rutgers                             6  23. Virginia Tech                       6\r\n 23. Lsu                                 6  26. Northwestern                        4\r\n 27. Kansas                              3  28. Akron                               1<\/pre>\n