Massive 12 Championships, Day 4 Finals: Kelly Pash Wins Claims Third Triumph; Lydia Jacoby, Will Modglin Amongst Winners
On the fourth of 5 days of competitors in Morgantown, W.Va. on the Massive 12 Championships, the Texas ladies and men every prolonged their leads within the crew competitors, successful six out of seven occasions on the docket. Texas fifth-year swimmer Kelly Pash seems to be just like the MVP of the meet for the Longhorn girls as she claimed her third particular person victory and took half in a relay win for the third time this week. Her win within the 200 butterfly was extraordinarily spectacular as she held off defending NCAA champion Emma Sticklen.
Lydia Jacoby, the Olympic gold medalist and defending NCAA champion within the 100 breaststroke, grabbed a win over Anna Elendt of their shared signature occasion whereas on the lads’s facet, Will Modglin continued to impress as he scored his second particular person win within the 100 backstroke.
The Texas girls are within the lead with 1506 factors, nicely forward of Houston (954.5) and Texas Christian (879.5), whereas the Longhorn males have 1538 factors to steer TCU (1041) and Brigham Younger College (984).
Girls’s 200 Butterfly
In recent times, the College of Texas girls have established a convention of success within the 200 fly, with the Longhorns getting three swimmers into the NCAA Championships A-final every of the final three seasons. Kelly Pash and Emma Sticklen have been a part of that blend on every event, with Olivia Bray within the top-eight in 2021 and 2022 earlier than Dakota Luther entered the combination final 12 months in her lone season with the Longhorns. In that race, Sticklen got here from behind to shock the College of Virginia’s Alex Walsh and safe the nationwide crown whereas Pash claimed third.
The duo will stay among the many nationwide favorites this 12 months, with Sticklen at the moment rating No. 2 in nation at 1:50.31 and Pash sitting second at 1:51.22, with solely Walsh’s NCAA document of 1:49.16 forward (and Walsh could not swim the occasion at NCAAs). However on this convention showdown, Pash obtained the higher of Sticklen, taking on the lead on the second 50 after which holding off Sticklen by simply two hundredths down the stretch, 1:51.66 to 1:51.68. The Longhorns scored a sweep within the race as freshman Angie Coe positioned third in 1:56.20.
Occasion 25 Girls 200 Yard Butterfly
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NCAA D1: ! 1:49.16 2/23/2024 Alex Walsh
American: $ 1:49.37 10/20/2023Regan Smith
US Open: & 1:48.33 10/20/2023Reagan Smith
Massive 12: * 1:49.95 3/18/2023 Emma Sticklen, Texas
Meet: # 1:52.03 2/27/2021 Olivia Bray, Texas
NCAA “A”: A 1:52.86
NCAA “B”: B 1:59.23
NCCA Invit23: 1:55.92
Title 12 months Faculty Prelims Finals Factors
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=== Championship Remaining ===
1 Pash, Kelly GS TEX 1:55.81 1:51.66# 32
25.45 53.92 (28.47)
1:22.52 (28.60) 1:51.66 (29.14)
2 Sticklen, Emma SR TEX 1:54.27 1:51.68# 28
24.82 54.09 (29.27)
1:22.61 (28.52) 1:51.68 (29.07)
3 Coe, Angie FR TEX 1:59.25 1:56.20B 27
26.04 55.58 (29.54)
1:25.75 (30.17) 1:56.20 (30.45)
4 Ortiz, Alondra SO UH 1:59.43 1:56.93B 26
27.20 56.62 (29.42)
1:27.41 (30.79) 1:56.93 (29.52)
5 Nethercutt, Syd FR UH 1:59.60 1:58.93B 25
27.13 57.02 (29.89)
1:27.81 (30.79) 1:58.93 (31.12)
6 El Gendy, Noor SO UH 1:59.80 1:59.95 24
27.41 57.61 (30.20)
1:29.11 (31.50) 1:59.95 (30.84)
7 Jackson, Abby SR UH 2:00.43 1:59.97 23
27.33 58.03 (30.70)
1:29.11 (31.08) 1:59.97 (30.86)
8 Gore, Morgan SO TCU 2:00.65 2:00.22 22
26.99 57.85 (30.86)
1:28.96 (31.11) 2:00.22 (31.26)
Males’s 200 Butterfly
Following a win by Jordan Tiffany in Thursday’s 100 fly, Brigham Younger College secured a sweep of the stroke as Brad Prolo was victorious over 200 yards. Prolo engaged in a decent race with fifth-year Texas swimmer Cole Crane, with Prolo main early earlier than Crane made a run on the third 50 to almost take the lead, however Prolo had one other gear, closing the race in 26.73 to safe the win.
