2020 NAIA Women’s National Championship: Day 3 Ups/Downs
A number of teams, including frontrunners SCAD and Keiser, outperformed their psych sheet seedings during prelims on Day 3. Stock photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
For those unfamiliar with swimming terminology, the concept of “Ups” and “Downs” is a good way to track which teams performed best at prelims. In prelims, swimmers qualify for one of two finals heats: the top 8 finishers make the A final, and places 9 through 16 the B final. In finals, swimmers are locked into their respective final, meaning a swimmer in the B heat (spots 9-16) can only place as high as 9th or as low as 16th, even if they put up the fastest or slowest time of any heat in the final.
With that in mind, we’ll be tracking “Ups” and “Downs” after each prelims session. “Up” refers to swimmers in the A final and “Down” to swimmers in the B final.
Women’s Ups/Downs – Day 3
Keiser had a strong morning but SCAD continued to perform according to expectations, leaving little room for the Seahawks to pull off an upset. Teams that outperformed the psych sheet seedings in double digits included Olivet Nazarene (+20), Bethel-Indiana (+18), Keiser (+17), SCAD (+17), Soka (+11), and Loyola (+10).
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 …