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The NCAA has released the time standards for the 2016 Division I men’s and women’s NCAA Championship meet. This year will be different because long course meter times will also be accepted as a qualifying course. Last year, only short course meter times from the 2014 FINA SC World Championships were accepted. Although the NCAA has not yet published their list of acceptable long course qualifying meets, they have posted their accepted conversion factors for long course meters to short course yards. These will be the time standards applied to every long course swim.
NCAA DI Time Standards – 2016
| Men’s A | Men’s B | Events | Women’s A | Women’s B |
| 19.18 | 20.19 | 50 Freestyle | 21.86 | 22.99 |
| 42.37 | 44.29 | 100 Freestyle | 47.79 | 49.99 |
| 1:33.34 | 1:37.99 | 200 Freestyle | 1:43.82 | 1:47.99 |
| 4:13.60 | 4:24.99 | 500 Freestyle | 4:36.30 | 4:47.79 |
| 14:46.04 | 15:30.39 | 1650 Freestyle | 15:53.50 | 16:30.59 |
| 45.44 | 48.49 | 100 Backstroke | 51.51 | 55.09 |
| 1:40.33 | 1:46.39 | 200 Backstroke | 1:51.95 | 1:59.19 |
| 52.08 | 55.39 | 100 Breaststroke | 59.04 | 1:02.49 |
| 1:53.07 | 1:59.79 | 200 Breaststroke | 2:07.42 | 2:15.99 |
| 45.85 | 48.29 | 100 Butterfly | 51.56 | 54.49 |
| 1:42.43 | 1:47.99 | 200 Butterfly | 1:54.22 | 1:59.59 |
| 1:42.51 | 1:49.09 | 200 IM | 1:55.35 | 2:01.59 |
| 3:41.15 | 3:54.49 | 400 IM | 4:05.37 | 4:19.39 |
| 1:17.85 | 1:18.49 | 200 Free Relay | 1:29.16 | 1:29.90 |
| 2:52.82 | 2:54.20 | 400 Free Relay | 3:16.15 | 3:17.59 |
| 6:21.54 | 6:25.06 | 800 Free Relay | 7:06.77 | 7:09.96 |
| 1:25.30 | 1:26.13 | 200 Medley Relay | 1:37.46 | 1:37.96 |
| 3:08.33 | 3:10.16 | 400 Medley Relay | 3:33.89 | 3:35.31 |
NCAA Zone Diving Standards
| Men | Zone Diving Standard | Women | ||
| *6 Dives | 300 | 1 Meter | 265 | *6 Dives |
| *6 Dives | 320 | 3 Meter | 280 | *6 Dives |
| *6 Dives | 300 | Platform | 225 | *5 Dives |
LCM to SCY NCAA Approved Conversion Factors
Per the NCAA rules:
All time standards, consideration standards and optional-entry standards may be achieved only in 25-yard or 25-meter racing courses*. Times achieved in 25-meter racing courses will be converted to an equivalent time for a 25-yard racing course in order to select and seed swimming participants at the 2016 Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.
*During the season immediately preceding the Summer Olympic Games, time standards, consideration standards and optional-entry standards may also be achieved in 50-meter racing courses. Times achieved in 50-meter racing courses will be converted to an equivalent time for a 25-yard racing course in order to select and seed swimming participants at that season’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.
To convert a metric time achieved in a 25-meter or 50-meter racing course to an equivalent time for a 25- yard racing course: (a) transform the achieved metric time into seconds; (b) carrying the calculation out to five decimal places, multiply the transformed time in seconds by the appropriate following conversion factor; (c) drop, without rounding, all units smaller than a hundredth of a second; and (d) finally, transform the resultant value in seconds back into minutes and seconds to obtain the converted time.
