Stanford to Use Nation’s Top 400 IM’er, Ella Eastin, on Medley Anchor

2016 WOMEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

Stanford freshman Ella Eastin, the best 400 IM’er in the NCAA this season, will anchor Stanford’s 400 medley relay during Thursday’s prelims at the 2016 NCAA Championships, and Lindsey Engel will swim the fly leg.

The team is the defending champions in the relay and enter the meet with the fastest time in the country so far this year. At the Pac-12 Championships, their relay of Ally Howe, Sarah Haase, Janet Hu, and Lia Neal broke the NCAA, American, and U.S. Open Records in 3:26.25. On Thursday morning, the relay will be Janet Hu, Sarah Haase, Lindsey Engel, and Ella Eastin.

This team still should have the depth to make the A-Final, and then the Cardinal will have the option to shift their relay back if they so-choose.

Eastin’s best flat-start 100 free is 49.19, which she did her senior year of high school.

The Cal women have also tweaked their prelims relay – freshman Amy Bilquist is swimming the backstroke leg rather than Rachel BootsmaNoemie Thomas is scheduled to swim fly where Farida Osman was at Pac-12s, and Osman is swimming the anchoring freestyle leg.

Other changes:

  • Virginia is finishing their relay with Shannon Rauth and Caitlin Cooper rather than Kaitlyn Thomas and Ellen Thomas

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