2023 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 22-25, 2023
- Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center | Minneapolis, MN
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It was an absolutely bonkers finals session tonight in Minneapolis as we saw some mind-boggling swimming, including the fastest swims of all-time in the 200 IM and the 200 free relay.
500 YARD FREESTYLE — FINALS
- NCAA Record: 4:06.32 — Kieran Smith, Florida (2020)
- Meet Record: 4:06.61 — Matthew Sates, Georgia (2022)
- American Record: 4:06.32 — Kieran Smith, Florida (2020)
- U.S. Open Record: 4:06.32 — Kieran Smith, Florida (2020)
Pool Record: 4:08.60 — Townley Haas, Texas (2018)- 2022 Champion: Matthew Sates, Georgia — 4:06.61
Texas sophomore Luke Hobson led from start to finish, setting a pool record and moving up to #5 all-time in the event, with a time of 4:07.37.
Top 8:
- Luke Hobson, Texas — 4:07.37 (Pool Record)
- David Johnston, Texas — 4:08.79
- Jake Magahey, Georgia — 4:09.24
- Jake Newmark, Wisconsin — 4:10.12
- Jake Mitchell, Florida — 4:10.54
- Gabriel Jett, Cal – 4:12.52
- Ross Dant, NC State — 4:12.59
- Alfonso Mestre, Florida — 4:12.62
200 YARD IM — FINALS
NCAA Record: 1:37.69 — Leon Marchand, ASU (2022)Meet Record: 1:37.69 — Leon Marchand, ASU (2022)American Record: 1:38.13 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)U.S. Open Record: 1:37.69 — Leon Marchand, ASU (2022)Pool Record: 1:38.32 — Destin Lasco, Cal (2023)- 2022 Champion: Leon Marchand, ASU — 1:37.69
Leon Marchand looked like he using a cheat code while swimming against some of the fastest men ever in this event. The ASU sophomore went out in a mind-boggling 44.0, and never relented, destroying his own all-time record by well over a second. No one else has been under 1:38 in the event, and Marchand is now knocking on the door of a 1:35.
Top 8:
- Leon Marchand, ASU – 1:36.34 (NCAA Record)
- Destin Lasco, Cal – 1:38.10 (American Record)
- Hugo Gonzalez, Cal – 1:39.00
- Carson Foster, Texas – 1:39.93
- Ron Polonsky, Stanford – 1:40.62
- Arsenio Bustos, NC State – 1:40.63
- Baylor Nelson, Texas A&M – 1:40.88
- Jake Foster, Texas – 1:41.03
50 YARD FREESTYLE — FINALS
- NCAA Record: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- Meet Record: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- American Record: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- U.S. Open Record: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- Pool Record: 17.63 — Caeleb Dressel, Florida (2018)
- 2022 Champion: Brooks Curry, LSU — 18.56
Despite a rough start, Tennessee sophomore Jordan Crooks won a close race against Florida freshman Josh Liendo in one of the fastest races ever.
Top 8:
- Jordan Crooks, Tennessee — 18.32
- Josh Liendo, Florida — 18.40
- Bjorn Seeliger, Cal — 18.67
- Brooks Curry, LSU — 18.76
- Youssef Ramadan, Virginia Tech — 18.82
- Jack Alexy, Cal — 18.87
- Jack Dolan, ASU — 19.15
- Gui Caribe, Tennessee — 19.16
200 YARD FREESTYLE RELAY — TIMED FINALS
NCAA Record: 1:14.08 — Auburn (J. Andkjaer, G. Louw, K. Norys, M. Targett), 2009Meet Record: 1:14.08 — Auburn (J. Andkjaer, G. Louw, K. Norys, M. Targett), 2009American Record: 1:14.47 — Virginia (M. Brownstead, M. King, C. Boyle, A. Lamb), 2022U.S. Open Record: 1:14.08 — Auburn (J. Andkjaer, G. Louw, K. Norys, M. Targett), 2009Pool Record: 1:14.39 — Florida (C. Dressel, J. Switowski, E. Martinez-Scarpe, M. Szaranek), 2018- 2022 Champion: Florida (A. Chaney, E. Friese, W. Davis, K. Smith) — 1:14.11
The last NCAA record from the supersuit era melted away like the Wicked Witch of the West, as both Florida and Cal went under 1:14. NC State also set a school record en route to taking third.
Top 8:
- Florida (J. Liendo, A. Chaney, E. Friese, M. McDuff) — 1:13.35 (NCAA Record)
- Cal (B. Seeliger, J. Alexy, L. Bell, D. Lasco) — 1:13.82
- NC State (N. Henderson, N. Korstanje, L. Miller, D. Curtiss) — 1:14.44
- Tennessee — 1:14.68
- ASU — 1:15.06
- Virginia — 1:15.26
- Texas — 1:15.58
- Virginia Tech — 1:15.67
By the letter of the law, Florida is very lucky their third swimmer didn’t get DQ’ed for kicking past the buoy and scrapibg through that.
Looks clean to me. His hands might’ve been past the mark, but the letter of the law says that the head has to be up by 15, not the hands.
What glimmers of deja vu might Bob Bowman be experiencing now?
That’s a cool pic of Bjorn
babe wake up seeliger added and choked another final away
yea you right big dawg, he really should have tried his best, I’m really not sure why he didn’t /s
I mean this time it wasn’t really his fault
Jake Mitchel in the 500 had a faster reaction time than anyone in the 50
probably because the wait was 2 seconds shorter
3.5 second wait on the 50 free
kind of sad crooks didn’t go 17.6
Why would you think he’d do that? He’s been slower in all of his swims so far compared to SECs.
I didn’t think he would, but it still would have been cool