AUSTIN, TX, December 3. SOME of the top programs in college swimming are meeting here December 2-4, several rested and\/or shaved, and have already begun spitting out one NCAA qualifying time after another.<\/p>\n
Participating schools include women from the host Longhorns, Arizona, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Southern California, Hawaii, Nebraska, TCU, UCLA, New Mexico, SMU, Wyoming and UC-Santa Barbara. Participating men\u2019s teams include: Texas, Arizona, Southern California, Michigan, Cal-Berkeley, Wisconsin, Arizona State, TCU, Wyoming, Hawaii, Southern Methodist and UC-Santa Barbara. These listings match their scoring order after day one.<\/p>\n
One of the highlights of day one had to be the men\u2019s 500, where Arizona\u2019s Tyler DeBerry led qualifiers at 4:18.07 but was only able to pull fourth in the final as Michigan\u2019s Peter Vanderkaay won at 4:15.32. Vanderkaay passed two USC Trojans on the last 50, with Larsen Jensen and Ous Mellouli touching in a dead heat at 4:15.43. Some race! Quality tells, as only Olympic medalists or FINA world champions were admitted to the awards stand in this one.<\/p>\n
One of the most impressive swims of the night came from a men\u2019s \u201cB\u201d relay from Arizona. In a meet with such a sterling cast of competitors, most swimming very well, the real \u201cB\u201d teams \u2013 not just those titled as such by coaches for strategy reasons but actually having the best swimmers \u2013 usually are simply not factors. <\/p>\n
Here UofA clearly put their best squad up as their 400 yard medley \u201cA\u201d team (Thoman [47.91 backstroke], Stevens, Ferns, Burnett) was first at 3:10.84. Their \u201cB\u201d team of Dave Rollins, Ivan Barnes, Albert Subirats and Jonas Persson \u2013 each properly on the \u201cB\u201d with splits slower that their \u201cA\u201d team counterparts \u2013 placed second at 3:14.50. They beat the best offerings from Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, USC, Cal and others, none of whom put up chopped liver for the race as there were seven relays under the NCAA consideration standard of 3:18.13.<\/p>\n
Some other leading swims were:<\/p>\n
Jenna Gresdal, Arizona 50 free\t\t\t0:22.52
\nEmily Mason, Arizona 500 free\t\t\t4:40.51
\nCarly Piper, Wisconsin 500 free\t\t4:42.25
\nWhitney Myers Arizona 100 fly\t\t 0:52.89
\n\t\t\t200 IM\t\t\t1:58.38
\nSarah Wanezek Texas 100 fly\t\t\t0:53.48
\nLyndon Ferns, Arizona 100 fly\t\t\t0:46.04
\n\t\t 50 free\t\t\t0:19.45p
\nDaniel DiToro, Texas 100 fly\t\t\t0:46.74p
\nAdam Mania, Wisconsin 200 IM\t\t\t1:45.74 (1st)
\nDave Rollins, Arizona 200 IM\t\t\t1:45.52p
\nSimon Burnett, Arizona 50 free\t\t\t0:19.28
\nHayley McGregory, Texas 100 back (relay L.O.)\t0:54.07<\/p>\n
This is NOT a complete listing of all AUTO NCAA standards on the night. Check out the full results in the attached listing on SwimInfo.com., which also includes diving and team scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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