March 14, 2018
| NCAA WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS | | |
| | Thursday, Mar. 15 | 10 a.m./6 p.m.
Friday, Mar. 16 | 9 a.m./5 p.m.
Saturday, Mar. 17 | 10 a.m./6 p.m.
McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion | Columbus, Ohio. | |
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. ââ'¬" Penn State junior Ally McHugh (Philadelphia, Pa.) is set to represent the Nittany Lions in three events at the NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships hosted by Ohio State in McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion Thursday-Saturday.
Preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday and Saturday, and at 9 a.m. on Friday, and finals will start at 6 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, while being televised live on ESPNU starting at 5 p.m. Friday.
COVERAGE
Video coverage of the entire meet is available. Most of it will be streamed live and for free on Buckeye Vision, available on OhioStateBuckeyes.com. The finals session on Friday night will be broadcasted on ESPNU beginning at 5 p.m. ET. Saturday's finals session will begin at 6 p.m. ET and be streamed on WatchESPN.
THE MEET
McHugh is making her second appearance at the NCAA Championships after debuting last season. She is slated to compete in the 500 freestyle (Thursday), 400 IM (Friday) and 1,650 freestyle (Saturday).
McHugh, a member of the U.S. National Team, ranks in the Top 20 of all three events, highlighted by her second-place ranking in the 1,650 free. Her season-best time of 15:43.34 in the event was not only good enough for gold at the Big Ten Championships, it was a Big Ten Championships meet and Penn State school record. Only Stanford sophomore Katie Ledecky (15:03.31) has swam faster this season.
McHugh ranks 14th in the 400 IM (4:06.43) and 19th in the 500 free (4:38.44), also setting season-best times in the events at Big Tens. She was a silver medalist in the 400 IM, nearing her own school record in the event, and set a school record in the 500 free to place fourth.
McHugh competed in the same three events in her NCAA debut last season. She was an honorable mention All-America in the mile and 400 IM, placing 10th (15:58.92) in the former and 14th (4:06.86) in the latter, and was 20th in the 500 IM (4:40.73).
A total of 322 participants (281 swimmers and 41 divers) will compete in the 2018 championships. Swimmers qualified for the championships by meeting the established minimum time for the events in which they entered.
Thursday, Mar. 15
500 Freestyle
Friday, Mar. 16
400 Individual Medley
Saturday, Mar. 17
1,650 Freestyle
