2018 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, March 21 – Saturday, March 24
- Swimming: prelims 10am, finals 6pm
- Location: IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, Indiana (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champions: Emory (x8) (results)
- Psych Sheet
- Video
- Live Results
- Championship Central
For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best at prelims. In prelims at the NCAA National Championships, swimmers and divers qualify for one of two finals heats: the top 8 finishers make the A final, and places 9 through 16, the B final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time, or score the most diving points, of any heat in the final.
With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups,” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers in the A final, “Down” to swimmers in the B final.
Emory continued apace on Day 3, earning 6 ups and 1 down in individual events. Williams was the big winner of the morning, with a net positive of 29 points that could be responsible for taking them past Denison in the fight for third place in the team standings. St. Thomas, Pomona-Pitzer, Amherst, Bates and Johns Hopkins all outscored their psych sheet seedings, as well.
Women’s Ups/Downs – Day 3
Note: while the 800 free relay is included here in ups/downs, it is misleading in that it is a timed final, not a prelims/finals race. The 8 fastest-seeded teams coming into the meet are the “ups” that will swim in tonight’s final; the “downs” are the 8 fastest performances from this morning’s session. However, some of the “downs” might actually wind up in the top 8.
| Team | Individual Ups | Individual Downs | Relay Ups | Relay Downs | |
| Emory University | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Denison University | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mass Institute of Technology | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kenyon College | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
| Williams College | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Pomona-Pitzer | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Amherst College | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| New York University | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Grove City College | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| University of St. Thomas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wesleyan University | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Washington University (MO) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bowdoin College | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Middlebury College | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| UW-Whitewater | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Washington & Lee University | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wheaton College (MA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Whitman College | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Whittier College | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Calvin College | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Baldwin Wallace University | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bates College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Women’s 200 Yard Butterfly
| Team | Ups | Downs |
| Mass Institute of Technology | 2 | 1 |
| Emory University | 1 | 1 |
| Williams College | 1 | 1 |
| Denison University | 1 | 0 |
| Grove City College | 1 | 0 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 0 |
| University of St. Thomas | 1 | 0 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 0 | 1 |
| Kenyon College | 0 | 1 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 0 | 1 |
| UW-Whitewater | 0 | 1 |
| Washington University (MO) | 0 | 1 |
Women’s 100 Yard Backstroke
| Team | Ups | Downs |
| Emory University | 3 | 0 |
| Pomona-Pitzer | 2 | 0 |
| Kenyon College | 1 | 1 |
| New York University | 1 | 0 |
| Wesleyan University | 1 | 0 |
| Denison University | 0 | 2 |
| Bowdoin College | 0 | 1 |
| Wheaton College (MA) | 0 | 1 |
| Whitman College | 0 | 1 |
| Whittier College | 0 | 1 |
| Williams College | 0 | 1 |
Women’s 100 Yard Breaststroke
| Team | Ups | Downs |
| Denison University | 2 | 0 |
| Emory University | 2 | 0 |
| Kenyon College | 1 | 1 |
| Amherst College | 1 | 0 |
| Mass Institute of Technology | 1 | 0 |
| Williams College | 1 | 0 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 0 | 2 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 0 | 1 |
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 0 | 1 |
| Middlebury College | 0 | 1 |
| Washington & Lee University | 0 | 1 |
| Washington University (MO) | 0 | 1 |
Women’s 800 Yard Freestyle Relay
| Team | Ups | Downs |
| Amherst College | 1 | 0 |
| Calvin College | 1 | 0 |
| Emory University | 1 | 0 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 0 |
| Kenyon College | 1 | 0 |
| New York University | 1 | 0 |
| Washington University (MO) | 1 | 0 |
| Williams College | 1 | 0 |
| Bates College | 0 | 1 |
| Denison University | 0 | 1 |
| Mass Institute of Technology | 0 | 1 |
| U.S. Coast Guard Academy | 0 | 1 |
| University of Chicago | 0 | 1 |
| Ursinus College | 0 | 1 |
| Washington & Lee University | 0 | 1 |
| Wheaton College (MA) | 0 | 1 |
Projected Standings
Note: Does not yet include any projections for 3-meter diving, so there are still 155 unattributed points.
| Team | Day 1 Actual | Day 2 Actual | Day 3 Prelims | Day 4 Psych | Final Projected Standings | Vs Psych Sheet |
| Emory University | 146 | 172 | 137 | 111 | 566 | 36 |
| Kenyon College | 118 | 125 | 138 | 129 | 510 | 43 |
| Williams College | 114 | 140 | 106 | 58 | 418 | 43 |
| Denison University | 56 | 147 | 98 | 79 | 380 | -19 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 86 | 63 | 49 | 49 | 247 | 11 |
| Mass Institute of Technology | 28 | 75 | 64 | 25 | 192 | -7 |
| Washington University (MO) | 42 | 47 | 35 | 33 | 157 | -10 |
| Pomona-Pitzer | 37 | 54 | 27 | 35 | 153 | 1 |
| Amherst College | 12 | 56 | 34 | 14 | 116 | 32 |
| New York University | 20 | 24 | 51 | 15 | 110 | -10 |
| Calvin College | 2.5 | 30 | 26 | 38 | 96.5 | -15.5 |
| University of Chicago | 10 | 27 | 8 | 27 | 72 | 20 |
| Bates College | 14 | 24 | 12 | 0 | 50 | 20 |
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 9 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 47 | -5 |
| Wheaton College (MA) | 0 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 45 | -35 |
| Connecticut College | 18 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 24 |
| Washington & Lee University | 2 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 42 | -25 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 4 | 22 | 2 | 13 | 41 | -13 |
| Grove City College | 0 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 33 | 1 |
| Ithaca College | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 33 | -2 |
| Wesleyan University | 4 | 0 | 16 | 12 | 32 | 13 |
| Trinity University | 13 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 21 |
| Case Western Reserve | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 22 | -22 |
| Simmons College | 6 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 21 | 3 |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 20 | -37 |
| University of St. Thomas | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 19 | 15 |
| Ursinus College | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 18 | -11 |
| Centre College | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 | -2 |
| SUNY Geneseo | 0 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 17 | 5 |
| Birmingham-Southern College | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| Bridgewater State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 15 | -31 |
| Messiah College | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 0 |
| Wellesley College | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | -1 |
| Hope College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 13 | -5 |
| Middlebury College | 2.5 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 11.5 | -10.5 |
| Kalamazoo College | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | -2 |
| Smith College | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 |
| Cal Lutheran | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Springfield College | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| Bowdoin College | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | -20 |
| Trinity College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Union College (NY) | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -10 |
| SUNY Brockport | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Tufts University | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| UW-Whitewater | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| John Carroll University | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| UW-La Crosse | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | -6 |
| Whittier College | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Southwestern University | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -4 |
| U.S. Coast Guard Academy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -8 |
| Whitman College | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Drew University | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |