Women's Swimming - Eight qualify for NCAA Championships

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Eight Mustangs have qualified for the NCAA Championships which will be March 15-17 in Auburn, AL.

Senior Therese Svendsen qualified for six events!

http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/w-swim/spec-rel/030112aab.html

Isabella Arcila
200 Freestyle Relay 1:29.26
200 Medley Relay 1:36.84
400 Freestyle Relay 3:16.19

Monika Babok
200 Freestyle Relay 1:29.26

Erica Donadon
400 Medley Relay 3:32.77
200 Medley Relay 1:36.84

Genny Konicke
200 Freestyle Relay 1:29.26
400 Medley Relay 3:32.77
200 Medley Relay 1:36.84
100 Butterfly 52.12
400 Freestyle Relay 3:16.19

Rachel Nicol
200 Breaststroke 2:09.13

Nina Rangelova
200 Freestyle Relay 1:29.26
400 Medley Relay 3:32.77
200 Freestyle 1:44.62
400 Freestyle Relay 3:16.19

Denisa Smolenova
100 Butterfly 52.91

Therese Svendsen
200 Individual Medley 1:58.08
400 Medley Relay 3:32.77
200 Medley Relay 1:36.84
100 Backstroke 52.21
200 Backstroke 1:53.51
400 Freestyle Relay 3:16.19

[EastStang]

With four relays qualified, this team could make some noise at the Championships. You get double points on relays.

[AusTxPony]

With the athletes we have swimming here, what are our expectations for the Meet? Top ten possibly?

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

We might have an outside shot at top 10 with an absolutely huge performance. I would think top 20 is realistic for sure.

We are qualified for four of the five relays. The schools in all five relays are the usual types like Cal, Stanford, USC, Texas, Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, etc.

A majority of the swimmers in the individual competitions are from the top schools too so they will run away with the top spots.

Some of our qualifying times are pretty decent, so we could have a good shot at being one of the higher teams just underneath the dominant teams in the final standings.

[Water Pony]

Way to go, ladies. Congrats to Coach Collins and team.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Is there any television coverage for the championships? I imagine there is at least some sort of condensed package at some point on ESPNU or the like...

The NCAA web site has links for live scoring which I assume will be really good (it was pretty easy to follow along at the spring track and field championships at least).

The Championships start Thursday! Go Ponies!

[Soccer15]

Auburn will stream, free of charge, the preliminary sessions each of the three days and finals on Thursday night (the direct links can be found below). ESPN has the rights to stream Friday and Saturday finals and will do so at WatchESPN.com.

Thursday Finals:
http://ulive.cbssports.com/index-ncaa.html?media=308984

Thursday Prelims:
http://ulive.cbssports.com/index-ncaa.html?media=303037

Friday Prelims:
http://ulive.cbssports.com/index-ncaa.html?media=303038

Saturday Prelims:
http://ulive.cbssports.com/index-ncaa.html?media=303039

[KaraHerman]

Thanks for sharing!
I was just looking for the list of the winners!