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No. 5 USC Swimming Commences NCAAs With Two Top-15 Relay Finishes
March 20, 2024 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Trojans place seventh in 200y medley relay.
ATHENS, Ga. – The USC women's swimming team recorded a pair of top-15 relay finishes on the first night of the 2024 NCAA Championships on Wednesday, March. 20 at the Gabrielsen Natatorium on the campus of the University of Georgia.
The Trojans began the evening with a seventh-place finish in the 200y medley relay with a time of 1:34.81 as Caroline Famous, Kaitlyn Dobler, Anicka Delgado and Minna Abraham earned All-America honors with their podium finish.
USC's 800y free relay team of Abraham, Claire Tuggle, Vasilissa Buinaia and Macky Hodges finished 11th in 6:56.34. With the finish, the quartet earns Second Team All-American honors.
Through one evening of competition, USC currently sits in seventh place with 36 points. Florida leads the way with 72 points.
For more information regarding the DI Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, click here.
LIVE STREAMING/RESULTS
The championships will be held at the Gabrielson Natatorium with live championship coverage airing on ESPN+ for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday.
Live results will also be available here.
CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
*All times listed in PST
March 21 - 7 a.m. swim prelims / 9 a.m. dive prelims | 3 p.m. finals (2:15 p.m. diving consolation finals)
USC'S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
USC, under second 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 13 times.
This year marks the 27th 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.
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 more than 350 All-America honors in program history and has had at least one All-American each season since 1975 (when USC's women's records begin).
Last season, the Women of Troy finished 12th with 125 points as five Trojans were named first-team All-Americans.
TROJANS AT THE NCAAs
Of the Trojans traveling to Athens, USC brings four athletes that have NCAA Championship experience, as reigning champion Kaitlyn Dobler, Anicka Delgado, Caroline Famous and Justina Kozan will represent the Women of Troy at the national competition. Trojans Minna Abraham, Macky Hodges, Claire Tuggle and Vasilissa Buinaia will compete at the upcoming championships for the first time. Genevieve Sasseville and Sophia Kudryashova will join the Trojans as relay alternates.
USC enters this week's meet with 10 swims – seven individual and three relays - that rank among top 16 in the country according to the pre-NCAA meet psych sheet. Reigning 100y breaststroke Champion Kaitlyn Dobler and two-time Pac-12 Champion Minna Abraham lead the way for the Trojans with two times in the top 16 a piece. The Women of Troy also boast all five relays in the top 10.
Top 16 rankings for the Trojans include…
2023-24 SEASON:
The Women of Troy enter NCAA's as the No. 5 ranked squad according to the CSCAA. Most recently, the Women of Troy won three relay and six individual titles at the conference championships, finishing second overall at Pac-12's.
The Women of Troy wrapped up a historic regular season in February, going undefeated (9-0) for the first time in program history. Furthermore, the Trojans beat both Cal and Stanford in the same season for the first time since 1996.
The Trojans began the evening with a seventh-place finish in the 200y medley relay with a time of 1:34.81 as Caroline Famous, Kaitlyn Dobler, Anicka Delgado and Minna Abraham earned All-America honors with their podium finish.
USC's 800y free relay team of Abraham, Claire Tuggle, Vasilissa Buinaia and Macky Hodges finished 11th in 6:56.34. With the finish, the quartet earns Second Team All-American honors.
Through one evening of competition, USC currently sits in seventh place with 36 points. Florida leads the way with 72 points.
For more information regarding the DI Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, click here.
LIVE STREAMING/RESULTS
The championships will be held at the Gabrielson Natatorium with live championship coverage airing on ESPN+ for preliminary and finals sessions Wednesday through Saturday.
Live results will also be available here.
CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
*All times listed in PST
March 21 - 7 a.m. swim prelims / 9 a.m. dive prelims | 3 p.m. finals (2:15 p.m. diving consolation finals)
- 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 NOTES
USC, under second 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 13 times.
This year marks the 27th 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.
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 more than 350 All-America honors in program history and has had at least one All-American each season since 1975 (when USC's women's records begin).
Last season, the Women of Troy finished 12th with 125 points as five Trojans were named first-team All-Americans.
TROJANS AT THE NCAAs
Of the Trojans traveling to Athens, USC brings four athletes that have NCAA Championship experience, as reigning champion Kaitlyn Dobler, Anicka Delgado, Caroline Famous and Justina Kozan will represent the Women of Troy at the national competition. Trojans Minna Abraham, Macky Hodges, Claire Tuggle and Vasilissa Buinaia will compete at the upcoming championships for the first time. Genevieve Sasseville and Sophia Kudryashova will join the Trojans as relay alternates.
USC enters this week's meet with 10 swims – seven individual and three relays - that rank among top 16 in the country according to the pre-NCAA meet psych sheet. Reigning 100y breaststroke Champion Kaitlyn Dobler and two-time Pac-12 Champion Minna Abraham lead the way for the Trojans with two times in the top 16 a piece. The Women of Troy also boast all five relays in the top 10.
Top 16 rankings for the Trojans include…
- Kaitlyn Dobler – 100y breast (2nd – 56.99) , 200y breast (6th – 2:06.28)
- Minna Abraham – 200y Free (2nd – 1:41.38) , 100y free (14th – 47.69)
- Justina Kozan – 400y IM (4th - 4:03.25)
- Caroline Famous – 100y back (7th – 50.78)
- Vasilissa Buinaia – 100y Free (8th – 47.40)
- 400y medley relay – 5th (3:26.90)
- 400y free relay – 6th (3:10.37)
- 200y free relay – 10th (1:27.07)
2023-24 SEASON:
The Women of Troy enter NCAA's as the No. 5 ranked squad according to the CSCAA. Most recently, the Women of Troy won three relay and six individual titles at the conference championships, finishing second overall at Pac-12's.
The Women of Troy wrapped up a historic regular season in February, going undefeated (9-0) for the first time in program history. Furthermore, the Trojans beat both Cal and Stanford in the same season for the first time since 1996.
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