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NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships
14 Wolfpack Women to Begin 2022 NCAA Championships Wednesday
3/15/2022 1:34:00 PM | Swimming
ATLANTA – Fourteen Wolfpack women swimmers are set to begin competition at the 2022 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships this week to conclude the 2021-2022 season. The meet is set to run Wednesday through Saturday at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga.Â
| 2022 NCAA WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS | |
| Date | Wednesday, March 16 – Saturday, March 19 |
| Times (EST) |
Wednesday: 6 p.m. |
| Event Schedule |
Wednesday: 200 medley relay, 800 free relay |
| Streaming (ESPN3) |
Finals • Broadcast begins at 6 p.m. EST each night Prelims |
| Additional Info | Meet Homepage • Live Stats • Psych Sheet |
MEET NOTEBOOK:
A program-best 14 Wolfpack women qualified for this year's NCAA Championships event, and all five of NC State's relays also posted times during the season that earned spots at the national meet. The Pack's 14 women tie four other programs for the second-most athletes selected for this year's Championships.Â
NC State's women have finished in the top 20 at the NCAA Championships seven times in a row, highlighted by last year's program-best runner-up finish.Â
After entering last year's meet with just one diving national title in their program's history, NC State's women earned the first swimming national title in the 400 medley relay as the team of Katharine Berkoff, Sophie Hansson, Kylee Alons, and Julia Poole posted the NCAA and US Open record-breaking time of 3:24.59. It was the first of two relay titles and three individual titles that the Wolfpack women claimed during its record-setting 2021 NCAA Championships run.
A full list of the Pack's NCAA invitees can be found below:
- Kylee Alons - 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly, 100 freestyle
- Abby Arens - 200 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly
- Katharine Berkoff - 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 100 freestyle
- Annabel Crush - 200 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 freestyle
- Sophie Hansson - 50 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke
- Yara Hierath - 400 IM, 1650 freestyle
- Heather MacCausland - 50 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke
- Kate Moore - 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 backstroke
- Emma Muzzy - 200 IM, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke
- Andrea Podmanikova - 200 IM, 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke
- Julia Poole - 200 IM, 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke
- Grace Sheble - 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 butterfly
- Brooke Travis - 500 freestyle, 400 IM, 1650 freestyle
- Abbey Webb - 50 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 100 freestyle
NATIONAL SUCCESS UNDER HOLLOWAY:
Since Braden Holloway took over as head coach at the start of the 2011-12 season, the Wolfpack has enjoyed unparalleled success in the pool. During the 2010-11 campaign, NC State did not score at the NCAA Championships. Since then, NC State's women have secured 135 All-America citations from the national meets.
TOP MARKS:
NC State enters the meet with 16 individual swims seeded in the top 16 on the official psych sheet and four relays seeded in the top eight in the nation.
Thirteen of the fourteen Wolfpack women qualified for three individual events apiece at the NCAA Championships.
Senior Sophie Hansson's 56.72 100-yard breaststroke time stands at No. 1 in the nation, and she also owns the second seed in the 200-yard breaststroke with a mark of 2:03.75.Â
Katharine Berkoff enters the meet with two second place seeds (100-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle) and is seeded seventh in the 50-yard freestyle.Â
NC State's deepest event is the 200-yard IM, in which it is set to field seven swimmers, with three of those Wolfpack women owning qualifying marks that rank in the top 16.
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