2022 NCAA Division III Women’s and Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- Wednesday, March 16 – Saturday, March 19, 2022
- IUPUI IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN
- Defending Champs: Emory women (10x) & Denison men (2x) – (2019 Results)
- Live Stream
- Live Results
- Official Psych Sheet
With the official psych sheets now released to the public, it is time to score the 2022 NCAA Division III Championships. While the following projections are just that – projections – they give us some insight into the relative strengths of each team invited to the women’s and men’s meets.
While there are numerous variations from psych sheets seedings to actual scored points at every championships, Emory, Kenyon, Denison, Johns Hopkins, MIT, and Williams are some of the teams that come in with a lot of depth, year after year. This time around, ten-time defending women’s champions and 2019 men’s runners-up, Emory, lead the men’s psych sheet by 42 points and are seeded second by a mere 22 points in the women’s meet. Kenyon tops the women’s psych sheet and is seeded third on the men’s side.
There are another 310 points to be awarded in diving. The 53 divers invited to the championships were determined by performances achieved at the regional diving meets February 25-26.
PSYCH SHEET SCORING – INDIVIDUAL & RELAY SWIMMING EVENTS ONLY
(Note: these projections do not include diving.)
Women
| Team | Individual Points | Relay Points | TOTAL POINTS |
| Kenyon | 224 | 180 | 404 |
| Emory | 218 | 164 | 382 |
| Williams | 208 | 146 | 354 |
| Denison | 202 | 144 | 346 |
| Tufts | 147 | 128 | 275 |
| Pomona-Pitzer | 98 | 112 | 210 |
| MIT | 76 | 104 | 180 |
| St. Kate’s | 110 | 40 | 150 |
| Johns Hopkins | 86 | 60 | 146 |
| Bates | 62 | 66 | 128 |
| Bowdoin | 39 | 72 | 111 |
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 72 | 34 | 106 |
| Chicago | 46 | 60 | 106 |
| NYU | 57 | 36 | 93 |
| Wash U. St. Louis | 34 | 42 | 76 |
| Connecticut | 32 | 38 | 70 |
| Amherst | 39 | 22 | 61 |
| Hope College | 31 | 26 | 57 |
| Gustavus | 23 | 32 | 55 |
| Mary Washington | 42 | 0 | 42 |
| Nazareth | 32 | 0 | 32 |
| Albion | 20 | 12 | 32 |
| Trinity (TX) | 3 | 22 | 25 |
| Wheaton MA | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| CMU | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| Southwestern | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| TCNJ | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| UW-Stevens Point | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Colby | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Wellesley | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| St. Olaf | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Swarthmore | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Hamilton | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Calvin | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| IWU | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Middlebury | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Pacific Lutheran | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Whitworth | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| W&L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Smith | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Men
| Team | Individual Points | Relay Points | TOTAL POINTS |
| Emory | 228 | 148 | 376 |
| Johns Hopkins | 218 | 116 | 334 |
| Kenyon | 161 | 156 | 317 |
| MIT | 133 | 180 | 313 |
| Williams | 169 | 140 | 309 |
| Denison | 156 | 150 | 306 |
| Chicago | 83 | 92 | 175 |
| Wash U. St. Louis | 121 | 34 | 155 |
| John Carroll | 49 | 92 | 141 |
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 63 | 56 | 119 |
| NYU | 91 | 24 | 115 |
| Calvin | 36 | 76 | 112 |
| Rowan | 37 | 58 | 95 |
| UWEC | 49 | 30 | 79 |
| Ithaca | 50 | 14 | 64 |
| Tufts | 25 | 38 | 63 |
| F&M | 25 | 34 | 59 |
| TCNJ | 33 | 20 | 53 |
| Whitman | 42 | 0 | 42 |
| CMU | 12 | 30 | 42 |
| Pomona-Pitzer | 14 | 26 | 40 |
| Bowdoin | 20 | 14 | 34 |
| Whitworth | 28 | 4 | 32 |
| Cal Lutheran | 32 | 0 | 32 |
| Trinity (TX) | 15 | 14 | 29 |
| Swarthmore | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| Amherst | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| Hope College | 14 | 2 | 16 |
| Coast Guard | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Bates | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Connecticut | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| SUNY Geneseo | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| USMMA | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Birmingham Southern | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Brandeis | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Carthage | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| RWU | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Catholic | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Stevens | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Millsaps | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Caltech | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Colby | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Case Western | 1 | 0 | 1 |
NCAA Invite Time Comparison
By Event
2020 (Last DIII Psych Sheet) vs 2022
500 Free
4:30.11 vs 4:29.18
200 IM
1:50.17 vs 1:49.66
50 Free
20.35 vs 20.27
200 Med Relay
1:30.00 vs 1:29.35
200 Fr Relay
1:21.76 vs 1:21.32
400 IM
3:56.75 vs 3:57.65
100 Fly
48.44 vs 48.36
200 Free
1:38.62 vs 1:38.92
400 Med Relay
3:18.16 vs 3:18.14
200 Fly
1:48.89 vs 1:48.83
100 Back
49.08 vs 48.63
100 Breast
55.03 vs 54.86
800 Fr Relay
6:42.91 vs 6:39.35
1650 Free
15:45.81 vs 15:38.65
100 Free
44.83 vs 44.66
200 Back
1:47.81 vs 1:47.87
200 Breast
2:00.88 vs 2:00.10
400 Free Relay
3:01.26 vs 3:00.30
the disparity between the 100 Fly and the 200 Fly on the men’s side is pretty interesting. No one under 1:46 in the 200 fly but 10 47’s.
