2024 Big 12 Champs: Day 3 Prelims Scratches – Pash Wants to be #1, Scratches 2 #2 seeds

2024 BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Dates: Tuesday, February 27 – Saturday, March 2
• Morgantown, West Virginia
  • The Aquatic Center at Mylan Park
• Defending Champions:
  • Men: Texas (27x)
  • Women: Texas (11x)
• Championship Central
• Psych Sheets
• Live Results
• Live Results also available via Meet Mobile: “2024 Big 12 Swimming & Diving Championships”
• Live Video (ESPN+ Subscription Required)
• Day 1 Finals Live Recap
• Day 2 Prelims Live Recap |Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Day 3 Prelims Heat Sheet

Texas grad student Kelly Pash doesn’t seem to be a fan of the number ‘2’. Pash, the Pan-Ams silver medalist in the 100 fly, has scratched out of two events on day 3 of the 2024 Big 12 Championships.

Pash, who appears on the psych sheet in the six different individual events, is limited to swimming no more than three and appears to be picking events in which she is second fiddle to no one. Pash has scratched out of both the 100 fly and 400 IM.

Pash was seeded in the 100 fly with a time of 50.37, behind only her teammate Emma Sticklen‘s 50.36. In the 400 IM, an event in which Pash is the reigning Big 12 champion, her entry time of 4:08.72 is more than a second away from Texas freshman Angie Coe‘s 4:07.45

Pash, who already won her fifth consecutive title in the 200 IM last night, will swim the 200 free, where she is the top seed (1:42.64) and will square off against teammate Erin Gemmell (1:43.09). Pash, who holds the meet and Big 12 record in the event, led off the Texas women’s 800 free relay in a time of 1:42.76.

If Pash were to keep with the theme of only swimming events in which she is the top seed, then she may scratch out of the 200 fly, where she is seeded behind teammate Sticklen, and instead swim the 100 free, where she holds the top time of 47.44, ahead of Grace Cooper‘s 47.79.

At last year’s Big 12, Pash swam the 200 IM, 400 IM, and 100 Free but altered her line-up at NCAA to contest the 200 IM, 200 Free, and 200 Fly, an event in which she placed 3rd in.

ALL TOP-24 SCRATCHES

• W 100 Fly
  • #2 Kelly Pash (Texas) – 50.37
  • #15 Mia Cheatwood (West Virginia) – 55.09
  • #22 Grace Gavin (Cincinnati) – 55.46
• M 100 Fly
  • #13 Jacob Ballard (Brigham Young) – 47.81
  • #24 Jet Fuhrmann (Cincinnati) – 49.27
• W 400 IM
  • #2 Kelly Pash (Texas) – 4:08.72
  • #16 Grace Gavin (Cincinnati) – 4:24.28
• M 400 IM
  • #16 Christian Simpson (West Virginia) – 4:03.39
  • #21 William Mullen (West Virginia) – 4:09.39
  • #22 Alan Gonzalez Mujica (Brigham Young) – 4:09.61
• W 200 Free
  • #3 Ava Longi (Texas) – 1:46.08
• M 200 Free
  • #21 Hunter Gubeno (Cincinnati) – 1:38.59