2012 Div 1 NCAAs
Women's Swimming & Diving Division I Championship - NCAA.com
March 15 - 17, 2012
Auburn, AL
Men's Swimming & Diving Division I Championship - NCAA.com
March 22 - 24
Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center
Seattle, WA
But before NCAAs are the conference meets, please provide links and let's talk about em.
UT swims next week but several conference championships are next week.
SwimmingWorld will cover it too
Can someone explain what Invited means? Have the qualifying times not kept up with the suit change times, forcing the meet officials to allow more swimmers in who did not make the official standards?
Jim,
The rules would confound a talmudic scholar. Someone like Skip Thompson may have some understanding. It revolves around the "A" standard (which only a few swimmers per event achieve) and the much more lenient "B" standard. Maybe 80 or 90 swimmers achieve the "B" standard but there is an invited cutoff number (this year between 17 and 18 for men and 30 for women) of the top "B" qualifiers. It really becomes confusing when relays are taken into consideration. If you qualify on a relay (i.e. invited) you can swim any event in which you achieved the "B" standard even if you're ranked 90th. This really hoses an outstanding swimmer from a weaker team who had the 18th top time but no relay to swim on. No relay, no invite. To add more confusion, teams are limited to the total number of athletes they can bring. Actually, there are expetions to this rule also. If you really want to immerse yourself in the arcane check this out: forum.collegeswimming.com/viewtopic.php
Can someone explain what Invited means? Have the qualifying times not kept up with the suit change times, forcing the meet officials to allow more swimmers in who did not make the official standards?
Jim,
The rules would confound a talmudic scholar. Someone like Skip Thompson may have some understanding. It revolves around the "A" standard (which only a few swimmers per event achieve) and the much more lenient "B" standard. Maybe 80 or 90 swimmers achieve the "B" standard but there is an invited cutoff number (this year between 17 and 18 for men and 30 for women) of the top "B" qualifiers. It really becomes confusing when relays are taken into consideration. If you qualify on a relay (i.e. invited) you can swim any event in which you achieved the "B" standard even if you're ranked 90th. This really hoses an outstanding swimmer from a weaker team who had the 18th top time but no relay to swim on. No relay, no invite. To add more confusion, teams are limited to the total number of athletes they can bring. Actually, there are expetions to this rule also. If you really want to immerse yourself in the arcane check this out: forum.collegeswimming.com/viewtopic.php
