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Reported by Jared Anderson.
100 BUTTERFLY – FINALS
- NCAA – 44.18 – Austin Staab, Stanford – 2009
- Championship – 44.18 – Austin Staab, Stanford – 2009
- American – 44.18 – Austin Staab – 2009
- US Open – 44.18 – Austin Staab – 2009
- 2014 Champion – Marcin Cieslak, Floria – 44.87
The 100 fly was the Texas Longhorn party, with 6 different Texas swimmers in the championship final. That amounted to 92 total points, as Longhorns went 1-2-3-4-6-8.
Sophomore Jack Conger led early, turning at 20.82 at the 50. But his freshman teammateJoseph Schooling ran him down, really picking up his stroke tempo over the final 50 yards to go 44.51. That’s the second-fastest time in history, and breaks a Texas school record held by legendary Olympian Ian Crocker.
Conger wound up second in 44.55, also breaking that school record. Conger is #3 in history. He’ll be back later tonight to swim the 100 back.
Senior Tripp Cooper nearly became just the fourth Longhorn ever under 45, taking third place in 45.06. Sophomore Will Glass rounded out the Longhorn 1-2-3-4 sweep in 45.56. That’s the first time any team has swept the top 4 spots in NCAA swimming history.
The top non-Longhorn was North Carolina’s Sam Lewis, who went 45.66 for fifth place.
Sixth was Matt Ellis in 46.12, and Texas’s final swimmer was 8th-place John Murray(46.72). In between was Ohio State’s Matt McHugh in 46.45. McHugh will also swim the 100 fly/100 back double, and is in the B final of the latter event, a big part of a huge day 2 for the Buckeyes.
In the consolation final, former Bolles School Sharks teammates Caeleb Dressel andSanto Condorelli dueled for the win. Dressel, now a freshman with Florida, beat out Condorelli, now a USC sophomore, 45.69 to 45.79 for 9th place. With Schooling also a Bolles alum, that means former Sharks swept both heats at the NCAA Championships.
As we expected, that race was pretty much a dagger swim for any team hoping to run down Texas for the team title. The Longhorns now lead Cal by a whopping 125 points, and it would take a major catastrophe for that lead to evaporate anytime soon.
I agree that Conger will have a huge 200 fly final. He knows if he manages his morning swim to win a circle heat he will final. The 100 free leg on the relay will just be whatever he has left in the tank. He has had a fantastic meet for his team and has put it all out there. Yes, recovery was rough with that double last night but today knowing it is a last session, he’ll pull through.
I think Conger 1:38.2 and Schooling 1:38.8 and Bosch 1:39.0.
Jack Conger will take the 200 fly today. He is going much faster then when he went his 139.31. Bosch hasn’t been going as fast at this meet as he was last year. He also may struggle keeping up with guys who go 44.5 in the 100. I would also like to call Jack going 138 low and Schooling going 138 high and Bosch going 139 something.
Schooling and Conger continue to race neck and neck in fly which, I believe will lead to the first :43. 100 fly between one of them. After Schooling’s win yesterday, the 200 Fly will be an interesting event today. Not only do I think all the records will go down, I’m not too sure Conger will end the finals with all of them. Schooling definitely has the momentum, but Dylan Bosch certainly wants his title and records back. Should be very exciting.
Six A finalists in a single event from one team. Has this ever happened before? It is so unusual that an NCAA squad of 18 swimmers maximum would have 6 in a single NCAA event.
Awesome interview, thank you! Swimswam should ask Coach Reese about Conger and I believe Will Licon’s butterfly arms. They seem to bring them higher over the water on the recover, rather than just skimming the top of the water. Is that deliberate on Coach Reese’s part? If so what is the rationale? Thanks!
Phelps, plus the other two medalists in the 100 fly. And every finalist in the 200 fly.
Still, people are making it work both ways. Seto and Seliskar are two of the better butterfliers in the world right now and they both breathe every other. The question is how far can you take conditioning while limiting air, vs. how far can you take speed while breathing every stroke?
I’m not sure someone else could have as much success as Staab with the same combination of breathing pattern and underwaters. 15m off every wall, no breather on the first 25, breathing every other-ish the middle 50, and still managing to close that hard with another no-breather? That’s unreal. Blame the suits… Read more »
Another data point: Sarah Sjostrom took zero breaths when she obliterated the 50 fly LCM world record.
Oh yeah. The fewer, the better on those 50’s. I’m curious to see if someone else goes under 25 to challenge her this summer or if Sarah will remain at the top of the pile.
Did you that the NCAA has decided to hold the 100 fly finals for Div. 1 next year in Texas. It will be an internal squad race, just to see who is fastest. All other teams are not invited…