Dressel Cruises, Schooling Fails to Score on Day Four of NCAA’s

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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:

Cal – 6/1
Texas – 5/3
NC State – 4/2
Indiana – 3/3
Florida – 3/1
Georgia – 2/1
USC – 2/1
Michigan – 1/2
Minnesota – 1/1
Arizona – 1/0
Cornell – 1/0
Denver – 1/0
Harvard – 1/0
Stanford – 1/0
Auburn – 0/3
Louisville – 0/3
Texas A&M – 0/3
Alabama – 0/2
South Carolina – 0/2
Virginia – 0/2
Hawaii – 0/1
Towson – 0/1

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       
==================================================================
                      === 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
==================================================================
         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       
==================================================================
                      === 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
==================================================================
         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       
==================================================================
                      === 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
==================================================================
         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       
==================================================================
                      === 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
====================================================================
         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       
====================================================================
                       === 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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