2020 WOMEN’S B1G CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Swimming & Diving
- When: Wednesday, February 19th to Saturday, February 22nd | Prelims 11am | Finals 6:30pm (6pm Saturday)
- Where: Campus Recreation & Wellness Center, Iowa City, Iowa (Central Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Indiana University Hoosiers (1x) (results)
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- Streaming: Big Ten Network
- Championship Central: here
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Michigan sophomore Maggie MacNeil dropped the fastest 50 back by a female swimmer in history tonight. Leading off Michigan’s 200 medley relay to kick off the 2020 B1G Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, MacNeil unleashed a 23.05, taking down the previous best swim ever, a 23.36 from Cal alumna Rachel Bootsma.
Last year at NCAAs, Mizzou’s Haley Hynes was 23.52 in prelims and 23.66 in finals, though nobody else was under 23.8. Tonight, MacNeil was nearly a full second better than the rest of the field.
MacNeil, in only her second yards season ever, is quickly becoming one of the most prolific yards sprinters in history. As for Michigan’s medley relay lineup, butterfly transfer Olivia Carter was left off of this one; she was 23.57 on Georgia’s medley relay last year at NCAAs, but Claire Maiocco was 23.64 just now for Michigan. Carter, meanwhile, is a strong freestyler and is probably being saved for the other four relays.
Top 2020 B1G Medley Relay Splits:
- Maggie MacNeil, Michigan – 23.05
- Calypso Sheridan, Northwestern – 23.92
- Emily Cook, Minnesota – 24.26
- Rebekah Bradley, Ohio State – 24.51
- Autumn Haebig, Nebraska – 24.65
- Miranda Tucker, Michigan – 26.20
- Hannah Bach, Ohio State – 26.41
- Lindsey Kozelsky, Minnesota – 26.59
- Sophie Angus, Northwestern – 26.62
- Jinq En Phee, Purdue – 27.12
- Madison Hart, Penn State – 23.08
- Katherine Trace, Ohio State – 23.20
- Miriam Guevara, Northwestern – 23.43
- Cora Dupre, Indiana – 23.58 (DQ)
- Kasey Venn, Michigan State – 23.61
- Freya Rayner, Ohio State – 21.05
- Daria Pyshenko, Michigan – 21.32
- Madeleine Cooke, Penn State – 21.74
- Ashley Turak, Indiana – 21.82 (DQ)
- Grace Bennin, Minnesota – 22.29
She’s also a very good freestyler!! Could she take the ims at trials? 🤔
Also exciting is the prospect of her 100 free for the 4*100. Last summer CAN led the 4*1 at the 300 following very strong, but still room for improvement, splits from Sanchez, Ruck and Oleksiak. Maggie threw down an awesome 53 low but could not, as expected, hold off Cate Campbell or Manuel. Penny has already been 53.4 this winter, if she returns to 52 low trust form along with the other 2, and Maggie just continues to progress all round, watch out for this team. May still not be enough to win but they will be very much in the mix.
Wonder if she’ll swim 100 back at Canadian Olympic Trials… For context, Rachel Bootsma (who’s record she just broke) was 59.1 LCM during US 2012 trials.
Good context. And what’s more, MacNeil, while great underwater, has already proven to be generally better in long course than Boostma. So…58 seems quite possible?
… dare we say… 57? After her 100fly improvement last year, who knows!
Also good context is regan smith rapid improvement in the 100 fly as well ( on top of her 200 fly) in Tokyo I believe it’s gonna be Smith for gold, MacNeil for silver and tori huskie for bronze
umm sjostrom???
Incredible disrespect to Sjostrom here
And MacNeil too
Oh my goodness that’s incredible, I cant wait for her 100 fly!
Well damn