2017 NCAA Division III Women: Final Scores and Wrap-up

2017 Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships

  • Wednesday, March 15 – Saturday, March 18
  • CISD Natatorium, Shenandoah, Texas
  • Live results

The Emory women’s swimming and diving team won their eighth consecutive NCAA Division III title by 200.5 points on Saturday, thanks in no small part to the Eagles’ ability to place 23 swimmers and 5 relays in A finals, and 15 swimmers in B finals, over the four days of the meet. Emory won all five relays, plus the 100 free, 200 free, 1650 free, and 100 back individual events, and outperformed expectations (based on psych sheet seedings) by 150 points.

Williams performed consistently over the four days and was able to remain uncontested for the #2 position. Washington & Lee had a phenomenal meet, second only to Emory in their upside surprises. Calvin, too, did better than expected; their improvement was concentrated in sprint freestyle (50/100 freestyle individual events and the 200 free relay).

On the downside, Bates, Chicago, Illinois Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Kalamazoo, and St. Thomas all gave up potential points on relay DQs, while NYU had the distinction of losing two relays to disqualifications. Eau Claire defaulted 20 points with the last-minute medical scratch of the #1 seed in the 200 breast.

Final Scoring Analysis

Team +/- Psych   Psych Sheet Prelims Finals
Emory University 150 496 626 646
Williams College 24 421 431 445
Kenyon College -7 388 371 381
Denison University -71 343 289 272
Mass Institute of Technology 6 159 172 165
Washington University (MO) -15 176 166 161
Washington & Lee University 50 90 127 140
New York University -61.5 184 152 123
Johns Hopkins University 21.5 99 137 121
Connecticut College 18 83 97 101
University of Chicago -51 144 87 93
Calvin College 28.5 64 92 92.5
Bates College -37 127 111 90
University of St. Thomas -50 132 123 82
Amherst College 4.5 73 72 77.5
Wheaton College (IL) 26 46 83 72
Ithaca College 16 49 62 65
Middlebury College 29 31 52 60
Trinity University 6.5 35 40 41.5
Wellesley College 9 31 31 40
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps -21 57 37 36
Illinois Wesleyan University 2 34 34 36
Carnegie Mellon University -8 40 31 32
Centre College -1 33 33 32
SUNY Fredonia -3 34 34 31
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire -42 72 46 30
Pomona-Pitzer -7.5 36 22 28.5
Ursinus College 8 20 25 28
Grove City College 5 20 29 25
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 18 7 24 25
Carleton College 6 17 19 23
Mount Union 4 15 22 19
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -8 25 16 17
Bowdoin College -27 43 20 16
DePauw University -19 35 28 16
Union College (NY) 10 6 16 16
Whitman College -10 26 15 16
Smith College 3 12 12 15
Springfield College -3 18 14 15
SUNY Geneseo 6 8 12 14
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 1 12 12 13
Kalamazoo College 0 11 11 11
William Smith 4 7 3 11
Wesleyan University -21 26 7 5
Stevens Institute of Technology -14.5 19 7 4.5
Birmingham-Southern College -9 13 2 4
St. Catherine University 0 4 4 4
Tufts University -3 7 0 4
University of Mary Washington -5 9 5 4
University of Redlands 3 0 8 3
Gustavus Adolphus College -18 20 6 2

 

 

 

 

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About Anne Lepesant

Anne Lepesant

Anne Lepesant is the mother of four daughters, all of whom swam in college. With an undergraduate degree from Princeton (where she was an all-Ivy tennis player) and an MBA from INSEAD, she worked for many years in the financial industry, both in France and the U.S. Anne is currently …

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