Women's Swimming - NCAA Championships

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

The day three prelims are complete.

Therese Svendsen qualified for the B final in the 200 backstroke and SMU is qualified for the B final in the 400 freestyle relay.

Hopefully we will have another good night tonight!

Go Ponies!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Here are the top 25 standings going into the last night of action. Missouri has one swimmer in a A final and a relay in a B final so we can't catch them. Virginia has two individuals in A finals, one individual in a B final, and a relay in a B final so they have a good shot at catching us for 16th. None of the other schools close behind SMU have enough finalists tonight to catch us - so it looks like we are fighting for 16th place with Virginia.

1. Cal Berkeley 311
2. Georgia 247
3. Southern Cali 226
3. Arizona 226
5. Stanford 222
6. Tennessee 186
7. Texas A&M 185
8. Auburn 184
9. Texas 146
10. Arizona St 99
11. Florida 97
12. Minnesota 77
13. Indiana 75
14. Wisconsin 70
15. Missouri 59
16. So. Methodist 49
17. Virginia Tech 32
18. Virginia 31
19. Ohio St 30
20. UNC 24
21. Penn St 22
22. Columbia 21
23. Miami (Fl) 20
24. George Mason 17
25. South Carolina 16

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Svendsen finished 3rd in the B final in the 200 backstroke so 11th overall (and 6 big points).

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Virginia picked up 24 points with their two swimmers in the 200 backstroke A final - so we both have 55 points now.

They still have one more individual B final (200 fly), and then we are both in the B final of the 400 free relay in the last event of the meet - which should be exciting!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

The Virginia swimmer finished 16th in the 200 butterfly which only gives them one point - so SMU just has to finish ahead of Virginia in the 400 free relays to stay ahead of them in the overall standings.

Cal just clinched the overall title with two events to go. Impressive.

[SMU Pony Mom]

DanFFH - thanks so much for all of your updates!!!!! It's great to be able to follow the team. My daughter was varsity captain of her high school swim team, so I always have a soft spot for swimming. Hope they can hold on to 16 th place!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Nina Rangelova (obviously inspired by being photo of the day on ponyfans) had a HUGE anchor leg and SMU finished 3rd in the B final of the 400 free relay (11th overall).

SMU was in 6th place in the heat going into Rangelova's leg!

Virginia finished seventh (15th overall) so we should definitely finish ahead of them in the final team standings.

It looks like SMU should have 16th overall wrapped up but we will see when the official standings come out later tonight.

Great job to all of the SMU swimmers this week!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Thanks to SMU for the great coverage throughout the championships.

SMU officially finished 16th and ended up with a total of 19 All-America honors!

I'm sure this will get its own thread but here is the SMU press release:

http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/w-swim/recaps/031712aaa.html

[Water Pony]

Delighted that our Women's team had a great NCAAs. Congratulations to Coach Collins and the entire team. Imagine the success, if we had a proper training and competitve aquatic center? (Plug, plug)

[PoconoPony]

Congratulation to the women's team. They performed very well. If only we had depth and a facility that would allow us to attract top performers.

[EastStang]

Great job ladies. 16th place is a good finish. Hopefully we can build on this and finish in the top 10 next year. Or to quote major league, win the whole ... thing.