2022 NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 16-19, 2022
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia (Eastern Daylight Time)
- Prelims 10AM /Finals 6PM
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Live Results
- Championship Central
- SwimSwam Preview Index
The time is almost upon us! In a few hours, the 2022 Women’s NCAA DI Championships will kick off in Atlanta. With the start of the meet rapidly approaching, let’s look at the results from our Pick ’em contest for the meet. You can still enter your picks in up until the start of the meet, so if you haven’t gotten yours in already, there’s still a little time.
Below, you’ll see pie charts of the results of each event, showing who are readers selected as the winner of each event. Before we get into it, there are a few notable results. Firstly, the relay results weren’t even close. Virginia is selected as the heavy favorite in 4 of the relays, including the 200 free relay, where an astonishing 99% of voters picked the Cavaliers. In the 800 free relay, Stanford is, as expected, the favorite, with 87.5% of respondents picking them to win.
Another interesting result is the women’s 100 breast, where 60.1% of respondents selected NC State’s Sophie Hansson to win. It’s not surprising that Hansson received the most votes, given she’s both the top seed and the defending champion in the event. It is, however, a little surprising she received such a high percentage of votes over Virginia’s Alexis Wenger, who finished just 0.04 seconds behind Hansson at ACCs last month, in a race where both swimmers clocked personal bests. Nonetheless, our readers appear very confident that Hansson will repeat.
In the women’s 1650 free, you might notice the highest percentage share of the vote doesn’t have a color which corresponds to a swimmer listed. That’s because Texas’ Erica Sullivan earned the highest share of votes. Sullivan is the 9th seed, so her name isn’t listed in the top 8 on the results. If anyone sees that result and is confused by it, just know that it’s Erica Sullivan who won 32.4% of the vote.
In my personal opinion, the most fascinating result is the women’s 100 free. Our readers cast the most votes towards Virginia freshman Gretchen Walsh to win. If we’re just looking at the psych sheet, it doesn’t look odd, since Walsh is the top seed in the event. However, our (SwimSwam’s) pick is Michigan senior Maggie MacNeil, the defending champion in the event. MacNeil won the event with a 46.02 last year, which is 0.84 seconds faster than anyone else in the field has ever been. She’s also the 3rd-fastest performer all-time in the event.
Now, without further ado, here are the Pick ‘Em results for the winners of each event:
200 MEDLEY RELAY
800 FREE RELAY
500 FREE
200 IM
50 FREE
400 MEDLEY RELAY
400 IM
100 FLY
200 FREE
100 BREAST
100 BACK
200 FREE RELAY
1650 FREE
200 BACK
100 FREE
200 BREAST
200 FLY
400 FREE RELAY
Looks like after tonight the last minute write in “Ruck” vote for 200 Free looking pretty strong!!
I’m sorry but Lia should not be able to medal, as a past top three finisher from NCAAs I believe it is unfair to all the naturally born females. Lia went through puberty as a male therefore has biological advantages over biological girls who went through puberty as a female. I would feel robbed as an athlete if I missed out on a top 8 finish let alone a spot at NCAA from someone who has not gone through the same biological changes I have. I’m sorry but it isn’t fair, I support her completely but I do not agree with the NCAA to allow her to compete for medals. She could’ve went and competed prelims and not have taken… Read more »
its quite interesting that in some events the person picked to win doesn’t have the fastest avg. predicted time (ie. 100 free)
There were a few years with unimpressive breaststroke fields, aside from Lily King. Definitely not this year.
I think it is absolutely horrible that at the women’s NCAA championships the entire storyline will be based around one swimmer who doesn’t even deserve to be there!
There’s obviously going to be so much other stuff happening and I’m guessing you’ll ignore it all to fit your “entire storyline” narrative.
I agree she doesn’t deserve to be there scoring points, but I don’t think the entire storyline is going to be based around Lia. To think so is disrespectful to the other incredible female swimmers who have worked hard to qualify for NCAAs.
The problem is swimswam posting Thomas’s prelim swim..” watch Lia Thomas”
Nah that’s all u
Go back to bed old man
wait who is this about
At least it will be entertaining
You can make it about any storyline you want. If you choose to place all your attention on one swimmer, that’s on you.
I assume the person with 32.4% in the mile is Erica Sullivan?
That one is probably the clearest toss up in the minds of readers
It would be cool to see McKenna pull the upset
If there’s one swim that stands out as being undervalued, maybe Huske in the 100 free?
Almost crazy how most events have such heavy favorites.