{"id":609049,"date":"2025-03-29T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=609049"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:08:34","slug":"ncaa-mens-championships-jassen-yep-caps-career-with-crazy-200-breast-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-jassen-yep-caps-career-with-crazy-200-breast-title\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Men’s Championships: Jassen Yep Caps Career with ‘Crazy’ 200 Breast Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA Men’s Championships: Jassen Yep Caps Career with ‘Crazy’ 200 Breast Title<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the absence of Leon Marchand<\/strong>, someone you might not have expected was going to step into the breach and win the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Championships. Even Jassen Yep<\/strong> didn’t expect it was going to be him.<\/p>\n

The Indiana fifth-year represented the vaunted Indiana breaststroke group by winning in 1:48.30, holding off a late charge by Matt Fallon<\/strong> of Penn.<\/p>\n

Yep was .57 seconds ahead of Fallon, who went 1:48.87, Yep’s time making him the third-fastest performer ever. Carles Coll Marti<\/strong> of Virginia Tech was third in 1:48.89. Fallon was the top seed entering the meet, Coll Marti tops after prelims.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s just shock,” a still processing Yep said. “I don’t think anyone expected it. I don’t think even I expected it. I kind of went into it with no expectations, just trying to have a good swim. I’m not planning on coming back in the summer, so just really as a last race, leave it all out there. And so it was just a lot of shock and excitement.”<\/p>\n