2018 WOMEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 14th – Saturday, March 17th
- McCorkle Aquatic Pavillion — Columbus, OH
- Prelims 10AM/Finals 6PM (Eastern Time)
- Defending Champion: Stanford (results)
- Championship Central
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live stream: Wednesday/Thursday Prelims & Finals, Friday/Saturday Prelims / Friday/Saturday finals on ESPNU
Swimmers are gearing up for the 2018 Divsion 1 Women’s NCAA Championships, which will take place from Wednesday, March 14th through Saturday, March 17th at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavillion in Columbus, Ohio. You can find all the links you need to follow along right here on SwimSwam, as well as event-by-event previews and predictions.
PICK ‘EM CONTEST:
Swimming fans can still enter our official Pick ‘Em contest until 4 p.m. on the Wednesday of the meet. If you haven’t done so already, click here to enter. By using the new Google Forms format, you CAN go in and edit your responses up until 4 PM on Wednesday. You can also use this “edit responses” ability to go in and print or save your answers.
EVENT-BY-EVENT PREVIEWS:
You can follow these links to each of our specific event-by-event previews for Women’s NCAAs, including our top 8 picks in each race. We’ve listed our predicted winners below, and will update the remaining events as the rest of our previews are published.
| EVENT | WINNER |
| Wednesday | |
| 800 Free Relay | Stanford |
| Thursday | |
| 200 Free Relay | California |
| 500 Free | Katie Ledecky, Stanford |
| 200 IM | Ella Eastin, Stanford |
| 50 Free | Simone Manuel, Stanford |
| Stanford | |
| Friday | |
| 400 IM | Katie Ledecky, Stanford |
| 100 Fly | Erika Brown, Tennessee |
| 200 Free | Mallory Comerford, Louisville |
| 100 Breast | Lilly King, Indiana |
| 100 Back | Kathleen Baker, California |
|
200 Medley Relay
|
California |
| Saturday | |
| 1650 Free | Katie Ledecky, Stanford |
| 200 Back | Kathleen Baker, California |
| 100 Free | Simone Manuel, Stanford |
| 200 Breast | Lilly King, Indiana |
| 200 Fly | Ella Eastin, Stanford |
| 400 Free Relay |
Is there not a better broadcast?!
1 hour ?. Kicking off championship season! NCAAs, Euros, Commonwealths, Asian Games, Us Nationals, and Pan Pacs over the next few months!
+ Short Course World champs in december ….
I like that the only event to not get a preview is the 400 IM.
Seems like that would be a fun one to speculate on…seeing as two Stanford women (aka the Reigning American Record Holder and the Reigning NCAA Champion) are the top two seeds! XD
400 IM preview was posted this afternoon.
OSU live stream doesn’t require a BTN subscription correct?
Not as far as I can tell, though it’s sometimes hard to figure out until the event begins.
Dope, as far as I can remember the past couple years all of the online coverage for NCAA’s was fairly accessible without cable/particular subscriptions so hopefully that’s the case again this year!
even for the finals sessions being played on espnu?
It’s sad that the low resolution, constantly buffering college venue era site streams, pre BTN, SEC Network, etc. was the golden age of livestream swimming. When we could all watch and comment.
Terrible audio!! Come on OSU…….
OMG!!!!!!!!! ITS STARTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!