2024 WOMEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 20-23, 2024
- Gabrielsen Natatorium, Athens, Georgia
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Live Results
- SwimSwam Pick ’em Contest
- Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Live Recap
DAY 2 PRELIMS HEAT SHEET
50 YARD FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
NCAA Record: 20.57, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) — 2024Meet Record: 20.79, Maggie MacNeil (LSU) — 2023American Record: 20.57, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) — 2024US Open Record: 20.57, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) — 2024Pool Record: 21.15, Erika Brown (Tennessee) – 2019- 2023 Champion: 20.79, Maggie MacNeil (LSU) — 2023
Top 8:
- Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 20.41 *** New Everything Record***
- Katharine Berkoff (NC State) – 21.23
- Jasmine Nocentini (Virginia) – 21.29
- Christiana Regenauer (Louisville) – 21.37
- Gabi Albiero (Louisville) – 21.54
- Brady Kendall (Michigan) – 21.69
- Julia Dennis (Louisville)/ Maxine Parker (Virginia)/Grace Cooper (Texas) – 21.71
Gretchen Walsh has done it again breaking her own NCAA and American record in the 50 freestyle swimming a 20.41 in the final heat of the morning.
Walsh broke her own record of a 20.57 that she swam just last month at the ACC Championships. There she swam a 20.77 in prelims setting a new record before swimming a 20.57.
TOP 5 50 FREE PERFORMANCES ALL-TIME
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 20.41 (2024)
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 20.57 (2024)
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 20.77 (2024)
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 20.79 (2023)/Maggie MacNeil, LSU – 20.79 (2023)
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- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia – 20.83 (2023)
If Walsh swims faster than a 20.79 tonight, she will hold the top five swims in the event in history (while sharing #5 with Maggie MacNeil).
Walsh was the last one off of the blocks within her reaction time of a 0.76, the slowest of all the swimmers in the 50 freestyle this morning, but flipped first at the 25 mark in a 9.99. At ACCs, she flipped in a 10.05.
Walsh will be the top seed in tonight’s A final. Last night, Walsh swam the fastest 50 backstroke ever with a 22.10.
I read the headline as GRETCHEN WALSH BREAKS DOWN NCAA RECORD and expected an in-depth video interview with Coleman. And when I didn’t find one, I was disappointed.
Alas, I scanned it too quickly as it really said: GRETCHEN WALSH BREAKS OWN NCAA RECORD. Coleman will have to wait!
Amy van Dyken somewhere probably taking full credit for this
Even at 20.4 she can take her 100 out in 21.1 and post sub 44.5!
Is there a Channel number on ESPN+?
I can‘t watch the stream, but I have over 400 ESPN+ Channels on tv.
you have to look for “upcoming” or “live”. Scroll through until you see it. That’s how i found it. Right now you should be able to see Consolation 1 meter diving Live going on.
Oh never mind. You said you can’t watch stream/live.
I predict 19.9 for finals. Nothing is impossible for her it seems like.
Let me know your powerball picks as you are into long shots!
Oh unhinged guesses are only fun if I don’t have a horse in the race so to speak. I admire Gretchen’s talent but I’m not particularly rooting for her, so I’m comfortable with extreme long shots xd.
Screw it she’s going 17.5 lol
Bro what
My “old man yells at cloud” take today is – I hate when the live results updates all the records with the result of the race that just happened, clearing all the old ones.
I wanna know what the old records were that just got broken! I can see the new one, it’s down there in the results that I’m currently looking at!
You have no idea how many days’ worth of work that this adds to our staff in aggregate over the course of a year.
Apparently faster than you guys could type this morning as the 50 heats went by so fast to type updates…lol!
Preach.
What’s funny is that a few weeks ago I’ve seen someone praising this exact thing, and that comment had a very similar vote ratio to yours 😂
Someone PRAISED it?!?!?!
It’s not like it makes it easier to see when a record’s broken – they put a letter or an asterisk or w/e next to it!
The literal only issue with that is it only displays one letter, so maybe you don’t know if it counts as more than one record. But I do not want to meet the person that would prefer that over knowing what the old records were.
Yep.
But I might have misunderstood. It was very weird to me too that someone would like that.