Kenyon Women Win by 7, End Emory’s Ten-Year Dominance at DIII Nationals

2022 NCAA DIVISION III SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Wednesday, March 16 – Saturday, March 19, 2022
• IUPUI IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN
• Defending Champs: Emory women (10x) & Denison men (2x) – (2019 Results)
• Live Stream
• Live Results
• Official Psych Sheet

The Emory women have won the national title for the last ten years that the NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming And Diving have been held. However, their streak was snapped by a mere seven points this year by Kenyon, who scored 446 points to win this year’s title compared to Emory’s 439. The race for the title was incredibly close throughout all four days of the meet. Although Kenyon held the lead at the end of every day of the meet, their lead was never greater than 15 points after each finals session (in fact, aside from Day 1, their margin-of-lead did not exceed by more than 7 points). The Dension women came into title contention as well, being as close as 2.5 points behind Kenyon following Day 2. However, they ended up falling to third with 411.5 points.

Although the race for the championship was close, there is no denying that Kenyon had an absolutely dominant performance. This was led by senior Crile Hart, who scored 60 points and won the 200 IM, 100 Fly, and 200 Back. In the 200 IM, she broke her own DIII record of 1:58.04 when she swam a 1:57.76 to go under the 1:58 barrier for the first time. She was also a part of Kenyon’s title-winning 200 free relay, 200 medley relay, and 400 medley. In the 200 free relay, she split 21.98 and was the only woman in the field under 22 seconds. In addition, she had the fastest butterfly split of the field on both medley relays.

Joining Hart on Kenyon’s list of individual national champions this year is senior Emmie Mirus, who won the 100 free. She also finished second in the 50 free, and was also on all three of her team’s title-winning relays.

Kenyon took down the DIII records in all three relays that they won. They went 1:39.59 in the 200 medley relay to beat out Denison’s 1:40.11 from 2019, broke Emory’s 2017 record of 1:30.52 to swim 1:30.39 in the 200 free relay, and crushed Emory’s 3:39.57 400 medley relay by 1.52 seconds to go 3:38.05.

However, considering that Kenyon only won the meet by seven points, every single point counted for the team, and things could have come out for them very differently if any one of their swimmers did not perform. The title marked the team’s 24th championship in program history, and their first since 2009.

KENYON’S FULL 2022 NCAA DIII WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP ROSTER:

Final Team Scores:

1. Kenyon 446
2. Emory 439
3. Denison 411.5
4. Williams 289
5. Pomona-Pitzer 226
6. Chicago 219
7. Tufts 200
8. Mit 190
9. Johns Hopkins 185.5
10. St. Kate’s 171
11. Claremont MS 156.5
12. Amherst 118
13. Nyu 117
14. Bates 113.5
15. Wheaton MA 55
16. Conn College 54
17. Bowdoin 49
18. Ithaca 43
19. Hope College 40
20. Mary Washington 36
21. Wash U MO 33
22. Trinity University 31
23. Nazareth 27
24. Carnegie Mellon 25.5
25. Gustavus 21
26. Wittenberg 20
27. Tcnj 16
28. Uw-Stevens Point 15
29. Suny Cortland 14
30. Illinois Wesleyan 13
31. Case Western 12
32. Mount Holyoke 11
32. Caltech 11
34. Albion 10.5
35. Hamilton 9
36. Ursinus 8
36. Middlebury 8
38. Colby 7
39. Centre 6
40. Roger Williams 5
41. Colorado College 4
42. St. Olaf 2
42. Washington & Lee 2
44. Wellesley 1
44. Whitworth 1
44. Suny Geneseo 1