2017 ALL-FLORIDA INVITE
- Friday, September 22 – Sunday, September 24, 2017
- University of Florida – Stephen O’Connell Center
- Gainesville, FL
- Short Course Yards
- Results available on Meet Mobile
Florida’s versatile sprint star Caeleb Dressel was back to his old tricks on day 2 of the 2017 All-Florida Invite, winning the 100 fly in 46.89 and going 55.77 in the 100 breast.
Dressel will seek to defend his 2017 NCAA title in the 100 fly this year against 2015 and 2016 NCAA champ, 2016 Olympic champ (and Dressel’s former club teammate) Joseph Schooling. Dressel started that off on a solid note with a 46.89 tonight, cutting more than a second from prelims and proving his morning swims were very relaxed.
Dressel also competed on the 200 medley relay, splitting 19.43. That’s quite a bit slower than his individual 19.21 from last night (the fastest time ever swum this early in the NCAA season), but is still an excellent September swim. That Florida medley relay went 1:28.65, with freshman Michael Taylor splitting 23.2 on backstroke. Taylor, one of the best backstrokers in this year’s freshman class, will have to push that time down a bit for Florida to contend nationally, but with Jan Switkowski already 20.8 on fly and Dressel primed to push deeper into the 17s later this year in free, Florida could be in the hunt for a national title on this relay. The key will be breast, where the Gators were only 25.13 with Stanley Wu tonight.
The 100 breast went to Wu in 55.42. He beat Dressel (55.77) who was swimming his third event of the night.
Meanwhile star sophomore Maxime Rooney had a huge two-win night. Rooney went 1:37.02 to win the 200 free, just two tenths off his big prelims swim that puts him atop the early NCAA leaderboards. He came back to win the 100 back (48.93) and had the second-fastest split of any swimmer on the 800 free relay (1:36.90). Florida split its 800 free relays, so Rooney’s team didn’t win, but Rooney’s split was his third swim of 1:37.0 or better on the day.
The fastest split went to Jan Switkowski, who was 1:36.86 to power the B relay to the win. Here’s a quick look at all 8 splits from the evened-out relays.
| B Relay | A Relay | ||
| Grant Sanders | 1:40.73 | 1:42.17 | Clark Beach |
| Jan Switkowski | 1:36.86 | 1:37.54 | Caeleb Dressel |
| Khader Baqlah | 1:37.94 | 1:39.98 | Mark Szaranek |
| Grady Heath | 1:38.22 | 1:36.90 | Maxime Rooney |
| 6:33.75 | 6:36.59 | ||
A tight 400 IM went to Mark Szaranek in 3:57.15. The 2017 NCAA 200 IM co-champ touched out Arizona transfer Grant Sanders (3:57.64) by half a second.
On the women’s side, Savanna Faulconer got three wins. Her 4:16.01 topped the 400 IM by two seconds over teammate Kelly Fertel. In the 200 free, Faulconer went 1:50.27 to top teammate Hannah Burns. And she capped things off with a 1:50.67 to help win the 800 free relay, joining Taylor Ault (1:49.32 leadoff), Nikki Miller (1:52.92) and Sherridon Dressel (1:50.00).
Florida State’s women had a nice night, thanks mostly to Natalie Pierce. Last year’s breakout breaststroker split 27.91 on the 200 medley relay to lead FSU to the win in 1:41.01. (Madeline Cohen was 26.1 on back, Leila Johnston 24.57 on fly and Lexi Smith 22.4 on free). And Pierce came back to go 1:03.04 in winning the 100 breast later in the night.
Other event winners:
- Sherridon Dressel won the women’s 100 fly in 55.57.
- Florida’s Emma Ball took the women’s 100 back in 53.3.
It will be naive to think Dressel will 100% beat Schooling in 100 fly again in NCAA.
It’s naive to think that a guy who got beat by the other will lose to someone he just beat by a second. Please stop trolling. You were one of them who said Schooling will easily win. Oops!
Said that wrong. Naive to think that Schooling who lost to Dressel by a second at worlds will definitely win.
I think it’ll be close
I know you are Dressel’s fan. But it is rude of u to pull other swimmers down. I didnt say he will definitely win the worlds. Get your facts right. Lost by near 1 sec so what? Does that means u can look down on him? There is still some time to Tokyo Olympics. So it’s still early to tell. He may do very well in Worlds but that doesnt mean he will dominate the olympics. It’s different pressure.
I aint pulling any swimmers down. You are putting Schooling up and Dressel down. I might be a Schooling fan if he were more humble and not so cocky. He is basically a 2nd Chad now. I am saying Dressel is king now. Phelps dominated in 08 like 07, Dressel is still young. He is hitting his stride. I never said anything about Tokyo. I am talking about Ncaas.
