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Anthony Nesty on Virginia-Florida Dual: “We Welcome the Challenge”

VIRGINIA VS. FLORIDA

Reported by YanYan Li.

MEN’S 400 FREE RELAY

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 2:50.52
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 2:52.44

Top 3:

  1. Florida ‘B’ relay — 2:52.24
  2. Virginia ‘A’ relay — 2:53.82
  3. Florida ‘A’ relay — 2:58.08

Florida secured their win on the men’s side by dominating the 400 free relay, as Macguire McDuff (43.93), Josh Liendo (42.30), Eric Friese (43.00), and Alberto Mestre (43.01) combined for a 2:52.24. Virginia was powered by a 42.46 leadoff from Matt King, which surpasses his 42.68 from earlier as the fastest time of the 2022-23 season. Following him were Matt Brownstead (44.36), Jack Aikins (43.53), and Jack Wright (43.47).

FINAL SCORES:

Men: Florida 189, Virginia 111

Women: Virginia 180, Florida 115

As expected, Florida won on the men’s side and Virginia won on the women’s side of the meet. Florida did beat Virginia 304-291 in the combined team scoring, although that likely wouldn’t have been the case if the Virginia women didn’t exhibition several of their events.

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Bob
2 years ago

I,m a swim fan but not very well informed on NCAA swimming.Why do teams exhibition some of their swimmers events?

Austinpoolboy
Reply to  Bob
2 years ago

1) teams are limited to 3 swimmers per event as eligible to score. If a team is quite large and the coach wants to give a swimmer far down the bench so to speak an opportunity to get a time in racing conditions they can “exhibition” swim a fourth or fifth etc swimmer in that event
2) if by the near of the dual meet, one has a cumulative score sufficient to win the meet before the last few events, coaches will “exhibition” the remaining swims as to avoid “running up the score” in the interest of sportsmanship

Last edited 2 years ago by Austinpoolboy
AquaTiger
Reply to  Austinpoolboy
2 years ago

Honest question from a longtime swimmer because I don’t know.

Is the exhibition swimmer determined beforehand or just determined by not placing in a scoring position? I know individual events are limited by the program length. But if you are 4th scorer for your team in your first event (so non scoring) can that just be considered exhibition and you swim your full amount of events later? Or did that have to be determined prior to the start?

I swam through college and beyond and I honestly never knew.

CAA Alum
Reply to  AquaTiger
2 years ago

Depends on how many swimmers are entered. If it’s 4 (1 heat of the event) then everyone is able to score but only the top 3 from each team score (top 5 total), so if one team goes 1,2,3,4 then the 4th person is technically exhibition. If you have more than 4 swimmers entered then you have to designate the 5th+ person beforehand.

Ghost
2 years ago

UF travels to UGA this week!

ewahoo
Reply to  Ghost
2 years ago

Yes UVA exhibitioned the womens last 6 swim events.

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