2023 NCAA WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 15-18, 2023
- Allan Jones Aquatic Center–Knoxville, Tennessee
- SCY (25 yards)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Stream
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Pick ’em Contest
Gretchen Walsh blew everyone’s mind when she dropped a *spicy* 48.26 100y backstroke, breaking the NCAA record by nearly half a second. Let’s look at how she did it and what the key was for her nearly full-second drop from prelims to finals.
This sport is currently kicking underwater. Let’s have two sports and separate swimming from kicking underwater. Kicking underwater for 15 yards and then a few strokes of back, breast, fly, or free is not swimming. If someone wants to kick underwater, let them do it for as long as they want. If someone wants to swim, especially to clearly separate the different strokes, one needs to swim that stroke for the majority of each length. One has to be at the surface by 10 yards and then actually swim for the remaining 15 yards. Lets bring back the sport of SWIMMING!
This sport is currently kicking underwater. Let’s have two sports and separate swimming from kicking underwater. Kicking underwater for 15 yards and then a few strokes of back, breast, fly, or free is not swimming. If someone wants to kick underwater, let them do it for as long as they want. If someone wants to swim, especially to clearly separate the different strokes, one needs to swim that stroke for the majority of each length. One has to be at the surface by 10 yards and then actually swim for the remaining 15 yards. Let’s bring back the sport of SWIMMING!
This sport is currently kicking underwater. Let’s have two sports and separate swimming from kicking underwater. Kicking underwater for 15 yards and then a few strokes of back, breast, fly, or free is not swimming. If someone wants to kick underwater, let them do it for as long as they want. If someone wants swim, especially to clearly separate the different strokes, one needs to swim that stroke for the majority of each length. One has to be at the surface by 10 yards and then actually swim for the remaining 15 yards. Lets bring back the sport of SWIMMING!
The 100 fly record was faster than the 100 back record for less than an hour.
A Walsh 100 back vs. a Douglass 100 fly would be fun to watch. Heck, throw in Berkoff, MacNeil and Huske, too.
This sport is currently kicking underwater. Let’s have two sports and separate swimming from kicking underwater. Kicking underwater for 15 yards and then a few strokes of back, breast, fly, or free is not swimming. If someone wants to kick underwater, let them do it for as long as they want. If someone wants to swim, especially to clearly separate the different strokes, one needs to swim that stroke for the majority of each length. One has to be at the surface by 10 yards and then actually swim for the remaining 15 yards. Lets bring back the sport of SWIMMING!
Everything was great with the video except the open. Profanity adds nothing. It is the opposite of clever or effective. Yet somehow it’s in vogue to either full boar the profanity on some platforms or bleep and slightly alter the words on other platforms. Both versions are pathetic. I remember when I was in college the sportswriting professor always emphasized that you can tell an overmatched writer when he leads one article after another with a quote. That’s because he can’t think of anything else. These days the lead with a quote frailty has been replaced by lead with profanity.
Complete agree with you. The indiscriminate use of profanity is the hallmark of an inarticulate motherf***3r. Like, at least try to use better words before resorting to low brow tactics.
You must be a blast at parties.
He’s definitely overmatched and is fake as hell.
I’ll take the 200 IM over the 100 BK. No to offense to Gretchen.
Direct from Coleman’s Cave.
The only place fit for a not-so-live broadcast
give me that jacket