14 individual women and five relays will compete in Athens, Ga.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Fourteen swimmers from the third-ranked Florida women’s swimming and diving team were selected to compete at the NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga., the organization announced Wednesday.
The 2024 championships are set to take place March 20-23 at the Jack Bauerle Pool at Gabrielsen Natatorium, with Georgia serving as host institution.
Anna Auld, Catie Choate, Micayla Cronk, Zoe Dixon, Isabel Ivey, Lainy Kruger, Molly Mayne, Caroline Pennington, Olivia Peoples, Julia Podkoscielny, JoJo Ramey, Aris Runnels, Bella Sims and Emma Weyant advanced to the national championships based on their season-best times in 13 different events.
The Gators also qualified five relays, with the 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800 free relay, 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay all hitting the qualifying standard.
Florida has the third-most swimmers qualified, only behind No. 2 Texas (15) and three-time national champions Virginia (18). The Gators qualified the most freshman out of the 58 teams with six – Choate, Kruger, Mayne, Podkoscielny, Ramey and Sims.
Six Gators have previous experience competing in the national championship stage, including Auld, Cronk, Dixon, Peoples, Runnels and Weyant.
Before transferring to Florida, Ivey placed second in the 200 free (1:41.49), third in the 200 IM (1:53.02) and 13th in the 100 free (47.17) at the 2022 NCAA Championships with Cal Berkley.
A total of 322 participants (281 swimmers and 41 divers) will compete in the championships. Swimmers qualified for the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events in which they entered. Divers will be determined by performances achieved at the Zone Diving Championships held March 10-16. The complete lists of all swimmers (athletes by institution, official psych sheet, relays and alternates) competing in the championships is available at usaswimming.org/ncaa.<https://www.usaswimming.org/times/otherorganizations/ncaa-division-i> Selected divers will be announced Sunday, March 17.
ESPN+ will provide live digital coverage for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday. Tape-delayed coverage of the women’s championships will be on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, March 27.
Name
Event
Time
Anna Auld
400 IM
4:09.39
Catie Choate
100 Backstroke
52.13
200 Backstroke
1:51.94
Micayla Cronk
50 Freestyle
21.85
100 Freestyle
47.61
200 Freestyle
1:43.83
Zoe Dixon
200 IM
1:54.04
400 IM
4:03.03
200 Butterfly
1:54.99
Isabel Ivey
100 Freestyle
46.61
200 Freestyle
1:41.85
200 IM
1:52.50
Lainy Kruger
200 Butterfly
1:55.41
200 IM
1:56.59
200 Freestyle
1:44.35
Molly Mayne
100 Breaststroke
58.68
200 Breaststroke
2:07.72
Caroline Pennington
1650 Freestyle
16:10.83
Olivia Peoples
100 Butterfly
50.47
Julia Podkoscielny
400 IM
4:10.32
JoJo Ramey
200 Backstroke
1:53.62
Aris Runnels
100 Backstroke
51.71
200 IM
1:56.85
Bella Sims
200 Backstroke
1:49.04
200 Freestyle
1:40.90
500 Freestyle
4:32.53
Emma Weyant
500 Freestyle
4:34.25
1650 Free
15:54.62
400 IM
4:01.20
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