| Men’s Factor | Event | Women’s Factor | ||||||
| 0.87 | 50 Freestyle | 0.881 | ||||||
| 0.873 | 100 Freestyle | 0.884 | ||||||
| 0.875 | 200 Freestyle | 0.884 | ||||||
| 1.115 | 400 meter Freestyle to 500 yards | 1.122 | ||||||
| 1.115 | 800 meter Freestyle to 1,000 yards | 1.13 | ||||||
| 0.975 | 1500 meter Freestyle to 1,650 yards | 0.985 | ||||||
| 0.845 | 100 Backstroke | 0.863 | ||||||
| 0.859 | 200 Backstroke | 0.867 | ||||||
| 0.866 | 100 Breaststroke | 0.88 | ||||||
| 0.868 | 200 Breaststroke | 0.888 | ||||||
| 0.878 | 100 Butterfly | 0.887 | ||||||
| 0.876 | 200 Butterfly | 0.891 | ||||||
| 0.867 | 200 Individual Medley | 0.877 | ||||||
| 0.875 | 400 Individual Medley | 0.886 | ||||||
| 0.87 | 200 Freestyle Relay | 0.881 | ||||||
| 0.873 | 400 Freestyle Relay | 0.884 | ||||||
| 0.877 | 800 Freestyle Relay | 0.884 | ||||||
| 0.868 | 200 Medley Relay | 0.879 | ||||||
| 0.866 | 400 Medley Relay | 0.878 |
SCM to SCY NCAA Approved Conversion Factors
| Event (SCM) | |
| 400 meters to 500 yards | 1.153 |
| 800 meters to 1000 yards | 1.153 |
| 1500 meters to 1650 yards | 1.013 |
| All other events | 0.906 |
Bobo is correct. The USAs 100 freestylers are behind the world now. Although I am not sure I agree with his prescription. The US 400 free relay in Russia was really really bad.
Has the rest of world caught up?……… or is the US flattening out?
Correction about what I wrote above.
2019 world championships are held in Gwangju, not in London.
I had confused with track and field world championships held in London in 2017.
As if the selection process for NCAA wasn’t confusing enough, now there’s going to be last chance meets in SCY,SCM,LCM, and at the local 20 yard rec center.
Bobo needs to get hired by USA swimming to get the ball rolling on this!
Bobo is American he lives in Colorado Springs and works for USA Swimming full time
How you thing he has time to cover every article !!!!!!
I know it’s not happening this year, but I was really hoping to see a standard for the 100 IM.
The NCAA only approved the 100 IM for permissible use at conference meets. It was made pretty clear up front that this event would not be added to the NCAA championships (same with Synchro Diving) for the foreseeable future. Also, the NCAA rules were not changed to add more allowable events, so if someone swims it at the conference meet, it is instead of an event, not in addition to.
Talking about time standards or required times or minimum times, call them as you want, I think that USA swimming should be well inspired at least until 2020 to put in place tough times to swim for American male and female sprinters to qualify for worlds and olympic games.
The state of US sprint is catastrophic.
Before a long-term strategy like a much better detection of young talents to look for real athletes, tall boys and girls, many more black athletes involved in the sport, then a better coaching and then less training in yards, the easiest and more efficient way to improve quickly the US sprint is to put conditions if these sprinters want to qualify. Put… Read more »
Catastrophic? This comment is ridiculous and must be a joke with how stupid it sounds. The women sprinters haven’t been great lately, but aren’t horrible. The US men just had a guy go 21.3 and 21.5 in the 50 (Adrian and Dressel).
48.10 would have qualified 4th for the London olympic final. So your logic says don’t send a US 100 freestyler unless they can swim faster than 48.10 even though they could make the final.
Wouldn’t it make for a much better meet if the NCAA accepted for the “A” standard any time done within the preceding 15 months (in either college, USA swimming, of FINA sanctioned events abroad). Let the very best focus on and train for a single meet, and thus improve the quality of the competition.
I’d rather guys/gals have to make qualifying time at their conference meet and do away with the last chance meets, with all conference meets taking place between 3 and 6 weeks before NCAA.
It will never happen but I think it would make things more interesting.
Been a while since I’ve done much math, but can’t you simply divide the SCY cuts by the conversion factors (i.e.,multiply by the inverse) to yield LCM cut times? Obviously you’d need to convert to seconds to do the math and then reconvert on the other side… but if you can I think you’d end up with something that looks like this… which I know isn’t going to format correctly. If it’s really dreadful just delete it.
Mens Womens
A SCY B SCY A LCM B LCM EVENTS A SCY B SCY A LCM B LCM
19.18 20.19 22.04 23.20 50 Freestyle 21.86 22.99 24.81 26.09
42.37 44.29 48.53 50.73 100 Freestyle 47.79 49.99 54.06 56.54
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