2022 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 23-26, 2022
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia (Eastern Daylight Time)
- Prelims 10AM /Finals 6PM
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Live Results
- Championship Central
- Official Psych Sheets
Men 100 Yard Backstroke
- NCAA Record: 43.49 – Ryan Murphy, California (2016)
- Meet Record: 43.49 – Ryan Murphy, California (2016)
- American Record: 43.49 – Ryan Murphy, California (2016)
- S. Open Record: 43.49 – Ryan Murphy, California (2016)
- Pool Record: 43.49 – Ryan Murphy, California (2016)
Georgia sophomore Luca Urlando stunned the crowd at the McAuley Aquatic Center on the Georgia Tech campus on Friday night, leading off the Bulldogs’ 400 medley relay with a 100 backstroke time of 43.35 that broke the NCAA, meet, American, U.S. Open, and pool records in one fell swoop.
In doing so, Urlando erased a six-year-old mark that Ryan Murphy set at 2016 NCAAs when he won the 100 back championship final in 43.49.
Urlando was out .20 faster than Murphy and back only .06 slower.
- Ryan Murphy 2016 NCAA/American/U.S. Open Record: (r:+0.55) 20.96 – 22.53 = 43.49
- Luca Urlando 2022 NCAA/American/U.S. Open Record: (r:+0.65) 20.76 – 22.59 = 43.35
Urlando did not enter the 100 backstroke individual event; he chose instead to swim the 200 IM on Day 2, the 100 fly on Day 3, and the 200 fly on Day 4. In tonight’s 100 fly final, Urlando was runner-up to Stanford’s Andrei Minakov by .09 with 43.80. The 100 backstroke title went to NC State’s Kacper Stokowski with 44.04.
Urlando slashed just over a second off his PB leading off tonight’s relay. Coming into the meet, his lifetime best in the 100 back was 44.38 from 2022 ACC Championships, on another 400 medley relay leadoff. Before that, it was the 45.66 he swam in December 2018 to break the 15-16 national age group record.
I believe team members should be allowed behind the blocks to mimic relays for both the individual 50 / 100 / 200 free and 100 back. Teammates must be in tech suits. I can be convinced 1650 as well.
Records would fall.
Discuss
I would hate that. I just wanna be left alone to focus for an individual event. Relay hype is for relays.
Either his 200 fly is gonna be absolutely insane tomorrow or this guy should add the 100 back to his lineup next year. Maybe drop 200 IM?
Why not drop the 100 Fly instead?
Unless he’s gonna go to breaststroke school he’d be better off with the double over the im. Georgia doesn’t have the best relays and sprint depth so him being off by the end of the night won’t do much. That being said I hope they flip the 200 freelay and the 4 medley next year
Even Clorox couldn’t clean up this FILTH! Luca Urlando!
Umm yeah, totally didn’t see that coming! holy cow great swim!
Good night! That is REALLY FAST!
Fastest 200 Butterback combo in history… Luca is now “Butterback Daddy”
Might be Phelps LC, no cap
Phelps: 102.83 seconds
Perisol: 103.24 seconds
Milak’s best 100 LCM back is a 54.67 from 2018, and he has obviously gotten much faster since then given his 23.0 SCM 50.
and on the womens side I think it’s Regan Smith probably- she beats out Curzan by like a tenth and Curzan beats MacNeil by 0.02
Luca and Georgia don’t swim in the ACC conference. His previous best was from the SEC championship.
Tad off topic but watching sates on fly, his turns looked a bit wack
A tad off topic?