By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
2025 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 19-22, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center — Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Meet Central
- Official Psych Sheets
- Live Stream
- Invited swimmers by team (not including relay swimmers)
- Alternates list
- Eligible Relays
UNC’s Elizabeth Sowards will join the roster for the upcoming 2025 NCAA Championships after a scratch has earned her an invite. Sowards was the #38 seed in the 100 back after swimming a lifetime best of a 51.73 at the Tennessee Last Chance meet. She books her ticket to her 2nd NCAAs after being a relay-only swimmer a year ago.
Although updated psych sheets have not been released, the most likely reason is from Virginia dropping a swimmer to make room for diver Elizabeth Kaye. Virginia had 18 swimmers invited to the meet, the maximum allowed. While an update has not been released, the drop appears to be Ella Bathurst, who is currently back in her home state of Florida for spring break.
Sowards is the 2nd alternate to earn an invite after Casaundra Moses was first to be selected off of the list of alternates. Moses earned the invite as Nevada’s Scarlett Ferris scratched due to injury.
With the addition of Sowards, UNC now has eight individual qualifiers. The pre-scratch psych sheets had Sowards as the #38 seed in the 100 back (the event she earned the invite in) and the t-#99 seed in the 100 free. With many women not making the cutline ahead of her in the 100 free, expect her to move up a lot in the event once psych sheets are updated.
Updated Alternates List
| Rank | Swimmer | Team | Event | Entry Time |
Secondary Event
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| 1 | Rachel Bockrath | Ohio State University | 100 FR SCY | 48.18 | 200 FR SCY |
| 2 | Meaghan Harnish | South Carolina, University of, Columbia | 400 IM SCY | 4:10.07 | 200 IM SCY |
| 3 | Emma Harvey | University of California, Los Angeles | 100 FL SCY | 51.89 | 100 BK SCY |
| 4 | Martina Peroni | Duke University | 200 FL SCY | 1:55.83 | 400 IM SCY |
| 5 | Bridget McGann | Wisconsin, University of, Madison | 200 BR SCY | 2:09.72 | 100 BR SCY |
| 6 | Katie Belle Sikes | Georgia, University of | 50 FR SCY | 22.03 | 100 BK SCY |
| 7 | Delia Lloyd | Ohio State University | 100 BK SCY | 51.74 | 200 BK SCY |
| 8 | Addison Sauickie | Stanford University | 200 FR SCY | 1:44.82 | 500 FR SCY |
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