2022 ACC Championships: NC State Cruises to Men’s Title; Virginia Tech Posts Three Wins

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2022 ACC Championships: NC State Cruises to Men’s Title; Virginia Tech Posts Three Wins

The North Carolina State men have been comfortably ahead of the competition all week at the ACC Championships, and they kicked off the final night with a huge performance in the 1650 freestyle. Members of associate head coach Mark Bernardino’s distance group finished 1-2-4-5 in the mile after previously going 1-2-3-4 in the 500 free. After that, the Virginia Tech Hokies posted an incredible evening of racing to claim three individual wins: Sam Tornqvist in the 200 back, Youssef Ramadan in the 100 free and Carles Coll Marti in the 200 breast.

Finally, NC State ended the meet by holding off Virginia’s Matt King to win the 400 free relay, and the Wolfpack finished with 1501.5 points to win by more than 300 points.

2022 ACC Championships Links

Men’s Team Standings

  1. North Carolina State Universit 1437.5   2. Louisville, University of      1140.5
  3. VA Tech                          1000   4. Virginia, University of           985
  5. Georgia Institute of Technolog  702.5   6. Florida State University          626
  7. North Carolina, University of,    483   8. Notre Dame, University of         426
  9. Pittsburgh, University of         397  10. Duke University                   297
 11. Boston College                  163.5  12. University of Miami (Florida)     116

Men’s 1650 Freestyle

Just like the 500 freestyle earlier this week, NC State was dominant in the 1650 free. Will Gallant of the Wolfpack pulled away from Georgia Tech’s Mert Kilavuz and then from his own NC State teammate Ross Dant to pull away and win the title. Gallant touched the wall three seconds ahead of the field in 14:33.40,while Dant, the 500 free winner, placed second in 14:36.71. Gallant moved to second in the national rankings behind American-record holder and two-time Olympic gold medalist Bobby Finke, while Dant checked in at No. 3 in the national rankings.

Kilavuz ended up third in 14:43.26, while two more NC State swimmers completed the top-five. Eric Knowles was fourth, and James Plage, the 500 free winner, took fifth.

