After yesterday's release of the “preselection” psych sheets, today the NCAA released the full-blown psych sheets for the 2012 Women's NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships which will begin in two weeks in Auburn, Alabama. This sheet now includes all individual entries that actually will be swimming, and the only thing missing is relays that will be entered on the basis of four, otherwise-qualified swimmers joining to make a relay that was not invited.
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This year's cut line ended up being almost precisely where last year's was, which is right around 30 invitees.
Teams with the most swimmers:
This year's meet saw the entrants spread out over a larger number of teams, which resulted in no coaches having to make the difficult decision to leave a qualified swimmer home to stay under the event limits.
List of invited swimmers, by team.
Texas, despite a disappointing Big 12 Championghip meet, still managed to get 13 swimmers into NCAA's. That's 3 more than their rivals, and Big 12 Champions, Texas A&M. Staying in the Lone Star State, SMU is looking more like SMU c. 2000, with 8 swimmers qualifying for the meet.
Georgia – 16
Cal – 14
USC – 13
Texas – 13
Auburn – 11
Virginia – 12
Indiana – 11
Minnesota – 11
Arizona – 10
Wisconsin – 10
Florida – 10
Texas A&M – 10
Ohio State – 9
Stanford – 9
Tennessee – 9
SMU – 8
Here's a rundown of some of the more interesting entries for this year's meet:
Deborah Roth of Cal did not qualify for the meet. She typically saves her best for NCAA's, but this year pushed the envelope a bit too far, and didnt' earn a time that made the meet. She was last year's runner-up in the 100 back and also placed 8th in the 200 back. That's some big points lost for the Golden Bears.
Caitlin Dauw will be the only swimmer representing the Michigan Wolverines at NCAA's, as she received an invite in only the 100 fly.
Boise State will send four swimmers to the Championships, including the program's first ever relay. Amber Boucher, Stevie Hughey, Sydney Johansen, and Stephanie North make up the 14th-ranked 200 free relay. Amber Boucher also impressively earned three individual invites for the Broncos – the 50 free, 100 free, and 100 fly.
Katinka Hosszu mixed things up at Pac-12′s with the addition of the 200 free to her event schedule, but at NCAA's she's going back to her familiar triple of 200/400 IM, 200 fly that she swept last season. Her USC Trojans earned 13 total invites, which is a strong number for them.
After an error that left them off of the precut psych sheets, Florida Gulf Coast has earned their first ever NCAA qualifier in Emma Svensson. She was the final invitee in the women's 50 free (sneaking in by just .05) and will add swims in the 100 back and 100 free as well. The freshman Swedish import is the star of a team that has been phenomenal in its five seasons of existence, winning for CCSA Conference Titles.
There was some thought that LSU's Amanda Kendall might swim the 200 free on day 2 of the meet instead of the 100 fly. She has chosen to stick with the 50/100 free and 100 fly, though.
Georgia's Megan Romano, another swimmer with some options, has chosen the 100 back along with the 100 and 200 freestyles, which is the same schedule she had last season. This leaves her with a difficult, but doable, double on day 2 of the 200 free and 100 back.
Missouri's Shara Stafford has also gone back to her old schedule of 50/100/200 freestyles, after experimenting with some different events (including the 200 IM) at Big 12′s.
The Cal women are top-2 contenders, but are still an extremely young team. Out of their 14 swimmers invited, 8 are freshmen or sophomores. Georgia, the other NCAA contender, is similarly built: 10 out of their 16 are in their first two seasons of college swimming.