{"id":244848,"date":"2017-03-05T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=244848"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:20:47","slug":"morning-splash-the-impact-of-conference-season-on-the-u-s-mens-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/morning-splash-the-impact-of-conference-season-on-the-u-s-mens-relays\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Splash: The Impact of Conference Season on the U.S. Men&#8217;s Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>By David Rieder.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The United States men swept Olympic golds in the three relays last summer in Rio, but each one of those wins came with the assistance of <strong>Michael<\/strong> <strong>Phelps<\/strong>\u2014who, as most of you reading almost certainly know, is once again retired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The success of 2016 helped wash away some of the stench from the 2015 World Championships in Kazan when the U.S. men swam without the suspended Phelps. The results? Not so rosy: a tie for 11th in the 400 free relay and the end of an 11-year winning streak in the 800 free relay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So does the loss of Phelps mean that the Americans will revert back to the mediocre levels of 2015? Not necessarily. The results from the college ranks provide some answers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last year, <strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> ripped up the short course yards\u2019 record books in the sprint free events, and it was hardly surprising to see him Rio-bound a few months later. But in the aftermath of the 2016 NCAA championships, few would have figured that <strong>Ryan Held<\/strong> and <strong>Blake Pieroni<\/strong> would be joining Dressel at the Olympic Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, both have gold medals to their names, and both showed up at their respective conference championships with a full beard\u2014and still dominated. Pieroni heads into the NCAA championships ranked second in the country in the 100 free at 41.44, with Held just behind at 41.61.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This season,\u00a0both of their head coaches have noticed what their star sprinters took away from the Olympic experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYou are who you hang out with, and he got to eat dinner and lunch with guys like Michael Phelps,\u201d Indiana head coach <strong>Ray Looze<\/strong> said in December. \u201cBlake took a lot out of that. He\u2019s a real smart guy, a student of the sport. He\u2019s been a different guy. He wants to be really, really good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NC State head coach <strong>Braden Holloway<\/strong>\u00a0felt similarly about how the experience affected Held.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI think the biggest thing that changed for him is his belief that he can swim even faster,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cHe knows in four years, he and Caeleb and Blake are going to be lead dogs. That\u2019s a big burden. That\u2019s a big responsibility for USA Swimming. He\u2019s let that catapult him further to continue to move forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On top of the Dressel-Held-Pieroni trio,\u00a0<strong>Michael<\/strong> <strong>Chadwick<\/strong>\u00a0split a 41.13 anchoring Missouri\u2019s 400 medley relay while unshaved at SECs, and wily veteran <strong>Nathan Adrian<\/strong> didn\u2019t look all that rusty when he returned to competition after a seven-month layoff and clocked 48.66 in the 100-meter free at the arena Pro Swim Series meet in Indianapolis this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A U.S. 400 free team that was in transition this past summer won a gold medal, and compared to this point in 2016, the American sprint roster is in much better shape with less than five months to go before the World Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As for the 200 free and the 800 free relay, the changeover must begin in earnest before it\u2019s too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Phelps is gone, and also missing from this summer\u2019s relay will be the now-suspended <strong>Ryan<\/strong> <strong>Lochte<\/strong>, whose streak of 13 years on the U.S. finals squad will come to an end at the World Championships in Budapest. And then there\u2019s <strong>Conor<\/strong> <strong>Dwyer<\/strong>, a five-year veteran of the relay team whose status for this summer is currently unclear as he has not competed since the Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What the Americans do have to build around is <strong>Townley<\/strong> <strong>Haas<\/strong>, whose split of 1:44.14 in the 800 free relay Olympic final was faster than anybody else on any team. The expectations were sky-high for Haas after his ridiculous 1:30.46 in the 200-yard free at NCAAs last year, and he has mostly lived up to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Haas has a 200 free season best\u00a0of 1:32.17, which might not seem all that fast by his standards, but it\u2019s a second faster than his best time\u00a0heading into NCAAs last year (1:33.19). The 1:30-barrier could come under fire when Haas swims the event at the NCAA championships later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As for some other potential pieces for the U.S. relay, <strong>Jack Conger<\/strong> will get some attention after he finished third in the 200 free at Olympic Trials in 1:45.77, and so will fellow prelims relay participants <strong>Gunnar Bentz<\/strong> and <strong>Clark<\/strong> <strong>Smith<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But if the most recent swims from the conference championships are any indication, this summer could bring some unfamiliar names\u2014perhaps the two freshmen who will have the top two seeds in the 200-yard free entering the NCAA championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Any idea how <strong>Dean Farris<\/strong> and <strong>Cameron Craig<\/strong> finished in the 200 free at Olympic Trials? Well, neither of them swam the event as both opted for the 100 back that same day. Craig finished in a three-way tie for 15th before finishing third in a swim-off with a semifinals spot on the line, while Farris was 55th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last week, Farris won the Ivy League title in the 200-yard free in 1:31.56, and then Craig took first at the Pac-12 championships in 1:31.71. Not to be forgotten in the freshman mix is <strong>Maxime<\/strong> <strong>Rooney<\/strong>, who won the SEC title for Florida in 1:32.18.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Time conversions are tricky, but according to <em>Swimming World\u2019s<\/em> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/time-conversion\" target=\"_blank\">Time Conversion Utility<\/a>, all of those marks convert to somewhere between 1:44-mid and 1:45-mid. For some perspective, Haas finished first in the 200-meter free at Olympic Trials in 1:45.66, and Smith made the Olympic team when he finished sixth in 1:47.53.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So if these three teenagers can find their long course form, all will be heard from this summer when they return to Indianapolis for U.S. Nationals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the U.S. might need every bit of help it can find for the 200 free. After all, Great Britain finished just over two seconds behind in the 800 free relay final in Rio, and there\u2019s no reason to believe that team will be falling off the pace any time soon, with <strong>James<\/strong> <strong>Guy<\/strong>, <strong>Duncan Scott<\/strong> and <strong>Stephen Milne<\/strong> all 22 years old or younger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Are we getting ahead of ourselves in projecting conference championship times onto the long course pool? 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