Shackley gets top freshman

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Bedford’s Leah Shackley completed her first NCAA Division 1 National Swimming Championships with N.C. State.

Shackley finished as the meet’s top point scoring freshman with 37 points followed by Virginia’s Katie Grimes with 34 points. Shackley also earned three individual All-American honors and personal best times in the 200 backstroke with a fourth-place finish of 1:48.52, 100 backstroke sixth-place finish of 50.06 and 100 butterfly ninth-place finish of 50.59.

NC State finished 10th overall. Virginia won its fifth consecutive national title.

Wisconsin wins crown

MINNEAPOLIS — Kirsten Simms scored on a penalty shot to tie it after a successful Wisconsin challenge with 18 seconds left and then delivered the winner 2:49 into sudden-death overtime to rally top-seed Wisconsin to a 4-3 victory over No. 2 seed Ohio State in the championship match of the women’s Frozen Four on Sunday.

It was the third straight season the two schools squared off for the NCAA title. Coach Mark Johnson’s Badgers beat Ohio State 1-0 in 2023 before losing 1-0 to Nadine Muzerall’s Buckeyes last season.

The Associated Press