2022 NATIONAL INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
- March 10-12, 2022
- Beacon Health Aquatic Center, Elkhart, Indiana
- Short Course Yards (25 yards), Prelims/Finals
- Results on Meet Mobile: “2022 CSCAA National Invitational Championship”
Top 5 Team Scores Through Day 3
WOMEN
- Ohio State University – 828
- Florida International University – 623
- University of Tennessee – 575.5
- The University of Akron – 544.5
- Rice University – 526
MEN
- University of Tennessee – 787
- Ohio State University – 670
- TCU – 661
- Grand Canyon – 535.5
- UCSD – 531.5
The Ohio State women and Tennessee men won the CSCAA National Invitational Championship titles on Saturday, both earning those honors convincingly.
The Vols kicked off the Saturday finals session with a win in the women’s 1650 free. Claire Nguyen won the event in 16:25.39, breaking the NIC meet record.
Tennessee freshman Asia Minnes grabbed another Vols win on Saturday, taking the women’s 100 IM, establishing a huge new personal best in the process. Minnes swam a 54.74, blowing away the 56.65 she had just set in the event 2 weeks ago at Kentucky’s Last Chance meet. With the swim, Minnes also broke the meet record.
Ohio State would go on to break 5 meet records during the final session of the meet. It started with the men’s 100 IM, where Pete Krusinksi swam a 48.35. Primarily a breaststroker, Krusinski took over the race on the back half.
Next, Thomas Watkins won the men’s 200 back, swimming a 1:42.80. He dipped under the meet record of 1:42.84 with the swim, also holding off Oakland’s Marko Khotynetskyi, the Horizon League champion in the event.
Ohio State senior James Ward swam a 42.88 to win the men’s 100 free, clocking a new personal best and a meet record in the process. Ward dipped under his previous best of 42.94, which was set at the Big Ten Championships just a few weeks ago.
Ward was also a member of Ohio State’s 400 free relay, which won in 2:53.15, breaking the meet record. Ward led off in 43.10, and was followed by Jay Johnson (43.66), Daniel Baltes (43.47), and Mario McDonald (42.92).
Morgan Kraus swam a huge new personal best en route to winning the 200 fly. Kraus clocked a 1:57.04, taking 5 seconds off her previous best in the event. She also broke the meet record with the swim.
Washington State 5th year Taylor McCoy ended her collegiate career with a win and a new program record to boot. McCoy, a 2021 NCAA qualifier, won the women’s 200 back in 1:55.86, breaking the Washington State team record with the swim. She swam a very evenly split race, splitting 57.84 on the first 100, and coming home in 58.02.
Other Saturday Event Winners:
- Men’s 1650 free: Jake Narvid (TENN) – 15:07.25
- Women’s 100 free: Tristan Harrison (OSU) – 49.63
- Women’s 200 breast: Paula Garcia (Akron) – 2:11.33
- Men’s 200 breast: Brett Champlin (TENN) – 1:55.43
- Women’s 400 free: FIU (Hussey, Miranda, Gyertyanffy, Campbell) – 3:18.71
Congrats to The Ohio State women! They have arguably the best team depth in the country and have put together a memorable season.
Go vols!!!
This meet is a great idea!
Yes but still dominated by power five programs. I’d love to see a meet for the mid majors.
Yes Ohio State is a power five team but when looking I noticed they won this without a single swimmer that was invited to NCAA’s. A few of the other schools did bring some NCAA invitees; but the vast majority of the swimmers were mid major competitors.
I believe no ncaa qualifiers were allowed
My mistake; Upon further review, it looks like there was only one NCAA invite that participated- Arielle Hayon from Rice.
Understand your perspective, but it’s also pretty cool for this mid-major guys to be able to race and compete with (and beat!) darn good athletes from big schools