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Flexing Ohio State Pride at NCAA Championships
3/19/2021 9:17:14 PM | Women's Swim & Dive
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – We’re just one day away from one of, if not the, finest NCAA Championships ever for the Ohio State women’s swimming and diving team. Three days into four of this 2021 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, being held at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, N.C., and Ohio State is in fifth place overall with 177.5 team points.
NCAA Championships Team Standings
- Virginia – 344
- North Carolina State – 241
- Texas – 224
- Cal – 210
- Ohio State – 177.5
- Alabama – 155
- Stanford – 140
- Michigan – 127.5
- Georgia – 115
- Kentucky – 114
The Buckeyes are competing like the two-time defending Big Ten Conference champions that they are. So far, the team has produced four relay teams that have finished in the Top 8. Four swimmers have Top 10 finishes in individual events. And 10 swimmers and divers have combined for 24 All-American honors.
Friday was yet another day of achievement in the pool for Ohio State. Consider these individual efforts:
- If they say the third time is a charm, well sophomore Hannah Bach must be feeling it as she has now set the school record in the 100 breaststroke in this, only merely the biggest collegiate swim meet on the planet, for a third time this year. After breaking her own record at Big Tens and then breaking it again this morning, Bach swam to a 57.94 time to take fifth at these NCAA Championships
- Senior Katie Trace swam to a sixth-place finish in the 400 individual medley in 4:06.49 to earn her second All-America honor of the meet. Moments before this, senior Kristen Roman also scored in the 400 IM, winning the consolation final in 4:04.28, a time that is just a half-second over the Ohio State school record.
- Junior Emily Crane scored in an individual event for the Buckeyes in the 100 backstroke, finishing 12th in 51.91.
- And sophomore diver Mackenzie Crawford, in her first NCAA championships, picked up her second honorable mention All-America honor by finishing 14th on the 3-meter with 316.65 points.
All four of those swimmers – Trace, Romano, Bach and Crane – earned their first individual event All-America honor of the meet after previously earning first-team accolades as part of relay squads.
The evening ended with the Buckeyes’ 200 medley relay team flexing more Scarlet and Gray pride by taking third in 1:34.96 and narrowly missing the school record of 1:34.46. The relay team consisted of Emily Crane, Hannah Bach, Katherine Zenick and Taylor Petrak.
Tomorrow … the Buckeyes will look to cap this hopefully historical NCAA Championships in style.
2021 Ohio State All-Americans
Hannah Bach – 400 Medley Relay, *100 Breaststroke, 200 Medley Relay
Emily Crane – 400 Medley Relay, *100 Backstroke, 200 Medley Relay
Mackenzie Crawford – *1-Meter
Amy Fulmer –800 Free Relay, 200 Free Relay
Taylor Petrak – *50 Free, 200 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 200 Medley Relay
Freya Rayner – 200 Free Relay
Kristen Romano – 200 Individual Medley, 800 Free Relay, *400 IM
Sally Tafuto – 500 Free, 800 Free Relay
Katie Trace – 800 Free Relay, 400 IM
Katherine Zenick – 200 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 200 Medley Relay
*Honorable mention All-American
