{"id":223590,"date":"2016-10-03T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=223590"},"modified":"2016-10-03T07:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:17:59","slug":"didnt-super-suit-era-affect-college-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/didnt-super-suit-era-affect-college-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn\u2019t The Super-Suit Era Affect College Swimming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We all know how devastating of a blow the international swimming world took after the ban on polyurethane \u201csuper\u201d suits. In 2009 alone, 147 world records were broken in super-suits (43 of those records were written at the 2009 LC World Championships). In 2010, after the ban, the world record tally went down to single-digits.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery period took longer than some expected, with world and regional records coming few and far between, making them seem more impressive and merited. <strong>Ryan Lochte<\/strong>\u2019s 400 I.M. at the 2010 SC World Championships in Dubai and <strong>Missy Franklin<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0200 backstroke at the 2012 London Olympic Games are two good examples of records that came once in a blue moon because they were one of few world records at those championships.<\/p>\n<p>However, the effects of the super-suit ban seemed to only reach the pros and not the college athletes. After the ban, collegiate swimmers broke several records by substantial margins, which catapulted the the level of NCAA competition higher than ever before (most notably <strong>Cesar Cielo<\/strong> becoming the first man to swim a 50-yard freestyle in 18.5 seconds and <strong>Elaine Breeden<\/strong> becoming the first woman to swim under 1:50 for a 200-yard butterfly).<\/p>\n<p>On the Division I men\u2019s side, out of the 19 total events, only three records are from 2009 or sooner (one of them being <strong>Peter Vanderkaay<\/strong>\u2019s 4:08 500 free, which has been holding on for dear life due to the likes of <strong>Townley Haas<\/strong> and <strong>Clark Smith<\/strong>). On the Division I women\u2019s side, only two of the 19 total records are from the super-suit era.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45342\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45342\" data-attachment-id=\"45342\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/didnt-super-suit-era-affect-college-swimming\/vanderkaayp-09-nats-1027\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VanderkaayP.-09-Nats-1027-e1475504031624.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"756,528\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Peter H. Bick&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1246991690&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Peter H. Bick&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vanderkaay,P. 09 Nats 1027\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VanderkaayP.-09-Nats-1027-e1475504031624-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VanderkaayP.-09-Nats-1027-1024x394.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-45342 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/VanderkaayP.-09-Nats-1027-e1475504031624-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aside from Division I records, the entire NCAA (Div. I, II and III) has seen major decreases in the \u2018A\u2019 qualification standard. For example, in Divisions I and II, for this upcoming 2016-2017 season, the \u2018A\u2019 cut was lowered in nearly every event and in cases which the standard was not lowered, it was not raised. A prime example of this can be seen in the women\u2019s Division II 200 I.M. and 200 breaststroke, where the A cut was lowered by over a full second. Similar trends have been seen in previous years which indicates that the super-suits were nothing but a fashion trend, rather than a necessity for swimming fast.<\/p>\n<p>But the question still remains, <em>why<\/em> didn\u2019t the super-suit ban plague the college swimming community as much as it did the international community? The answer is two-fold.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, it could be due to the fact that college swimmers are still very young, in comparison to the average age of the U.S. Olympic Team, and therefore have more room to grow and get faster, which would explain why so many of the NCAA records are relatively new. Although, a more precise reason may be the fact that the most dominate college swimmers today (<strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong>, <strong>Joseph Schooling<\/strong>, <strong>Lilly King<\/strong>, <strong>Simone Manuel<\/strong>, etc.) were too young to fully experience the polyurethane suits, during their careers, thus causing no relationship between using them and swimming fast.<\/p>\n<p>To put it into perspective, in 2009, Caeleb Dressel and Joseph Schooling were still competing in the 13-14 age group. Lilly King was 11 years old and Simone Manuel was only 12. The suits were not manufactured until 2008, which means the age-group versions of our college swimming stars today, only had one or two real, end of the season opportunities to use these super-suits, if they were lucky, which means they never developed a sense of what the suits truly felt like.<\/p>\n<p>Another prime example of how the suit ban didn\u2019t affect college athletes is <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong>\u2019s 51.85 100-meter backstroke world record performance from the 2016 Olympic Games. <strong>Aaron Piersol<\/strong> previously held the record with a 51.90, but it was produced in a polyurethane suit. Murphy, a senior at University of California-Berkeley, proves to us that the super-suits never played a pivotal role in the progression of NCAA competition.<\/p>\n<p>This shows us that the full effects of the suit ban didn\u2019t make their way to the college athletes. Murphy and all the other NCAA stars from all divisions, will compete in their respective championships again this spring and will have another chance to further push the boundaries past those of super-suit era. Only time will tell when the international community will catch up.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern We all know how devastating of a blow the international swimming world took after the ban on polyurethane \u201csuper\u201d suits. 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