Andrew Seliskar Breaks Down 1:38.1 200 IM (Video)

2019 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Wednesday, March 27 – Saturday, March 30
• Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, Texas
• Prelims 10 AM / Finals 6 PM (Central Time)
• Defending champion: Texas (4x) (2018 results)
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200 IM – FINALS

• NCAA Record: Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018) – 1:38.13
• American Record: Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018) – 1:38.13
• U.S. Open Record: Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018) – 1:38.13
• Meet Record: David Nolan, Stanford (2015) – 1:39.38
• 2018 Champion: Jan Switkowski, Florida – 1:39.54

Top 8 Finishers:

1. Andrew Seliskar, Cal – 1:38.14
2. Andreas Vazaios, NC State – 1:39.35
3. John Shebat, Texas – 1:39.63
4. Vini Lanza, Indiana – 1:40.30
5. Abrahm Devine, Stanford – 1:40.77
6. Caio Pumpitis, Georgia Tech – 1:41.04
7. Ian Finnerty, Indiana – 1:42.84
8. Kieran Smith, Florida – 1:44.23

It was Indiana’s Vini Lanza who led early with a killer 21.1 fly split. But NC State’s Andreas Vazaios pressed his backstroke advantage with a 23.7 back split to take the lead.

That’s when Andrew Seliskar made his move. The Cal senior torched the field to the tune of a 28.0 breaststroke split, riding incredibly long, powerful underwater pullouts to a big lead. He closed in 24.0 (also the best split in the field) to go 1:38.14, breaking the NCAA meet record and coming within .01 of the absurd Caeleb Dressel NCAA/American record from SECs last year.

Vazaios wound up second for the second-straight year. he was 1:39.35 and moves to #3 all-time behind Dressel and Seliskar. Texas’s John Shebat also used a big backstroke split to vault into the top three – he moved up to third in 1:39.63.