2024 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Day 2 Prelims Warmth Sheet
Day 2 Prelims Scratches
Bonjour mes amis!! Notre première matinée de natation start… I’m sorry I jumped the boat. Seeing Leon Marchand, Hubert Kos, and Jordan Crooks‘s names atop the warmth sheet, I simply assumed it was July, and this was the Olympics. Final evening’s lack of nationwide anthems ought to have given it away, however I digress.
Talking of final evening, has everybody’s blood strain returned to inside regular ranges? The quickest two splits ever within the 50 again and 50 breast and but neither of their relays set the NCAA document, an honor that falls to Josh Liendo‘s Florida Gators. In the meantime, the 800 Free additionally noticed two new NCAA lead-off information, albeit one stood for about eight or so minutes, and like within the Medley, neither staff would win the relay. Luke Hobson‘s 1:29.13 stands as a brand new American document and will converse effectively of his probability of enhancing upon his #37 seed within the 500 free (4:15.56). It will be the NCAA document if not for Leon Marchand and his informal 1:28.97 from final evening’s 200 free lead-0ff, however prime honors go to Cal’s 6:02.26.
ASU’s Leon Marchand finds himself atop the rankings in an unfamiliar occasion. Final 12 months, the Frenchman set a brand new NCAA and US Open document however units his sights on the five hundred free. Marchand shocked the world, at the very least the swimming world, by swimming an NCAA and US Open Report of 4:06.18 at PAC-12s. (Props to Anya Pelshaw for the MARCHand Insanity pun). Inserting 2nd to his teammate at that meet and the second seed this morning is Zalan Sarkany, whose PB of 4:09.19 locations him simply forward of Georgia’s Jake Magahey. Magahey, who gained the occasion again in 2021 in 4:07.97 will look to enhance upon his third seed and entry time of 4:09.38. The aforementioned three are the one ones seed sub 4:10, however Cal’s Gabe Jett eschewed PAC-12s in favor of the Professional Swim Collection and dangerously ranks 4th together with his entry of 4:10.43 and needs to be buoyed by a 200 free PB on Cal’s successful 800 Free Relay.
If you happen to’re experiencing double imaginative and prescient in seeing ASU seeded within the prime two spots within the subsequent occasion, there isn’t any have to name a physician. Not less than not for this. Displaying why they’re the heavy favorites (on paper), Hubert Kos and Owen McDonald will look to lock down the center two lanes tonight for the Solar Devils. The pair entered with instances of 1:38.77 and 1:39.35 are the one two swimmers below 1:40 however shall be joined by Cal’s Destin Lasco (1:40.16), Michigan’s Gal Cohen Groumi (1:40.48) and a bunch of others, all on the lookout for a prime eight spot.
Lastly an occasion with out an ASU swimmer within the prime place, however primarily based upon how Jonny Kulow swam the occasion final evening (17.94 flying break up), I could also be regretting this assertion. Butterfliers final evening on the relay, the pair of Crooks and Josh Liendo will look to duke it out for the center lanes tonight. Crooks, the Tennessee dash star, enters with the one time below 18.00 (17.99) and seems to have a wholesome margin upon Liendo and his 18.55, however the Canadian final evening simply casually threw down an 18.97 fly break up, the second quickest ever. One needn’t go far to search out an ASU swimmer as Jack Dolan is the #4 seed (18.61), with teammates Ilya Kharun (#10 – 18.82) and Kulow (#15 – 18.92) lurking not far behind. It will be remiss of me to not point out that Cal has a pair of dangerously under-seeded swimmers within the type of Bjorn Seeliger (#12 – 18.85) and Jack Alexy (#17 – 18.92). Nonetheless, all these swimmers might want to climb over the #3 seed Chris Guiliano who’s entered together with his ACC prelim’s time of 18.57. The Combating Irish swimmer casually went a PB by nearly a second final evening within the 200 free final evening, main off Notre Dame in 1:30.36.
