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Florida Gator Caeleb Dressel easily earned the rights to lane four in the 100 free A final while his 100 fly rival, Texas Longhorn Joseph Schooling failed to make it in either final for the second year in a row, after having won the event as a freshman and sophomore.
The NC State men set a new NCAA and American record in the 4×100 Free relay while their sprint stud Ryan Held moved up in the all-time rankings with his lead-off split of 41.09.
This week has left the swimming community amazed as we look forward to yet another day of record-breaking swims.
For full results of this morning’s prelims, click here.
Today’s events include:
- 200 Back
- 100 Free
- 200 Breast
- 200 Fly
- 400 Free Relay
- Platform Diving
- 1650 Free (Slower Heats)
Day individual ups and downs are:
Check below for event-by-event coverage.
200 Back
Texas junior John Shebat dipped under the 1:40 barrier with a pool record of 1:38.02. Denver’s Anton Loncar (1:38.62) and Texas’ Jonathan Robert (1:38.73) will flank Shebat in tonight’s A final while Texas freshman standout Austin Katz is sitting fourth in 1:38.84 with USC’s Patrick Mulcare right behind in 1:38.85.
Leading the B final will be Georgia’s Javier Acevedo with his 1:39.38.
Event 16 Men 200 Yard Backstroke
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NCAA: N 1:35.73 03/26/2016Ryan Murphy, California-PC
American: A 1:35.73 03/26/2016Ryan Murphy, California-PC
U. S. Open: O 1:35.73 03/26/2016Ryan Murphy, California-PC
Championship: C 1:35.73 03/26/2016Ryan Murphy, California-PC
Pool: P 1:38.37 03/26/2005Ryan Lochte, Florida
Name Year School Seed Prelims NISCA
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 John Shebat JR Texas 1:41.52 1:38.02P q
r:+0.65 22.54 47.12 (24.58)
1:12.28 (25.16) 1:38.02 (25.74)
2 Anton Loncar SR Denver 1:39.75 1:38.62 q
r:+0.70 23.34 47.95 (24.61)
1:13.21 (25.26) 1:38.62 (25.41)
3 Jonathan Robert SR Texas 1:39.76 1:38.73 q
r:+0.75 23.15 47.46 (24.31)
1:13.15 (25.69) 1:38.73 (25.58)
4 Austin Katz FR Texas 1:38.49 1:38.84 q
r:+0.67 23.29 48.34 (25.05)
1:13.75 (25.41) 1:38.84 (25.09)
5 Patrick Mulcare JR USC 1:39.18 1:38.85 q
r:+0.68 23.41 48.22 (24.81)
1:13.38 (25.16) 1:38.85 (25.47)
6 Bryce Mefford FR California 1:40.84 1:39.04 q
r:+0.62 23.50 48.24 (24.74)
1:13.58 (25.34) 1:39.04 (25.46)
7 Dean Farris SO Harvard 1:38.99 1:39.21 q
r:+0.73 23.25 48.55 (25.30)
1:13.87 (25.32) 1:39.21 (25.34)
8 Abrahm DeVine JR Stanford 1:40.11 1:39.22 q
r:+0.63 23.23 48.08 (24.85)
1:13.40 (25.32) 1:39.22 (25.82)
100 Free
Flordia’s Caeleb Dressel cruised a 40.68 to earn ownership of lane four tonight with Indiana’s Blake Pieroni (41.16) and NC State’s Ryan Held (41.26) earning the second and third seed.
Texas should earn some key points with Longhorn duo of Townley Haas (41.80) and Tate Jackson (41.82) rounding out the A final in seventh and eighth.
Alabama’s Robert Howard swam a 41.83 to lead the B final tonight.
Event 17 Men 100 Yard Freestyle
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NCAA: N 40.00 03/25/2017Caeleb Dressel, Florida-FL
American: A 40.00 03/25/2017Caeleb Dressel, Florida-FL
U. S. Open: O 40.00 03/25/2017Caeleb Dressel, Florida-FL
Championship: C 40.00 03/25/2017Caeleb Dressel, Florida-FL
Pool: P 41.10 03/24/2011Nathan Adrian, California
Name Year School Seed Prelims NISCA
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Caeleb Dressel SR Florida 40.87 40.68P q194
r:+0.65 19.19 40.68 (21.49)
2 Blake Pieroni SR Indiana 41.43 41.16 q189
r:+0.65 19.62 41.16 (21.54)
3 Ryan Held SR NC State 41.41 41.26 q188
r:+0.63 19.60 41.26 (21.66)
4 Justin Ress JR NC State 41.74 41.34 q187
r:+0.64 19.67 41.34 (21.67)
5 Santo Condorell SR USC 41.98 41.69 q183
r:+0.65 19.72 41.69 (21.97)
6 Jacob Molacek JR NC State 41.89 41.74 q182
r:+0.64 19.99 41.74 (21.75)
7 Townley Haas JR Texas 42.81 41.80 q182
r:+0.73 20.02 41.80 (21.78)
8 Tate Jackson JR Texas 41.27 41.82 q181
r:+0.70 19.99 41.82 (21.83)
200 Breast
Indiana’s Ian Finnerty (1:51.08) and Cal’s Andrew Seliskar (1:51.17) earned the top two spots heading into tonight’s A final while Michigan’s Tommy Cope earned the third seed for the Wolverines with his 1:51.87.
