{"id":608954,"date":"2025-03-29T10:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=608954"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:37:11","slug":"ncaa-mens-championships-day-4-prelims-destin-lasco-chasing-200-back-four-peat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-day-4-prelims-destin-lasco-chasing-200-back-four-peat\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Men&#8217;s Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Destin Lasco Chasing 200 Back Four-Peat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NCAA Men&#8217;s Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Destin Lasco Chasing 200 Back Four-Peat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California fifth-year <strong>Destin Lasco<\/strong> has a chance to do something special at the NCAA Championships Saturday night. He\u2019s going to have a heck of a lot of competition to get there.<\/p>\n<p>Lasco is chasing a fourth straight title in the men\u2019s 200 backstroke. He holds the NCAA and American records, set last year at 1:35.37. He was also second as a freshman way back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He faces daunting competition for another crown. <strong>Hubert Kos<\/strong>, the World and Olympic champion over 200 meters, is in fine form, having won the 200 individual medley and 100 back this week. Florida\u2019s <strong>Johnny Marshall<\/strong>, second in the 100 back in the second-fastest time ever, is seeded second in the 200 back.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2025-ncaa-division-i-mens-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Championships Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swimmeetresults.tech\/NCAA-Division-I-Men-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-division-i-championships-day-2-prelims-rex-maurer-leads-deep-500-free-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 2 Prelims Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-day-3-prelims-in-battle-of-3-champs-josh-liendo-leads-100-fly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 3 Prelims Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s final session at the Weyerhauser King County Aquatic Center will also include the 1650 freestyle, platform diving and the concluding 400 freestyle relay. Team scores entering the final day:<\/p>\n<pre>Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 14                      \r\n  1. Texas                             368   2. California                      312.5\r\n  3. Indiana                           304   4. Florida                           233\r\n  5. Georgia                         177.5   6. Arizona St                        172\r\n  7. Tennessee                       162.5   8. Stanford                          162\r\n  9. NC State                          128  10. Michigan                           83\r\n 11. Alabama                            68  11. Ohio St                            68\r\n 13. Virginia Tech                      63  14. Texas A&amp;M                        57.5\r\n 15. Southern Cal                       55  16. Louisville                         53\r\n 17. Florida St                         48  18. Purdue                             33\r\n 19. Wisconsin                          28  20. Lsu                                26\r\n 21. Georgia Tech                       24  22. UNC                                21\r\n 23. Army                               15  23. Yale                               15\r\n 23. University of Utah                 15  26. Auburn                             14\r\n 27. Pittsburgh                         13  28. Virginia                           12\r\n 28. Smu                                12  30. Miami (Fl)                         11\r\n 30. Brown                              11  32. Missouri                            6\r\n 32. Kentucky                            6  34. Arizona                             1<\/pre>\n<h4>200 backstroke<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Destin Lasco<\/strong> is the second seed in the 200 backstroke, with a time of 1:36.40. <strong>Hubert Kos<\/strong> set the pace in prelims in 1:36.08, defending his standing as the fastest in-season swimmer.