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NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships
NC State Women Finish Fifth at 2022 NCAA Championships
3/19/2022 5:18:00 PM | Swimming
ATLANTA – The women of NC State swimming and diving secured the second-highest team finish in program history, as the Wolfpack claimed fifth place at the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.Â
The fifth place finish marks the second-highest team finish in NC State program history after the Pack finished as the runner-up last year. The Wolfpack women finished the meet with 279 points behind Virginia, Texas, Stanford, and Alabama.
After winning the 100-yard backstroke at last year's national championship meet, Katharine Berkoff claimed the title for the second year in a row with her 48.74 finish. It was the first American Record to ever be broken by a Wolfpack woman and marked new NCAA, ACC, US Open, pool, and program records.
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NIGHT FOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
Fifth-year senior Kate Moore finished her swimming career by swimming a best time in the 200-yard backstroke to take second in her heat of the consolation final. The tenth place finish (1:51.61) gains Honorable Mention All American honors.
Emma Muzzy competed in the Championship final of the 200-yard backstroke, picking up the fifth All American honor of her career. Her 1:51.18 performance finished 7th.
Katharine Berkoff picked up another All American finish in the 100-yard freestyle with her third place finish (46.95). Kylee Alons added a best time to bring home twelfth place (47.68)
In the 200-yard breaststroke, Sophie Hansson swam the last collegiate race of her career for a third place finish (2:04.76). Grace Sheble swam in the first consolation final of her career and finished 16th, swimming 1:54.96 to garner Honorable Mention All American honors.
In the last race of the meet, Katharine Berkoff (46.96), Kylee Alons (47.53), Annabel Crush (48.18), and Abby Arens (47.28) competed for fourth place in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Their finishing time of 3:09.95 seconds rewrites the NC State record book as the fastest time in school history.
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HONORS:
Including Berkoff's national title, the Pack garnered seven individual All-American honors, and four of NC State's relays also picked up the All-American status.
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National Title
- 100 backstroke: Katharine Berkoff (48.74, American, NCAA, ACC, US Open records)
All-American
- 200 medley relay: Berkoff, Hansson, Alons, Arens (1:32.96 – second place)
- 50 freestyle: Berkoff (21.55, seventh place), Alons (21.68 – eighth place)
- 200 freestyle relay: Berkoff, Alons, Hansson, Arens (1:26.37 – third place)
- 100 butterfly: Alons (50.64 – fifth place)
- 100 breaststroke: Hansson (57.01 – third place)
- 400 medley relay: Berkoff, Hansson, Alons, Arens (3:23.29 – second place)
- 200 backstroke: Muzzy (1:51.18 — seventh place)
- 100 freestyle: Berkoff (46.95 — third place)
- 200 breaststroke: Hansson (2:04.76 — third place)
- 400 freestyle relay: Berkoff, Alons, Crush, Arens (3:09.95 — fourth place)
Honorable Mention All-American
- 800 freestyle relay: Webb, Moore, Poole, Crush (7:00.06 – twelfth place)
- 100 breaststroke: Podmanikova (58.93 – eleventh place)
- 100 backstroke: Muzzy (51.72 – thirteenth place)
- 200 backstroke: Moore (1:51.61 — tenth place)
- 100 freestyle: Alons (47.68 — twelfth place)
- 200 butterfly: Sheble (1:54.96 — sixteenth place)
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