2021 NCAA WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- When: Wednesday, March 17 – Saturday, March 20, 2021
- Where: Greensboro Aquatic Center / Greensboro, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
- Prelims 10 AM / Finals 6 PM (Local Time)
- Short course yards (SCY) format
- Defending champion: Stanford (3x) – 2019 results
- Streaming: ESPN3
- Championship Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results – Swimming
- Live Results – Diving
The final day of the 2021 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships was full of firsts. Not only did we have an ACC team crack the top two overall finishes for the first time ever, as UVA won and NC State took 2nd, but the Alabama Crimson Tide women closed out the meet with their first NCAA relay victory ever.
Swimming in the final heat, Morgan Scott led off with a 47.78, the 3rd-fastest leadoff leg in the field, behind UVA’s Kate Douglass (46.76) Michigan Maggie MacNeil (46.94), both of whom were swimming the same heat.
Alabama closed the gap with a pair of 47s from Kalia Antoniou (47.16) and Flora Molnar (47.94), then anchor Cora Dupre dropped the hammer with a 46.90, the 3rd-fastest overall split, and 2nd-fastest on a flying start, to get past UVA and touch in a time of 3:09.78 and set a new school record.
Cal junior Isabel Ivey had the fastest overall split in the field by a wide margin, anchoring the Bears with a 46.10 that was 0.66s ahead of the next-fastest time, Douglass’ leadoff.
| Team | Swimmer | Time |
| Cal | Isabel Ivey | 46.10 |
| Virginia | Kate Douglass | 46.76 |
| Alabama | Cora Dupre | 46.90 |
| Michigan | Maggie MacNeil | 46.94 |
| NC State | Kylee Alons | 47.05 |
| Alabama | Kalia Antoniou | 47.16 |
| Tennessee | Tjasa Pintar | 47.35 |
| Georgia | Zoie Hartman | 47.51 |
| Texas | Julia Cook | 47.61 |
| Virginia | Alex Walsh | 47.63 |
| Texas | Kelly Pash | 47.72 |
| Alabama | Morgan Scott | 47.78 |
| NC State | Sophie Hanson | 47.80 |
| Ohio State | Katherine Zenick | 47.86 |
| Ohio State | Amy Fulmer | 47.93 |
| Alabama | Flora Molnar | 47.94 |
| Cal | Elise Garcia | 47.94 |
| NC State | Katharine Berkoff | 47.94 |
| Northwestern | Maddie Smith | 47.95 |
| Virginia | Paige Madden | 47.98 |
| Tennessee | Bailey Grinter | 47.98 |
| Virginia | Lexi Cuomo | 48.08 |
| UNC | Grace Countie | 48.10 |
| Virginia Tech | Sarah Shackelford | 48.12 |
| Florida | Talia Bates | 48.14 |
| Georgia | Gabi Fa’Amausili | 48.17 |
| Cal | Emily Gantriis | 48.20 |
| Stanford | Amalie Fackenthal | 48.23 |
| Louisville | Alena Kraus | 48.28 |
| Georgia | Maxine Parker | 48.37 |
| Stanford | Lauren Green | 48.37 |
| Cal | Robin Neumann | 48.4o |
| Florida | Katie Mack | 48.4 |
| Ohio State | Taylor Petrak | 48.41 |
| Wisconsin | Phoebe Bacon | 48.41 |
| Virginia Tech | Reka Gyorgy | 48.42 |
| UCLA | Claire Grover | 48.42 |
| Louisville | Tristen Ulett | 48.43 |
| Virginia Tech | Emma Atkinson | 48.45 |
| NC State | Julia Poole | 48.46 |
| Tennessee | Trude Rothrock | 48.50 |
| Northwestern | Ally Larson | 48.5 |
| Louisville | Paige Hetrick | 48.53 |
| Indiana | Ashley Turak | 48.56 |
| Michigan | Megan Glass | 48.58 |
| Missouri | Sarah Thompson | 48.58 |
| Louisville | Gabi Albiero | 48.60 |
| Stanford | Anya Goeders | 48.66 |
| Wisconsin | Alana Palmer | 48.69 |
| Indiana | Abby Kirkpatrick | 48.74 |
| Northwestern | Selen Ozbilen | 48.76 |
| Missouri | Amy Fedderson | 48.77 |
| Tennessee | Mona McSharry | 48.83 |
| Ohio State | Freya Rayner | 48.83 |
| Michigan | Olivia Carter | 48.83 |
| Indiana | Elizbeth Broshears | 48.91 |
| Missouri | Sierra Smith | 48.91 |
| Stanford | Emma Wheal | 48.94 |
| Wisconsin | Isabel Lampre | 48.94 |
| UNC | Sophie Lindner | 48.96 |
| UCLA | Delaney Smith | 48.96 |
| Indiana | Laurel Eiber | 48.99 |
| Michigan | Sophie Housey | 49.00 |
| UCLA | Sophia Kosturos | 49.03 |
| UCLA | Ella Kirschke | 49.03 |
| Georgia | Courtney Harnish | 49.04 |
| UNC | Amy Dragelin | 49.05 |
| Missouri | Megan Keil | 49.06 |
