34 swimmers, 10 men and 24 women, have achieved NCAA “A” cuts in Division I as of Monday, automatically qualifying them for the NCAA Championships in March and giving them the option to save their next shave and taper for the national championships.
Florida leads the charge after a bunch of lights-out performances at the Ohio State Invite – they have 4 men and 5 women already qualified. Stanford and Texas A&M each qualified 4 women in their showdown at the Art Adamson Invitational and Georgia has already qualified 2 men and 3 women.
In addition, 7 men’s teams and 10 women’s teams have hit at least one “A” standard in a relay event. Under the new NCAA Invite process, if a team qualifies at least one individual and hits at least one relay “A” cut, that team can bring all of its “B” cut relays along to the national championships as well. What this ultimately means is that these relays who have already hit an “A” cut have essentially qualified all of their relays for NCAAs, assuming one individual from the team can get an invite of their own.
The men’s teams with relays qualified are the following: Auburn, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio State, Florida State, and Virginia Tech.
Relay from these women’s programs qualified: Stanford, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida, Auburn, Virginia, California, USC, Missouri and Minnesota.
Here are the lists of individual “A” cut qualifiers and their events so far:
Women
Florida – Natalie Hinds, 100 free
Florida – Elizabeth Beisel, 1650 free, 200 IM, 400 IM
Florida – Alicia Matthieu, 1650 free
Florida – Sinead Russell, 100 back, 200 back
Florida – Ellese Zalewski, 100 fly
Stanford – Maddy Schaefer, 50 free, 100 free
Stanford – Lia Neal, 100 free, 200 free
Stanford – Felicia Lee, 100 back
Stanford – Maya Dirado, 100 back, 200 fly, 200 IM, 400 IM
Texas A&M – Lili Ibanez, 200 free
Texas A&M – Paige Miller, 100 back
Texas A&M – Breeja Larson, 100 breast, 200 breast
Texas A&M – Cammile Adams, 200 fly
Georgia – Amber McDermott, 500 free
Georgia – Olivia Smoliga, 100 back
Georgia – Melanie Margalis, 100 breast, 200 breast, 200 IM, 400 IM
Virginia – Leah Smith, 500 free
Virginia – Courtney Bartholomew, 100 back, 200 back
Minnesota – Kierra Smith, 200 breast
California – Liz Pelton, 100 back
Kentucky – Tina Bechtel, 100 fly, 200 fly
Louisville – Tanja Kylliainen, 200 fly
North Carolina – Stephanie Peacock, 500 free, 1650 free
Missouri – Dani Barbiea, 100 fly
Men
Florida – Andrea D’Arrigo, 500 free
Florida – Sebastien Rousseau, 200 fly, 400 IM
Florida – Dan Wallace, 400 IM
Florida – Marcin Cieslak, 200 IM
Georgia – Chase Kalisz, 200 IM, 400 IM
Georgia – Tynan Stewart, 200 back
Auburn – Marcelo Chierighini, 50 free, 100 free
Auburn – Joe Patching, 200 back
Louisville – Joao De Lucca, 100 free, 200 free
Ohio State – Connor McDonald, 200 back
In addition to that list, a number of other swimmers went times that stand a good shot at being invited to the NCAA Championships in March. Based on SwimSwam’s recent look-back at what it takes to get an NCAA Invite, we compiled the number swimmers in each event who have already gone faster than the last time to get invited to the NCAA Championships last season.
Keep in mind that some athletes are near the top of the NCAA in more than three events, meaning they can’t enter all of them for NCAAs. This list doesn’t neccessarily give us a picture of how many total athletes are in line for NCAA Invites, but rather which events have been especially fast in the early part of the season.
Of note: the backstroke events have been very fast so far for both men and women – that includes the 7 “A” cuts set in the women’s 100 back alone this past weekend.
