2017 MEN’S ACC SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Monday, February 27th – Thursday, March 2nd
- Prelims 10AM/Finals 6PM (Eastern Time)
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA
- Defending Champion: NC State (Full results)
- Psych Sheet
- Live results
- Streaming: watchESPN
- Championship Central
The 2017 Men’s ACC Championships kick off today at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, GA. Swimmers are slated to compete in the 200 medley relay and 800 free relay. The NC State Wolfpack will look to defend their titles in both relays, but Louisville is looking like a big title threat as well.
The diving events have already been completed, as they were contested during the women’s meet. The Virginia Tech Hokies are now in the leady, scoring 197 points from diving. Florida State (153), UNC (136), Duke (113), and Miami (108) make up the rest of the top 5 heading into the swimming portion. Louisville (43), Virginia (42), and NC State (34) are at the bottom of the pack, but they should start to move up quickly after tonight’s relays.
MEN’S 200 MEDLEY RELAY
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 1:25.05
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 1:25.86
- Conference Record: NC State (2016)- 1:23.19
- Championship Record: NC State (2015)- 1:23.19
- NC State- 1:23.16
- Louisville- 1:23.34
- Notre Dame- 1:24.88
The men’s 200 medley relay came down to the wire between NC State and Louisville. NC State freshman Coleman Stewart blasted a 20.97 backstroke split to get the Wolfpack out front, but Louisville’s Carlos Claverie took over the lead for the Cardinals with a 23.36 breast split.
Louisville’s Josh Quallen extended their lead with a quick 19.91 butterfly split, giving them a lead of almost 7 tenths heading into the anchor leg. The Cardinals fielded standout freestyler Trevor Carroll as their anchor, but NC State’s Ryan Held tore through the water to bring his team back for the win. At the touch, Held’s 18.15 anchor split was enough to grab the gold as NC State set a new Conference Record in 1:23.16. Carroll’s quick 18.98 anchor split earned the Cardinals the silver.
Notre Dame rounded out the podium, as Daniel Speers anchored in 18.72 to run down the Virginia Tech Hokies (1:25.05), who took 4th ahead of Florida State (1:25.36). Notably, Virginia Tech’s Brandon Fiala had the fastest breaststroke split of the field with his 23.02.
MEN’S 800 FREE RELAY
- NCAA ‘A’ cut: 6:20.67
- NCAA ‘B’ cut: 6:24.50
- Conference Record: NC State (2016)- 6:09.58
- Championship Record: NC State (2016)- 6:12.76
- NC State- 6:09.82
- Louisville- 6:12.30
- UNC- 6:19.20
The Wolfpack ran away with the 800 free relay to claim their 4th straight title in the event. Andreas Vazaios led off in 1:33.31, while Ryan Held (1:32.76), Justin Ress (1:32.05), and Soeren Dahl (1:31.70) followed en route to a new Meet Record of 6:09.82.
Louisville was also under the former meet record with a pair of 1:32 splits from Trevor Carroll (1:32.50) and Grigory Tarasevich (1:32.41) on the middle 2 legs. UNC’s Henry Campbell turned in a 1:32.81 on the 2nd leg as his team picked up the bronze.
TEAM SCORES THROUGH DAY 1 (Diving Included):
| Place | Team | Points |
| 1 | Virginia Tech | 294 |
| 2 | Florida State | 247 |
| 3 | Duke | 207 |
| 4 | Notre Dame | 195 |
| 5 | UNC | 190 |
| 6 | Pitt | 181 |
| 7 | NC State | 162 |
| 8 | Louisville | 155 |
| 9 | Georgia Tech | 153 |
| 10 | Virginia | 136 |
| 11 | Miami | 108 |
| 12 | Boston College | 66 |
Pretty sad that ACC isn’t streaming all the heats and finals, like their SEC neighbours did. It’s only the biggest meet in the conference ??
The Big East streamlined both trials and finals for goodness sakes. I can’t even find a heat sheet for the prelims.
/not sure why anyone want to vote this down 😀
I wish there was a way to obtain Ryan Held’s split for his 50 free in the medley relay? How fast he’s able to go out in the 50 with a flat start will tell us how close he is to Dressel with his improved start and underwaters. So far Dressel is the only one in the NCAA that is capable of going out in the 50 free in under 9.0 sec.
Well, comparatively speaking, Dressel split a 17.86 and Held just did a 18.15. That’s almost 0.3 seconds, a large margin for a 50.
If NC State can clean up those relay starts a bit, they will be 1:22+. Louisville’s reaction times were way better although the reaction time for Soren Dahl seems to be wrong. 1.45 seems way off the actual number.