500 YARD FREESTYLE — Prelims
- NCAA Report: 4:06.18— Leon Marchand, ASU (2023)
- Meet Report: 4:06.61 — Matthew Sates, Georgia (2022)
- American Report: 4:06.32 — Kieran Smith, Florida (2020)
- U.S. Open Report: 4:06.18— Leon Marchand, ASU (2023)
- Pool Report: 4:08.42 — Clark Smith, Texas (2017)
- 2023 Champion: 4:07.37 – Luke Hobson, Texas
High 16:
- Jake Magahey (Georgia) – 4:09.36
- Leon Marchand (ASU) – 4:09.54
- Luke Hobson (Texas) – 4:10.28
- Gabriel Jett (Cal) – 4:10.61
- Coby Carrozza (Texas) – 4:10.74
- Mason Mathias (AUB) – 4′:10.82
- Charlie Hawke (BAMA) – 4:11.02
- Jack Hoagland (SMU) – 4:11.11
- Bar Soloveychik (MINN) – 4:11.33
- Zalan Sarkany (ASU) – 4:11.38
- Jake Mitchell (FLOR) – 4:11.50
- Rafael Miroslaw (IU) – 4:11.84
- Gio Linscheer (FLOR) – 4:11.97
- Alex Axon (OSU) – 4:12.64
- James Plage (NC State) – 4:12.97
- Daniel Matheson (ASU) – 4:13.00
Warmth 2 noticed 2023 USA Worlds swimmer and Stanford Freshman Henry McFadden enter the water, however the warmth went to NC State’s Lance Norris in a time of 4:15.51, dropping 1.49 from his seed. Touching 2nd within the warmth and maybe buoyed by his teammates’ performances from final evening was Cal’s Trent Frandson in 4:15.91.
Ensuring that you just didn’t neglect them in your decide ’em (and making you pay for those who did) was warmth three’s Luke Hobson and Jack Hoagland. Hobson, the lately minted American document holder within the 200 free, was out quick, splitting 1:36.19 on the 200 mark. Hobson, the latest bronze medalist within the 200 free on the 2024 Worlds, posted a time of 4:10.28, dropping over 5 seconds off his seed to put up a time sooner than his prelims swim from final 12 months (4:10.51). Hoagland, a switch from Notre Dame to SMU, has overcome a string of accidents closed on the Longhorn to the touch in 4:11.11 , overtaking his greatest time courting again to 2021. Each of their time’s clip below the 4:11.81 it took to qualify for the A-final final 12 months.
Hobson and Hoagland remained on the prime of the rating till Warmth 5 rolled round. Within the first of the circle-seeded heats, the 2021 Champion within the occasion, Jake Magahey, stomped his authority throughout the warmth, posting a time of 4:09.36. Very similar to with Hobson, this prelims swim is almost half a second sooner than his swim final 12 months, proving that nobody this morning is sitting round and hoping to get in. Alabama’s Charlie Hawke, recent off of a faculty document within the 200 free final evening, copied the feat, posting a brand new PB and college document of 4:11.02 to take a seat third with two heats remaining.
Warmth 6 was a slower affair, however women and gents, was it thrilling. Texas has determined to point out up as Longhorn Coby Carrozza, a B-finalist final 12 months, posted the quickest time within the warmth of 4:10.74 battling it with Auburn’s Mason Mathias during the last 100. Mathias, a junior, would edge out each Bar Soloveychik and the #2 total seed, Zalan Sarkany, hitting the wall in 4:10.82 to rank 4th with one warmth remaining.
The final warmth was all Leon Marchand, however whether or not it was technique or tiredness, his nearest rivals, Gabriel Jett and Jake Mitchell, appeared to shut on the ASU Solar Satan during the last 100. Marchand’s 4:09.54 is way slower than his NCAA document from Pac-12s however does sufficient to qualify into tonight’s ultimate in 2nd. Jett and Mitchell completed just a little behind at 4:10.61 and 4:11.50.
Notice: It took 4:11.81 to make the A-final in 2023 and 4:13.59 to make the B-final, with every ultimate getting over .5 sooner.
200 YARD IM — Prelims
High 16:
- Destin Lasco (CAL) – 1:39.34 ***NEW POOL RECORD***
- Hubert Kos (ASU) – 1:40.40
- Gal Cohen Groumi (MICH) – 1:40.54
- David Schlicht (ASU)/ Arsenio Bustos (NCS) – 1:40.82
- Baylor Nelson (TAMU) – 1:41.23
- Owen McDonald (ASU) – 1:41.24
- Nate Germonprez (TEX) – 1:41.35
- Ron Polonsky (STAN) – 1:41.44
- Eitan Ben-Shitrit (MICH) – 1:41.66
- Tim Connery (UVA) – 1:41.70
- Daniel Diehl (NCS) – 1:41.84
- Julian Smith (FLOR) – 1:41.87
- Luke Barr (IU) – 1:41.97
- Danny Kovac (SMU) – 1:42.03
- Jordan Tiffany (BYU) – 1:42.07
Warmth 1 noticed some large drops from swimmers swimming within the first warmth. Pouncing on the momentum created by his teammate, SMU’s Danny Kovac dropped 3.48 seconds from his seed to a 1:42.03. The previous Mizzou Tiger has a greatest time of 1:41.35, however was a lot sooner than his twenty fifth place time of 1:43.17 from final 12 months. Additionally dropping a big chunk of time was Texas’s shock returner, Jake Foster. Foster touched in 1:42.73, dropping 2.73 from seed, however is unlikely to duplicate his A-final look from final 12 months; he certified in eighth in 1:41.52.
