Women's Swimming & Diving Finishes 18th at NCAA Championships

Saturday, March 17

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NCAA WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Women's Swimming & Diving Finishes 18th at NCAA Championships

3/17/2018 10:09:00 PM | Swimming

Full Results

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The NC State women's swimming & diving team concluded the NCAA Championships on a high note as it earned five top-16 finishes including three in the 1650 freestyle Saturday inside the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. As a team, the Wolfpack finished 18^th.

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Over the course of the meet the Pack earned All-America honors four times and All-America Honorable Mention honors five times.

Stanford took first with 593 points, California finished second with 373, Texas A&M took third with 299 points, Michigan were fourth with 267 and Louisville rounded out the top-five with 232.

From the Coach
"I'm so incredibly proud of these ladies coming away with a top-20 finish," said head coach Braden Holloway. "It's been a year full of roller-coasters, ups and downs with sickness and injuries. Things that were not in our control and through the entire season these women fought hard, battled back and new ladies emerged as leaders, new ladies emerged as players and we walked away this season accomplishing a lot of great things. I couldn't have been more proud of the way they competed this weekend, sure there were ups and downs, things that went our way and things that didn't but they kept fighting and we walked away accomplishing some great things; some school records in multiple events. Probably the highlight for our team this weekend was having three ladies score in the mile on the last day, those miles were fantastic. Hats off to Coach Gary Taylor for getting those ladies ready to perform at the highest level. Walking away with three ladies scoring in that mile event is something that if we've done it, it's been decades but since we've been here it hasn't been done. We scored 30 points in that one event which was huge. There were a lot of ladies that came here and performed and obviously you look at the ones who scored points first but there were a lot of ladies who contributed to this team by their performances and coming here; just matching their times and a lot of them bettering their times. That was a big thing to accomplish at this meet, where so many people don't do that because its so hard to get here. Really proud of these ladies, top-20 finish and we look forward to re-setting, focusing on our summer goals and continuing to move this program forward."

1650 Freestyle
In a stellar display both Hannah Moore and Tamila Holub were named All-Americans; Moore finished third and broke the school record with a time of 15:40.68 seconds while Holub took eighth in 15:54.44 seconds. Anna Jahns was named Honrable Mention All-America as she finished 14^th, clocking in at 16:00.37 seconds.

200 Backstroke
Elise Hann earned Honorable Mention All-America honors, taking eighth in the 'B' final with a time of 1:53.09 seconds.

In the prelim Haan posted the 9^th-fastest time, 1:51.48 seconds, while Kathleen Moore finished in 1:53.96 seconds to finish 27^th.

400 Freestyle Relay
The team of Elise Haan, Krista Duffield, Lexie Lupton & Olivia Calgean took 8^th in the 'B' final to earn Honorable Mention All-America honors as they clocked in at 3:15.66 seconds.

In the prelim, Haan, Duffield, Lupton & Ky-lee Perry the finished 14^th with a time of 3:14.86 seconds.

200 Breaststroke
Julia Poole touched the wall at 2:12.53 seconds, the 43^rd-fastest prelim time.

In the prelim, Haan, Duffield, Lupton & Ky-lee Perry the finished 14^th with a time of 3:14.86 seconds.

Platform Diving
Madeline Kline earned a score of 195.30 to finish 44^th.

Up Next
The men's swimming and diving team will now have its chance to compete at the NCAA Championships. NC State will travel with a squad of 16 to Minneapolis where it competes from Mar. 21-24.
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