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.
In the IM events, Smit has already broken the 200 IM record and Smit and Ohlgren should push each other to lower that record.
You probably haven't looked at today's prelim results yet, because you didn't mention Kathleen Hersey who swam a 1:53. Should be a great race tonight.
Interesting to me to see that the prelim times are not all that much faster than times swam at conference meets...granted these are "prelims" but it reinforces my belief that the new suit technologies allow swimmers to swim extremally fast unrested...and to not always have a dramatic drop in times when they are rested.
You probably haven't looked at today's prelim results yet, because you didn't mention Kathleen Hersey who swam a 1:53. Should be a great race tonight.
I didn't look at the heat sheets and forgot about Hersey. I saw Hersey swim the 400 IM at the Big 12 Champs on TV and looked real good. You got the record holder Smit, defending NCAA champ in Ohlgren, and Hersey in the 200 IM and I am going to pick Hersey tonight to go under 1:53 and set a record. This is the race to watch tonight.
In the 200 Free Relay I am picking Cal slightly over the others and they will break the record of 1:26.90
In the 500 Free, I am picking the Olympian freshman, Alison Schmitt from Georgia to win and challenge the NCAA record of 4:33.60 but will not break the US Open record by Katie Hoff.
In the 50 Free, I pick Lara Jackson to win but I am not sure if she will break her own record of 21.33 but should be real close.
In the 400 Medley Relay I am picking Arizona to win and defend the title they won a year ago when they won by almost 4 seconds. They already broke there record by .07 and they should go about a second faster in the 3:28 range for a new US Open record.
Will the finals be showen on the internet tonite??? THX
Yes at 8:00 EST and 7:00 Central Time and 5:00 West coast time. It will be showing in less than an hour from now. Go to the Swimming World website and get hooked up.
Nope! We're doing this for the NCAA.
Thats cool. The sound quality on the archived races is good but the live feed is mostly inaudible. Except for maybe when the announcer closes his mic. It sounds horrific. Hopefully the people down in TX get some feedback and try to correct this.
Did anybody have trouble with the sound from the announcer from the microphone or is it my computer. The meet started out well with the sound and then it got worse and started buzzing with a loud voice echo.
