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No. 12 Women of Troy Head to Knoxville for NCAA Swim and Dive Championships
March 13, 2023 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Action begins Wednesday with a pair of relays at the Allen Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.
With a squad of eleven swimmers and four divers, the No. 12 USC women's swimming and diving squad is set for the 2023 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, Wednesday through Saturday (March 15-18) in Knoxville, Tennessee.Â
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For more information regarding the DI Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, click or tap here.
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LIVE STREAMING/RESULTS
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The championships will be held at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center with live championship coverage airing on ESPN+ for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday. ESPNU will also air a two-hour show at 7 p.m. ET, Wednesday, March 29.
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Live results will also be available here.Â
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 CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
*All times listed in PST
March 15 — 3 p.m. finals
USC'S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP NOTESÂ
USC, under first year head coach Lea Maurer, is one of only nine schools to have won an NCAA swimming and diving team title (1997 – under then head coach Mark Schubert. Since 2009, the Trojans have finished in the top-10 ten times, and in the top-20 twelve times.Â
This year marks the 26th anniversary of USC's 1997 National Championship swim and dive team. USC, behind Olympians Kristine Quance Julian and Lindsay (Benko) Mintenko as well as upper classmen like Hope (Gittings) Wells, Sarah Maggio and Jean Ellis Todisco, upset Stanford for the program first and only NCAA championship. The Women of Troy, under then-fourth-year head coach Mark Schubert, won the 1997 championship with 406 points, edging the Catherine Fox-led Stanford Cardinal by 11. SMU, behind three-time 1997 NCAA winner Martina Moravcova, was third (353.5), Arizona, led by NCAA champ Trina Jackson, was fourth (351.5) and Georgia (312) rounded out the top five. Arizona and Georgia later became NCAA champions.Â
USC has finished third three times at the NCAAs, fourth four times and fifth three times among 30 top 10 finishes in 40 appearances since the first NCAA Championships in 1982 (including top 10s in 23 of the past 28 years). Troy owns 60 combined individual AIAW and NCAA titles (including two relays). Among those, 46 are NCAA titles, seventh most in the country. USC has 344 All-American honors in program history and at least one All-American each season since 1975 (when USC's women's records begin).
TROJANS AT THE NCAAsÂ
Of the Trojans traveling to Atlanta, USC brings 11 athletes that have NCAA Championship experience, as reigning champion Kaitlyn Dobler, Isabelle Odgers, Elise Garcia, Anicka Delgado, Hanna Henderson, Aria Bernal, Marlene Kahler, Nike Agunbiade, Savannah Stocker, Maddie Huitt and Carolina Sculti will represent the Women of Troy at the national competition. Trojans Justina Kozan, Hannah Kuchler, Ashley McMillan and Caroline Famous will compete at the upcoming championships for the first time.Â
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USC enters this week's meet with four swims – four individual and four relays - that rank among the top 16 in the country according to the pre-NCAA meet psych sheet. Reigning 100y breaststroke Champion Kaitlyn Dobler leads the way for the Trojans with two times in the top 10, including the top time in the 100 breast. Fifth year Isabelle Odgers also holds a pair of top 16 times (100y breast and 200y breast)Â
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The Women of Troy also boast three relays in the top 16 – 400y medley relay (10th, 3:30.00), 200y free relay (11th, 1:27.38) and 200y medley relay (11th, 1:35.52).Â
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Top 16 rankings for the Trojans include…Â
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2022-23 SEASON:
The Women of Troy enter NCAA's as the No. 12 ranked squad according to the CSCAA. USC had their best finish since 2016 at the recent Pac-12 Championships, placing second overall in the team rankings as Kaitlyn Dobler and Nike Agunbiade each won individual titles. The Trojans finished the season 6-2 (4-2).Â
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For more information regarding the DI Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, click or tap here.
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LIVE STREAMING/RESULTS
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The championships will be held at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center with live championship coverage airing on ESPN+ for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday. ESPNU will also air a two-hour show at 7 p.m. ET, Wednesday, March 29.