A lot of 100 flyers are sprinters who don’t swim the 200 fly. My team has a 47 who swims the 50/100 Free. Of the people with 47s, I think only two swim the 200 fly and of those, only one has a 1:46. On the other side, the top seeded 1:46 only has a 48 in the 100 fly.
God does it feel great to have the NCAA D3 Championships back 😁. Wishing all the seniors and 5Y seniors who didn’t get to swim these past 2 years the best of luck!
Just to look at something other than the score, I checked how many swimmers each team has who *aren’t* seeded to score points. I thought that might give some insight into which teams have room to grow if they have a good meet.
Men’s side:
Emory 1
Johns Hopkins 3
Kenyon 7
MIT 3
Williams 3
Denison 4
Women’s side:
Kenyon 5
Emory 3
Williams 4
Denison 7
Tufts 4
Based on that it seems that Kenyon has the most room to grow on the men’s side by a pretty significant margin, and on the women’s side, Denison has the most room.
I think it’s best to look at these swimmers one at a time. For example, for Kenyon, Black and Brooks are both in the meet as legs on the 200 and 400 free relays. They are both really good swimmers and either (or both) of them could score in individual events. However, there are 68 invitees in the 50; Brooks is seeded 33rd and I don’t se an invite for Black. In the 100 free there are 58 invitees and Kenyon’s relay swimmers are seeded 35th (Black), 39th (Brooks), and 46th (Hong, same situation as a 2MR swimmer).
It’s really steep for the relay only swimmers if they race individual events. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a four day meet… Read more »
Why not include diving in the projections? Diving can bring huge points and change the meet especially when it’s so close.
There’s no good way to project seeds in diving outside of regions. You could compare scores but that’s so dependent on the judges at the individual regional meets.
Wow! Who would have that going into the season the mens meet could come down to just a few tight races and relay point swings. Here’s a couple of my observations—
– Close on paper but not sure anybody has the firepower to beat Emory. Never rest their top guys for conference and still are leading the psychs. Goudie, Hamilton, and Pema are all arguably favorites to win individual titles and can come together to make noise on relays.
– I expect the Denison Kenyon rivalry to continue throughout NCAAS. Both teams looked sharp the NCAC’s and if they can get their depth to really show up they can threaten the top teams. Kenyon has more heavy hitters with… Read more »
Poggers prediction
Interesting takes all around…but there’s no one named Huang on JHU? Perhaps you meant Castagno? He’s having a solid season, and has the potential to score in all of his individuals
Raise your hand if in 2021 you had Denison in 6th place for this years championship…
Honestly their team isn’t even bad it’s just that this whole top cohort of teams really stepped up. MIT and Williams really surprised me at their conference championships.
(And yes, I know diving could boost them up a bit, but being seeded 6th is wild!!)
For the men’s meet without any consideration of diving. (And Q: was the diving in the psych sheet scored?)
7th and 8th: I put Wash U slightly ahead of Chicago. These are both really good teams but I think that Wash U has more opportunities to score. Clasen, Kiselnikov and Ssengonzi are great, but I think that Edwards, Hao, Katz, Kelber, and Ma have more opportunities.
6th: MIT. Another excellent team, super exciting to see a team built around the relays. However, I don’t think that they can hold onto 180 relay points from the psych sheet, so I’m picking them 6th, with clear separation from the teams below them.
5th: Williams. On paper they look really good, but… Read more »
This scoring did not take diving into account, and for once Kenyon will get major men’s points here. Zavaletta could win both boards, and their other two divers will probably score some points too. I think that alone leaps them over Denison, and puts them potentially in contention– though Emory will be tough to beat. Simmons will score some diving points for Denison, but not enough this year.
Thanks. I see Emory with 18 swimmers and 1 diver. if I’m reading the DIII meet manual correctly Emory made their scratch on Feb 28th.