<\/p>\n<p>Lasco will have teammates in the A final. <strong>Gabriel Jett<\/strong> went 1:36.69 for third. <strong>Mewen Tomac<\/strong> jumped from 23rd seed to fifth in 1:37.26. The Golden Bears also have <strong>Keaton Jones<\/strong> in 11th (up from 19th seed) and <strong>Humberto Najera<\/strong> 12th (up from 32nd).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruard van Renan<\/strong> of Georgia orchestrated a big drop to 1:37.08 for the fourth seed. <strong>Owen McDonald<\/strong> gives Indiana an A finalist in sixth. Texas has two, with <strong>Will Modglin\u2019s<\/strong> 1:38.04 edging <strong>Johnny Marshall<\/strong> by .03 to win a slow fourth heat of five. Both are in the A final.<\/p>\n<p>There is a three-way swim-off for 16th place, between <strong>Kyle Peck<\/strong> of Texas, <strong>Cornelius Jahn<\/strong> of Ohio State and Stanford\u2019s <strong>Josh Zuchowski.<\/strong> Only one advances.<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 16  Men 200 Yard Backstroke<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:35.37  3\/30\/2024 Destin Lasco, California\r\n         Meet: M 1:35.37  3\/30\/2024 Destin Lasco, California\r\n     American: A 1:35.37  3\/30\/2024 Destin Lasco, California\r\n   U. S. Open: O 1:35.37  3\/30\/2024 Destin Lasco, California\r\n    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Kos, Hubert            JR Texas             1:35.72    1:36.08  \r\n    r:+0.74  22.50        47.49 (24.99)\r\n        1:11.97 (24.48)     1:36.08 (24.11)\r\n  2 Lasco, Destin          5Y California        1:38.21    1:36.40  \r\n    r:+0.73  23.04        47.42 (24.38)\r\n        1:12.04 (24.62)     1:36.40 (24.36)\r\n  3 Jett, Gabriel          SR California        1:37.19    1:36.69  \r\n    r:+0.72  23.40        47.74 (24.34)\r\n        1:12.24 (24.50)     1:36.69 (24.45)\r\n  4 Van Renen, Ruard       JR Georgia           1:39.92    1:37.08  \r\n    r:+0.54  22.69        47.44 (24.75)\r\n        1:12.10 (24.66)     1:37.08 (24.98)\r\n  5 Tomac, Mewen           5Y California        1:39.99    1:37.26  \r\n    r:+0.57  22.62        47.07 (24.45)\r\n        1:12.12 (25.05)     1:37.26 (25.14)\r\n  6 McDonald, Owen         JR Indiana           1:37.15    1:37.67  \r\n    r:+0.65  22.72        47.27 (24.55)\r\n        1:12.46 (25.19)     1:37.67 (25.21)\r\n  7 Modglin, Will          SO Texas             1:37.84    1:38.04  \r\n    r:+0.66  22.75        47.30 (24.55)\r\n        1:12.52 (25.22)     1:38.04 (25.52)\r\n  8 Marshall, Jonny        SO Florida           1:35.85    1:38.07  \r\n    r:+0.84  22.13        46.92 (24.79)\r\n        1:12.06 (25.14)     1:38.07 (26.01)\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  9 Van Westering, Kai     JR Indiana           1:39.24    1:38.62  \r\n    r:+0.69  23.02        47.51 (24.49)\r\n        1:12.87 (25.36)     1:38.62 (25.75)\r\n 10 Sequeira, Aaron        SR Stanford          1:39.54    1:39.14  \r\n    r:+0.73  23.17        47.99 (24.82)\r\n        1:13.49 (25.50)     1:39.14 (25.65)\r\n 11 Jones, Keaton          SO California        1:39.76    1:39.25  \r\n    r:+0.80  23.65        48.55 (24.90)\r\n        1:13.99 (25.44)     1:39.25 (25.26)\r\n 12 Najera, Humberto       SO California        1:40.49    1:39.30  \r\n    r:+0.65  23.68        48.56 (24.88)\r\n        1:14.16 (25.60)     1:39.30 (25.14)\r\n 13 Ubertalli, Pietro      JR Cornell           1:38.99    1:39.36  \r\n    r:+0.70  23.58        48.30 (24.72)\r\n        