Rachel Stratton-Mills Talks Northwestern Development, CSCAA Changes to NCAA Championships
5/13/202644 min
SwimSwam sat down with Rachel Stratton-Mills, the Director of Swimming & Diving at Northwestern and the new President of the CSCAA Board of Directors. Northwestern had a promising season this year, especially on the men's side, which saw them place 4th at the B1G conference champs and score a relay at the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2008. Stratton-Mills discusses the development of her team as their 3rd-year leader and is hopeful that there's much more to come. On the CSCAA side of things, the new president sheds light on the reasons changes were made this year to the NCAA Championship format and why specific changes were implemented, such as eliminating B-Finals and adding a new diving format for finals. Stratton-Mills recognizes that not all these changes were hits, but also talks us through how the new CSCAA NCAA DI Working Group of coaches is moving forward with more meaningful change to the NCAA Championships format.
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Welcome back to another episode of The Swim Swim Podcast. I'm today's host, Coleman Hodges, and joining us today, we have the privilege of sitting down and speaking with the Director of Swimming and Diving at Northwestern University, as well as the new President of the CSCAA Board of Directors. Today, we are speaking with Rachel Stratton-Mills.
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