2019 ACC WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday-Sauturday, February 20-23rd
- Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, NC (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Virginia (1x)
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.01 seconds, one one-hundredth of a second, is the smallest gap that the sport of swimming will acknowledge in a result. At the average pace of an ACC Championship-caliber women’s 50 yard freestyle, that equates to just under three-quarters of an inch in margin. And that’s all that Virginia junior Morgan Hill has needed to win 2 ACC titles this week in Greensboro.
After beating NC-State’s Ky-Lee Perry in the 50 free final 21.68-21.69 on Thursday, Hill beat Louisville’s Grace Oglesby 51.01-51.02 on Friday. Given how close this meet is, and is projected to continue to be (NC State, Virginia, and Louisville are separated by only 22 points after the women’s 100 fly), each of those wins, worth an 8-point swing versus the contrary, could be crucial to the final outcome of the meet.
Hill’s best time in the 50 free coming into the meet was a 22.05 relay leadoff at the Georgia Fall Invitational. She was 22.15 at last year’s NCAA Championship meet for her best coming into the season.
In the 100 fly, her best time coming into the meet was 52.16, and her best time coming into the season was a 55.19, meaning that she dropped over 4 seconds to win the ACC title in the event this year.