2019 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, March 20 – Saturday, March 23, 2019
- Swimming: prelims 10am, finals 6pm; Diving: 2pm
- Location: Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, North Carolina (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champions: Emory (9x) (results)
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Women’s 200 Yard Medley Relay – Finals
- NCAA Record: 1:40.12 3/21/2018 Emory (Cheng, Lally, Campbell, Taylor)
Podium:
- Denison – 1:40.11
- Kenyon – 1:40.79
- Emory – 1:42.03
Denison’s Angela Le, KT Kustritz, Madison Hopkins, and Gabriella Nutter took down the year-old NCAA Division III record in the 200 medley relay that had been set by Emory at last year’s Championships. The quartet combined for 1:40.11 to shave 1/100 off the previous mark.
Pomona-Pitzer senior Angela Ling had the fastest opening 50, going 25.32 in the backstroke to lead by a .36 margin over Kenyon, whose sophomore Crile Hart led off in 25.68. Denison’s Le was in third position with a 25.98 leadoff. Kustritz crushed the field in the breaststroke, going 27.19 to put the Big Red out front by over half a body length. Hopkins took the baton and split a 23.97 butterfly, the only sub-24 in the final. By now, Denison was up by just over a body length over second-place Kenyon, and by 2 bodies over Emory. Nutter came home in 22.97, and while Kenyon sophomore Emmerson Mirus was .55 faster, the Denison quartet’s lead was too substantial. They came into the wall at 1:40.11, a mere 1/100 faster than Emory’s record time from 2018. Kenyon finished second with 1:40.79, while Emory was 1.24 back in 1:42.03 for third.
Le, Kustritz, Hopkins, and Nutter swam 1:41.82 in prelims. They all went significantly faster in finals, combining for the record:
| Previous NCAA Record, Emory 2018 NCAAs | Denison, 2019 NCAA Prelims | Denison, 2019 NCAA Finals | |
| Back | Cindy Cheng (25.15) | Angela Le (26.44) | Angela Le (25.98) |
| Breast | Hannah Lally (28.13) | KT Kustritz (27.83) | KT Kustritz (27.19) |
| Fly | Meg Campbell (24.60) | Madison Hopkins (24.36) | Madison Hopkins (23.97) |
| Free | Meg Taylor (22.24) | Gabriella Nutter (23.19) | Gabriella Nutter (22.97) |
| Total | 1:40.12 | 1:41.82 | 1:40.11 |