Event 33  Men 1650 Yard Freestyle
=========================================================================
         MEET: # 14:27.93  2/29/2020 Zachary Yeadon, ND-IN
         CONF: % 14:24.43  3/24/2018 Anton Ipsen, NC State-NC
         AMER: $ 14:12.08  2/22/2020 Bobby Finke, Florida
         USOP: & 14:12.08  2/22/2020 Bobby Finke, Florida
         NCAA: ! 14:12.08  2/22/2020 Bobby Finke, Florida
         Pool: ^ 14:29.43  3/26/2008 Sebastien Rouault, Georgia
                 14:37.31  A
                 15:01.33  IV21 Invited NCAA 2021
                 15:26.19  B
    Name           Year School               Seed     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
  1 Gallant, John W  SO NC State         14:49.10   14:33.40 A       32  
    r:+0.66  24.02        49.94 (25.92)
        1:16.14 (26.20)     1:42.48 (26.34)
        2:09.02 (26.54)     2:35.56 (26.54)
        3:02.17 (26.61)     3:28.99 (26.82)
        3:55.79 (26.80)     4:22.46 (26.67)
        4:49.15 (26.69)     5:15.83 (26.68)
        5:42.55 (26.72)     6:09.23 (26.68)
        6:35.98 (26.75)     7:02.83 (26.85)
        7:29.60 (26.77)     7:56.44 (26.84)
        8:23.30 (26.86)     8:50.20 (26.90)
        9:16.69 (26.49)     9:43.33 (26.64)
       10:09.82 (26.49)    10:36.20 (26.38)
       11:02.81 (26.61)    11:29.24 (26.43)
       11:55.78 (26.54)    12:22.15 (26.37)
       12:48.56 (26.41)    13:15.00 (26.44)
       13:41.55 (26.55)    14:08.07 (26.52)    14:33.40 (25.33)
  2 Dant, Ross M     JR NC State         14:59.04   14:36.71 A       28  
    r:+0.62  23.70        49.90 (26.20)
        1:16.23 (26.33)     1:42.77 (26.54)
        2:08.94 (26.17)     2:35.57 (26.63)
        3:02.24 (26.67)     3:29.08 (26.84)
        3:55.97 (26.89)     4:22.66 (26.69)
        4:49.29 (26.63)     5:15.87 (26.58)
        5:42.40 (26.53)     6:09.11 (26.71)
        6:35.61 (26.50)     7:02.30 (26.69)
        7:28.91 (26.61)     7:55.52 (26.61)
        8:22.22 (26.70)     8:48.98 (26.76)
        9:15.58 (26.60)     9:42.16 (26.58)
       10:08.98 (26.82)    10:35.83 (26.85)
       11:02.88 (27.05)    11:29.73 (26.85)
       11:56.53 (26.80)    12:23.37 (26.84)
       12:50.30 (26.93)    13:17.22 (26.92)
       13:44.06 (26.84)    14:10.90 (26.84)    14:36.71 (25.81)
  3 Kilavuz, Mert    FR Georgia Tech     14:42.62   14:43.26 IV21    27  
    r:+0.79  23.79        49.60 (25.81)
        1:15.88 (26.28)     1:42.48 (26.60)
        2:09.01 (26.53)     2:35.50 (26.49)
        3:02.13 (26.63)     3:28.81 (26.68)
        3:55.46 (26.65)     4:22.12 (26.66)
        4:48.90 (26.78)     5:15.67 (26.77)
        5:42.37 (26.70)     6:09.01 (26.64)
        6:35.61 (26.60)     7:02.24 (26.63)
        7:29.00 (26.76)     7:55.91 (26.91)
        8:22.84 (26.93)     8:49.76 (26.92)
        9:16.78 (27.02)     9:43.76 (26.98)
       10:10.81 (27.05)    10:37.94 (27.13)
       11:05.12 (27.18)    11:32.46 (27.34)
       11:59.81 (27.35)    12:27.31 (27.50)
       12:54.77 (27.46)    13:22.23 (27.46)
       13:49.73 (27.50)    14:17.03 (27.30)    14:43.26 (26.23)
  4 Knowles, Eric W  5Y NC State         15:13.61   14:52.50 IV21    26  
    r:+0.73  24.62        51.42 (26.80)
        1:18.49 (27.07)     1:45.66 (27.17)
        2:12.90 (27.24)     2:39.94 (27.04)
        3:07.10 (27.16)     3:34.12 (27.02)
        4:01.11 (26.99)     4:28.23 (27.12)
        4:55.32 (27.09)     5:22.22 (26.90)
        5:49.01 (26.79)     6:15.62 (26.61)
        6:42.05 (26.43)     7:08.83 (26.78)
        7:35.71 (26.88)     8:02.67 (26.96)
