INSIDE WOMEN'S SWIMMING
BY MARK BENNETT
@BadgerSwimDive
NCAA SCHEDULE
THURSDAY (6 P.M.)
200-yard freestyle relay
200-yard individual medley
50-yard freestyle
400-yard medley relay
FRIDAY (6 P.M.)
200-yard medley relay
100-yard backstroke
800-yard freestyle relay
SATURDAY (6 P.M.)
100-yard freestyle
200-yard backstroke
400-yard freestyle relay
Six Badgers bound for
NCAA championships
Ivy Martin swims for NCAA title in 50 freestyle
W
hen Wisconsin head
swimming and diving coach Whitney Hite put
together his team's schedule this season, he knew he
would be challenging his
squad. The Badgers have
competed against seven of
the top 15 teams this season,
including four of the top 11.
This weekend, Hite and
his team will find out if that
challenge has paid off as six
swimmers head to Indianapolis to compete in the 2013
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NCAA Championships.
The Badgers will compete
in 10 events at the championships Thursday through
Saturday, including all five
relays.
Taking to the pool in individual competition will
be sophomore Ivy Martin
and senior Hannah Ross.
Martin will compete in the
50 and 100-yard freestyle
events, entering the competition as the second seed in
the 50 free with a chance to
take home Wisconsin's second-ever
NCAA title. Ross will compete in the
100 and 200-yard backstroke.
Also competing for UW in relay
events will be senior Ruby Martin,
junior Rebecka Palm, sophomore Aja
Van Hout and freshman Anna Meinholz.
Martin set a Big Ten record Feb. 21
at the conference championships in
Minneapolis by swimming to a time
of 21.84. The Madison native became
the first female to break the 22-second barrier in Big Ten competition
and shattered former Badger Beckie
Thompson's previous league record
of 21.94.
Ross finished 13th in the 200-yard
backstroke at the Big Ten championships and 17th in the 100 back. Two
years ago, Wisconsin's Maggie Meyer
claimed the Badgers' first-ever NCAA
title in the 200 backstroke.
Wisconsin's top relays include the
14th-seeded 200-yard freestyle relay
and the 18th-seeded 400-yard medley relay.
