Fiala Breaks Meet Record During ACC Championship Prelims

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Photo Courtesy: Andy Ringgold

By Chandler Brandes, ACC Beat Writer

After winning the 200 IM last night, Virginia Tech’s Brandon Fiala broke the meet record in the 100 breast this morning. The junior’s time of 51.86 broke the old record of 52.17 set last year by Duke’s Peter Kropp, who is seeded fifth in the event going into finals, and was only .03 shy of the conference record. Florida State’s Jason Coombs was also under the previous record.

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Below are the top 8 qualifiers in each event for the A final.

400 IM

1. Nolan Tesone (3:42.69), Louisville
2. Robert Owen (3:43.30), Virginia Tech
3. Austin Snyder (3:44.65), NC State
4. Christian McCurdy (3:45.62), NC State
5. Henry Campbell (3:47.55), North Carolina
6. Zach Harting (3:47.81), Louisville
7. Ryan Massey (3:47.89), Louisville
8. Zachary Switzer (3:48.33), Virginia Tech

100 Fly

1. Pedro Coutinho (46.02), Louisville
2. Sam Lewis (46.09), North Carolina
3. Youssef Hammoud (46.62), Georgia Tech
4. Joshua Quallen (46.85), Louisville
5. Ben Colley (46.87), North Carolina
6. David Boland (46.90), Louisville
7. Matthew Grauslys (47.01), Notre Dame
8. Justin Plaschka (47.04), Notre Dame

200 Free

1. Simonas Bilis (1:33.09), NC State
2. Ryan Held (1:33.62), NC State
3. Soeren Dahl (1:33.71), NC State
4. Trevor Carroll (1:33.84), Louisville
5. Justin Ress (1:34.70), NC State
6. Matthias Lindenbauer (1:34.87), Louisville
7. Lucas Bureau (1:35.21), Virginia Tech
8. Trent Jackson (1:35.45), Notre Dame

100 Breast

1. Brandon Fiala (51.86), Virginia Tech
2. Jason Coombs (52.15), Florida State
3. Carlos Claverie (52.78), Louisville
4. Yannick Kaeser (52.84), Virginia
5. Peter Kropp (52.96), Duke
6. Derek Hren (53.00), NC State
7. Kurt Wohlrab (53.40), North Carolina
8. Michael Seaberg (53.76), Duke

100 Back

1. Grigory Tarasevich (45.88), Louisville
2. Nicolas Graesser (46.00), North Carolina
3. Hennesset Stuart (46.09), NC State
4. Andreas Schiellerup (46.55), NC State
5. Sam Lewis (46.88), North Carolina
6. Noah Hensley (47.08), Florida State
7. Kazumu Takabayashi (47.23), Duke
7. Connor Kalisz (47.23), Florida State

Men’s ACC Friday Prelims Up/Middle/Down

Team	A-Final	B-Final	C-Final	Total
North Carolina	6	4	5	15
Louisville	10	6	1	17
NC State	9	8	1	18
Duke	3	5	4	12
Virginia	1	5	4	10
Florida State	3	3	3	9
Virginia Tech	4	1	6	11
Notre Dame	3	3	6	12
Georgia Tech	1	4	6	11
Pitt	0	1	4	5
Boston College	0	0	0	0

Finals will begin at 6 p.m. EST.

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