Did you see Carrol’s relay exchange? too safe and that’s what ultimately cost them
Monday to Thursday? What are these shenanigans??
Originally was in Greensboro, but got moved by the league because of the NC bathroom law. It’s a week later than last year anyway and I think they wanted Atlanta so took the dates they could get because of the late change.
The lighting of the live stream was horrible.?
Great Swimming
Very early but based off tonight I see 3-7 being:
3.ND
4.VT
5.UVA
6.UNC
7.FSU
But 5-7 still tight. ND swimming great as expected. VT better than expected. UVA as expected. UNC clearly showed its lack of depth in the back half of that 8 free relay and outside of Cambell no one seemed on fire. FSU, jury is still out, not their events
Looks like fsu used two January enrollees on that 8 free relay. I think they got a lot left coming into the next couple of days.
I’d say FSU and UVA underperforming a bit after the first day. Interesting to see if it’s just day one jitters or a bad sign of things to come
People forget UVA rests in December. Went faster in both relays and significantly faster in 8 free. I’d say as expected
UNC’s 800 free relay was an NCAA A cut time. Not sure what planet your on?
Ha A cut only because of 2 guys and mainly 1. (Cambell) You not notice the 1:36.8, the 21.5 fly split they had. 19.4 free relay split. Slowest of 8 teams? Had their 2 medley relay not DQd they’d been 8th or 9th. Let’s hope Merileess isn’t rested. Last I checked he went 1:47 this summer. Soren Dahl was 1:48. Dahl just anchored in 1:31. Merilees lead off in 1:34. Brocato was 53 long course fly, top 10 recruit…split 21.5?
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1:36.8 from Purdue…whose sister made the olympics in 2012 on the 8free relay.
Sad really. Would like to have seen someone with that much talent perform faster than that.
Dude what’s your problem with UNC… all you do is rag on them all the time, give it a rest.
Wonder if NCSU would consider swimming Held in only 2 individual events at the NCAA meet and saving him for all 5 relays (as Texas did with Schooling in 2016) – might be the difference in one relay being a top 3 contender versus 7-8 or consols,
Maybe last year. With their depth this year they probably will do just fine with him in 4 relays
Coach H will have all options calculated perfectly. This great coach is the next heir apparent at either TEXAS or STANFORD. I only hope those schools will have the good sense to pay him $600-$700K per year.
Stanford probably. They’re about as good at NCS.
As a NC State alum and after all the work he’s done turning both the men’s and women’s teams into national contenders in the past six years, I think Holloway is in it for the long haul at NC State.
NCSwimFan – if you want to keep Holloway, you and your fellow alums would have to be ready to open up your check books. Eddie Reese’s salary is more than twice Hollooways, and Eddie only has to coach half as many swimmers and manages half as many assistants.
Now thats what Im talking about!!! I might be willing to add some cash to Coach H’s pocket if he will continue doing what he has at UT or STANFORD. Sad to say the pockets are very deep at both of those schools and while NC State is a great university…well it has a few limitations. My dog in this hunt is seeing the best coaching minds in position to make the greatest impact at both the NCAA and Olympic level. Keep in mind I am a huge NC STATE fan also. Just trying to project this great coach in the best possible situation. Of course the decision rests with Braden and a few university commandants!
Right, but I do think there’s a certain loyalty that Holloway has to NC State and Raleigh in general that most other high-profile college coaches don’t seem to have. He’s an alum, he’s got a family with a couple kids (at least one swims for a local club team) and his roots are in Raleigh.
I’m not saying that a big pay rise couldn’t change that, but don’t undervalue the power of loyalty, especially at a program like NC State which seems to care about each other and their success more so than almost any other program in the country.
How ’bout he wins an NCAA title first, before we go comparing him to Eddie and his salary.
Eddie’s publicly reported salary from UT (from the Texas Tribune web site) last year was $257,000. That’s up from $175,000 in 2011-12 (after 10 NCAA team titles, 32 consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAAs, and 33 consecutive conference titles at the time). He may make more than that with incentives. Not a bad way to make a living. Well deserved, to say the least. He’s the Nick Saban (but better) of college swimming.
All of those coaches have already and will continue to get big time offers from big time programs. Gary Taylor imo is the best distance coach in the country and with what Todd and Bobby are doing on the sprint side(having guys that can 50-200) it’s going to be interesting to see if they’ll stay together for the next 5-10 years
600-700k for a college swim coach? You must be dreaming
I think he was off by a zero.
Eddie makes $257,000 a year. You can find this if you look it up.
Bowman pulls down $600K annually from ASU.
Now hold on, I know some of these high-profile coaches make a boatload of money, but none of them make nearly that much , right??? Doesn’t sound like good sense to me.
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Carrol had no business being out there with that killer