2012 Div 1 NCAAs
Women's Swimming & Diving Division I Championship - NCAA.com
March 15 - 17, 2012
Auburn, AL
Men's Swimming & Diving Division I Championship - NCAA.com
March 22 - 24
Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center
Seattle, WA
But before NCAAs are the conference meets, please provide links and let's talk about em.
UT swims next week but several conference championships are next week.
SwimmingWorld will cover it too
Any NCAA coach who wants his team to place has to get sprinters. They have very few scholarships to give. Get guys who can do 50-100 free or stroke. Train them hard so some of them can do 200 stroke.
It looks like, this year, Cal gained an edge in the stroke events. For example, four kids from Cal scored in the 200 IM and 100 ***; three Cal swimmers scored in the 200 ***, 100 back and the 100 and 200 fly.
It's been said that, in Div. III, the team that owned the 200 free was best positioned to win the national meet. But this year in Div. I - and maybe Div. III - you couldn't win with a one-dimensional team that skewed toward either sprint free or 200 free:
Cal out-scored Texas in the meet, 535-491. It had a narrow advantage in the 50 free, 21-20 points, and won the 200 free relay. But Texas won the 200 free (20-12), and beat Cal in the 400 free relay and the 800 free relay (6:15.55 for Texas to Cal’s 6:15.70).
Meanwhile, in Div. III, the winning team dominated, among other events, backstroke and diving - but not the sprint free.
The sprints were won by the second-place team: Kenyon's men set Div. III records in the 200 and 400 free relays, won the 200 medley, placed first and second in the 50 free and out-scored meet-winning Denison in the 100 free by 76 to 11 (plenty of sprint records without tech suits!).
The 200 free, however, belonged to Denison, which won the 800 free relay (6:30.40, a Div. III record, with Kenyon at 6:31.78) and placed three kids in the top eight in the 200 free (a Kenyon sprinter, who went :19.38 in the 50, led the 200 at the 150-yard mark but slipped into third place behind a rare first-place tie):
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Degayner, Jordan SR COLORADO COLL...1:38.70 1:37.51 18.5
23.02 47.55 (24.53) 1:12.55 (25.00) 1:37.51 (24.96)
1 Harp, Tyler SR U REDLANDS...........1:37.69 1:37.51 18.5
22.59 47.07 (24.48) 1:12.16 (25.09) 1:37.51 (25.35)
3 Turk, Zachary SR KENYON.............1:38.90 1:37.66 16
21.47 45.75 (24.28)1:11.14 (25.39) 1:37.66 (26.52)
4 Chabot, Sean SO DENISON.............1:38.16 1:37.72 15
22.98 47.72 (24.74)1:12.54 (24.82) 1:37.72 (25.18)
5 Maciel, Carlos SO DENISON...........1:38.91 1:39.26 14
23.52 49.34 (25.82)1:14.20 (24.86) 1:39.26 (25.06)
6 Vieth, Thomas JR WILLIAMS............1:38.81 1:39.44 13
23.59 48.82 (25.23)1:14.12 (25.30) 1:39.44 (25.32)
7 Fronk, Spencer SO DENISON............1:39.04 1:39.57 12
23.33 48.64 (25.31)1:14.03 (25.39) 1:39.57 (25.54)
It seems that the winning combination - sprinters or stroke or mid-distance swimmers - can change from one meet to the next (and it all makes you wonder if tech suits ever really did have the effect that was advertised) ...
What strange hormones are they putting in collegiate waters these days?
Unbelievable times. It makes you feel like you are from a separate and decidedly inferior species.
It took these guys less time than expected to overcome the tech suits. Bodes well for some new records in London...
