Psyche sheets are up from Men's Div I NCAA to be held the weekend of March 25th at the "Goodwill Games" Pool on L.I.
You can check them out at: www.collegeswimming.com/
This year, they will compete SCM (as we discussed elsewhere our esteemed leaders decided not to compete LCM until more schools had 50 meter). The meters option is only for Olympic years.
The meet is likely to produce a number of NCAA records and a few world records (relays and some standout individuals).
Predictions for top five finish? Here's mine:
1) Auburn (Marsh accomplishes first back-to-back double/double)
2) Texas (proof that this is truly a team sport...you need more than 3 big horses to win)
3) Standford ("hollywood" of US swimming cannot win the big prize again)
4) California (the "other" bay area program with some truly incredible sprinters)
5) Florida (my heart's with Minn but have to pick the once again strong Florida program)
BTW, Kenyon men win their 25th consecutive title--the most successful NCAA program ever. Only one close is the Kenyon women 20 out of 21 national titles and Auburn wins narrowly over Georgia.
Well, the meet is off to a rousing start. New individual world records in the 50 free and 200 IM (Bousquet and Bovell). Bousquet only made it into the 'A' final by winning a swim-off! Fastest time ever recorded in the 200 free relay (Auburn), and three (!) teams under the old world record in the 400 medley relay with Texas winning in a 3:25.38. All the splits for Texas were incredible, but Crocker's fly leg at 48.6 was two seconds faster than anyone else in the pool. That's domination, folks.
The other race tonight was the 400 free, where Michigan went 1-2 with Vanderkaay and Ketchum. This was the only event where a world record was not set, but Vanderkaay swam very impressively (3:40.78 including a pretty phenomenal 54.3 on his last 100) and missed Carvin's American record by a tenth of a second.
What an incredible start to the meet.
Well, the meet is off to a rousing start. New individual world records in the 50 free and 200 IM (Bousquet and Bovell). Bousquet only made it into the 'A' final by winning a swim-off! Fastest time ever recorded in the 200 free relay (Auburn), and three (!) teams under the old world record in the 400 medley relay with Texas winning in a 3:25.38. All the splits for Texas were incredible, but Crocker's fly leg at 48.6 was two seconds faster than anyone else in the pool. That's domination, folks.
The other race tonight was the 400 free, where Michigan went 1-2 with Vanderkaay and Ketchum. This was the only event where a world record was not set, but Vanderkaay swam very impressively (3:40.78 including a pretty phenomenal 54.3 on his last 100) and missed Carvin's American record by a tenth of a second.
What an incredible start to the meet.
