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Alabama Women’s Swimming and Diving Breaks School Records on NCAA Championships’ Final Day
3/17/2018 8:58:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Crimson Tide’s 400 freestyle relay and senior Bailey Scott both set school records on the championships’ final day
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Alabama women's swimming and diving team set two school records and scored in the 400 freestyle relay on the last day of the NCAA Championships Saturday night at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion on the Ohio State campus.
Seniors Bailey Scott and Temarie Tomley and freshmen Leonie Kullmann and Flora Molnar combined to post a time of school-record 3:14.37 to take 13th place. It was the third relay Alabama scored with at the championships, shaving .59 seconds off the previous school record set during prelims.
"I couldn't't be prouder of the way that, in spite of the fact it wasn't going as well as we hoped through most of the meet, we finished up on a real positive note tonight," UA head coach Dennis Pursley said. "Our relay moved up three spots in the finals and broke two school records with Bailey Scott's leadoff leg on the 100 free and then the relay itself. So, we finished up on a real positive note. We had a number of seniors and I'm just proud of the way they held together and brought something good out of it at the end of the meet."
Scott led off the relay with a 48.38, bettering her own school 100 freestyle record in the process. It marked the second time this season that she broke her own record.
In prelims, junior Justine Macfarlane took 31st in the 200 breaststroke with a time 2:10.64. Earlier in the meet, she scored in the 100 breaststroke, taking 16th place.
As a team, Alabama scored 23 points to take 30th place. It was Alabama's third top-30 finish in the past four years and its second-best point total since 2005 after scoring 31 points in 2015.
"Well, 30th place in the team standings is definitely not where we had hoped to be coming into the meet," Pursley said. "But I guess, putting it in perspective, there were 67 teams in the meet and 194 in Division I, so it's not a small accomplishment but it's not what we had been hoping for."
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