USC Wins 4×50 Medley Relay for First Time Ever, Cal Breaks American Record, Dressel Drops another 17.3

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Tonight’s 200 medley relay A final saw USC out-touch Pac-12 rival Cal-Berkely for the win with a pool record of 1:21.82, largely due to Carsten Vissering‘s 50 breast split of 22.58, which is among the fastest splits in history.

California’s squad was composed of all American swimmers, which made them eligible to break the American record, a feat they accomplished with Daniel Carr (20.85), Connor Hoppe (23.01), Justin Lynch (19.77) and Ryan Hoffer (18.25) producing a time of 1:21.88, under their old record they set in during this morning’s prelims of 1:21.88.

Third was awarded to Florida’s squad which featured another 17.37 freestyle split from Caeleb Dressel.

Winning the B final was Alabama’s relay who touched in a time of 1:23.71.

Notably, so far at these NCAA championships, there have been four relay events contested and four different universities have won each event.

 Event 14  Men 200 Yard Medley Relay
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         NCAA: N 1:21.54  03/24/2017Texas
                          J Shebat, W Licon, J Schooling, B Ringgold
     American: A 1:21.88  03/23/2018California, California-PC
                          D Carr, C Hoppe, J Lynch, R Hoffer
   U. S. Open: O 1:21.54  03/24/2017Texas
                          J Shebat, W Licon, J Schooling, B Ringgold
 Championship: C 1:21.54  03/24/2017Texas
                          J Shebat, W Licon, J Schooling, B Ringgold
         Pool: P 1:21.82  03/23/2018Southern California, USC-CA
                          R Glinta, C Vissering, D Carter, S Condorelli
    School                        Prelims     Finals NISCA Points
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                                === A - Final ===                                 
 
  1 USC                           1:22.76    1:21.82P  600   40  
     1) Robert Glinta FR              2) r:0.05 Carsten Vissering JR  
     3) r:0.26 Dylan Carter SR        4) r:0.24 Santo Condorelli SR   
    r:+0.67  21.15        43.73 (22.58)
        1:03.33 (19.60)     1:21.82 (18.49)
  2 California                    1:23.20    1:21.88A  600   34  
     1) Daniel Carr FR                2) r:0.24 Connor Hoppe SR       
     3) r:0.21 Justin Lynch SR        4) r:0.06 Ryan Hoffer FR        
    r:+0.62  20.85        43.86 (23.01)
        1:03.63 (19.77)     1:21.88 (18.25)
  3 Florida                       1:23.24    1:22.33   594   32  
     1) Michael Taylor FR             2) r:0.25 Chandler Bray SO      
     3) r:0.22 Mark Szaranek SR       4) r:0.22 Caeleb Dressel SR     
    r:+0.61  21.03        44.86 (23.83)
        1:04.96 (20.10)     1:22.33 (17.37)
  4 Indiana                       1:23.26    1:22.87   585   30  
     1) Gabriel Fantoni FR            2) r:0.26 Ian Finnerty JR       
     3) r:0.36 Vini Lanza JR          4) r:0.31 Bruno Blaskovic FR    
    r:+0.67  21.00        43.97 (22.97)
        1:03.98 (20.01)     1:22.87 (18.89)
  5 Texas                         1:23.28    1:23.21   579   28  
     1) John Shebat JR                2) r:0.12 Joseph Schooling SR   
     3) r:0.16 Tate Jackson JR        4) r:0.14 Brett Ringgold SR     
    r:+0.69  20.98        44.67 (23.69)
        1:04.78 (20.11)     1:23.21 (18.43)
  6 Tennessee                     1:23.64    1:23.74   570   26  
     1) Braga Verhage SO              2) r:0.18 Peter Stevens SR      
     3) r:0.26 Ryan Coetzee SR        4) r:0.11 Kyle Decoursey JR     
    r:+0.68  21.60        44.56 (22.96)
        1:05.16 (20.60)     1:23.74 (18.58)
  7 Louisville                    1:23.79    1:23.84   570   24  
     1) Nicolas Albiero FR            2) r:0.06 Carlos Claverie SR    
     3) r:0.10 Zach Harting JR        4) r:0.09 Andrej Barna SO       
    r:+0.69  21.28        44.58 (23.30)
        1:05.08 (20.50)     1:23.84 (18.76)
  8 NC State                      1:23.66    1:24.88   555   22  
     1) Andreas Vazaios JR            2) r:0.13 Daniel Graber JR      
     3) r:0.27 Jacob Molacek JR       4) r:0.29 Cobe Garcia JR        
    r:+0.63  21.10        45.06 (23.96)
        1:05.75 (20.69)     1:24.88 (19.13)

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