2017 ACC WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Monday, February 13 – Thursday, February 16
- Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Virginia (9x) (results)
- Psych sheets
- Live results
- Live Video (if available)
- Championship Central
Action at the 2017 Women’s ACC Championship kicks off tonight in Atlanta, GA, where swimmers will be competing in the 200 medley relay and 800 free relay. Virginia will be seeking their 10th straight ACC title, but talented teams like NC State, Duke, and Louisville will make it difficult for the Cavaliers to be as dominant this time around.
WOMEN’S 200 MEDLEY RELAY
- NC State, 1:34.89
- Louisville, 1:35.69
- UNC, 1:36.39
The NC State women got the ball rolling with the first gold medal of the meet, winning the 200 medley relay. Elise Haan (23.73 back), Kayla Brumbaum (26.63 breast), Natalie Labonge (23.17 fly), and Ky-Lee Perry combined for a 1:34.89 victory, with freshman Perry closing in a blistering 21.36 freestyle split. That time by NC State was a new school and conference record, breaking the former ACC Record set by Louisville (1:35.43) in 2016.
Louisville also saw some impressive freshman speed, as Casey Fanz turned in a 21.52 anchor split on the way to their 1:35.69 for silver. Senior Andee Cottrell had the fastest breaststroke of the field with her 26.42.
Virginia was handed a DQ after an early takeoff on the freestyle leg, bumping UNC (1:36.39) up into 3rd place. The Tarheels got some impressive speed from All-American Hellen Moffitt, who put up a blazing 22.29 on the butterfly leg. Finishing just behind them with a new school record was Florida State (1:36.41), with Natalie Pierce‘s 26.52 breast split and Tayla Lovemore‘s 22.67 fly split highlighting the relay.
WOMEN’S 800 FREE RELAY
- Virginia- 6:56.21
- NC State- 6:59.73
- Louisville- 7:01.62
Virginia came back for redemption in the 800 free relay, winning with ease in 6:56.21. Leah Smith led off the relay in 1:43.60, followed by Jenn Marrkand (1:44.08), Morgan Hill (1:45.57), and a quick 1:42.96 anchor split from Kaitlyn Jones to earn gold in 6:56.21. Also finishing below the 7:00-mark was NC State, led by Alexia Zevnik‘s 1:44.46 on the 2nd leg.
Louisville came up with a 3rd place finish in 7:01.62. Their big difference maker was All-American Mallory Comerford, who surged to a blistering 1:41.12 split on the 2nd leg.
WOMEN’S 3-METER DIVING
- Ashlynn Peters, Virginia Tech, 365.95
- Marcela Maric, Miami, 353.60
- Elissa Dawson, UNC, 349.30
Virginia Tech’s Ashlynn Peters captured the first women’s ACC Diving Title of the meet with a score of 365.95 in the 3-meter finals. Also earning medals were Miami’s Marcela Maric (353.60) and UNC’s Elissa Dawson (349.30) with the silver and bronze respectively. Dawson’s teammate Maria Lohman came in 5th place, giving the Tarheels a big points boost.
TEAM SCORES THROUGH DAY 1
NC State led through the swimming portion of the night, but UNC’s diving points propelled them into the lead to close the session. Elissa Dawson and Maria Lohman placed 3rd and 5th respectively, giving UNC the lead with 153 points.
- UNC- 153
- Louisville- 149
- Duke- 144
- Virginia Tech- 134
- Miami- 127
- NC State- 126
- Florida State- 124
- Notre Dame- 106
- Virginia- 102
- Georgia Tech- 90
- Pitt- 88
- Boston College- 62
- Clemson- 27
ncSTATE: 6A, 5B, 1C, 4 none scorers (these 4 should be cut in my opinion)
UVA: 6A, 2B, 3C, 4 none scorers
Louisville: 5A, 2B, 4C, 4 None scorers
UNC: 3A, 3B, 5C, 4 None scorers
You’re not the real Wolfpack #STATEment
Thank you for doing this breakdown. Should be interesting and of course diving will add to the ABCs.
Of the non-scorers for NC State, one finished 25th and was one spot off, one finished in a tie for 28th in the 50 and was just .03 shy of 24th, one is primarily a backstroker with hopes of making A finals in both of those, and one is primarily a 200 flyer with hopes of making A final in that.
are they using the overhead cameras to verify “left early” at this meet ?
I think that the early take offs in big meets are due to 3 factors.
1) During the season the “fastest relay” doesn’t always swim together (like they usually do in club swimming) that means that when the big meets come the athletes aren’t always super comfortable with the swimming nuances of the person that is coming in. Therfore sometimes they “misjudge” the touch. 2) The swimmer is coming in much faster than the experience that they have had during the season. The human mind likes to “play tricks” with moving objects and make the picture “match” its expectation. Again the expectation is different… Read more »
What happened to the splits in the results of the 800 free relay?
Thank you for putting the splits back.
Im not in the habit of writing comments, but I have to write this one. As a long time swimmum of international swimmer, and loyal and grateful reader of Swimswam, I find the growing trend of negative comments on this valued site simply tragic. We all feel passionate about our team, athlete and even sport, and this mostly make for great sporting edge and exciting competition, but to extend beneign rival banter into belittling of others has zero validity, especially in sports! As a former athlete, sport was the place to come together, race, gender, religion and other, immaterial, a neutral zone that crossed boarders and united as little else could. The current trend in our political worlds has no… Read more »
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Troll
*Wolfpack is the troll
Can someone please ban this person?
Obviously I’m talking about Wolfpack not chlorinevikings
I don’t see much in these comments that needs to be censored. Let the kids have some fun as long as they don’t personally attack a swimmer and they just need to remember how hard all the swimmers worked for the past 5 months. If a relay DQs and they want to call it a choke then thats fine by me. If a kid misses a key free throw with a game on the line people would say he choked. Same thing.
Because it is so easy to use any moniker in these posts, someone could be “stirring the pot” and not really “wolfpack” or who they say they are. I say let the comments roll. It is fun to read everything and no one has been too out of line. I think some of the most negative comments I have read are about the UNC coaching staff and I believe some of those are disappointed alums.
With UVA getting DQ’d in that relay there is still a chance they can make up points by their divers stepping up big time. They out scored NC State 38-6 lets hope that trend continues and they will earn those point back from that relay pretty fast
1.41.12 relay split for Mallory Comerford. That sounds pretty good. A sub 1.42 is possible in her individual race. Only 8 girls have swum under 1.42 in history.
Crazy fast swimming tonight from NC STATE!! Hannah Moore and co ready to throw down the rest of the meet. Maybe some help from diving? They could win…
Everyone trolled me when I said UNC could win this meet. Heck they are in the lead right now. BAM. SO IF someone drained the pool tonight would they be declared CHAMPIONS?????