2017 WOMEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 15 – Saturday, March 18
- IUPUI Natatorium – Indianapolis, IN
- Championship Central
- Psych Sheet
- Event Previews
- Live Results
And on the final day of the 2017 NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships, the Georgia Bulldogs came through in the clutch. After relying on their SEC rivals from Texas A&M for most of the meet, Georgia came up big on Saturday evening with all of the finals videos from the 4th day of the meet – where Georgia wound up taking 4th.
See the videos below, and for the full video experience, complete with graphics and Rowdy’s commentary, you can log in to ESPN3.com for the replays of each session of the meet.
Below, we’ve posted all of the A Finals, which included a new all-time best in the 200 yard breaststroke from Lilly King of Indiana; a new all-time best in the 100 yard freestyle from Simone Manuel of Stanford; and a new all-time best by the Stanford 400 free relay.
1650 free – Katie Ledecky, Freshman, Stanford, 15:07.70
200 back – Kathleen Baker, Sophomore, Cal, 1:48.44
100 free – Simone Manuel, Sophomore, Stanford, 45.56
200 breast – Lilly King, Sophomore, Indiana, 2:03.18
200 fly – Ella Eastin, Sophomore, Stanford, 1:51.35
400 free relay – Stanford, 3:07.61
Random point– Olivia Smoliga did not win one title at NCAA’s and she did not have one bad race. Every time she got in the water she hit. And even most of the title winners had one or two off races. Great meet!
That last turn by Eastin in the 200 Fly was reminiscent of Misty Hyman at the 2000 Olympics. Faster rotation than anybody else and then smoked the underwater.
That was AWESOME. She just destroyed that last fifty.
Girl at the end of the 100 free video: “is that a 45?!?!” yup still in disbelief
I keep watching it over and over again.
thanks for posting these videos
lane 1 200 fly was passed 15M when she broke surface IMO
I’m still not convinced. It looks like her shoulders and elbows are above surface level when her head is at 15. If she had taken a breath on the first stroke I think she would have been safe, so she shouldn’t be penalized for keeping her head down.
She had a great, legal b.o.
Officials aren’t used to seeing swimmers go exactly 15m… it’s normally 11, 12, or even 14.5… but never 15m exactly.
It doesn’t seem she even got an advantage on the other swimmers from her longer b.o. … it’s not like she went 20y uw both ways on a 50 fr.
Based on this video you saw that or the other posted by their coach.. the markers on the ropes are not the exact measurement, but a guideline. The official measurement is taken from the bulkhead and marked on the deck.