Prolo touched in 1:41.15, with Crane taking second in 1:42.02. Prolo jumped into the nationwide top-10 together with his victory. The Longhorns continued wracking up factors as sophomores Ryan Branon Jr. (1:43.08) and Alec Filipovic (1:43.43) positioned third and fourth, respectively.
Girls’s 100 Breaststroke
A showdown between two of the highest breaststrokers within the nation happened within the girls’s 100 breast, with defending NCAA champion and 100-meter breast Olympic gold medalist Lydia Jacoby dealing with Texas teammate Anna Elendt, who gained silver within the 100-meter race on the 2022 Worlds for Germany. Jacoby has not raced a lot throughout this faculty season as she focuses on the lengthy course marketing campaign, however she posted a time Friday night time that reveals she will probably be a risk to win one other title in March.
Elendt had a slight lead over Jacoby on the midway level, 27.20 to 27.21, however Jacoby overtook her teammate on the third size earlier than taking the win in 57.27. Jacoby’s time ranks No. 4 within the nation, behind Tennessee’s Mona McSharry, USC’s Kaitlyn Dobler and Virginia’s Jasmine Nocentini, whereas Elendt was simply off her season better of 57.51 that ranks fifth.
Cincinnati’s Joleigh Crye took third in 58.24, with Houston’s Henrietta Fangli additionally underneath 1:00 (59.29).
Males’s 100 Breaststroke
This 12 months’s freshmen have emerged as instant forces for the College of Texas, with Will Modglin and Nate Germonprez specifically shining over the primary two days of the meet. Now, the highlight belonged to Will Scholtz and Brayden Taivassalo within the 100 breaststroke. Scholtz had the lead early, going out in 24.18 whereas Taivassalo had the most effective again half at 27.42 because the duo secured a 1-2 end.
Scholtz touched in 52.09, with Taivassalo transferring up on the ultimate lap to the touch out TCU’s Jadon Wuilliez for second by one hundredth. 52.28 to 52.29. One other Horned Frogs swimmer, Guilherme Camossato, was shut behind in 52.46.
Girls’s 100 Backstroke
Berit Berglund turned the second Texas girls’s freshman to win a title this week as she stormed from behind to take the contact out a pair of her teammates. Berglund was greater than a quarter-second behind Olivia Bray on the midway level, however she made the return journey in 26.30 to achieve the wall in 51.72. Bray got here in second at 52.00 whereas Emma Kern, one other freshman, took third in 52.26.
Berglund already ranks within the nationwide top-10 with a mark of fifty.77 from midseason whereas Bray and Kern each have 51-mid swims to their credit score this 12 months. Bray clocked 50.61 within the 100 again finally season’s NCAA Championships as she positioned fifth.
Males’s 100 Backstroke
After securing the win within the 200 IM two days earlier, Will Modglin topped the Massive 12 once more within the 100 backstroke, staking his declare as one of many nation’s finest within the dash occasions. Modglin completed greater than one-and-a-half seconds away from the sphere as he touched in 44.75. He has truly been quicker on two events this season, with a 44.49 at midseason and a 44.56 main off the Texas males’s 400 medley relay Thursday night time. The star freshman, winner of Swimming World’s Excessive Faculty Swimmer of the 12 months honor the final two years, ranks fifth nationally within the race.
The Longhorns went 1-2 right here as Chris O’Connor got here in second at 46.41 whereas TCU’s Edgar Cicanci swam a time of 46.63 to put third.
Girls’s Platform Diving
One other diving occasion got here all the way down to the wire as Texas senior Jordan Skilken obtained the win in 334.90, simply two tenths of some extent away from teammate Sarah Carruthers (334.70). Skilken took sixth finally 12 months’s NCAA Championships whereas Carruthers was eleventh, and the Longhorns determine to deliver a robust 1-2 punch on the platform but once more to the nationwide stage. Houston’s Michelle McLeod positioned third (296.55).
Girls’s 200 Freestyle Relay
Ending virtually three-and-a-half seconds away from the sphere, the Texas girls posted a time of 1:26.66, simply off the group’s season-best time of 1:26.31 that ranks fourth nationally behind Virginia, Louisville and NC State. Grace Cooper led off in 21.76, a quarter-second faster than she clocked in successful the person 50 free, and her teammates all break up 21s within the successful effort. Ava Longi went 21.57 earlier than the ladies who completed within the top-two spots within the 200 fly, Emma Sticklen and Kelly Pash, clocked 21.68 and 21.65, respectively.
Texas Christian College’s crew of Olivia Rhodes, Mikayla Popham, Serena Gould and Claire Chahbandour positioned second in 1:30.13, coming in simply forward of the Cincinnati crew of Jessica Davis, Kaylee Nagel, Joleigh Crye and Sonja Aarsvold (1:30.58).