1:13.39 (25.09)     1:39.36 (25.97)\r\n 14 Diehl, Daniel          SO NC State          1:39.62    1:39.39  \r\n    r:+0.76  23.66        49.01 (25.35)\r\n        1:14.13 (25.12)     1:39.39 (25.26)\r\n 15 Hagar, Tommy           SO Alabama           1:39.77    1:39.43  \r\n    r:+0.75  23.52        48.92 (25.40)\r\n        1:14.12 (25.20)     1:39.43 (25.31)\r\n 16 Jahn, Cornelius        FR OSU               1:39.50    1:39.61  \r\n    r:+0.73  23.80        49.15 (25.35)\r\n        1:14.47 (25.32)     1:39.61 (25.14)\r\n 16 Peck, Kyle             FR Texas             1:39.36    1:39.61  \r\n    r:+0.63  23.02        48.09 (25.07)\r\n        1:13.44 (25.35)     1:39.61 (26.17)\r\n 16 Zuchowski, Josh        JR Stanford          1:39.71    1:39.61  \r\n    r:+0.70  23.56        48.84 (25.28)\r\n        1:14.74 (25.90)     1:39.61 (24.87)<\/pre>\n<h4>100 freestyle<\/h4>\n<p>We have an NCAA record in prelims, courtesy of <strong>Jordan Crooks.<\/strong> The Tennessee sprinter went 39.83 to break <strong>Caeleb Dressel\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-jordan-crooks-sets-100-free-ncaa-record-in-prelims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA record of 39.90 from 2018<\/a>. It\u2019s just the second sub-40 swim, from the second-sub-18 50 freestyler.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean the finals races is over. <strong>Josh Liendo<\/strong>, the two-time reigning champion, was second in 40.28. <strong>Jack Alexy<\/strong> turned it on in the second 50 to o 40.45 for third. Tennessee\u2019s <strong>Gui Caribe<\/strong> went 40.51 and is in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has an A finalist via <strong>Chris Guiliano<\/strong> in fifth. Cal managed a pair of B finalists in <strong>Bjorn Seeliger<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew Jensen.<\/strong> <strong>Luke Hobson<\/strong> went from the 39th seed to 11th in 41.45 for the Longhorns.<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 17  Men 100 Yard Freestyle<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 39.90  3\/24\/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida\r\n         Meet: M 39.90  3\/24\/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida\r\n     American: A 39.90  3\/24\/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida\r\n   U. S. Open: O 39.90  3\/24\/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida\r\n    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Crooks, Jordan         SR Tennessee           40.26      39.83N \r\n     r:+0.60  9.02         18.98 (9.96)\r\n          29.44 (10.46)       39.83 (10.39)\r\n  2 Liendo, Josh           JR Florida             40.45      40.28  \r\n     r:+0.64  9.03        19.15 (10.12)\r\n          29.73 (10.58)       40.28 (10.55)\r\n  3 Alexy, Jack            SR California          40.82      40.45  \r\n     r:+0.67  9.18        19.53 (10.35)\r\n          29.97 (10.44)       40.45 (10.48)\r\n  4 Caribe, Guilherme      JR Tennessee           40.85      40.51  \r\n     r:+0.57  9.02        19.26 (10.24)\r\n          29.96 (10.70)       40.51 (10.55)\r\n  5 Guiliano, Chris        SR Texas               41.13      40.70  \r\n     r:+0.61  9.04        19.25 (10.21)\r\n          29.84 (10.59)       40.70 (10.86)\r\n  6 Kulow, Jonny           JR ASU                 40.97      40.83  \r\n     r:+0.65  9.29        19.58 (10.29)\r\n          30.11 (10.53)       40.83 (10.72)\r\n  7 Hribar, Jere           SO LSU                 41.25      40.94  \r\n     r:+0.70  9.29        19.74 (10.45)\r\n          30.33 (10.59)       40.94 (10.61)\r\n  8 King, Matthew          JR Indiana             41.73      41.14  \r\n     r:+0.60  9.25        19.58 (10.33)\r\n          30.31 (10.73)       41.14 (10.83)\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  9 Sammon, Patrick        SR ASU                 