Warmth 5, the final earlier than the circle-seeded warmth, noticed Like Maurer and Danny Schmidt add to the rising record of swimmers within the mid-1:42 vary. Maurer closed in 24.06 to move the Auburn swimmer on the final 50 to the touch in 1:42.38 vs 1:42.61. It needs to be famous that Kovac nonetheless holds the highest time at 1:42.03.
With ASU faltering barely, Cal’s Destin Lasco, fueled by final evening’s relay win went at it exhausting. The Cal Bear lastly overtook the highest time this morning, posting a speedy 1:39.34. Final 12 months, Lasco had the highest time from the morning (1:38.32) however was overtaken by Marchand within the ultimate.
Warmth 7 introduced a canine battle, but it surely was NC State’s Arsenio Bustos and ASU’s David Schlicht tying in 1:40.82 forward of the #2 seed, Owen McDonald. The pair have been sitting behind solely Lasco, however ASU’s Hubert Kos and the #1 seed had different plans as within the final warmth, he jumped into the #2 spot in 1:40.40. Kos was trailed a lot of the way in which by Michigan’s Gal Cohen Groumi at 1:40.54.
Final 12 months, eighth place out of prelims was 1:41.52, and sixteenth was 1:42.33, persevering with the pattern that this meet is getting sooner.
50 YARD FREESTYLE — Prelims
- NCAA Report: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- Meet Report: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- American Report: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- U.S. Open Report: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- Pool Report: 18.23 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2017)
- 2023 Champion: 18.32 – Jordan Crooks, Tennessee
High 16:
- Josh Liendo (FLOR) – 18.33
- Chris Guiliano (ND) – 18.43
- Jack Alexy (CAL) – 18.44
- Jordan Crooks (TENN) – 18.49
- Bjorn Seeliger (CAL) – 18.57
- Jack Dolan (ASU) – 18.62
- Jonny Kulow (ASU) – 18.64
- Guilherme Santos (TENN) – 18.76
- Taiko Torepe-Ormsby (WISC) – 18.78
- Jere Hribar (LSU) – 18.81
- Youssef Ramadan (VT) – 18.82
- Quintin McCarty (NCS) – 18.92
- Ilya Kharun (ASU) – 18.94
- Adam Chaney (FLOR) – 18.99
- Dillon Downing (UGA) – 19.03
- Ed Fullum-Huot (FLOR) – 19.04
Sorry people, these guys are too quick to do each warmth. Up via the circle-seeded heats, NC State’s Noah Henderson, out of warmth 5, posted the quickest time at 19.05, trailed by his teammate Jerry Fox at 19.09.
Warmth 6 noticed the sub-19 coming swift and quick as Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano‘s stomped down a speedy 18.43. Becoming a member of him below that mark was the Cal senior Bjorn Seeliger (18.57) and NC state freshman Quintin McCarty (18.92).
Guiliano’s time atop the rankings was short-lived as Josh Liendo dropped an 18.33 within the very subsequent warmth. The Florida Gator, recent off an NCAA document within the Medley final evening, shall be your prime seed tonight because the final warmth noticed top-seeded and defending champ Jordan Crooks contact the wall in 18.49, which safely slots him in because the #4 seed tonight. It needs to be famous that final 12 months, Liendo was 18.54 within the morning, and Crooks was 18.25, maybe signifying a reversal of fortunes for the SEC foes.
It took 18.87 final 12 months to make the A-final, and Liam Bell’s 19.04 certified for the B-Ultimate in sixteenth. Six of the eight A-finalists return from final 12 months, however the remaining two spots shall be stuffed by swimmers who didn’t make the highest 16 final 12 months as Guiliano ranks 2nd (he was twenty third final 12 months with 19.17) and Jonny Kulow, a Wyoming swimmer, and ASU Sophomore at the moment ranks seventh in 18.64 (he was seventeenth final 12 months with 19.05). Kulow shouldn’t come as a lot of a shock as final evening he casually dropped a 17.94 anchor leg.
Whereas it appears unlikely that Dressel’s information shall be touched or that anybody will get below 18.oo, with Liendo being solely .01 away from final 12 months’s successful time, we may see the IUPUI document of 18.23 fall.