2015 ACC Men’s Championships: Day 3 Finals Real Time Recaps

2015 ACC MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS – DAY 3 PRELIMS

• Dates: Wednesday, Feb. 25 – Saturday, Feb. 28; Prelims 10AM/Finals 6PM (Eastern Time)
• Location: Georgia Tech – Atlanta, GA
• Defending Champion: Virginia Tech (results)
• Live Results
• Live Video (ESPN 3)
• Psych Sheet
• Championship Central
• SwimSwam’s Fan Guide

ICYMI:

• Day 1 Finals Recap
• Day 2 Prelims Recap – Day 2 Ups/Mids/Downs – Day 2 Finals Recap – Day 2 Scoring Update – Five Things From Day 2
• Day 3 Prelims Recap – Day 3 Ups/Mids/Downs

The Louisville Cardinals had a great morning, setting themselves up with 17 final swims, 12 of which are A finals. With the lead created over the last two days, however, tonight will be NC State’s turn to attempt to steal the lead from Virginia Tech.

400 IM

• 2014 ACC Champion – Christian McCurdy, NCSU – 3:43.61
• NCAA “A” Standard – 3:42.40
• ACC Record – 3:38.00 – Gal Nevo, Georgia Tech, 2009

Virginia Tech completes a sweep of the IM events at the 2015 ACC Championships with a 3:41.79 from Robert Owen. Owen dropped two seconds from this morning and 11 seconds from his entry time. He topped the defending champion from NC State, Christian McCurdy. McCurdy finished second with a time of 3:41.92. That time is more than a second and a half faster than his winning time from last year.

Nolan Tesone swam in for third for Louisville with a drop from this morning to go 3:43.61. He held of NC State’s 500 freestyle champion, Anton Ipsen, who finished fourth at 3:45.91.

UNC’s Henry Campbell finished fifth at 3:46.99, followed by Duke’s Michael Miller at 3:47.03. Tom Anderson finished 7th for Notre Dame and Virginia Tech’s Zach Switzer rounded out the A final with his time of 3:51.45.

UVA’s Austin Quinn won the B final with his time of 3:46.64.

100 BUTTERFLY

• 2014 ACC Champion – Pavel Sankovich, FSU – 45.12
• NCAA “A” Standard – 45.61
• ACC Record – 45.00 – Pavel Sankovich, FSU, 2014

After barely sneaking into the A final of the 100 butterfly this morning, Louisville’s Pedro Coutinho hammered through the final 50 in a 24.4 to sneak past Florida State’s Connor Knight for the win with his time of 45.92. Coutinho dropped nearly a second from his morning swim to earn the ACC title. Knight finished second with his time of 46.07.

UNC’s Sam Lewis was third at 46.14 and Andrew Kosic from Georiga Tech claimed a fourth place finish at 46.36. Aaron Young from Louisville was just behind Kosic at 46.38, and just ahead of NC State’s Soeren Dahl at 46.40.

Louisville’s third swimmer, Josh Quallen, tied with UNC’s Ben Colley for seventh at 46.52.

John Newell from NC State won the B final with a 46.67.

200 FREESTYLE

• 2014 ACC Champion – Frank Dyer, ND – 1:33.20
• NCAA “A” Standard – 1:33.62
• ACC Record – 1:32.45 – Scot Robison, UVA, 2010

NC State dominated the 200 freestyle, finishing 1-2-3. Simonas Bilis is on his way to becoming the ACC Swimmer of the meet after winning his second individual event of the meet. He dropped a few tenths from his morning swim to win the event with a time of 1:33.62. Ryan Held finished second for NC State at 1:34.15, and David Williams added a third place finish with his time of 1:34.18.

Virginia Tech’s Owen Burns reached in for fourht place at 1:34.54 ahead of the trio from Louisville. Matthias Lendenbauer led the Cardinals to a 5-6-7 finish with his time of 1:34.66. Trevor Carroll was 6th at 1:35.20, and Rudy Edelen was 7th with a best time of 1:35.38.

Lucas Bureau rounded out the A final with his time of 1:35.50.

Notre Dame’s Trent Jackson won the B final with his time of 1:36.24.

100 BREASTSTROKE

• 2014 ACC Champion – Zach Stephens, ND – 52.59
• NCAA “A” Standard – 52.29
• ACC Record – 52.02 – Peter Kropp, Duke, 2014

Duke’s Peter Kropp went out hard in the first half of the race but did not have enough to hold off the 200 breaststroke specialist from Louisville, Thomas Dhalia. Dhalia won with a final time of 52.36, just ahead of Kropp. Kropp touched in second but his time will not count due to a disqualification for an extra dolphin kick. Derek Hren moved up to second with his time of 53.1o, and Louisville’s Addison Bray finished third with a 53.16.

Jason Coombs from Florida State finished fourth with his time of 53.17, missing the podium by .01 seconds. Brandon Fiala was fifth at 53.23, Kurt Wohlrab finished sixth at 53.24, and Yannick Kaeser from UVA was seventh with a 53.29.

Virginia Tech’s Harrison Cefalo won the B final with his time of 53.78.

100 BACKSTROKE

• 2014 ACC Champion – Pavel Sankovich, FSU – 45.83
• NCAA “A” Standard – 45.62
• ACC Record – 45.31 – Pavel Sankovich, FSU, 2014

Louisville picks up their third victory of the evening with a 46.21 from sophomore Grigory Tarasevich. NC State rounded out the podium with second and third place finishes. Andreas Schiellerup was second with his time of 46.37 and Hennessey Stuart was third in 46.42.

UNC’s Nic Graesser finished fourth place with his time of 46.59, and his teammate, Sam Lewis, was fifth at 46.59. The other two swimmers from Louisville, Aaron Greene and Aaron Young, finished 6th and 7th at 46.82 and 46.94, respectively.

UNC’s Ben Colley was 8th with his time of 46.97.

NC State’s Stephen Coetzer won the B final with his time of 47.30.

400 Medley Relay

• 2014 ACC Champion – FSU, 3:04.47
• NCAA “A” Standard – 3:09.40
• ACC Record – 3:04.47 – FSU, 2014

The Louisville Cardinals continued their winning ways in the 400 medley relay after winning three individual events today. The relay team of Grigory Tarasevich, Thomas Dhalia, Pedro Coutinho, and Trevor Carroll combined to post the fifth fastest time in the country this year of 3:06.06, breaking the pool record set in 2006 by Arizona at 3:06.08. The first three legs of their relay were all the ACC champions of their stroke tonight. Tarasevich led off with the exact same split from his individual race, 46.21. H was followed by Dhalia’s 51.77, Coutinho’s 45.70, and Carroll’s 42.38.

NC State finished second with their time of 3:06.59. Simonas Bilis had a huge anchor leg, splitting 41.30 to close the race. UNC finished third at 3:08.80 and Georgia Tech was fourth in their home pool at 3:10.06.