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Live results will also be available here.Â
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 CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
*All times listed in PST
March 15 — 3 p.m. finals
- 200-yard Medley relay
- 800-yard Freestyle Relay
- 500-yard Freestyle
- 200-yard Individual Medley
- 50-yard Freestyle
- One-meter Diving
- 200-yard freestyle relay
- 400-yard Individual Medley
- 100-yard Butterfly
- 200-yard Freestyle
- 100-yard Breaststroke
- 100-yard Backstroke
- Three-meter Diving
- 200-yard Backstroke
- 100-yard Freestyle
- 200-yard Breaststroke
- 200-yard Butterfly
- Platform Diving
- 1,650-yard Freestyle
- 400-yard Freestyle Relay
USC'S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP NOTESÂ
USC, under first year head coach Lea Maurer, is one of only nine schools to have won an NCAA swimming and diving team title (1997 – under then head coach Mark Schubert. Since 2009, the Trojans have finished in the top-10 ten times, and in the top-20 twelve times.Â
This year marks the 26th anniversary of USC's 1997 National Championship swim and dive team. USC, behind Olympians Kristine Quance Julian and Lindsay (Benko) Mintenko as well as upper classmen like Hope (Gittings) Wells, Sarah Maggio and Jean Ellis Todisco, upset Stanford for the program first and only NCAA championship. The Women of Troy, under then-fourth-year head coach Mark Schubert, won the 1997 championship with 406 points, edging the Catherine Fox-led Stanford Cardinal by 11. SMU, behind three-time 1997 NCAA winner Martina Moravcova, was third (353.5), Arizona, led by NCAA champ Trina Jackson, was fourth (351.5) and Georgia (312) rounded out the top five. Arizona and Georgia later became NCAA champions.Â
USC has finished third three times at the NCAAs, fourth four times and fifth three times among 30 top 10 finishes in 40 appearances since the first NCAA Championships in 1982 (including top 10s in 23 of the past 28 years). Troy owns 60 combined individual AIAW and NCAA titles (including two relays). Among those, 46 are NCAA titles, seventh most in the country. USC has 344 All-American honors in program history and at least one All-American each season since 1975 (when USC's women's records begin).
TROJANS AT THE NCAAsÂ
Of the Trojans traveling to Atlanta, USC brings 11 athletes that have NCAA Championship experience, as reigning champion Kaitlyn Dobler, Isabelle Odgers, Elise Garcia, Anicka Delgado, Hanna Henderson, Aria Bernal, Marlene Kahler, Nike Agunbiade, Savannah Stocker, Maddie Huitt and Carolina Sculti will represent the Women of Troy at the national competition. Trojans Justina Kozan, Hannah Kuchler, Ashley McMillan and Caroline Famous will compete at the upcoming championships for the first time.Â
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USC enters this week's meet with four swims – four individual and four relays - that rank among the top 16 in the country according to the pre-NCAA meet psych sheet. Reigning 100y breaststroke Champion Kaitlyn Dobler leads the way for the Trojans with two times in the top 10, including the top time in the 100 breast. Fifth year Isabelle Odgers also holds a pair of top 16 times (100y breast and 200y breast)Â
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The Women of Troy also boast three relays in the top 16 – 400y medley relay (10th, 3:30.00), 200y free relay (11th, 1:27.38) and 200y medley relay (11th, 1:35.52).Â
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Top 16 rankings for the Trojans include…Â
- Kaitlyn Dobler – 1st  (100y breast – 56.94), 7th (200y breast – 2:05.66)
- Isabelle Odgers – 11th (200y breast – 2:06.66), 13th (100y breast - 58.88)
- 400y medley relay – 10th (3:30.00)Â
- 200y medley relay – 11th (1:35.52)
- 200y free relay – 11th (1:27.38)
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2022-23 SEASON:
The Women of Troy enter NCAA's as the No. 12 ranked squad according to the CSCAA. USC had their best finish since 2016 at the recent Pac-12 Championships, placing second overall in the team rankings as Kaitlyn Dobler and Nike Agunbiade each won individual titles. The Trojans finished the season 6-2 (4-2).Â
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