41.39      41.17  \r\n     r:+0.61  9.24        19.63 (10.39)\r\n          30.47 (10.84)       41.17 (10.70)\r\n 10 Seeliger, Bjorn        5Y California          41.77      41.41  \r\n     r:+0.65  9.07        19.49 (10.42)\r\n          30.32 (10.83)       41.41 (11.09)\r\n 11 Hobson, Luke           SR Texas               42.19      41.45  \r\n     r:+0.72  9.45        19.80 (10.35)\r\n          30.68 (10.88)       41.45 (10.77)\r\n 12 Ramadan, Youssef       5Y VT                  41.89      41.50  \r\n     r:+0.60  9.33        19.73 (10.40)\r\n          30.61 (10.88)       41.50 (10.89)\r\n 13 Taylor, Lamar          5Y Tennessee           41.97      41.51  \r\n     r:+0.63  9.47        19.81 (10.34)\r\n          30.58 (10.77)       41.51 (10.93)\r\n 14 Fabiani, Remi          JR Cal Baptist         41.23      41.52  \r\n     r:+0.61  9.16        19.65 (10.49)\r\n          30.59 (10.94)       41.52 (10.93)\r\n 15 Jensen, Matthew        5Y California          41.77      41.61  \r\n     r:+0.64  9.42        19.94 (10.52)\r\n          30.73 (10.79)       41.61 (10.88)\r\n 16 Whitfield, Brendan     SO VT                  41.60      41.62  \r\n     r:+0.64  9.45        19.88 (10.43)\r\n          30.75 (10.87)       41.62 (10.87)<\/pre>\n<h4>200 breaststroke<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Carles Coll Marti<\/strong> is the top seed in the 200 breast, looking to build on Virginia Tech\u2019s singular NCAA title from <strong>Youssef Ramadan<\/strong> in 2023. The Spanish international went 1:49.23, one of three times under 1:50 as the event emerges from its era of domination by <strong>Leon Marchand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indiana put two in the A final, with <strong>Jassen Yep<\/strong> third in 1:49.39 and <strong>Caspar Corbeau<\/strong> fourth. Corbeau was the runner-up in 2023 and made the A final with Texas each year from 2021-23. <strong>Josh Matheny<\/strong> just missed out on a third A finalist in ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Third in prelims was the top seed entering the meet, <strong>Matt Fallon<\/strong> of Penn, who went 1:49.85. Fallon was in trouble, turning at 150 yards in sixth place in the last heat of five, but he rallied past all five of the guys in front of him. It\u2019s two Ivy Leaguers in the A final, with <strong>Jack Kelly<\/strong> of Brown fifth in 1:50.09.<\/p>\n<p>Cal has an A finalist via <strong>Yamato Okadome<\/strong> in eighth. Texas has two B finalists, with <strong>Will Scholtz<\/strong> 12th and <strong>Nate Germonprez<\/strong> 15th.<\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 18  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:46.35  3\/30\/2024 Leon Marchand, ASU\r\n         Meet: M 1:46.35  3\/30\/2024 Leon Marchand, ASU\r\n     American: A 1:47.91  3\/25\/2017 Will Licon, Texas\r\n   U. S. Open: O 1:46.35  3\/30\/2024 Leon Marchand, ASU\r\n    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        \r\n==================================================================\r\n<b>                      === Preliminaries ===                       <\/b>\r\n \r\n  1 Coll Marti, Carles     5Y VT                1:49.62    1:49.23  \r\n    r:+0.61  24.26        52.16 (27.90)\r\n        1:20.51 (28.35)     1:49.23 (28.72)\r\n  2 Yep, Jassen            5Y Indiana           1:49.93    1:49.39  \r\n    r:+0.61  24.74        52.70 (27.96)\r\n        1:20.97 (28.27)     1:49.39 (28.42)\r\n  3 Fallon, Matthew        SR Penn              1:48.85    1:49.85  \r\n    r:+0.64  25.50        53.66 (28.16)\r\n        1:22.03 (28.37)     1:49.85 (27.82)\r\n  4 Corbeau, Caspar        5Y Indiana           1:51.65    1:50.07  \r\n    r:+0.67  24.39        52.37 (27.98)\r\n        1:21.16 (28.79)     1:50.07 (28.91)\r\n  5 Kelly, Jack            SR Brown             1:49.80    1:50.09  \r\n    r:+0.67  