This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we go through the 2022 Women’s DI NCAA Championships event-by-event and give you our picks for every NCAA title on the line.
- 0:00 SwimSwam Breakdown Introduction
- 0:40 200 Medley Relay
- 1:29 800 Free Relay
- 2:20 500 Free
- 3:45 200 IM
- 5:55 50 Free
- 7:48 400 Medley Relay
- 10:57 200 Free Relay
- 12:06 400 IM
- 14:32 100 Fly
- 17:35 200 Free
- 19:13 100 Breast
- 20:13 100 Back
- 23:38 200 Back
- 26:58 100 Free
- 30:24 200 Breast
- 33:02 1,650 Free
- 37:00 200 Fly
- 39:38 400 Free Relay
SINK or SWIM
- 42:00 Will Both NCAA Backstroke records get broken?
- 42:46 Will Stanford women get 2nd place?
- 43:06 Will Virginia win by over 75 points?
- 44:16 Texas’ Diving makes the difference to put them at 3rd over NC State?
Coleman, never doubt Katharine. She doesn’t see ceilings.
lol I think I have a good guess as to who you are now.
snarky’s favorite swimmers:
1) Always perform at big meets (even when they don’t swim at big meets)
2) Always perform at big meets (even when they don’t perform well at big meets).
Got it.
Katharine gets a fraction of the respect she deserves. She has never added at NCAAS from her times at ACCs. She will in all likelihood be faster at NCAAs than she was at ACCs and if that’s the case she will be very hard to beat. Regan wasn’t much faster at PAC 12s and did it in clean water on a relay. Katharine has only gotten closer to Regan’s times in the past 3 years and now she is right there. I think it will be a close race.
I think you guys are over-estimating Alex in the 4 IM. I see Forde under 4 but Alex not yet there.
Okay but what are you going to eat if she does it?
Two UVA-orange habanero peppers. And I will send you the video.
Okay, but I’m holding you to that.
Braden always asking the important questions.
AW is like top 5 in all four strokes of the 200s of course she is going to crush this one.
What’s that, y’all picked 3 different people to win the 200 fly and brought up two others as a “dark horse”???
idk why I’m shippin’ Regan as 4th so much, but it’s possible! (I just want more people to yell at me for some reason over a pick i didn’t even make??)
I think it’s highly plausible we see Lia win one of her races, but I wouldn’t be surprised to also see her win none.
Like Braden said, we just don’t have enough data points to provide any better insight than we have already seen. She went really fast at her winter invite.. Not so much at conference. But like the story as old as time, we don’t know how rested Penn allowed their NCAA qualifiers to get for conference… So who knows
Well, she was 4:18.7 in the 500 two years ago. I don’t know much about hormone suppression medication, but what if she stopped taking them before NCAA’s? Would she go 4:26?
Stanford women’s freshman class will score the most points than any other freshman class at this meet. Change my mind.
This seems fairly obvious…they have two American Record holders and Olympians..
Master of the Obvious!
Go get em Loretta
Peanut Gallery:
I am not going to predict because just rehashing your articles and the reason polls and predictions don’t matter and this is why they have the meet!
-Please stop saying women frosh can’t do this or that is because they are freshmen! That is absurd. Several have been to Olympics and/or medaled there. Many have some great international experience. They were recruited because they are studs.
-Some good discussion about how will the loss of Rick Bishop affects UM performance. How will new Alabama head coach affect them? How about talking about split programs vs combined programs? Cal and Texas men have won for like 10 years in a row and they are split….is there… Read more »
Agreed. Age for women makes little difference after 14 or 15
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a swimswam breakdown spinoff podcast. The Ready Room Alt-Lane Crossfire Podcast!
Are you saying that a woman cannot discuss men’s sports? Why is the women’s meet more her wheelhouse than the men’s meet?
Not saying that. They already did it and don’t need to do it again
lol her beat is international swimmers / meets.
Steven Nolan, Ghost wasn’t clear on why, so I was asking for clarification.
STEPHEN Nolan, tyvm.
And I know, which is why I answered it. Your first sentence just made it seem like Ghost said something sexist.
(Which now that I look back at it, the comment was:
So the clues were kinda there. [I’m not faulting you for not knowing she doesn’t really cover US college meets, but a bit of a fault for immediately thinking Ghost was being sexist.])