        8:29.76 (27.09)     8:57.07 (27.31)
        9:24.04 (26.97)     9:50.94 (26.90)
       10:17.94 (27.00)    10:45.15 (27.21)
       11:12.53 (27.38)    11:39.90 (27.37)
       12:07.52 (27.62)    12:35.33 (27.81)
       13:03.22 (27.89)    13:30.75 (27.53)
       13:58.78 (28.03)    14:26.00 (27.22)    14:52.50 (26.50)
  5 Plage, James L   SO NC State         15:09.11   14:59.76 IV21    25  
    r:+0.72  24.29        50.37 (26.08)
        1:16.91 (26.54)     1:43.62 (26.71)
        2:10.42 (26.80)     2:37.10 (26.68)
        3:03.75 (26.65)     3:30.42 (26.67)
        3:57.27 (26.85)     4:24.16 (26.89)
        4:51.23 (27.07)     5:18.07 (26.84)
        5:44.82 (26.75)     6:11.52 (26.70)
        6:38.60 (27.08)     7:05.70 (27.10)
        7:32.87 (27.17)     8:00.19 (27.32)
        8:27.51 (27.32)     8:55.23 (27.72)
        9:22.84 (27.61)     9:50.66 (27.82)
       10:18.56 (27.90)    10:46.37 (27.81)
       11:14.57 (28.20)    11:42.69 (28.12)
       12:11.00 (28.31)    12:39.12 (28.12)
       13:07.60 (28.48)    13:36.05 (28.45)
       14:04.37 (28.32)    14:32.59 (28.22)    14:59.76 (27.17)
  6 Brown, Joshua D  FR Notre Dame       15:15.48   15:04.02 B       24  
    r:+0.76  24.95        51.84 (26.89)
        1:18.82 (26.98)     1:46.21 (27.39)
        2:13.42 (27.21)     2:40.89 (27.47)
        3:08.36 (27.47)     3:35.62 (27.26)
        4:03.10 (27.48)     4:30.58 (27.48)
        4:57.89 (27.31)     5:25.41 (27.52)
        5:53.13 (27.72)     6:20.43 (27.30)
        6:48.07 (27.64)     7:15.80 (27.73)
        7:43.33 (27.53)     8:11.00 (27.67)
        8:38.65 (27.65)     9:06.28 (27.63)
        9:34.01 (27.73)    10:01.45 (27.44)
       10:29.13 (27.68)    10:56.75 (27.62)
       11:24.33 (27.58)    11:52.17 (27.84)
       12:19.95 (27.78)    12:47.68 (27.73)
       13:15.27 (27.59)    13:43.19 (27.92)
       14:10.80 (27.61)    14:38.25 (27.45)    15:04.02 (25.77)
  7 Thompson, Peter  FR UVA              15:40.79   15:06.66 B       23  
    r:+0.68  24.49        51.40 (26.91)
        1:18.34 (26.94)     1:45.62 (27.28)
        2:13.09 (27.47)     2:40.62 (27.53)
        3:08.09 (27.47)     3:35.46 (27.37)
        4:03.11 (27.65)     4:30.54 (27.43)
        4:58.29 (27.75)     5:26.08 (27.79)
        5:53.78 (27.70)     6:21.32 (27.54)
        6:48.85 (27.53)     7:16.48 (27.63)
        7:43.98 (27.50)     8:11.72 (27.74)
        8:39.47 (27.75)     9:07.41 (27.94)
        9:35.24 (27.83)    10:03.04 (27.80)
       10:30.85 (27.81)    10:58.54 (27.69)
       11:26.24 (27.70)    11:54.17 (27.93)
       12:22.17 (28.00)    12:50.19 (28.02)
       13:18.04 (27.85)    13:45.75 (27.71)
       14:13.33 (27.58)    14:40.76 (27.43)    15:06.66 (25.90)
  8 Curley, Hayden   SR Louisville       15:00.75   15:12.07 B       22  
    r:+0.68  24.38        50.84 (26.46)
        1:17.61 (26.77)     1:44.59 (26.98)
        2:11.79 (27.20)     2:39.00 (27.21)
        3:06.16 (27.16)     3:33.53 (27.37)
        4:00.70 (27.17)     4:28.07 (27.37)
        4:55.33 (27.26)     5:22.78 (27.45)
        5:50.27 (27.49)     6:17.72 (27.45)
        6:45.25 (27.53)     7:13.03 (27.78)
        7:40.93 (27.90)     8:08.96 (28.03)
        8:36.64 (27.68)     9:04.52 (27.88)
        9:32.53 (28.01)    10:00.91 (28.38)
       10:29.06 (28.15)    10:57.37 (28.31)
       11:25.82 (28.45)    11:54.18 (28.36)
       12:22.77 (28.59)    12:51.43 (28.66)
       13:19.89 (28.46)    13:48.18 (28.29)
       14:16.53 (28.35)    14:44.79 (28.26)    15:12.07 (27.28)

