The Georgia Bulldogs are the champions of the 2013 Division I NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, making their 5th title of all-time.
The titles for all-time team championships in the 32 years of women’s NCAA swimming:
1. Stanford – 8
2. Texas – 7
T-3. Georgia – 5
T-3. Auburn – 5
5. Cal 3
6. Florida 2
T-7. Arizona – 1
T-7 USC – 1
The familiar faces on this staff of head coach Jack Bauerle and senior Associate Head Coach Harvey Humphries have been here for the whole run: one that started in 1999. Stefanie Williams is in her first year as a Georgia assistant, but she was on three NCAA Championship winning teams as a senior in her previous life.
Diving coach Dan Laak has also been here for all 5 titles.
Jerry Champers came in 2002, meaning that he was here for the 2005 title. The only newcomer to the club is Brian Smith, who is in his 6th season with the Bulldogs.
Congrats to the whole Georgia roster:
| Ann-Perry Blank | JR |
| Olivia Boggs | SO |
| Sommers Creed | SO |
| Meghan Faulkner | SO |
| Hali Flickinger | FR |
| Kelsey Gaid | SR |
| Haley Goodman | FR |
| Jessica Graber | JR |
| Lauren Harrington | SO |
| Maddie Locus | SO |
| Ansley Long | JR |
| Brittany MacLean | FR |
| Melanie Margalis | JR |
| Jordan Mattern | SO |
| Amber McDermott | SO |
| Megan Molnar | SO |
| Anna Neumeister | SO |
| Darcie O’Brien | SO |
| Shannon O’Malley | SO |
| Courtney Peters | SO |
| Megan Romano | SR |
| Laura Ryan | JR |
| Allison Schmitt | RS SR |
| Kelly Thatcher | FR |
| Chantal Van Landeghem | FR |
| Nicole Vernon | SO |
| Shannon Vreeland | JR |
| Annie Zhu | FR |
Statistically, does anyone know have any other siblings swimming for different divisions, ever both won their divisions in the same year on the same night? The Mc Dermott sisters just accomplished that. Amber swims for Georgia, division 1 and Courtney swims for Emory, division 3. Both schools won their divisions and both girls swam the 1650 on the last day!! Congratulations to both schools!!!!
Congrats Georgia Bulldawgs! A much deserved and clearly hard-worked for win! I am sure Schmitt and Romano will be much missed on the team. They are both outstanding swimmers, and I am so happy for the seniors that they got to experience winning a National Championship – something I know at least Schmitt has said in interviews was a chief reason for coming back to UGA. Their legacy will be much more than their great swimming ability though – you can really tell they are great team leaders and team players as well, and it seems the younger girls on the team are absorbing that lesson. Congrats to Cal, Tenn and all the teams for a great meet too. Tenn… Read more »
Congrats Georgia Bulldawgs! A much deserved and clearly hard-worked for win! I am sure losing Schmitt and Romano will be much missed on the team. They are both outstanding swimmers, and I am so happy for the seniors that they got to experience winning a National Championship – something I know at least Schmitt has said in interviews was a chief reason for coming back to UGA. I think that their legacy will be much more than their great swimming ability though – you can really tell they are great team leaders and team players as well, and it seems the younger girls on the team are absorbing that lesson. Congrats to Cal, Tenn and all the teams for a… Read more »
The Pac 12 vs SEC could go on for awhile. I agree that from a relay and team standing standpoint, the SEC did better than the Pac 12.
However, individual winners at NCAA included:
50 Free- Geer, Arizona, PAC 12
100 Free- Geer, Arizona, PAC 12
200 Free- Schmitt, Georgia, SEC
500 Free- Anderson, USC, PAC 12
1650 Free- Anderson, USC, PAC 12
100 Back- Bootsma, CAL, PAC 12
200 Back- Pelton, CAL, PAC 12
100 Brst- Larson, TXAM, SEC
200 Brst- Sogar, Texas, Big 12
100 Fly- Scott, Auburn, SEC
200 Fly- Adams, TXAM, SEC
200 IM- Leverenz, CAL, PAC 12
400 IM- Beisel, Florida,… Read more »
The sec had 4 out if the top six and almost 4 out of the top 5. I would say this year for the women sec is on top.
Someone wake me when they are done swimming short course yards.
Unlike last year where the relays killed UGA the first day and was too much to recover, it was a valuable lesson to this very young team. Last year you had a lot of freshman and nerves were a factor when going against a tough Cal team. This year the team talked about getting back and winning it all with confidence. For all the talk about the PAC 12 being the best conference….check out the standings. Four of the top six were SEC, as a DAWG fan next year in the SEC is going to be a dogfight (now pun intended). No doubt the team will miss Allison, but the team realy wanted to make sure they gave a title… Read more »
Congrats to Georgia. They deserve this title.
Congratulations Jack and Harvie as “Philly” boy makes good again. Don would have been proud.