The official psych sheets for the women’s DI NCAA Championships dropped today, with the 281 invited swimmers now officially announced. Here are all the important links:
- Official psych sheets (Updated 3/13/14)
- Official invited swimmers by team (Updated 3/13/14)
- Official list of institutions eligible for relays
- Official meet alternate list (Updated 3/13/14)
As we predicted in our unofficial analysis of the pre-cut psych sheets yesterday, the top 39 times will receive invites in each event, a very slight increase from a year ago.
The national championships will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in just over two weeks – the first events kick off on the morning of March 20th.
We’ll have plenty more analysis of these entries to follow, but for now, here’s a brief look at the schools with double-digit invitees. Defending champions Georgia lead the NCAA with 17, just one shy of the maximum squad size for swimmers.
Keep in mind that divers have yet to be added to these totals. Divers will officially qualify for the NCAA Championships at Zone competitions to be held next week.
| School | Athletes |
| Georgia | 17 |
| California | 16 |
| Texas A&M | 16 |
| Florida | 14 |
| Virginia | 13 |
| Southern California | 11 |
| Indiana | 11 |
| Tennessee | 10 |
| UNC | 10 |
| Stanford | 10 |
I understand the system now. Thank you for the link.
How do divers qualify for NCAAs from Zones…is it points or places?
Thank you
Swimmom – an explanation is here.
http://swimswam.com/zone-diving-set-begin-monday/
Thank you Braden,
That puts it all in perspective and makes perfect sense. The top teams would not have to taper their “relay only” swimmers w b cuts at conference and just let them go to nats rested rather than having them have to taper to justify swims.
Even though my swimmer was negatively affected it is a very good rule. Us rookies have to learn.
Thanks again,
Todd
Thx, swimmer24,
I have absolutely no problem w someone that makes the meet via qualifying top 39, swimming more events in which they have b cuts. This is perfectly sensible.
My real question is; why can’t someone who only qualified in a relay, but also has b cuts also swim? They are there at the meet and I believe are in the overall swimmer count so they also would not be taking someone else’s spot.
As for how many should swim – that is completely up to the NCAA and what they believe is the best environment for all the swimmers. I have absolutely no opinion as I have yet to attend an NCAA meet.
Thanks
Todd – that was done away with because teams were able to get their A cuts on the relays and not have to work very hard to get their individual invite as well. This evens out the playing field a little bit between swimmers who are on teams that skate relays in every year no problem and swimmers who aren’t.
Personally, I think it’s added more excitement to the regular season, so I like the change.
I hope CAL wins so Missy can experience winning NCAA champs.
Next year I’m afraid belongs to Stanford.
@todd
The NCAA regulates the number of swimmers allowed to swim at the meet. Therefore, if you’re already in the meet, via an A cut or an invited time, swimming your “marginal b cut” does not take away a spot in the meet from anybody. This just allows swimmers to swim more than one event, but the b cut stops a 50 freestyler from swimming a 20 minute mile. Currently the system allows the fastest 39 women in the event to swim, so how far would you want the invite to go? The only way to change that number would be to increase the cap on swimmers.
Ouch, re reading the post of really bad spelling and grammatical errors.. “Seen” vs “scene” the most obvious among others. But the basic point is to get the fastest swimmers at the meet in each event, that is unarguable…
Neither those on relays or those w “a” times in other events should get any preference. Simply, put the fastest in the meet in the races..
Thoughts..
Tdd
I am new to the college swiiming seen so please correct me when I inevitably make an errant comment and I will not take it personally.
The official psych list came out and I have some questions. They show top 39 who I am assuming are definetly swimming that event. But then there is a serrated line w “invited” underneath. Are these swimmers below the top 39 definetly swimming the event?
And how do they determine the invitees?
I understand that Giving all the relay swimmers automatic spots if they have a b cut was problematic, and should be eliminated. But, why do they then get penalized? Why don’t the fastest swimmers in each event (that are at the meet… Read more »