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By Michael J. Stott.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the NCAA Men\u2019s Championship meet in 1978, Olympian and University of Southern California swimmer Bruce<\/strong> Furniss<\/strong> set one of his 19 American records in winning the 200 yard freestyle (1:36.16). Forty years later, American swimming stands on the precipice of witnessing another landmark performance.<\/p>\n

Ever since last year\u2019s NCAA meet in Atlanta there have been whispers of Townley Haas<\/strong> lowering his American, U.S. Open, meet and pool record time of 1:30.46 to sub 1:30. In that swim he was last (.74) off the block before clocking 20.90, 22.71, 23.31, and 23.54 50 splits, leading the rest of the way and beating second place Matias Koski<\/strong> of Georgia by 1.08 seconds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Atlanta Haas also prevailed in the 500 free (4:09.00 — fifth fastest all-time) and swam the second leg (1:30.52) on Texas winning 800 free relay. On the meet\u2019s final day he posted a prelim 42.43 flat start 100 on the 400 free relay and finished fourth in 1500 free in 14:34.36. That time bettered his seed by 6.73 seconds and put him in the conversation for swimmer of the meet.<\/p>\n

Since then Haas captured an Olympic gold medal, teaming with Conor Dwyer<\/strong>, Ryan Lochte<\/strong> and Michael Phelps<\/strong> to win the 800 meter freestyle relay in 7:00.66. His split of 1:44.14 was the fastest of all swimmers, seven tenths of a second faster than the next fastest time by James Guy of Great Britain. In his Rio individual event, Haas finished fifth in the 200 meter freestyle in 1:45.58.<\/p>\n

In late March 2016, Haas’ college coach Eddie Reese<\/strong> of Texas was asked what Haas had to do to improve. \u201cStarts, turns and kicking,\u201d he said. Haas himself acknowledges his shortcomings regarding turns. \u201cThe further you get off the wall means the more speed you have off the wall. It\u2019s easier to gain more speed off the wall than anywhere else and to maintain it. He does a great job of maintaining speed or even picking it up,\u201d noted the Texas coach.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week USA Swimming\u2019s National Team High Performance Director Russell Mark was asked of Haas prospect of going low.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur athletes nowadays, Townley included, Katie Ledecky, Simone they\u2019re breaking time barriers people didn\u2019t think was possible so I would not put it past anybody to break 1:30 in the 200 free.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing what he has done. He surpassed expectations last year and that to me is a reason he can do it. There is no reason to doubt Eddie\u2019s training program. Townley\u2019s ability — he showed it at NCAA\u2019s and at the Olympics,\u201d – Russell Mark.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Asked if there was a reason people couldn\u2019t go sub 1:30, Mark said he personally wouldn\u2019t count anyone out. \u201cWhat is surprising is Townley\u2019s ability to do it without the same skills off the walls that other swimmers have. Improving his starts, turns and coming off the walls makes it even more possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

So will the floodgates once open lead to a landside of followers? \u201cI think there will people who follow,\u201d said Mark. \u201cThere have been few time barriers broken where people haven\u2019t. I don\u2019t know that there is some mental hurdle with the 1:30 200 free as there was with Roger Bannister<\/strong> and the four minute mile, but I\u2019m not sure there will be a huge flood of people after it is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said the list of contenders grew exponentially during Wednesday night\u2019s 800 free relay. Four swimmers led off their respective quartets with times under 1:32 evoking memories of Arizona\u2019s Simon Burnett<\/strong> whose NCAA and U.S. Open record of 1:31.20 had stood since 2006 until Haas threw down his epic 1:30.46 a year ago.<\/p>\n

Fastest of the four was Indiana\u2019s Blake Pieroni<\/strong> (1:30.87), followed by Southern Cal\u2019s Dylan Carter<\/strong> (1:30.95), NC State’s Ryan Held<\/strong> (1:31.37) and Longhorn Jack Conger<\/strong> (1:31.54). Four others posted splits under 1:32. Florida\u2019s Mark Szaranek<\/strong> clocked a 1:31.46, Golden Bear Andrew Seliskar<\/strong> recorded a 1:31.58 while Wolfpack senior Soren Dahl<\/strong> anchored in a 1:30.67 as did Haas with a 1:30.54.<\/p>\n

So, as we enter Friday\u2019s program, the question before the house is \u201care we about to witness history?\u201d<\/p>\n

THE FURNISS PERSPECTIVE<\/h2>\n
\"Bruce

Bruce Furniss – Photo Courtesy: Swimming World<\/p><\/div>\n

Bruce Furniss was in the final heat of the 200 free at NCAA\u2019s four years running. He won the event in 1977 and 1978 and lost it to outside smoke efforts of Jim Montgomery in 1976 (1:36.53) and the late Andy Coan<\/strong><\/a> of Tennessee (1:35.62) in 1979.<\/p>\n

After Coan\u2019s triumph five NCAA winners in the next eight years (Rowdy Gaines<\/strong> \u2013 twice, Matt Biondi<\/strong>-thrice) bested 1:35 in the 200 free.\u201dIn that era breaking 1:40 was considered a fast time,\u201d says Furniss. \u201cIn the \u201860\u2019s and \u201870\u2019s the 200 was more tactical\u2026 more like the 800 meters in track and field. Over time it has become a sprint, so it is a different race. I don\u2019t think we were as honest in that first 100 as swimmers are today. That\u2019s where all the time difference is.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example in Montreal I was out in :54.6 or .7 and came back in 55.03. If you take the dive out of the first 100, I almost negative split the race\u2026 way too slow. Today a lot of kids can go 1:45 or 1:46 and come back in :55 \u2013 and they are going out in 50 point or :51. My best time in the 4 x 100 free relay, and I didn\u2019t get to swim the 100 shaved, was :44.5 and I was proud of that. I got all time points at SC for that. So he\u2019s coming back in what I swam going out. That\u2019s another language.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy dream in life was always to beat Schollander. I\u2019m sure if you asked him he\u2019d say the same thing about my era, maybe Rowdy\u2019s era, so it\u2019s all relative. It\u2019s the way the sport is \u2013 faster and better. We thought we were ahead of the game because we had lycra suits, goggles and high performance lane lines.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTownley\u2026 good luck to him.\u201d \u00a0– Bruce Furniss.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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