Men’s 200 Backstroke

Virginia freshman Jack Aikins led the 200 back final through 150 yards, and he was up by almost eight tenths with 50 yards to go. However, Aikins faded badly at the end as Virginia Tech’s Sam Tornqvist surged home with a 25.29 final split. Tornqvist hit the wall in 1:39.20, upending Cal’s Daniel Carr (1:39.23) as the top-ranked swimmer in the country.

Aikins ended up second in 1:39.53, moving to fourth in the national rankings, while NC State’s Hunter Tapp (1:39.60) and Louisville’s Nick Albiero (1:39.70) finished just behind Aikins.

Event 35  Men 200 Yard Backstroke
=========================================================================
         MEET: # 1:37.71  2/29/2020 Coleman Stewart, NC State-NC
         CONF: % 1:37.71  2/29/2020 Coleman Stewart, NC State-NC
         AMER: $ 1:35.73  3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
         USOP: & 1:35.73  3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
         NCAA: ! 1:35.73  3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
         Pool: ^ 1:35.73  3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California-PC
                 1:39.13  A
                 1:41.81  IV21 Invited NCAA 2021
                 1:45.04  B
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Tornqvist, Samu  5Y Virginia Tech     1:40.03    1:39.20 IV21    32  
    r:+0.68  23.32        48.38 (25.06)
        1:13.91 (25.53)     1:39.20 (25.29)
  2 Aikins, Jack H   FR UVA               1:40.44    1:39.53 IV21    28  
    r:+0.67  23.29        47.86 (24.57)
        1:13.14 (25.28)     1:39.53 (26.39)
  3 Tapp, Hunter A   JR NC State          1:40.14    1:39.60 IV21    27  
    r:+0.71  23.43        48.72 (25.29)
        1:14.17 (25.45)     1:39.60 (25.43)
  4 Albiero, Nicola  5Y Louisville        1:39.63    1:39.70 IV21    26  
    r:+0.58  23.13        48.35 (25.22)
        1:13.97 (25.62)     1:39.70 (25.73)
  5 Stokowski, Kacp  JR NC State          1:41.17    1:40.20 IV21    25  
    r:+0.57  22.97        48.76 (25.79)
        1:15.05 (26.29)     1:40.20 (25.15)
  6 Saka, Berke      FR Georgia Tech      1:41.36    1:40.49 IV21    24  
    r:+0.65  23.21        48.59 (25.38)
        1:14.55 (25.96)     1:40.49 (25.94)
  7 Grender, Justin  SR UVA               1:41.43    1:40.98 IV21    23  
    r:+0.71  23.79        49.36 (25.57)
        1:15.10 (25.74)     1:40.98 (25.88)
  8 Pavlidi, Arijus  FR Florida State     1:41.23    1:41.30 IV21    22  
    r:+0.71  23.63        49.00 (25.37)
        1:14.88 (25.88)     1:41.30 (26.42)

Men’s 100 Freestyle

Virginia Tech’s Youssef Ramadan won his second title of the week in the men’s 100 free. Following his scintillating 44.08 in the 100 fly and a third-place finish in the 50 free, Ramadan swam a time of 41.76, good enough to touch out Virginia’s Matt King (41.89). Ramadan moved to fifth in the national rankings in the 100 free, and it was the second straight event win for the Hokies after Sam Tornqvist’s win in the 200 back.

Behind runnerup King, Virginia swimmers also occupied the third and fourth spots with Connor Boyle (42.09) and Matt Brownstead (42.14). Boyle, swimming in lane eight, was actually first at the halfway point before Ramadan and King surpassed him on the home stretch.

Event 37  Men 100 Yard Freestyle
=========================================================================
         MEET: # 41.41  2/24/2018 Ryan Held, NC State-NC
         CONF: % 41.05  2/24/2018 Ryan Held, NC State-NC
         AMER: $ 39.90  3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
         USOP: & 39.90  3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
         NCAA: ! 39.90  3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
         Pool: ^ 40.46  3/26/2016 Caeleb Dressel, Florida-FL
                 41.71  A
                 42.88  IV21 Invited NCAA 2021
                 43.80  B
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Ramadan, Yousse  SO Virginia Tech       41.83      41.76 IV21    32  
    r:+0.59  19.87        41.76 (21.89)
  2 King, Matthew C  SO UVA                 42.01      41.89 IV21    28  
    r:+0.62  19.83        41.89 (22.06)
  3 Boyle, Connor I  FR UVA                 42.59      42.09 IV21    27  
    r:+0.61  19.69        42.09 (22.40)
  4 Brownstead, Mat  SO UVA                 42.45      42.14 IV21    26  
    r:+0.63  20.14        42.14 (22.00)
  5 Sartori, Murilo  FR Louisville          42.56      42.18 IV21    25  
    r:+0.63  20.31        42.18 (21.87)
  6 Piszczorowicz,   JR NC State            42.59      42.21 IV21    24  
    r:+0.67  20.35        42.21 (21.86)
  7 Korstanje, Nyls  JR NC State            41.99      42.24 IV21    23  
    r:+0.64  19.91        42.24 (22.33)
  8 Miller, Lukas D  SO NC State            42.55      42.25 IV21    22  
    r:+0.62  20.25        42.25 (22.00)

