{"id":190459,"date":"2016-03-16T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=190459"},"modified":"2016-03-16T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:45:55","slug":"performance-of-the-week-dion-dreesens-200-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/performance-of-the-week-dion-dreesens-200-freestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Of The Week: Dion Dreesens 200 Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week was full of fast swimming from Division II, with their NCAA meet underway in Indianapolis and records falling left and right. Queens University defended their team titles on both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s sides, and all in all a staggering <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seventeen <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCAA Division II records were broken throughout the meet. While Queens <\/span><b>Patricia Castro Ortega <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">led the way with four NCAA records in individual events, it was her teammate <\/span><b>Dion Dreesens <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that may have had the most noteworthy performance of the meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winning the 200 freestyle by nearly three seconds, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/dion-dreesens-crushes-ncaa-d2-200-free-record\/\"><b>Dreesens <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">touched the wall at 1:32.46<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to break his own DII NCAA record. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/184928-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">junior had owned the previous record of 1:34.20 from just a few weeks ago when he clipped it by one-hundredth at the Bluegrass Mountain Conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Out in 44.81 in that swim, <\/span><b>Dreesens <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">faded down the stretch to just get the NCAA record, but there was no fading the second time around at NCAA\u2019s. Out just a hair faster in 44.66, <\/span><b>Dreesens <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">backed it up with a 23.84 and 23.96 on his third and fourth 50\u2019s to come home in 47.80 and smash the old record. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of the writing of this article, that time also ties <\/span><b>Dreesens <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for 2nd among all NCAA athletes, including Division I swimmers. While that may change after Division I NCAA\u2019s in a few weeks, it still speaks to the level of performance that <\/span><b>Dreesens <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had at this meet. 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