Day 1 Season Split Analysis

2023 NCAA WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The first day of the NCAA Championships is always a big relay day, as both the 200 medley and 800 free relays are held. In this article we look at all the split times clocked by each swimmer in both relays.

Virginia won both relays in 1:31.54 to break the American, NCAA and US Open records in the 200m relay and swam a 6:49.82 in the 800 free relay .

200 Medley Relay

Virginia had the fastest splits in the field for three of the four shots in the race, as Gretchen Walsch (22.77), Lexi Cuomo (22.10) and Kate Douglas (20:34) were the top backstroke, butterfly and freestyle swimmers. Douglass’ split was the second-fastest 50-free split of all time, behind only Anna Hopkins’ 20.27 from 2020.

Anna Elendt of Texas posted the top breast split at 25.54. Their split made her the third fastest 50 breast relay runner of all time, behind Lilly King (25.36) and Hannah Bach (25.51).

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Breast

Fly

Free

800 Free relay

The fastest swimmer to lead the 800 free relay was Torri Huske, who clocked a 1:42.28. She was slightly slower than her lead time of 1:41.93 from last year. Virginias Aimee Canny was just behind Huske at the start, touching just 0.06 seconds behind her with a new best time of 1:42.34. Anna Pepłowski had a big lead in the swim, losing about half a second from her best time of 1:43.33 to 1:42.86.

Alex Walsch posted the fastest rolling split at over a second as she swam a 1:41.18. This time is a significant improvement on the 1:41.92 she achieved last year. Behind Walsh were Stanford’s Kaya Wilson (1;42.22) and taylor jerk (1:42.23). Ruck swam the fastest split of the field this season in 1:40.49.

Zoie Hartmanwas, as always, the clutch for Georgia, setting a 1:42.50 split (fourth fastest in the field) to help Georgia move from sixth to first place in the B heat and finish eighth overall.

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Rolling splits