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RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - Nan3cy - 03-24-2019

(03-24-2019, 09:20 AM)BobK Wrote: We lost a bit ovef200 points from last year’s win and still won this year. Amazing

A reminder of how incredibly good that team was last year...

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - 2006alum - 03-24-2019

(03-24-2019, 09:35 AM)Nan3cy Wrote:
(03-24-2019, 09:20 AM)BobK Wrote: We lost a bit ovef200 points from last year’s win and still won this year. Amazing

A reminder of how incredibly good that team was last year...

It helps when you have the most decorated female swimmer of all time on your team... Between Ledecky and Manuel alone, we lost 34 Olympic and World Championship Medals' worth of accomplished athlete. It's incredible and speaks volumes about the depth of our team that even losing that we could win it again. Swimming caps off to the team and for bringing home yet another championship to the farm!

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - fullmetal - 03-25-2019

I finally read through this thread -- great recaps from everyone. Wish I could have made it down to campus to have seen the action in person, but alas, life gets in the way. Muir must be relieved that the streak lives on...! Cheers to the team and coaching staff for pulling off an amazing season. I have a kal friend who was rubbing their Pac-12 championship in my face...I have a feeling said friend doesn't understand training cycles and peaking at the right time lol.

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - M T - 03-25-2019

(03-25-2019, 01:32 AM)fullmetal Wrote: I have a kal friend who was rubbing their Pac-12 championship in my face...I have a feeling said friend doesn't understand training cycles and peaking at the right time lol.

I'm not sure I understand the rubbing in part. Stanford won both the PAC-12 and National championships for women's swimming and diving.
Maybe they were talking about the men.

Without counting up the individual swims, my impression is that the top Cal swimmers had a higher percentage of personal bests than the Stanford swimmers.

Stanford had more swimmers & divers invited to nationals than any other school. While 18 swimmers were invited for a total of 51 races, team size limits meant that Stanford sent 16 swimmers & 4 divers. Two swimmers that were invited for NCAA nationals were unable to fit in the roster. (I think that's the same number as last year.) (Cal only had 12 swimmers qualify.) Stanford's other two qualifiers were sophomores Katie Glavinovich and Hannah Kukurugya, who each qualified in three events. Last year, Hannah Kukurugya was invited in 2 events (qualified in 3) and went to nationals, while Katie Glavinovich was invited in 1 event and didn't go, presumably because of team size limits. Ouch... two years in a row...

(The invitation process is complicated; the time of the slowest invited swimmer would be between the NCAA "A" and "B" times. Each swimmer that is invited for an individual event is qualified to swim any other event for which she has a B time.)

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - Langdude - 03-25-2019

Three in a row. Icing on the cake is that Kal finished second all three times.

I guess I only just realized that, before this run of three, Stanford did not win a NC in women's swimming since 1997. Nearly 20 years! That surprised me given how strong we are traditionally in that sport. In that span, Georgia won it, like, 38 times.

Ella Easton. Four-time national champ in 400 IM. Wowzers. Is there a more grueling event in the program (I know it goes up to 800, but not in college)? And she won it all four years. That's gotta be one of the most amazing feats in the history of Stanford swimming. And she's the only person to do that. Ever.

-m.

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - CTcard - 03-25-2019

(03-25-2019, 06:49 AM)Langdude Wrote: Three in a row. Icing on the cake is that Kal finished second all three times.

I guess I only just realized that, before this run of three, Stanford did not win a NC in women's swimming since 1997. Nearly 20 years! That surprised me given how strong we are traditionally in that sport. In that span, Georgia won it, like, 38 times.

If anyone is interested, Wikipedia has an updated list of womens swimming NCAA Champions and Runners Up.
Stanford has the most (11), but indeed Georgia won all of their seven between Stanford's win in 1998 and their more recent run of three straight. Auburn also won five in six years in that interregnum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Women%27s_Swimming_and_Diving_Championships

Quote:Ella Easton. Four-time national champ in 400 IM. Wowzers. Is there a more grueling event in the program (I know it goes up to 800, but not in college)?

The NCAA meet has a 500 and 1650 yd freestyle.
Some say that 400 IM is actually more grueling than the 1650 because you have to keep switching strokes - different muscle sets and all that.

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - Langdude - 03-25-2019

Was '98 the last win? My bad. Could have sworn it was '97. Thanks for the correction, CT!

Ah, Auburn, too. Forgot about that. Kirsty Coventry.

Yes. I love IM because it showcases the most complete swimmers, the best athletes in the water. Four-time NCAA champ in 400 IM is unprecedented. Ella is certainly one the best all-around female swimmers in Stanford history, and arguably the greatest.

-m.

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - oldalum - 03-25-2019

Apparently Eastin scored more points than anyone else for our team, but I have the impression that Ruck had the most impressive meet of our team in terms of fast swims and personal bests; her relay splits were out of this world. After the meet, Meehan said he thought he had given Eastin too high a workload throughout the season.

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - BostonCard - 03-25-2019

I was also impressed with Brooke Forde’s meet. She was part of the 800m freestyle relay win, and had her first career individual NCAA championship, winning the 500 free. It was the second fastest time in school history, behind some swimmer named Ledecky.

BC

RE: NCAA Women's Swimming Championship - oldalum - 03-25-2019

Forde swam a terrific race in the 500: dead even after 400 yards, she slowly but steadily pulled away in the final 100.