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200 Medley
California came out of the gate strong tonight with a victory in the 200 Yard Medley Relay (1:22.74). After breaking the American record this morning Cal sat back on their starts to guarantee the point with victory. Kritian Gkolomeev of Alabama anchored in (18.24) to give Alabama 2nd place (1:23.35). Texas was 3rd with (1:23.46).
400 IM
The night kicked off with a fantastic race between defending champion Chase Kalisz of Georgia and Texas' Wil Licon. After missing to make the A final in the 200 IM, expectations were high for Chase going into the race.
It was Will Licon who managed to take advantage of a 59.8 breastroke split to take the lead over Chase and touch the wall 1st, in a 3:36.37 - the 4th fastest 400 IM of all time. Chase was 2nd, touching in 3:39.51, 5.1 seconds off his American record he set at last year's Champs.
Fell bulldog Gunnar Bentz faught his way to a 3rd-place finish in 3:39.87. Josh Prenot of Cal swam 3:41.42 for fourth, getting in just a tick ahead of Michigan’s Dylan Bosch, 3:41.50.
Gators Dan Wallace, 3:42.15, and Mark Szaranek, 3:42.88 - finished 6th and 7th. Cal’s Hinshaw touched 8th, swimming a 3:42.88.
Texas’ Will Licon on winning 400 IM:
“It really depended on how the second part of the breaststroke went, because I know in the past, he (Chase Kalisz) has had monstrous breaststroke splits. I was just trying to get to that point, getting to that leg and to be able to have a little bit in the tank where I can swim a strong leg and also be able to finish the freestyle leg and not start sinking toward the bottom of the pool. Going into the last lap, I was fighting to put my head down and finish, see if I can come away with it.”
100 Fly
Texas made history tonight taking the Top 4 spots in the 100 fly. No school has ever swept the Top 4 spots in any event in NCAA Championship history. Of course history was alread set by Texas this morning by placing 6 in the Top 8. The “Texas 6 Shooters” as named by Collegeswimming.com this morning, took the stage and didn’t disappoint.
1st Jose Schooling (45.04)
2nd Jack Conger (45.17)
3rd Tripp Cooper (45.33)
4th Will Glass (45.40)
7th John Murray (45.89)
Texas’ Joseph Schooling on competing in 100-yard butterfly final with five teammates in the race:
“It was cool. It was my first A final and last year we had four or five guys in the A final and I saw that and knew I wanted to be a part of that group. I was lucky enough to be a part of that group and it was just such a cool feeling having six guys from Texas in the A final out of eight. I’m glad we could finish 1-2-3-4-6-8. It was a great feeling and great for Texas.”
Texas’ Joseph Schooling on being competitors with teammate Jack Conger and the rivalry:
“Jack is one of my best friends on the team and I’ve said before, I like to keep my in-pool affairs and out-of-pool affairs different. In the pool we push each other, but out of the pool we hang out like normal friends, and Jack got me twice, once in the Eddie Reese Invite, he kind of surprised me in the 50 fly, but he got me at Big 12s too. He ran me down like 3/4 of a body length the last 25 yards, so that kind of annoyed me so I saw him the last 25 just now and I was like, there is no way I’m going to let that happen again. I put my head down the last three strokes and was fortunate enough to get my hand on the wall first.”
200 Free
In the longest freestyle sprint race of the meet, Ohio State's Josh Fleagle jumped out to an early lead at the first 50 with a time of 21.33. But, at the 100 mark the 2014 champion Cristian Quintero of Southern Cal moved into the lead and wouldn't relinquish it. Quintero won the race with a time of 1:32.03 and the 9th fastest all-time. Anders Nielsen of Michigan finished in 2nd with a 1:32.73, and Clay Youngquist of Texas was 3rd with a 1:33.10.
USC's Cristian Quintero on winning the the 200 freestyle national title:
"It's pretty exciting, I really needed that. I was able to move on after the first swim, the 500 wasn't so good for me, but I was able to pass it on, move on, and came really strong with that 200 free. I was able to win. It was a best time, so that was good, it was great. I wanted to be able to break the 32 career, but I'm still happy and I'm happy for my team."
USC's Cristian Quintero on what went well today:
"The 200-freestyle felt good and obviously that last relay (800-free relay) was an amazing comeback. We had very good teamwork. It was amazing, and I'm excited about what is going to come next."