I never said anything about Tokyo said the guy named CAELEB DRESSEL WILL GET 7 GOLDS IN TOKYO
Ok Taa, haha. I meant in my comment. I was talking about Ncaas.
Wonder what happen if Milak break 100 fly wr
Again. Stop with ridiculous comments like this. Milak is 0.76 away from just the textile WR. To put it into perspective, would be predicting a 47.7-47.8 swimmer to break the 100 free record? I know he’s young, but he’s huge and likely doesn’t have much more physical maturation left. He towered over everyone on the medal podium.
Nobody but Dressels name should be in the 100 fly WR discussion until they prove they are 49 second level swimmers. I don’t really know how to stress this anymore. The next closest in textile is still 4/10 off even breaking into 49. That’s an eternity and that sort of time drop usually takes a generation to do. And schooling was in… Read more »
Its hard to predict who’ll win in Tokyo. No one assures to win golds. Not even Ledecky , Sarah or Peaty. Lots of things can happen in three years time
He would more than likely win first place and hold the WR, unless someone else beats him in the race. Really not to difficult.
Picture this: In tokyo everyone is expecting the race between Dressel, Schooling and Le Clos, all of a sudden this guy Milak crushes the other guys and it’s basically Rio all over again.
Are you schoolings pr rep?
Schooling has the one that counts Olympic gold, Dressel has no individual gold at the ultimate level.
Dressel has a 49.8. :/
Cavic also has that.?
wrong
Cavic had 49.9 in a cheap suit. Dude would never have been under 51 without that, or maybe 50.9. Cavic is the fastest 100 fly ever for sure.
He will have a lot more than Schooling to worry about in 2020, they both will!
I don’t think anyone is saying that’s a given
I think that they both had better be training hard if they expect to compete for the title at NCAA. Dressel had an awesome year last year. While for schooling it was a bit of a wash. Yet he still went 43.7. I can’t wait for the rematch this year. I’ll start making assumptions after Texas has a few in season meets. I know that schooling for damn sure will be in better form this year though. Dressel had better be ready.
I hate that people play down his preformance last year as if it was bad. He went a best time in the 100 yard fly and honestly had a good long course season just maybe didn’t hit his taper absolutely perfect like he did in rio so he was a half second slower. Both he and his fans need to stop acting like last year was sub par just because he lost to dressel.
Lol no he hit it. He admitted that he hadn’t trained for months after Rio. 50.7 in practice, 50.9 meet, 50.7 semi of world, 50.8 final.
Dressel is one of his team’s best breaststrokers, but can’t swim it at any Championship meets because it’s “only” his third-best stroke…
To all the folks who say that Caeleb Dressel will be the next Phelps, I say, “Nah, Dressel is a better breaststroker than Phelps.” 🙂
Not a better backstroker
Yes he is very far from it
Or IMer, flyer, or anything over 100 yards/meters…I honestly despise comparisons like this. Caeleb is probably the LeBron of swimming. But Phelps is Jordan, and no one will ever catch him. Honestly any chance Dressel had of being better than Phelps was gone when he turned 17 and still didn’t have a world record. Give the current superstars their due. But don’t disrespect legends.
Kobe has more points than Jordan
But not more rings
Jordan had 5 less seasons then Kobe
So does Kareem and Karl Malone…your point?
Jordan had more defense to contend with when scoring…seems to be disappearing in the NBA
Has Cd gone102 (untapered) and 211 in the breast? Then he’s not better. At least hasn’t proven it.
Caeleb has proven that he is a better 50/100 free and fly but he has to have more versatility and longevity (and world records) to really even try to engage in that conversation.
It’s the longevity and versatility that makes phelps so amazing.
Regardless Caeleb just had one of the more dominating worlds/olympics in history
I heard Schooling swam a 42.8 in the 100 fly, and he said it felt monotonous.
When are we gonna stop beating that dead horse? I will admit that I laughed the first couple times at the joke, but at this point it is getting monotonous.
remember that one time when Schooling said he was even faster than he was?
His best time is a 50.39 he said he went a 50.7 so how is he saying he’s faster than he is?
Than he is. He wasn’t in 2016 shape. He went 50.9 tapered later in meet.
Doesn’t mean he can’t go a 50.7
Can you stop it? This is not funny at all. Even if you don’t like him, there is no need for sarcasm.
Oh honey…
calm down muffin
Was it in the warmdown pool as well? I have to know all the facts behind this incredibly funny and original joke. 11/10 for being the first person to ever say something like this.
Honestly the article could say “Caeleb Dressel Existed Today” and I’d still get absurdly excited about reading it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTykY2B0kEY