Florida earned some much needed points with Mark Szaranek‘s 1:52.08 to get fourth heading into tonight.
Earning lane eight tonight was Georgia’s James Guest who swam a 1:53.10 this morning.
Event 18 Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
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NCAA: N 1:47.91 03/25/2017Will Licon, Texas-ST
American: A 1:47.91 03/25/2017Will Licon, Texas-ST
U. S. Open: O 1:47.91 03/25/2017Will Licon, Texas-ST
Championship: C 1:47.91 03/25/2017Will Licon, Texas-ST
Pool: P 1:50.78 02/24/2018Ian Finnerty, Indiana
Name Year School Seed Prelims NISCA
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Ian Finnerty JR Indiana 1:50.78 1:51.08 q
r:+0.66 24.54 52.30 (27.76)
1:21.08 (28.78) 1:51.08 (30.00)
2 Andrew Seliskar JR California 1:51.30 1:51.17 q
r:+0.65 25.01 53.58 (28.57)
1:22.03 (28.45) 1:51.17 (29.14)
3 Tommy Cope SO Michigan 1:52.91 1:51.87 q
r:+0.65 25.04 53.52 (28.48)
1:22.28 (28.76) 1:51.87 (29.59)
4 Mark Szaranek SR Florida 1:51.86 1:52.08 q
r:+0.66 25.21 53.69 (28.48)
1:22.62 (28.93) 1:52.08 (29.46)
5 Alex Evdokimov SR Cornell 1:52.28 1:52.30 q
r:+0.63 25.08 53.64 (28.56)
1:22.60 (28.96) 1:52.30 (29.70)
6 Conner McHugh SR Minnesota 1:51.41 1:52.62 q
r:+0.76 25.32 54.18 (28.86)
1:23.33 (29.15) 1:52.62 (29.29)
7 Connor Hoppe SR California 1:55.00 1:52.79 q
r:+0.73 25.09 53.42 (28.33)
1:22.55 (29.13) 1:52.79 (30.24)
8 James Guest JR Georgia 1:53.46 1:53.10 q
r:+0.65 25.34 53.83 (28.49)
1:23.33 (29.50) 1:53.10 (29.77)
200 Fly
California earned a whopping three spots in the A final with Mike Thomas (fifth), Trento Julian (sixth) and Zheng Quah (eighth).
NC State’s Andreas Vazaios earned the top seed with a pool record time of 1:39.68. Florida’s Jan Switkowski (1:40.13) and Arizona’s Justin Wright (1:40.23) followed behind for the second and third spots.
The A final will be tight tonight with only about a second and a half separating the top eight swimmers. Cal’s Quah will round out that top eight with his 1:41.00.
Notably, 2015 and 2016 champion, Texas Longhorn Joseph Schooling will not score as he placed 26th with a 1:43.34. Schooling also failed to score at last year’s meet.
Event 19 Men 200 Yard Butterfly
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NCAA: N 1:37.35 03/25/2017Jack Conger, Texas
American: A 1:37.35 03/25/2017Jack Conger, Texas-ST
U. S. Open: O 1:37.35 03/25/2017Jack Conger, Texas-ST
Championship: C 1:37.35 03/25/2017Jack Conger, Texas-ST
Pool: P 1:39.95 02/24/2018Vinicius Lanza, Indiana
Name Year School Seed Prelims NISCA
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Andreas Vazaios JR NC State 1:40.77 1:39.68P q
r:+0.70 22.77 48.27 (25.50)
1:13.77 (25.50) 1:39.68 (25.91)
2 Jan Switkowski SR Florida 1:41.60 1:40.13 q
r:+0.70 22.31 47.59 (25.28)
1:13.60 (26.01) 1:40.13 (26.53)
3 Justin Wright SR Arizona 1:40.57 1:40.23 q
r:+0.58 22.68 47.99 (25.31)
1:13.85 (25.86) 1:40.23 (26.38)
4 Vini Lanza JR Indiana 1:39.95 1:40.39 q
r:+0.72 22.06 47.51 (25.45)
1:13.70 (26.19) 1:40.39 (26.69)
5 Mike Thomas JR California 1:41.22 1:40.48 q
r:+0.70 22.99 48.62 (25.63)
1:14.47 (25.85) 1:40.48 (26.01)
6 Trenton Julian FR California 1:41.69 1:40.63 q
r:+0.71 22.55 47.92 (25.37)
1:13.93 (26.01) 1:40.63 (26.70)
7 Gunnar Bentz SR Georgia 1:40.97 1:40.72 q
r:+0.69 22.59 48.26 (25.67)
1:14.38 (26.12) 1:40.72 (26.34)
8 Zheng Quah SO California 1:40.24 1:41.00 q
r:+0.59 22.50 47.97 (25.47)
1:13.79 (25.82) 1:41.00 (27.21)
400 Free Relay
Continuing the record-breaking week, the NC State quartet of Ryan Held (41.09), Jacob Molacek (41.07), Mark McGlaughlin (42.24) and Justin Ress (40.35) produced an NCAA and American record time of 2:44.75. This mark blew away the old record, held by Texas, of 2:45.39.
