Tartans Open NCAA Championships

(GREENSBORO, N.C.) – Four Carnegie Mellon University women's swimmers kicked off the 2024 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on Wednesday, March 20 at the Greensboro Aquatics Center.

Performances

• Sophomore Sophie Elliott just missed advancing to the evening finals in the 500-yard freestyle as her time of 5:00.23 was 18th with the top 16 advancing.
• Sophomore Savannah Xu was also just on the outside of advancing to the finals in the 200-yard IM with a time of 2:04.87. She was two one-hundredths of a second off the 16th-place finisher.
• All four swimmers got in the pool for the 200-yard medley relay with Elliott swimming the backstroke, Xu the breaststroke, sophomore Eliana Szabo the butterfly, and junior Abigael O'Donnell the freestyle anchor. The group placed 27th with a time of 1:47.20.

 Notes

• It was the first time in the water at a national meet for Elliott and O'Donnell.

Up Next

• The NCAA Championships continue on Thursday, March 21, with the 200-yard freestyle relay, 100-yard butterfly, and the 200-yard freestyle.