Women's Div 1 NCAA's
begins in 2 days
Thu March 19th
there's gonna be some super fast swims
This could be the greatest and fastest meet ever for the swimmers in this meet. Statistically, you could say this group are the best women swimmers ever at a college meet. Every NCAA and US Open Record could be broken at this meet with the exception of the 500 and 1650 Free. Katie Hoff's 500 Free at 4:30.47 and 1650 Free at 15:29.15 and Janet Evans NCAA record in the 1650 of 15:39.14 are the only ones that I can see standing at the end of this meet.
In the back, ***, fly, IM, and free events of 50, 100, and 200 have a chance to be broken and that has never happened in an NCAA meet with these many events. Some of the swimmers have already broken these records during this past college season and could lower and add more records at this meet.
I see both 100 back and 100 *** events being taken down by Spofforth and Soni and they have already broken the 200 distances in these events. Vollmer and Breeden are the two swimmers that have a shot at the 100 Fly record and I believe one of them will get it. Vollmer has already gotten the 200 Free record this year and has a chance to lower that record with others as well. Breeden will lower her own 200 Fly record that was set this year.
Jackson should lower her 50 Free record set earlier this year and have a chance with others to go after the 100 Free records of Natalie Coughlin of 47.00 NCAA and 46.85 and I believe this one record has a chance of surviving besides the 500 and 1650.
In the IM events, Smit has already broken the 200 IM record and Smit and Ohlgren should push each other to lower that record. I noticed that Smit has a time in the psych sheets of 3:58 in the 400 IM and has gone 4:01.56 so it will be interesting to see if she or others go under the 4 minute mark.
Last year all of the Relays lowered the records except the 800 Free Relay and in 2007 all of the relays broke the records. I don't think anything will be different this year and all of the records will be broken.
What interesting is that last year there was only 1 NCAA Record set in the 200 Fly and no US Open Records set in individual events at all during the meet. A lot of these swimmers swam in the meet last year, so they have gotten a lot better.
Natalie Coughlin could be taken off the SCY record board by the end of this meet and no one could have predicted this last year. She has lost 4 SCY US Open Records this year so far (50 Free, 200 Free, 200 Back, and 200 Fly. She still has the triple 100 records of back, fly, and free and they could go down at this meet.
I don't think there has ever been a NCAA Women's meet where every record could be broken from 100 to 200 in all strokes and both IM events as well as the 50 Free.
Women's Div 1 NCAA's
begins in 2 days
Thu March 19th
there's gonna be some super fast swims
This could be the greatest and fastest meet ever for the swimmers in this meet. Statistically, you could say this group are the best women swimmers ever at a college meet. Every NCAA and US Open Record could be broken at this meet with the exception of the 500 and 1650 Free. Katie Hoff's 500 Free at 4:30.47 and 1650 Free at 15:29.15 and Janet Evans NCAA record in the 1650 of 15:39.14 are the only ones that I can see standing at the end of this meet.
In the back, ***, fly, IM, and free events of 50, 100, and 200 have a chance to be broken and that has never happened in an NCAA meet with these many events. Some of the swimmers have already broken these records during this past college season and could lower and add more records at this meet.
I see both 100 back and 100 *** events being taken down by Spofforth and Soni and they have already broken the 200 distances in these events. Vollmer and Breeden are the two swimmers that have a shot at the 100 Fly record and I believe one of them will get it. Vollmer has already gotten the 200 Free record this year and has a chance to lower that record with others as well. Breeden will lower her own 200 Fly record that was set this year.
Jackson should lower her 50 Free record set earlier this year and have a chance with others to go after the 100 Free records of Natalie Coughlin of 47.00 NCAA and 46.85 and I believe this one record has a chance of surviving besides the 500 and 1650.
In the IM events, Smit has already broken the 200 IM record and Smit and Ohlgren should push each other to lower that record. I noticed that Smit has a time in the psych sheets of 3:58 in the 400 IM and has gone 4:01.56 so it will be interesting to see if she or others go under the 4 minute mark.
Last year all of the Relays lowered the records except the 800 Free Relay and in 2007 all of the relays broke the records. I don't think anything will be different this year and all of the records will be broken.
What interesting is that last year there was only 1 NCAA Record set in the 200 Fly and no US Open Records set in individual events at all during the meet. A lot of these swimmers swam in the meet last year, so they have gotten a lot better.
Natalie Coughlin could be taken off the SCY record board by the end of this meet and no one could have predicted this last year. She has lost 4 SCY US Open Records this year so far (50 Free, 200 Free, 200 Back, and 200 Fly. She still has the triple 100 records of back, fly, and free and they could go down at this meet.
I don't think there has ever been a NCAA Women's meet where every record could be broken from 100 to 200 in all strokes and both IM events as well as the 50 Free.