That 41.09 lead-off leg from Held marks him as the sixth fastest performer in history, just .01 behind fellow US national-teamer Nathan Adrian.
Indiana’s squad threw down a 2:47.11 to earn the second spot heading into tonight’s A final with the Texas Longhorns right behind in the third seed with a 2:47.31. Auburn’s team will round out the A final with their time of 2:49.30.
Florida’s relay, which currently sits fourth going into tonight, featured a 40.15 split from their go-to guy, Caeleb Dressel.
Leading the B final tonight will be Stanford’s squad who produced a 2:49.84.
Event 21 Men 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
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NCAA: N 2:45.39 03/25/2017Texas
B Ringgold, J Conger, T Haas, J Schooling
American: A 2:45.69 02/24/2018NC State
R Held, J Ress, J Molacek, C Stewart
U. S. Open: O 2:45.39 03/25/2017Texas
B Ringgold, J Conger, T Haas, J Schooling
Championship: C 2:45.39 03/25/2017Texas
B Ringgold, J Conger, F Haas, J Schooling
Pool: P 2:46.56 03/17/2007Auburn
J Andkjaer, C Cielo, M Targett, B Lundquist
School Seed Prelims NISCA
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 NC State 2:45.69 2:44.75N q600
1) Ryan Held SR 2) r:0.23 Jacob Molacek JR
3) r:0.28 Mark McGlaughlin SO 4) r:0.35 Justin Ress JR
r:+0.63 19.49 41.09 (41.09)
1:00.67 (19.58) 1:22.16 (41.07)
1:42.00 (19.84) 2:04.40 (42.24)
2:23.45 (19.05) 2:44.75 (40.35)
2 Indiana 2:48.81 2:47.11 q588
1) Mohamed Samy SO 2) r:0.34 Blake Pieroni SR
3) r:0.27 Bruno Blaskovic FR 4) r:0.36 Ali Khalafalla SR
r:+0.75 20.39 42.40 (42.40)
1:02.03 (19.63) 1:23.51 (41.11)
1:43.34 (19.83) 2:05.35 (41.84)
2:24.67 (19.32) 2:47.11 (41.76)
3 Texas 2:48.35 2:47.31 q588
1) Brett Ringgold SR 2) r:0.17 Townley Haas JR
3) r:0.30 Jeff Newkirk JR 4) r:0.31 Tate Jackson JR
r:+0.70 19.76 41.96 (41.96)
1:01.52 (19.56) 1:23.29 (41.33)
1:43.73 (20.44) 2:06.20 (42.91)
2:25.83 (19.63) 2:47.31 (41.11)
4 Florida 2:47.06 2:47.52 q585
1) Khader Baqlah SO 2) r:0.19 Maxime Rooney SO
3) r:0.45 Christoph Margotti JR 4) r:0.28 Caeleb Dressel SR
r:+0.71 20.46 42.20 (42.20)
1:02.37 (20.17) 1:24.68 (42.48)
1:44.76 (20.08) 2:07.37 (42.69)
2:26.39 (19.02) 2:47.52 (40.15)
5 California 2:48.42 2:47.97 q582
1) Justin Lynch SR 2) r:0.29 Andrew Seliskar JR
3) r:0.22 Ryan Hoffer FR 4) r:0.27 Michael Jensen SO
r:+0.62 20.13 42.40 (42.40)
1:02.36 (19.96) 1:24.34 (41.94)
1:44.14 (19.80) 2:06.46 (42.12)
2:25.91 (19.45) 2:47.97 (41.51)
6 USC 2:50.18 2:48.19 q579
1) Santo Condorelli SR 2) r:0.26 Dylan Carter SR
3) r:0.24 Ralf Tribuntsov SR 4) r:0.25 Robert Glinta FR
r:+0.66 19.97 42.46 (42.46)
1:02.16 (19.70) 1:23.97 (41.51)
1:43.78 (19.81) 2:05.53 (41.56)
2:25.47 (19.94) 2:48.19 (42.66)
7 Alabama 2:50.24 2:48.76 q576
1) Robert Howard JR 2) r:0.15 Zane Waddell SO
3) r:0.35 Christopher Reid SR 4) r:0.27 Laurent Bams SR
r:+0.68 20.33 42.15 (42.15)
1:01.95 (19.80) 1:24.13 (41.98)
1:44.23 (20.10) 2:06.69 (42.56)
2:26.68 (19.99) 2:48.76 (42.07)
8 Auburn 2:48.58 2:49.30 q570
1) Zach Apple JR 2) r:0.28 Liam McCloskey JR
3) r:0.33 Peter Holoda SR 4) r:0.18 Santiago Grassi SO
r:+0.66 20.01 41.75 (41.75)
1:01.85 (20.10) 1:24.57 (42.82)
1:44.57 (20.00) 2:06.27 (41.70)
2:26.68 (20.41) 2:49.30 (43.03)
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