Official Psych Sheets released for 2014 Division I Women’s NCAA Championship Meet
Check out the official psych sheets and invite lists for the 2014 Division I Women’s national championships here. Defending champs Georgia lead with 17 individual swimming qualifiers.
NCAA Refresher: How to qualify for the NCAA Division I championships
Later this week, official NCAA invites for the Division I women’s meet will be announced. Here’s refresher on how the selection process works.
Open Turn: College Conference Championship Chat, Round 3
Morgan and Garrett break down this past weekend’s conference championship meets, preview Men’s Pac 12s, and start to discuss how NCAAs is squaring up.
Pre-NCAA PSA: Photos and video of Minnesota starting blocks and kick plates
With the NCAA not allowing swimmers to remove the kick-plates from the Spectrum blocks at the University of Minnesota, here are some visuals of what the starting platform will look like for relay swimmers at the women’s NCAA Championships later this month.
Mitch’s Monday Meet Review Episode 3: College Conference Championships Edition
Mitch Bowmile is back with his weekly roundup of swimming competition. This week, Mitch tackles the college conference championships that happened across the country last weekend including the men’s ACCs, men’s Big Tens and women’s Pac-12s.
Louisville’s Kohoyda, Coutinho Improve NCAA Qualification Chances at Tennessee Last Chance Meet
Louisville’s Gisselle Kohoyda swam a 2:09.95 in the 200 breaststroke in Tennessee to drastically improve her NCAA Qualifying chances.
2014 ACC Men’s Swimming Championships: Final Day Up/Mids/Downs
Ned Skinner and Virginia Tech still looks to be the favorite after Saturday’s prelims session, but it’s far from a comfortable margin.
2014 AAC Swimming and Diving All-Conference Selections Announced
After the Louisville Cardinals swept both the men’s and women’s titles at the AAC Swimming and Diving Championships, 84 total student-athletes representing six conference schools have been named to the All-Conference team.
Statistical Analysis: Ranking the women’s conference championships
With numbers courtesy of USA Swimming Stats on Twitter, we’ve put together some charts ranking the top-end depth of each of the major women’s conference to compete last weekend.
2014 AAC Championships: Louisville dominant behind de Lucca’s 41.90
Joao de Lucca went 41.90, the second-fastest time in the NCAA this season, to win the 100 free. He’s looking like one of the most dangerous men in the country heading into the national championships.
2014 AAC Championships Day 4 prelims: Kylliainen looks to go 3-for-3 for unbeaten week
Louisville stayed hot on the final day of prelims at the AAC Championships, breaking more pool records and taking top seeds in 7 of the 8 events. Tanja Kylliainen is the top 200 flyer, looking for her third conference title of the meet.
2014 AAC Championships: De Lucca cruises to 1:32.2 on dominant night 3 for Louisville men
Joao de Lucca was dominant in his signature race, while the Louisville men were suffocating, sweeping the top 4 spots in two different events.
2014 AAC Championships Day 3 prelims: Kylliainen fast, breaststroker Cottrell sub-minute
Tanja Kylliainen broke another pool record and leads the 400 IM. Her teammate Andee Cottrell went 59.35 to take the top 100 breast seed.
2014 AAC Championships Day 2: 7 pool records fall in 8 swimming events, Louisville in full control
Tanja Kylliainen was a high point for the dominant Cardinals, winning the 200 IM in 1:56.34 to annihilate the old pool record.
AAC Prelims Day 2: Louisville men quadruple every A final
In third place after one night, the heavily-favored Louisville Cardinal men kicked it into gear this morning, nabbing the top seed in every event and qualifying exactly 4 men for each A final tonight.