Number of Swimmers under the 2013 NCAA Invite time
| Women faster so far this season | Women’s 2012-2013 Invited Time | Event | Men’s 2012-2013 Invited Time | Men faster so far this season |
| 17 | 4:42.90 | 500 Free | 4:18.70 | 5 |
| 20 | 1:58.51 | 200 IM | 1:45.08 | 6 |
| 16 | 22.45 | 50 Free | 19.67 | 6 |
| 15 | 4:11.92 | 400 IM | 3:46.72 | 7 |
| 13 | 52.99 | 100 Fly | 46.74 | 3 |
| 17 | 1:46.10 | 200 Free | 1:35.34 | 4 |
| 11 | 1:00.72 | 100 Breast | 53.37 | 2 |
| 19 | 53.21 | 100 Back | 46.95 | 6 |
| 16 | 16:19.32 | 1650 Free | 15:03.07 | 10 |
| 12 | 1:54.79 | 200 Back | 1:43.03 | 12 |
| 18 | 49.00 | 100 Free | 43.14 | 4 |
| 12 | 2:11.44 | 200 Breast | 1:55.97 | 4 |
| 19 | 1:57.59 | 200 Fly | 1:44.74 | 9 |
Why did we turn this into youtube comments? Start a T9 article to talk about it. Congrats to all that have made it so far. More to follow for sure. Special props to Olivia “Tiny” Smoliga!
But what does it have to do with Title IX? I thought that had to do with bringing equality, not for women to have more invites than men?
Title IX mandates equal number of scholarships between men and women. SInce football takes about 68 scholarships, there are fewer scholarships available for men’s swimming (9.9 D1) vs women’s (14 D1), similarly across other sports. The othere unintended effect of Title IX was the dropping of men’s programs due to cost in order to meet the women’s equivalency mandate.
SInce there are many more women’s programs than men, and the pool of women’s swimmers much larger, it only makes sense to invite a higher number to NCAA’s to meet a similar percentage of the total pool.
Title IX does not mandate equal number of scholarships between men and women. Nationwide, there are still significantly more dollars spent on men’s athletic scholarships than women’s.
Braden, partially correct there. On an absolute basis the dollars spent on operations and scholarships for men’s NCAA D1 programs is higher than for women’s programs. On a non-revenue sports pure play comparison, there are inequities favoring women’s NCAA sports.
The outlier is football. Title IX prescribes that there must be equal scholarships for all men’s and for all women’s teams totaled. That means there needs to be an offset for the 65 football scholarships to the women’s programs to keep a balance. There are a few non-revenue sports that are men (wrestling, baseball are examples) or women (field hockey, softball are examples), but it is a reasonable generalization that these non-revenue sports by single sex close to offset.
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Only 10 individuals for the men and 23 for the women so far. (and 6 and 9 for relays) Are the men’s standards harder? I thought the men’s meet had been slower than the women’s meet the last couple years, no?
More girls invited than guys. So the numbers for girls are always going to be comparitively higher.
And, I would disagree that the guys meet has been slower than the girls.
Yeah, fewer guys invited due to the unintentional repressive outcome of Title IX for men. Todays guys are targeted for the sins of the past. Pretty sad.
JP is correct that more women are invited to the meet than men – last year, for example 29 men got invites in each event, compared to 38 per event for the women. Another factor could be that women typically require less rest than men, so for teams that only rested a week or so, the results might be much more noticeable in their women than men
Yeah, this is all I could find:
1 Griffin, Carter J 18 Mizzou-MV 1:42.49 1:41.67 20
24.52 25.60 25.83 25.72
Oops… replied to wrong post!
Missouri men also made an A cut in the 400 medely relay. 3:09.68
And carter griffin from missouri
A cut’s 1:41.41, isn’t it? And Griffin went 1:41.67? Close, but no cigar.
Carter went 1:40 in finals
Both sets of results I’ve seen have him going 1:42 in prelims and 1:41.67 at finals. So he missed the cut unless there’s a time trial or a mistake in the results. But if he was 1:40 at some point and you’ve got results of it, send them my way and we’ll update!
Waaaaaait no I think you’re right! haha no idea where I was getting 1:40
Excellent update. Much appreciated.
You are missing Stephanie Peacock from UNC in both the 500 and 1650
Good catch. The Nike Cup results had not been added to the event ranks yet. It’s updated to include her now!