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NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships
NC State Women Secure Fifth Place Team Title at NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
3/18/2023 10:41:00 PM | Swimming
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — The 17 women representing the Pack at the 2023 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships combined efforts to bring home a fifth place team finish Saturday, tying the second-highest team finish in program history. The Wolfpack women wrapped up the meet with 263 points behind Virginia, Texas, Stanford, and Louisville.Â
The Pack finishes the meet with 11 All-American and 10 Honorable Mention All-American honors, along with setting three program records.
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS:
1650-yard freestyle:
Emma Hastings, a freshman swimming at the first NCAA Championships of her career, posted a time of 16:11.96 to take 25th overall in the event.
200-yard backstroke:
The Pack duo of Kennedy Noble and Emma Muzzy posted prelims times of 1:50.88 and 1:51.00 to head into the final as the fifth and sixth seeds, respectively. Noble, a freshman, went 1:50.58 in the final to keep her seed, taking fifth place overall. Joining her in the heat, Muzzy raced for the last time of her remarkable career to take eighth place (1:52.82).
100-yard freestyle:
In her third individual championship final of meet, Katharine Berkoff gained another All-American honor, setting a program record in the process. Her time of 46.87 seconds marked a lifetime best and finished fifth in the field. Swimming in prelims, Kylee Alons finished 27th (48.36), Abbey Webb finished 32nd (48.51), and Annabel Crush finished 55th (49.36).Â
200-yard breaststroke:
Senior Heather MacCausland capped her accomplished career with a 16th place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke. Her time in prelims, 2:08.14, recorded a lifetime best to mark best times in both breaststroke events during the course of the championship meet.
Also competing in her last race for the Wolfpack, fifth-year Andrea Podmanikova finished just out of the final in 19th (2:08.79). Freshman Aubree Brouwer finished 43rd overall (2:12.28).Â
200-yard butterfly:
Junior Abby Arens rounded out the individual events for the week, swimming the last individual race for the Pack. Her Consolation Final finish in the 200-yard butterfly put her in 14th place overall (1:55.80). Grace Sheble competed for NC State during prelims, finishing just off of her best in 26th with a time of 1:56.06.
400-yard freestyle relay:
The quartet of Katharine Berkoff, Kylee Alons, Abbey Webb, and Abby Arens finished the meet with a fourth place finish, garnering All-American relay honors. Claiming fourth place by just one one-hundredth of a second, the team posted a time of 3:10.51. Berkoff led off with the third-fastest time in the field (47.06), while Alons went 47.59, Webb split 48.13, and Arens brought the Pack home with a 47.73 anchor leg.Â
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All-American
- 200 medley relay: Berkoff, MacCausland, Alons, Arens (second place)
- 50 freestyle: Berkoff (fifth place)
- 400 individual medley: Sheble (fifth place)
- 100 butterfly: Alons (seventh place)
- 100 breaststroke: MacCausland (fifth place)
- 100 backstroke: Berkoff (second place)
- 400 medley relay: Berkoff, MacCausland, Alons, Arens (second place)
- 200 backstroke: Noble (fifth place), Muzzy (eighth place)
- 100 freestyle: Berkoff (fifth place)
- 400 freestyle relay: Berkoff, Alons, Webb, Arens (fourth place)
Honorable Mention All-American
- 800 freestyle relay: Webb, Crush, Watson, Helms (twelfth place)
- 200 individual medley: Arens (twelfth place), Noble (fourteenth place)
- 100 butterfly: Arens (ninth place)
- 200 freestyle: Webb (ninth place)
- 100 breaststroke: Podmanikova (fifteenth place)
- 100 backstroke: Muzzy (tenth place), Noble (eleventh place)
- 200 breaststroke: MacCausland (sixteenth place)
- 200 butterfly: Arens (fourteenth place)
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