| Texas | Olivia Bray | 49.07 |
| Virginia Tech | Joelle Vereb | 49.08 |
| UNC | Heidi Lowe | 49.15 |
| USC | Kaitlyn Dobler | 49.22 |
| Wisconsin | Lillie Hosack | 49.23 |
| USC | Jemma Schlicht | 49.28 |
| USC | Marta Ciesla | 49.31 |
| Northwestern | Annika Wagner | 49.37 |
| Texas | Bridget Semenuk | 49.42 |
| Florida | Gabrielle Hillis | 49.70 |
| Florida | Kathleen Golding | 49.75 |
| USC | Isabelle Odgers | 49.84 |
Love the energy of the Bama women, 5 of top 22 100 FR including Diana! Thank you Ozzie and Margo (and all the other coaches) for their help training these swimmers against all odds, in a year full of ups and downs. But most importantly, love the attitude expressed by Morgan- just have fun! Roll Tide!!!!
Stanford has it in the bag next year. Shaw, who will be a freshman next season, has already split a 47.4 before. Should be under 47 with her rapid improvements lately. Not to mention that Taylor Ruck will be returning who is 45 easily, plus Smith who we all know can pull off at least a 46, 4th swimmer can also be 47.
Something tells me Tori Huske can pull off a 46 as well
LOL sorry totally forgot. So 46×3 possibly and a 45. That’s scary.
I love Morgan’s interview after the 400 Free Relay!
MOMO
Congratulations to Coley Stickels. Took a 34th place team and brought them into the top 5 in only two years.
If Coley deserves any kudos, then he also should accept the responsibility of his personal actions that cost him his job and disrupted the team!
Kudos to Ozzie, the staff and team that drew strength from each other to finish strong.
And if we are crediting those no longer with the program; Denny and Jonty recruited McMahon, White and Antoniou and coached them for a year before they left.
Of course. Here we go again w the unsubstantiated nonsense. Give the guy a break. He coached those 100 freestylers for the past 2 years and set that team up for their performances which is undeniable. Denny and Jonty have nothing to do with it. The women’s team was almost non existent when they left.
Maybe, but these are college kids, and performance measured by the numbers, at any cost, is not necessarily the optimal goal for a program. How many athletes were chewed up and spit out in order to make the coach look good by the numbers?
Stickels is the primary reason this relay performed the way it did. Not mentioned in any previous comments is the AD and associate AD have been nothing but a disgrace in their support of the swimming and diving program. That information will come out, soon. A previous coach took it upon himself to undermine the new coaching staff and is still active in his efforts even after Stickels resigned. In spite of all the distractions the girls found the strength and desire to push through everything and show their talent. Congratulations to the girls!
I disagree. The athletes are the primary reason this relay performed the way it did.
This is certainly getting tiresome….
Coley Stickels is no longer at Alabama and he can continue to post under other names on this site or have those that he has convinced of his side of the story but the facts are:
Someone who yearned to be a college head coach and got a Power 5 job left after 19 1/2 months on the job either because he “resigned” prior to being terminated for actions he committed or because he quit on his team to “coach pro swimmers for the Olympics”. What coach walks out in the middle of the season – he could have left after NCAA’s? He was supposedly going to coach Olympic hopefuls in the Alabama… Read more »
Congrats to the Alabama ladies. In a year full of distractions, they made school history.
Kalia is the LOML
Crazy to think that Bama, NC State, and UVA had all yet to win a relay title before this year, but kudos. Milestones for all!
Broken record, but that split from Ivey is monster. I know there’s the relay start to factor in, but top-notch for her!
I worry that she is going to be the best swimmer who never won an individual title.