24.37        52.00 (27.63)\r\n        1:20.46 (28.46)     1:50.09 (29.63)\r\n  6 Eccleston, Jacob       FR Louisville        1:51.03    1:50.19  \r\n    r:+0.66  24.68        52.72 (28.04)\r\n        1:21.22 (28.50)     1:50.19 (28.97)\r\n  7 Petrashov, Denis       5Y Louisville        1:50.35    1:50.23  \r\n    r:+0.69  25.03        53.10 (28.07)\r\n        1:21.57 (28.47)     1:50.23 (28.66)\r\n  8 Okadome, Yamato        FR California        1:50.19    1:50.35  \r\n    r:+0.64  24.47        52.40 (27.93)\r\n        1:21.37 (28.97)     1:50.35 (28.98)\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  9 Matheny, Josh          SR Indiana           1:49.83    1:50.41  \r\n    r:+0.67  24.75        52.67 (27.92)\r\n        1:21.03 (28.36)     1:50.41 (29.38)\r\n 10 Delmar, Ben            SO UNC               1:51.29    1:50.51  \r\n    r:+0.70  25.26        53.17 (27.91)\r\n        1:21.78 (28.61)     1:50.51 (28.73)\r\n 11 Savickas, Aleksas      JR Florida           1:50.02    1:50.84  \r\n    r:+0.68  24.67        52.10 (27.43)\r\n        1:20.79 (28.69)     1:50.84 (30.05)\r\n 12 Scholtz, Will          SO Texas             1:51.04    1:51.30  \r\n    r:+0.70  25.01        53.09 (28.08)\r\n        1:21.73 (28.64)     1:51.30 (29.57)\r\n 13 O'Grady, Chris         SR USC               1:52.07    1:51.35  \r\n    r:+0.69  25.13        53.40 (28.27)\r\n        1:21.68 (28.28)     1:51.35 (29.67)\r\n 14 Polonsky, Ron          SR Stanford          1:52.36    1:51.39  \r\n    r:+0.69  24.80        53.13 (28.33)\r\n        1:21.34 (28.21)     1:51.39 (30.05)\r\n 15 Germonprez, Nate       SO Texas             1:50.55    1:51.44  \r\n    r:+0.70  24.80        52.84 (28.04)\r\n        1:21.54 (28.70)     1:51.44 (29.90)\r\n 16 Li, Daniel             FR Stanford          1:52.60    1:51.83  \r\n    r:+0.68  25.72        53.98 (28.26)\r\n        1:22.47 (28.49)     1:51.83 (29.36)<\/pre>\n<h4>200 butterfly<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Luca Urlando,<\/strong> chasing a first title in this event to go with his NCAA record, lowered the meet record in an unusual prelims of the 200 fly. The Georgia fifth-year went 1:37.35, buzzing within his NCAA mark of 1:37.17.<\/p>\n<p>He would have to wait a bit to find out where that landed, as the fourth heat of six was started, called back and then re-run 40 minutes later. Urlando, who didn\u2019t swim in college either of the last two years, was the runner-up in 2022 and fourth in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ilya Kharun<\/strong> of Arizona State, the reigning champ, went a composed 1:38.81 to finish second. He won in 1:38.26 last year. Tennessee 200 fly specialist <strong>Martin Espernberger<\/strong> was fourth in 1:39.61.<\/p>\n<p>In that belated fourth heat, <strong>Krzysztof Chmielewski<\/strong> went 1:39.09 to win it. <strong>Dare Rose<\/strong> was second in 1:39.78, the only two of the eight to make the A final, in third and sixth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jake Magahey<\/strong> made the 11th A final of his career in seventh, his 1:39.90 edging <strong>Andrei Minakov\u2019s<\/strong> 1:39.93, while <strong>Bjoern Kamman<\/strong> of Tennessee was ninth by .02. <strong>Gal Groumi,<\/strong> swimming out of the first heat and seeded 41st, leapt to 13th. Cal has a B finalist in <strong>Frank Applebaum<\/strong> in 12th. Texas counter with 14th-place <strong>Cooper Lucas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><b> Event 19  Men 200 Yard Butterfly<\/b>\r\n==================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 1:37.17  1\/25\/2025 Luca Urlando, Georgia\r\n         Meet: M 1:37.35  3\/25\/2017 J Conger \/ L Urlando (2025), Texas \/ Georgia\r\n     American: A 1:37.17  1\/25\/2025 Luca Urlando, Georgia\r\n   U. S. 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