100 Breast
Kevin Cordes ran the table and at the same time left no question in anyone's mind who the king of breaststroke is. 50.25 got the crowd to their feet and they will be ready for his encore in the 200 tomorrow.
Arizona’s Kevin Cordes on winning 100-yard breaststroke for a fourth-straight year:
“I went out and raced, did what I had to do tonight. I knew it was going to be difficult. I knew I was going to have to give it my best and just go out there and race and compete. Luckily I was able to do that, swim my own race.”
Arizona’s Kevin Cordes on season progression:
“I take a different approach to the season; I’m not tapering for midseason. That was a bit different. Coming into this meet I had to get my feeling back and get back on that form. I was able to do that tonight just by progression in the meet. I am happy with the result tonight and just moving forward to tomorrow. You always want to go faster, but it feels good to get the win too.”
100 Back
Cal’s Ryan Murphy took command from the start and never looked back on the way to his second title in the 100 Back (44.21). David Nolan was second with (44.78). Murphy was out in (22.81) compared to his lead off last night in the 400 Medley Relay of (21.36).
Cal’s Ryan Murphy on winning 100-yard backstroke a second straight year:
“Coming into the meet, I told you this last night, I wasn’t thinking about records or any of that. I would be lying, after last night, if I said it wasn’t on my mind. That was a goal going into tonight. I’m happy with how tonight turned out.”
“I place a lot of confidence on my training and my coaches have made adjustments to what I have done this year based on what they saw last year. That has paid off. The focus being on long course backstroke helps me a lot and that 100 back, I could pop off the back wall after the underwater, I know that I’m going to be able to swim those last 10 yards as good as anyone else. I couldn’t see anyone else. I was just in my zone, doing what I do.”
3M Diving
After finishing second in the 1M on Thursday night, Samuel Dorman would not be denied on day 2 of the championships. Dorman of the University of Miami would earn a total of 529 points which is a new NCAA record in the 3 meter. Michael Hixon of Indiana would finish in second with 492 points, and Kristian Ipsen of Stanford was third with 482.
Miami’s Samuel Dorman on the 3-meter springboard finals as a whole:
“Leading up to the finals I felt good, I was in the zone. I did all of my dives in warm-ups, felt good, and I tried to get in the same zone, stay in the same place that I was in yesterday. First dive wasn’t great, usually I start off with my best dive, a comfortable dive, so I started off with a double out and it went well. In between each dive I would try to forget about everything else and do it one dive at a time.
“I did inward, it went well, I did a back 3 1/2 and I’ve never done it like that before so that was a highlight to look over at my coach and see him just go crazy. Then did gainer, gainer went well, my coach, if you didn’t notice did a nice little jig at the end of it because he said if I got a 7.5 or an 8 on it he would start dancing. That was exciting and then front came and that’s kind of like my happy place. I just do that dive and forget about everything and usually it goes down. My last dive was pretty sketchy, I felt good going into it, but I hurled to the right corner of the board and kind of panicked a bit, but I did my best to stick with it and pulled through.”
Miami’s Samuel Dorman on winning at Iowa with head coach Randy Shannon being a University of Iowa alum:
“It’s huge for him. I mean 2013, same pool for Nationals here, I swept all of the springboard events which was awesome for him and then to win tonight, my fifth year, after working so hard with him and our other coach Dario is unbelievable. I have to thank them so much. They have done everything for me, they’re two other fathers and the best coaches I could ever ask for. I wouldn’t change a thing about it.”
800 Free Relay
Southern Cal's Cristian Quintero the individual 200 freestyle winner helped his team to get out to an early lead with a 1:32.89. But, it was the upstart team of the meet the North Carolina State Wolfpack who pushed Southern Cal on the 2nd and 3rd leg's of the race. On the strength of NC State's 2nd leg of David Williams (1:32.51) and 3rd leg of Soeren Dahl (1:33.36), NC State would take the lead with 200 yards to go. On the anchor for NC State was their B finalist Simonas Bilis going up against Southern Cal's Reed Malone. Bilis would hold onto the lead for NC State opening up his first 100 with a 44.27, but Reed Malone swam the race perfectly and made his move with 75 yards to go. Reed Malone would end up winning the race for Southern Cal while swiming the fastest split in the field with a 1:31.59.
Team scores after day 2: Texas 399, Cal 275, Michigan 210, Florida 205, Southern Cal 197, Stanford 156.