North Carolina’s Stephanie Peacock picked up this year right where she left off the last, swimming a 15:37.06 in the women’s 1650 at the Ohio State Invitational Sunday to break her own NCAA record. The old mark was set at the NCAA championships last year in 15:38.79 when Peacock upended Georgia’s Wendy Trott to keep her from a fourth-straight title.
This swim is the 4th-best mile swim in history at any level, though just the second best on the weekend after high schooler Katie Ledecky swam a 15:28 at nationals on Saturday.
Peacock started out splitting a :55, then was :57’s through the 500 and then dipped down into :56’s. That’s much sooner than she dropped down in her previous record-breaking swim.
This was Peacock’s first mile swim of the season and only the 6th of her career in yards.
Congrats to her! And records continue to be broken.
pelton also broke the american record at georgia
The top 3 in that race were all under 16:00. Behind Peacock were Florida freshman Jessica Thielmann in 15:52.34, and Florida junior Alicia Mathieu in 15:59.32. Both of those times would have A finaled at NCAAs last year.