Men’s 200 Breaststroke

Virginia Tech continued its magnificent final night of men’s racing as Carles Coll Marti grabbed the victory in the 200 breast. Coll Marti trailed Georgia Tech’s Caio Pumputis after 50 yards before opening up a slight lead over the middle portion of the race. On the final 50, Coll Marti held off a late surge from Louisville’s Denis Petrashov and touched the wall in 1:51.69, two tenths ahead of Petrashov’s 1:51.89. Those swimmers became the sixth and seventh-fastest performers in the nation this season. Third place went to Pumputis in 1:52.19.

Event 39  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
=========================================================================
         MEET: # 1:51.26  2/27/2021 Evgenii Somov, Louisville-KY
         CONF: % 1:50.79  3/25/2019 Caio Pumputis, GT-GA
         AMER: $ 1:47.91  3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
         USOP: & 1:47.91  3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
         NCAA: ! 1:47.91  3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
         Pool: ^ 1:48.12  3/26/2016 Will Licon, Texas-ST
                 1:52.28  A
                 1:54.28  IV21 Invited NCAA 2021
                 1:58.43  B
    Name           Year School            Prelims     Finals       Points 
=========================================================================
                            === A - Final ===                            
 
  1 Coll Marti, Car  SO Virginia Tech     1:53.05    1:51.69 A       32  
    r:+0.64  25.09        53.41 (28.32)
        1:22.24 (28.83)     1:51.69 (29.45)
  2 Petrashov, Deni  JR Louisville        1:53.38    1:51.89 A       28  
    r:+0.72  25.43        54.28 (28.85)
        1:22.99 (28.71)     1:51.89 (28.90)
  3 Pumputis, Caio   5Y Georgia Tech      1:52.96    1:52.19 A       27  
    r:+0.64  25.06        53.48 (28.42)
        1:22.25 (28.77)     1:52.19 (29.94)
  4 Bottelberghe, J  SR Notre Dame        1:53.69    1:52.61 IV21    26  
    r:+0.69  25.67        54.41 (28.74)
        1:23.32 (28.91)     1:52.61 (29.29)
  5 Pouch, Ananias   JR Virginia Tech     1:53.39    1:53.01 IV21    25  
    r:+0.67  25.47        53.83 (28.36)
        1:22.92 (29.09)     1:53.01 (30.09)
  6 Myburgh, Keith   SR Virginia Tech     1:54.29    1:53.52 IV21    24  
    r:+0.59  25.70        54.34 (28.64)
        1:23.60 (29.26)     1:53.52 (29.92)
  7 Kusto, Rafal     SR NC State          1:54.40    1:53.71 IV21    23  
    r:+0.61  25.29        54.07 (28.78)
        1:23.59 (29.52)     1:53.71 (30.12)
  8 Iida, Max S      FR UVA               1:54.60    1:53.87 IV21    22  
    r:+0.61  25.31        53.89 (28.58)
        1:23.45 (29.56)     1:53.87 (30.42)

Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay

NC State had already clinched the men’s title at the ACC Championships prior to the final relay, but the Wolfpack finished with a flourish in the 400 free relay. Luke Miller led off in 41.72, faster than the winning time in the 100 free earlier in the night, and he was followed by Bartosz Piszczorowicz (41.45), Noah Henderson (41.64) and Hunter Tapp (41.37). Tapp unleashed an impressive performance on the anchor leg, and he needed every bit of that to hold off Virginia.

NC State touched in 2:46.18, a quarter-second ahead of Virginia’s team of Matt Brownstead, Jack Aikins, Connor Boyle and Matt King. King anchored in 40.78 to nearly catch NC State.

Virginia Tech’s Youssef Ramadan, Carles Coll Marti, Antani Ivanov and Luis Dominguez Calonge placed third in 2:48.03.

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