Dennis Pursley on Alabama’s 200 Medley Relay Tradition (VIDEO INTERVIEW)

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Alabama head coach Dennis Pursley talked to the media on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships after Alabama’s 200 medley relay win to close out finals last night. Pursley talked about Alabama’s tradition in the medley relay as the Crimson Tide have been in the top two 4 times in the last 5 years, including winning it in 2016.

Pursley also talked about what it meant to the program to have three seniors on the relay as Laurent Bams, Knox Auerbach and Robert Howard swam breast, fly and free for the Tide’s winning relay.

Original Race Report

The Alabama Crimson Tide won the 200 medley relay on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas with a 1:22.26. The team of Zane Waddell (20.41), Laurent Bams (23.24), Knox Auerbach (20.39) and Robert Howard (18.22) won the title for the Crimson Tide.

It came down to four teams on the final leg as the Cal Golden Bears snuck into second place at 1:22.43 thanks to an 18.17 anchor from Ryan Hoffer. Cal finished in second with Daniel Carr (20.92), Reece Whitley (23.68), Pawel Sendyk (19.66) and Hoffer (18.17) as the Golden Bears finished in second ahead of NC State (1:22.47) and Texas (1:22.58).

Coleman Stewart (20.66), Daniel Graber (23.49), Nyls Korstanje (20.06) and Justin Ress (18.26) finished third for the Wolfpack.

Texas was in the lead at the 150 after a stunning 19.83 split from John Shebat on the fly leg.

The quickest splits outside the top three came from Texas’ Ryan Harty (20.86), USC’s Carsten Vissering (22.88), Florida State’s Kanoa Kaleoaloha (19.77) and Tennessee’s Kyle DeCoursey (18.46).

Louisville (1:23.23), Tennessee (1:23.56), Florida State (1:23.81) and Southern Cal (1:23.82) also swam in the A-Final.

Alabama now has two NCAA titles in the 200 medley relay joining the 2016 winning team.

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