Reported by Jared Anderson.
100 BREASTSTROKE – FINALS
- NCAA: 50.04 3/28/2014 Kevin Cordes, Arizona
- American: 50.04 3/28/2014 Kevin Cordes, Arizona
- U. S. Open: 50.04 3/28/2014 Kevin Cordes, Arizona
- Championship: 50.04 3/28/2014 Kevin Cordes, Arizona
- 2016 NCAA Champion: Fabian Schwingenschlogl, Missouri
Top 3:
- Will Licon, Texas – 50.68
- Fabian Schwingenschlogl, Missouri – 50.77
- Carsten Vissering, USC – 51.40
Missouri’s Fabian Schwingenschlogl pushed a huge 23.46 over the first 50 yards to build a big lead, but star 200 breaststroker Will Licon showed his endurance with a 26.80 back-half to pick up the win. Licon was 50.68 to pass up two more swimmers and move to #2 all-time in the event.
Schwingenschlogl held on for second in 50.77, taking the #3 spot all-time for Mizzou.
USC sophomore Carsten Vissering topped the pack behind those lead dogs, going 51.40 for bronze. That was a touchout of .01 over Cal’s Connor Hoppe. A tenth back were Auburn’s Michael Duderstadt (51.55) and Virginia Tech’s Brandon Fiala, who still sits #8 all-time with his 51.30 from prelims. Fiala was 51.66 tonight for sixth.
Duke’s Peter Kropp (51.90) and South Carolina’s Nils Wich-Glasen (51.92) took seventh and eighth in a final where all 8 swimmers broke the 52-second barrier.
Further proving that the breaststroke currently has the best crop of hard-to-pronounce names, George Washington’s Andrea Bolognesi won the B final in 52.07. He was followed by Mauro Castillo Luna of Texas A&M (52.12) and Conner McHugh, who further lowered a legendary Minnesota school record to 52.30.
“First 50 meters…”
And here I thought all along they were swimming yards.
Silly me.
Does someone have the link to the 100 breast final?
And the b final video?
What about Andrew Wilson? He was faster at D3 nationals wouldnt he be #2 all time?
went 50.94
Will the one person that one time joked about doubting Texas please apologize so they can get the chip off their shoulders.
I think NC State still has a good chance at winning this meet.
Pretty sure it was NC State who put the burr in the Texas saddle. When they came into Texas in October and beat Texas without Licon Schooling and several others and celebrated like they won NCAA’s, that was bad. But when they came to the Arena Pro series in January at Texas (while Texas was Facing Georgia and Auburn away) and their fans had signs stating “We Own this Place” and their swimmers were talking about how they were going to destroy Texas at NCAA’s, that was worse. But when they beat Texas Wednesday night in the 200, I believe that was the straw that broke the camels back. The beat down has been on ever since.
This is crazy. Everyone just bow down to your Longhorn overlords (and be happy they are bad at every other men’s sport these days (maybe not golf always))
Really!
To me, NC State is a team I can get behind not because they win or looked good early in the season, and most certainly in spite of their overly aggressive cheering/celebrating of their early season successes. I will say that I understand their celebration, however. To me what the NC State team represents is indomitable team spirit, relentless, passionate, hard work and the fact that this can pay off. They are largely a huge underdog team. Joe schooling, jack conger, Clark smith, etc from Texas and Ryan Murphy, Andrew Seliskar and company from Cal are in no way representative of underdogs.
The swimmers at NC state were NOT claiming they would destroy Texas at NCAAs. They simply celebrated… Read more »
Meters??