2011 NCAAs

he's McZoom tough meet, the horns really rallied on Sunday, we had several key swimmers who weren't "on." Several didn't swim as fast as they did in conference unshaved. I loved the streaming video, if for no other reason than I finally got to watch a whole 1650 'televised' from start to finish! That was a great race race to watch. Props to McBroom for dropping 18 seconds off his personal best and bringing home Texas' first ever 1650 NCAA title. Sweet.

Just since I met the Durdens. :D I went to Chico State. (CAL is actually a wee bit too liberal for me! LOL) I am just so incredibly impressed with Dave's coaching. He is so talented. These coaches don't come along very often. And his wife has helped me, and my daughter, with our swimming too. They are both phenomenal.

I just looked at the results. When I saw Texas actually took the lead at one point my jaw dropped. Incredible effort by them to make it a dogfight till the end, but congrats to Cal for winning both the women's and men's championship!

I couldn't get the streaming to work.Are the swims going to be broadcast,when and where?

looks like the Longhorns came to swim Last year Texas beat Cal by 24.5 points and this year Cal beat Texas by 22.5 points. Not to be a Monday morning Quarterback, but as good as Texas swam in all there events, there is one event that tipped the Championship in Cal's favor. The 800 Free Relay, which has always been a strength for Texas and never for Cal since the days of Matt Biondi. Cal scored 28 points in that event getting 5th to Texas getting 9th scoring 18 points and that is a 20 point swing. Going into the meet, Texas was ranked 6th and Cal was ranked 9th giving Texas an 8 point advantage. The surprise were the swimmers for Texas seed times from the last year should have had them easily in the top 3. I thought they would be fighting for 2nd with Virginia behind Florida. With Dyer being sick, this opened up this relay to all the teams. Last year Texas went a 6:12.77 to 6:23.77 this year and they had two of the same guys plus Dax Hill who went a faster time in the 200 Free individual event than both David Walters and Ricky Berens and the relay should have easily went under 6:18.00 The splits last year vs this year were: Scott Jostes 1:33.25 to his split this year of 1:36.08, Neil Caskey went a 1:33.86 to his split this year of 1:36.61. David Walters went a 1:32.76 and Ricky Berens went 1:32.90 for the 2010 Relay. Freshmen Woody Joy went 1:35.75 so you would expect the relay to be 2 seconds slower there. The big surprise is Dax Hill who was 2nd in the individual event with a 1:32.64 went 1:35.33 split anchoring the relay. The cumulative effect of was 11 seconds slower than 2010 and 13.62 seconds slower than 2009. This is only the 2nd time in 24 years that Texas has not made the top 8 in this event. They have won this event 11 times in the last 24 years, been 2nd 5 of 24 years, and 3rd and 4th two times each in those 24 years. Cal almost lost 11 points in the 100 Free. Nathan Adrian was less than one tenth of second from getting 9th in the prelims and he though he won if Scott Robinson goes one tenth faster he is looking at getting 9th with a 41.10 and getting 9 points instead of the 20 points for winning. In the NCAA Division 1 history, I believe there has been two swimmers that have had the faster time in the consolation finals than swimmers in the finals.

Did they have "the suits" last year? I can't remember.

Did they have "the suits" last year? I can't remember. No, they did not have tech suits in 2010. They did have them in 2009.

No, they did not have tech suits in 2010. They did have them in 2009. Frank, I'm going to :hijack:for a moment to say I enjoyed the write-up about you in Swimmer Magazine! :applaud:

Thank You. Look forward to meeting you in Mesa at Nationals.

Thank You. Look forward to meeting you in Mesa at Nationals. You, too! Thanks! :)