2017 MEN’S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 22 – Saturday, March 25
- IUPUI Natatorium – Indianapolis, IN
- Prelims 10AM/Finals 6PM (Eastern Time)
- Defending Champion: Texas (results)
- Championship Central
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- Live stream: Wednesday/Thursday Prelims & Finals, Friday/Saturday Prelims / Friday/Saturday finals on ESPN3
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It’s been a banner year for sprinters – as of Thursday evening, 30 different men have broken 19 seconds, accounting for 51 different sub-19 swims at the men’s Division I NCAA Championships alone.
Update: 17 more swimmers cracked 19 in prelims of the 200 medley relay Friday morning. That included 8 new faces, bringing the total numbers to 38 men and 68 swims with tonight’s final yet to come.
You can check out that entire crowd of 18-second men here, organized in a spreadsheet. You can view by event, name, team and type of start (relay or flat), complete with some totaled numbers at the top.
Certainly that number is expected to grow after today’s 200 medley relay, which should feature another slew of 18-second (or faster) anchor legs. We’ll continue to update this spreadsheet when we get a chance, though this year’s crop of NCAA and American records plus top-10 historic swims has kept us plenty busy. Stay tuned to this page and SwimSwam.com for more coverage of this year’s incredible sub-19 club.
From last night’s “5 Big Things” story:
2. THE 18 CLUB EXPANDING RAPIDLY
Today’s meet featured a clown car full of swimmers hitting 18-second 50 freestyles, whether from flat starts or relay starts. Once a hallowed barrier, the 19.0 bar fell 25 times in prelims – 19 in the 200 free relay and 6 in the individual 50 free. Then at night, the 200 free relay featured 20 splits of 18.99 or better, plus 6 more individual swims.
Of course, many of those swims were done by the same swimmer, like Florida’s Caeleb Dressel, who cracked 19.0 four times by himself today: 17.99 on the relay in prelims, 18.38 individually in prelims, 18.23 leading off the relay in finals and 18.23 again in his individual final.
By our count, 30 different men broke 19 at some point today, together accounting for 51 different sub-19 swims.
The 18.98 from Sam Perry was actually from Andrew Liang. Perry’s been an 18.7 at least 🙂
50yd Free, 1 Sr in A-Final, 1 Sr in B-Final.
Take that and the Freshmen like Hoffer, and it might take 18+ for A-Final and 19.0+ for B-Final next year
With a relay exchange of .00, Dressel could possibly go 17.54. How crazy is that. You could be in the lead by 1.0 seconds of this medley relay, and have an anchor of 18.55 and lose.
This reminds me of the one relay from the Women’s 2016 400 medley relay, where I forget who, Virginia or Tennessee were ahead by 2 seconds going into freestyle leg, and had a 47.7 split, and lost (Simone Manuel split like 45.5). Amazing how much faster swimming is getting.
“At some point there will be a plateau of human ability, but it is not this day!” – Eddie ‘Aragorn’ Reece
Ringgold’s flat start pr is 18.96 to win consols (19.11p)
If he went 18.93 must have been leading off relay (finals results not posted) but your list has him leading off in 19.96. And 18.96 it is per results on swiminfo.com. And Tate Jackson led off for Texas in 200 FR prelims so…close but no cigar.
For the record: I have 129 performances by 115 performers 19.96 or faster, And Dressel now has all Top 10 50 free performances. Only swimmer of either sex in D1 to hold this record.
Bill – Ringgold was actually 18.97 to win consols. His 18.96 came from leading off the finals relay, as listed in our spreadsheet.
It’ll be cool to see Schooling make it on the list in the fly.
Also, completely missed was Thibodeaux (Teddy) Boudreaux Delacroix Chambleaux III. Back in the early days of swamp swimming, he was the LeBron Phelps married to a Giselle Munn of his day and his talent was as unknown (for the time) as Polio in a President. Based on local folklore from crawdad carvings in magnolia trees, ol’ Teddy BDC3, was a legend. He was clocked at a time in an approximate time of 5.5 chickens, which at the time converted to about 17.28 seconds, and this was a time period when most guys were taking double digit chickens to finish their race. For context: one chicken is the amount of time it takes for one gator to eat one chicken, and… Read more »
This needs to read in Ed Orgeron’s voice.
Where is Hoffer??
Is he still in HS? Swam Winter Jr Nat in Dec 2016. Don’t think there are to many college 18&U swimming Winter Jr Nat as they normally have a winter invite around that same time.
Cal will have 18.7, 18.9, 19.1, 19.1 flat start times heading into next year with hoffer, sendwyk, Jensen, lynch. 1 freshman 2 sophomores
Hoffer is in his senior year of high school, sure he’ll join that list next year.
How many have gone under 19 this year and in total? Does anyone know.
Had a friend who went 18.9 on a relay 14 years ago at a small conference meet (not one of the big conference meets, ACC, SEC, PAC10, BIG10 or BIG12), unfortunately the relay was disqualified and that time is probably lost. I know that time would not count but 18.9 relay split 14 years ago was pretty good
My grandpa went a 18.43 as the anchor of a small retirement home teams 200 Medley Relay. She was old and dove in after the back leg, so she kind of false started by about 3 minutes, but that might explain why her time wont show up in the record books, even though she did technically finish 18.43 seconds after the fly leg finished….They got DQ’d as well.
Of note: Mel Stewart was the flyer in that relay
It was on an FAU relay at their conference meet, Pavel Babaev, the results might still be online.
His (sprint) coach is now the current FSU head coach, Neal Studd.
I know in early 2000’s, one of my teammates split like 18.7. So, if you go back that far, yeah, there are many more.