The official psych sheets for the 2019 Women’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships have been released. The cut-line wound up falling right where it was expected after yesterday’s (updated) pre-cut list release, mid-way through the 38th-ranked swimmers. That’s about a spot-and-a-half lower (slower) than what was invited last year, as this season there were more swimmers who had multiple times ranked highly.
- Psych Sheets
- Invited Swimmers by Team (Doesn’t include relay-only swimmers)
- Eligible Relays
- Alternates List
Stanford leads the way with 18 swimmers invited individually for the 2nd-straight year. If they qualify any divers for the meet, which seems very likely, they’ll have to decide between keeping those divers or scratching an individual swimmer.
This year’s invite list includes 64 freshmen, 65 sophomores, 80 juniors, and 72 seniors. Last year, the sophomores (now the juniors) were the biggest class with 76. This year’s seniors actually lost a qualifier from last year – they had 73 (on the initial lists) when they were juniors.
Stanford are projected to score the most swimming points, but only 3 more than their conference rivals from Cal, Michigan, Tennessee, and NC State round out the scoring, by seed. 3 of the top 4 teams by seed scoring didn’t win their conference titles (Cal, Michigan, Tennessee).
The other piece of the puzzle, diving, will be decided at Zone Diving Championships, which begin next week.
Top Seeds, By Event:
- 500 free – Lauren Pitzer, Stanford, sophomore – 4:34.30
- 200 IM – Meghan Small, Tennessee, junior – 1:51.62
- 50 free – Erika Brown, Tennessee, junior – 21.15
- 400 IM – Ella Eastin, Stanford, senior – 3:57.75
- 100 fly – Louise Hansson, USC, junior – 49.34
- 200 free – Mallory Comerford, Louisville, senior – 1:41.29
- 100 breast – Lilly King, Inndiana, senior – 55.88
- 100 back – Beata Nelson, Wisconsin, junior – 49.67
- 1650 free – Phoebe Hines, Hawaii, junior – 15:41.35
- 200 back – Beata Nelson, Wisconsin, junior – 1:48.47
- 100 free – Abbey Weitzeil, Cal, junior – 46.35
- 200 breast – Lilly King, Indiana, senior – 2:03.60
- 200 fly – Louise Hansson, USC, junior – 1:50.68
- 800 free relay – Cal – 6:50.63
- 400 medley relay – Cal – 3:26.41
- 200 medley relay – Tennessee – 1:34.26
- 200 free relay – Cal – 1:26.00
- 400 free relay – Cal – 3:07.41
Mabel Zavaros in 200 back and 200 fly… ouch
Can’t wait!
Erika vs Abbey. I honestly want them to tie 20.99
With no open water like at their confernence meets I’m afraid we will all be disappointed with 21.3’s
I think it’ll be 21.05
There will be open water when Erika SMASHMOUTH Brown jets off her turn and hits the wall in 20.93
As long as she does it all free.
LOL Becky D
Well my daughter could be that differentiation on the Junior to Senior count dropping by one. She couldn’t quite get the 200FL time down and ended up as the 2nd alternate for the event since it only had 37 entries. Maybe not the way you would like things to wrap up but that is how the sport goes sometimes. Long course nationals to still look ahead to. That said who has a need for 2 all-session passes cause I have ’em to sell and they can be picked up at will-call :). I was looking forward to one last viewing of the hyper-fast variety of swimming that NCAA Champs puts on too.
I am interested in one of them, thought the school would give out one or two for the parents
SWIMMOM, Sorry I missed this previously. I do have them in hand and could certainly overnight a set to you if you are still in need. Please reach out to me at [email protected] if that is the case and we can work out the details.
seems like there are fewer and fewer schools qualifying swimmers, now it is down to 57
It will be 58 once Palomino gets in. It was 58 last year. So…may be dropping, but not by much.
The long term trend at the top of the division is toward more parity not toward less. https://swimswam.com/measuring-parity-ncaa-d1-championships/
Way to go IU! 13 invites! 5 freshmen! Let’s go divers!
Top seed for 100 free?