2022 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 23 – Saturday, March 26, 2022
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
- Official Psych Sheets
- Live Results
The official psych sheets for the 2022 Men’s NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships were released on Wednesday morning, with the University of Texas forced to scratch one swimmer after the team qualified 19 (one over the maximum) for the competition.
The Longhorns have opted to drop junior Sam Artmann from their roster, which bumps in Harvard senior Jake Johnson.
Artmann was initially ranked as the 26th-fastest swimmer on the pre-selection psych sheets in the 200 fly, which also happened to be the top-ranking event for Johnson (31st).
Artmann was also originally entered to race the 100 fly, seeded 64th, while Johnson will get to swim the 200 IM (39th seed) and 100 fly (40th seed).
YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS HERE:
- Official Psych Sheets (updated March 9)
- Swimmers Invited by Team
- Alternates List
- Eligible Relays
The tiebreak for alternates with the same ranking is a comparison of the swimmer’s time to the NCAA ‘A’ cut, which comes into effect now that the official psych sheets have dropped.
Johnson was brought in as the next-fastest swimmer in the event that had a scratch, the 200 fly, but interestingly enough was already the first alternate for the entire meet if there were any scratches after today’s psychs sheets were released.
That distinction now goes to Texas A&M freshman Munzy Kabbara, who ranks 31st in the 400 IM. Florida’s Jack Vandeusen is the second alternate, ranking 31st in the 1650 free, and WVU’s David Dixon jumps up to third alternate as the 31st-fastest swimmer in the 200 fly after Artmann’s scratch.
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With the entire Ivy League having canceled its 2020-21 season due to the pandemic, Johnson didn’t compete at all last season, and as a result, this will be his first NCAA Championship meet in his senior year.
As a sophomore in 2020, Johnson qualified to swim at NCAAs in the 200 fly, but the meet was ultimately canceled due to the pandemic outbreak. In his freshman year, he was on the 36th line on the pre-selection psych sheets, a few spots shy of being in the mix for an NCAA slot.
After the year hiatus, Johnson has come back strong this season for Harvard, establishing personal best times in all three of the events he’ll swim at NCAAs.
At the Ivy League Championships last month, he hit the 200 fly time that ultimately qualified him for NCAAs in a time trial, 1:42.42, after clocking 1:45.74 in the event’s final to place sixth (his TT time would’ve been second). He also placed second in the 200 IM with a new best of 1:43.82, and added a second runner-up finish in the 400 IM (season-best of 3:45.43).
In the 100 fly, Johnson established a lifetime best of 46.20 at the Minnesota Invitational in December.
With the addition of Johnson, Harvard now has five swimmers qualified for men’s NCAAs.
So nice of Dean Farris to leverage his connections and broker this deal to get his teammate Jake Johnson in. Will be a strong example in his back pocket for when he runs/becomes President
Can we talk about the random guy for Air Force in the top 8 in the 200 free? WTF? Talk about mid-major representation!
Any guess what Texas might do if they have 3 or 4 male divers qualify?
Is it a ‘saving grace” that Sa, Artmann is a junior – and, thus, one more year of elibility?
Kinda lame, I know, but what a disappointment to him!!
Rip to my mans
Why are some swimmers missing entirely from the pysch sheets? Were on preselection sheets and now can’t find them anywhere on official sheets.
If you can give an example, I can explain.
I suspect that you probably saw a swimmer who was below the cut line, and so wasn’t invited. Pre-selection sheets are just “coaches’ entries of swimmers they hope get chosen.” These sheets are swimmers who were actually fast enough to make the meet.
I don’t want to put the swimmer’s name in the comment section but the swimmer was #32 in preselection so should have been listed after the invite cut off line on the official psych sheets. The swimmer is not listed at all anymore but slower swimmers i.e. #33 on are still listed on the sheet and he is not anywhere on the list.
If a swimmer is after the invite cutoff line, that means they weren’t invited in that event. #32 was not invited in any event. The swimmers listed below the invite line have been invited in other events. Once an athlete is invited in another event, they can swim any events in which they have at least NCAA “B” cuts, but they must first be invited.
Appearing on the preselection psych sheet does not mean a swimmer has qualified for the meet. It just means they have at least a B cut and their coach entered them in the meet. The NCAA releases the pre selection psych sheets to show all of the entries and then a day later runs the selection algorithm after any scratches have been submitted (the Artmann scratch this year was the only one).
That is what we have today: the official psych sheet consisting of only swimmers that actually qualified. Everyone on the pysch sheet now has at least one entry above the cut line (which landed in the middle of line 31). If a swimmer was on the psych yesterday… Read more »
I understand now, thanks!
Remember that unlike USA Swimming or FINA, the NCAA qualification systems (in all 3 Divisions) are designed to bring a specific number of athletes to the competition. USS/FINA set cuts with a target number of athletes in mind, but anyone who gets the cut is eligible. My guess is that this is because NCAA pays for teams’ travel, etc. They want a not to exceed number of Athletes to attend. I know that in D3 the ‘A’ cut is the average of the previous 3 1st place finishers.
Presumably it’s because they fell “above” the cut line and didn’t qualify for the meet. The pre-selection sheet shows everyone who coaches submitted for consideration. The official psych sheet only shows those swimmers who made the cut.
It is a great “problem” to have for Texas or any other team to have leave someone(s) home because too many qualifiers, but for the coach, it must be agonizing for the coach to tell the athlete(s) that they can’t go to NCAAs…or conference champs!
The wild thing is, happens every year so Eddie is fairly accustomed to it. I can’t imagine it ever gets easier, though.
That’s the reality of choosing a team like Texas. Nearly every swimmer on the Texas team could go to other D1 programs and be a top contender/swimmer, potentially dominate at the conference level. But it also means you will never get to say that you swam at one of the premier college programs in the country, with Olympians sharing your lane and locker room.
Still? (I am here for the downvotes.)
“But it also means you will never get to say that you swam at one of the premier college programs in the country”
But it also means not going to swim meets like NCAA which is kind of the point of swimming your brains out???
And when your grandson has been one of the ones left behind, it probably won’t get tougher.
Don’t we expect another Texas scratch to make room for their top 2 divers?
Probably. But they don’t have to do that until after they know that the diver got in – they don’t have to guess. They only had to scratch to 18 today.
It’s like NFL camp roster cuts. It’s amazing that Texas has so many qualifiers that they have to do this
Braden- has the NCAA always been a cap of 18 swimmers for the men?
I honestly don’t know. It’s been that way for a very, very long time at a minimum.
2 divers = 1 swimmer. So if they take 4 divers, those take the spots of 2 swimmers. The team will have 16 swimmers + 4 divers, which is 20 people, but they will only count as 18.
At least since the 80s.