Indiana University Athletics
Indiana University
Day 3- Finals
NCAA Title For Parratto
3/21/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving
Site: Greensboro Aquatic Center (Greensboro, N.C.) Score: 126 Points (10th) Live Results: NCAA Championships Live Results
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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- An NCAA Championship for freshman Jessica Parratto in the platform diving competition help propel the Indiana Hoosiers to a top-10 finish at the 2015 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Hoosiers finished with 126 points, good for 10th place and the top Big Ten finisher at the meet. It is the Hoosiers first top-10 finish since 2010 and sixth in school history. California won the team title with 513 points.
Parratto won her first NCAA title with a score of 367.00 in the platform diving final, finishing nearly 30 points ahead of runner-up Haley Ishimatsu of Southern California. Parratto had a pair of 80-point dives on her five-dive list, led by a score of 84.15 on her armstand back three somersault tuck.
Parratto is the sixth NCAA Champion in Indiana women's swimming and diving history and the fourth diver to take home top honors. She is the first IU platform champion since Cassandra Cardinell in 2005 and the first Indiana diving champion since Christina Loukas won the 3-meter springboard in 2009.
Junior Brooklynn Snodgrass earned All-America honors in the 200 backstroke for the third-straight year, finishing eighth in a time of 1:52.23. Snodgrass made her third-straight championship final in the 200 backstroke, qualifying seventh with a time of 1:51.96.
Senior Justine Ress just missed a second swim, placing 17th with a career-best time of 1:53.49. That is nearly a second better than her previous career best. Senior Allie Day was 24th (1:53.85), with Kennedy Goss 28th (1:54.01), senior Cynthia Pammett 29th (1:54.08), senior Dorina Szekeres 47th (1:56.53) and Marie Chamberlain 51st (1:57.85).
Dalesandro laid down the second-fastest time in Indiana history in the 200 butterfly with a 1:54.66, good for sixth place in the field and her first-team All-America honor. Dalesandro made her first NCAA championship final by qualifying eighth with a time of 1:54.93. That is the fourth-fastest time in Indiana history. Sophomore Bailey Pressey placed 28th overall with a time of 1:56.70.
In the 1,650 freestyle, junior Haley Lips placed 18th in a time of 16:10.15, followed by sophomore Stephanie Marchuk in 32nd (16:21.89).
Lips, Snodgrass, Goss and freshman Grace Vertigans placed 24th in the 400 freestyle relay prelims with a time of 3:17.67.
1,650 Freestyle
18. Haley Lips - 16:10.15
32. Stephanie Marchuk - 16:21.89
200 Backstroke
8. Brooklynn Snodgrass - 1:52.23 (All-American) (1:51.96 prelims)
17. Justine Ress - 1:53.49 (Career Best)
24. Allie Day - 1:53.85
28. Kennedy Goss - 1:54.01
29. Cynthia Pammett - 1:54.08
47. Dorina Szekeres - 1:56.53
51. Marie Chamberlain - 1:57.85
200 Butterfly
6. Gia Dalesandro - 1:54.66 (2nd-fastest time in IU history; All-American)(1:54.93 prelims; fourth-fastest time in IU history)
28. Bailey Pressey - 1:56.70
Platform
1. Jessica Parratto - 367.00 (5th-best score in IU history) (347.95 prelims)
400 Freestyle Relay 24. Lips, Snodgrass, Goss, Vertigans - 3:17.67
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