(12-15-2022, 04:32 PM)mbdude Wrote: Cary native, star swimmer Claire Curzan wins another medal and sets American record in backstroke :: WRALSportsFan.com50M short course, which isn't swum often in the US. The record was set in the semi-finals; finals still to be swum. Interestingly, in the Stanford season swims, she's 2nd behind Torri Huske in the 50Y back. It looks like Huske didn't swim the 50M Back at World's Short Course.
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Huske got 5th in the 100M Free. Both Huske and Curzan were on the winning 4x100 Free Relay.
The day before, Curzan tied for 3rd in the 100 Back and 6th in the 50 Fly. Torri Huske tied for 1st in the 50 Fly.
Torri Huske swam on the 200M mixed medley relay. They won in a world record time (by over a second).
The meet continues today.
(Using the same thread rather than starting a new one)
Brooke Forde and Naomi Girma were among the NCAA Today's Top 10 award on Dec. 12:
The 2023 NCAA Today’s Top 10 awardees are Sylvie Binder (fencing), Columbia; Jaeda Daniel (tennis), NC State; Brooke Forde (swimming), Stanford; Naomi Girma (soccer), Stanford; Gianna Glatz (field hockey), Rutgers; Blaine Hawkins (football), Central (Iowa); Jessica Meakim (gymnastics), West Chester; Jack Mulvihill (lacrosse), St. John Fisher; Juan Ortiz Couder (tennis), Embry-Riddle (Florida); and Abby Steiner (track), Kentucky.
Brooke Forde is also among the nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year award (to be announced Jan. 12).