{"id":525866,"date":"2023-03-24T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=525866"},"modified":"2023-03-24T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:41:33","slug":"ncaa-championships-josh-liendo-throws-down-43-to-take-top-seed-in-100-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-championships-josh-liendo-throws-down-43-to-take-top-seed-in-100-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Championships: Josh Liendo Throws Down 43 to Take Top Seed in 100 Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA Championships: Josh Liendo Throws Down 43 to Take Top Seed in 100 Butterfly<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships continued on Friday with the prelims of the 100 butterfly.<\/p>\n

In the first circle-seeded heat, NC State’s Nyls Korstanje<\/strong> led at the halfway point. Florida’s Josh<\/strong> Liendo<\/strong> took a narrow lead at the final turn and hung on to win the race in 43.80. It was a time that would hold up with two heats to go.<\/p>\n

In the second circle-seeded heat, Jordan Crooks<\/strong> held a narrow lead at the halfway point as he battled NC State’s Kacper Stokowski<\/strong> until the touch. Crooks got to the wall in 44.52, just ahead of Stokowski (44.66)<\/p>\n

In the final heat, Stanford’s Andrei Minakov<\/strong> led at the halfway point. Virginia Tech’s Youssef Ramadan used a late surge to get to the wall first in 44.00. Minakov was next at 44.14.<\/p>\n

The NCAA overall top seed went to Liendo at 43.80, ahead of Ramadan (44.00) and Minakov (44.17).<\/p>\n

Indiana junior Tomer Frankel<\/strong> took the fourth seed in 44.26, followed by NC State’s Aiden Hayes<\/strong> (44.40), Crooks (44.52), Korstanje (44.56) and Stokowsi (44.65) as the NC State Wolfpack put three in the NCAA final.<\/p>\n