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Reported by Anne Lepesant.
In the 200 medley relay, Virginia’s Courtney Bartholomew (23.91), Laura Simon(27.18), Ellen Williamson (23.86), and Ellen Thomas (21.89) placed fourth behind Tennessee, and just .06 in front of Georgia with 1:36.84.
Bartholomew, meanwhile, earned All-American honors in the 100 back, finishing second in 50.51. Bartholomew had set the pool record in prelims with 50.67, and while she was faster in finals, Cal’s Rachel Botsma ran away with the title in 50.03, just missing Natalie Coughlin’s American record of 49.97.
After a fourth-place finish in the 200 IM last night, Notre Dame’s Emma Reaney picked up her second All-American designation in the 100 breast. Reaney moved up from 7th in prelims to 3rd in finals, posting a time of 58.43.
UVA’s Simon came in fourth in the 100 breast just behind Reaney. Her career-best 58.53 broke the Virginia school record and earned Simon All-American honors.
Louisville’s Kylliainen also picked up a fourth; she went 4:03.51 in the 400 IM and lowered her own school record in the process.
Leah Smith of Virginia, fresh off her NCAA record in the 500 free yesterday, wound up seventh in the 200 free for another All-American accolade. Smith touched in 1:44.00, just off her prelims time of 1:43.80.
Cottrell of Louisville scored for the Cardinals in the 100 breast when she finished 11th with 59.45.
Danielle Siverling set two UNC records in the 200 free when she clocked a 1:44.35 in prelims, then came back and eclipsed that with 1:44.30 in finals for 12th place. Siverling had first set the school record at ACCs last month. This was her second All-American honor of the meet; she also finished 11th in the 500 free.
North Carolina diver Michole Timm made history for UNC when she placed 14th in three-meter diving with 335.35 points, becoming the first Tarheel woman diver to earn All-American status since 1992.
How about the fact that 1/2 of the team was throwing up the entire meet? How about the fact that they sucked it up and still raced well all things considered?
Look at the stats – the percentage of people that actually go faster at this meet is NOT very high. NCAAs is about racing, and they raced tough.
Give the guy and the rest of his staff some credit, and go b**** about something else. Have some pride. Your comments don’t help anyone.
This point is huge. They went those mid season times in invites with a far less grueling schedule.
I’m sure if we do the same analysis on Cal we find the same thing. Runge didn’t perform to her Pac12 level, I am sure there are a handful of others who were less than their best.
But they are Cal and they are DEEP. They can just do decent enough and it’s better than everyone else’s best.
Sure, a handful of studs killed this meet- Missy, Manuel, Worrell, and SMITH… but for many others this meet was a grind. Just looking to eek out some points.
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Taking 5th as a coach at NCAAs, best finish in team history and you get criticized…tough.
Keep in mind – Every meet is a different format. NCAAs is 3 days where you can’t take it easy in prelims because it’s so fast to qualify for finals. That means more hard swim in less days. Not easy to go and drop a ton of time. It’s takes years to build a program and get kids to buy into your system.
Every single scoring swimmer came to swim for the previous staff. I’m not saying that the girls aren’t fast but he doesn’t deserve half the credit he’s getting. He doesn’t coach Smith or Simon.
Also, the NCAAS girls were not rested AT ALL for accs, so most of your time analyses are based on unsaved/untapered times, or mid season times in only a few cases.
Bottom line is they should be doing better, all the talent was brought in by previous staff, and Augie was handed the keys to 2 Lamborghinis (men’s and women’s teams) and only 1 is still on the road
False. Marrkand is a freshman, and Simon and Smith never dove in once for the old staff… recruited by them, never trained with them.
Lamborghini?
2010- 8th 110
2011- 13th 105
2012- 17th 60
2013- 18th 45
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4 years- avg 14th 80, total 320 points
2014- 11th 123
2015- 5th 229
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2 years- avg 8th 176, total 352 points
It was a Taurus at best. It’s probably a Camaro now. It was never- NEVER- a Lamborghini. Keep trying.
I’m sure your kind words and support mean the world to the girls on the team.
Simon with a huge swim, Bartholomew with a big swim… yeah… throw that noise somewhere else.
What a ridiculous comment
Overall for the year almost all the females have done best times and most of the men have to
At this meet, smith, markland, Simon, have all gone best times
The others have been right on their bests which is better than a lot of teams
Only disappointing swimmer has been jones
They have broken 2 ncaa records
They do not have the talent of Cal, Georgia, or Stanford to be top 3. Best they could hope for was 4th and they will be 4th or 5th.
That is the best finish for the program EVER
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Wonder how many comments are getting bounced?
Can’t imagine this quiet of a message board about Mr. Busch.
Well by the numbers the Wahoos have gone faster in 9 out of 26 events, is that good?
1 win is nice and they are putting up points but really shouldn’t this team be doing more?
Also it seems like their swims have gotten comparitively worse over the course of the meet, doesn’t seem like they quite have the “fight” Auggie is looking for