Reported by Robert Gibbs.
200 YARD BUTTERFLY – FINALS
NCAA record: 1:37.97 Joseph Schooling (Texas) 3-25-2016American record: 1:38.06, Jack Conger (Texas) 3-25-2016U.S. Open record: 1:37.97 Joseph Schooling (Texas) 3-25-2016- 2016 NCAA Champion: Joseph Schooling (Texas) – 1:37.97
Senior Jack Conger earned his first individual title in the last individual race of his NCAA career, and he did it in record fashion, setting the fourth US Open and American Record of the evening. Conger went out in 21.65, way ahead of record pace, built a body length lead by the 150, and ultimately touched in 1:37.35, over six-tenths faster than the previous US Open Record, set by Conger’s Texas teammate Joseph Schooling at last year’s NCAA.
California swimmer Zheng Quah and Andrew Seliskar ran 2nd and 3rd behind Conger for most of the race. Quah held his place, touching in 1:38.83, which makes him the 3rd-fastest swimmer ever, behind only Conger and Schooling. Georgia junior Gunnar Bentz is known for strong final 50s no matter what the event, stormed home in 25.25, almost a second faster than anyone else in the field, to pick up 3rd in 1:40.07. Teammate Pace Clark touched in 1:40.41, followed by NC State’s Andreas Vazaois in 1:40.80. Seliskar’s faded to 6th, finishing in 1:40.91. Arizona’s Justin Wright took 7th in 1:40.94, while Georgia’s Chase Kalisz was disqualified for a false start.
Smirking Schooling is better in the 100, and King Conger is better in the 200.
USA Swimming could really use a good 200 meter flyer now that MP is gone.
If Conger could drop to a 1:53, that would put him close to the top.
I think Schooling shut it down in the 200 fly because he knew he couldn’t beat Conger in the final. His best time in the 100 fly and 41.0 relay split Saturday night don’t line up with having a stomach virus since Thursday that affected his swims. Schooling still has some maturing to do and being Olympic champion probably didn’t help that process. Congrats to Conger on an impressive 200 butterfly to close out a great career, and I hope Schooling has learned a lesson and will grow from this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCTD7QpKW5I
interesting
Why is schooling hungry? I thought his stomach hurts….
Why is schooling hungry? I thought his stomach hurt…
Correction: tummy hurt.
Other than the 200 fly, Joe really had a great meet. Absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about, unless of course he’s talking about the 200 fly which he totally tanked. As for the rest, he swam a lifetime best in the 100 fly, broke the 44 second barrier, beat Tom Shield’s record and just came up short of victory only because Caleb swam a lights-out 43.5. There’s no shame in losing to a time like that, especially when you do a lifetime best and you also just beat the old US Open record. (Unfortunately for Joe, Caleb gets the new record because he also beat Joe). Joe’s relays were super fast and I think he might have also done a… Read more »
I really wish the stomach virus thing didn’t come up, because it sounded like an excuse. It obviously was a non-factor for all the great swims you pointed out. He just did not have the endurance — from lack of training — to compete in a 200 fly deep into a long meet, or to crush prelims and finals of relays (he really loafed his prelim legs of both medleys). For the 200 fly, he just quit. You can call it “shutting down,” but he quit. I’m sure if we got details of his training habits and training times, we’d find out that he wasn’t going to be competitive in the 200 fly compared to Conger. In fact, he hasn’t… Read more »
Waiting for Conger to borrow Joe’s favorite lines and say,… “I am real proud of Joe, watching him grow and mature into a young man.”
Joe got taken to school(ing) by Jack.
Sigh…really? Such cleverness – never heard this before…
On the other hand, I guess this means Joe ‘schooled” Michael Phelps at the Olympics? That Texas ‘schooled’ the other teams at 2017 NCAA’s? Puh-leeez