7 Comments
User's avatar
Yep 22's avatar

The Emory women haven’t been challenged at UAAs for as long as I can recall. I think it’ll be closer this year, regardless of the order of finish.

Expand full comment
Ed Maas's avatar

Maybe it plays out like last year, where Emory’s depth helps keep their conference streak alive, but NYU’s top end speed earns more points and a podium finish at NCAAs? But? It seems both teams are even deeper than last year! Especially NYU in the 500. Can’t wait to follow along and see what happens!!

Expand full comment
d3so's avatar

Totally agree Ed. This feels like it is shaping up to be a classic (and since it is UAAs, there is so much talent on the other teams, and that will keep things even more unstable).

Expand full comment
Ed Maas's avatar

UAAs are off to a wicked fast start in the 800 free relays. Both NYU (7:14.56) and Emory (7:21.21) women dropped significant time from last year’s UAAs (7:17.93 & 7:22.39 respectively). NYU also dipped under last year’s winning NCAA time of 7:16.20, and set a program record in the process. The early indication is that both teams appear to have hit their taper well. Day 2 tomorrow will be exciting!

Expand full comment
d3so's avatar

No doubt. This is going to be a great meet.

Expand full comment
Robert Reiser's avatar

But once the psych sheet drops you should eb able to run a real simulation, right? I know that takes the fun out of it

Expand full comment
d3so's avatar

Reasonable question. One thought is that the psych sheets are almost certainly already in circulation. I just don't have one. The whole 'outsider' thing, and all that.

But yeah, it would allow me to refine what I already have. I would not expect huge jumps, but - and this is really significant - only a few of the simulations showed very large margins of victory. So even small modifications might be enough to shake up the order.

Expand full comment