Emory Recruit Class

From what I understand, Mark Bernstein was 206 2fly lcm this summer, which works out to right around an A cut. Looks like Spooner could make the dance in the 2 back. There’s a lot of potential with him since his brother swims at UGA. Also, I heard that Mason White has only been swimming for about 2 years, one of which was with a high school team and the second with a legitimate club. If all goes well he could make some noise.
You are right though, Kenyon will be the king of the hill until further notice…

When you get this many good guys, it is reasonable to expect that 3 or 4 will turn into big time scorers at Nats. I don’t know, I think this is pretty darn good.

Yes it is a pretty good class. I could see those 2 guys who are sitting at 4:09 in the Im go about 4:03 and do something at the dance, so that will help. It seems like Emory has 25 guys that go 4:09 or better in the IM.

I agree with 5599. Emory always has a strong distance IM group which I imagine will help some of those kids drop time. Also, even though Sabir Muhammad is no longer at Emory (he graduated) the sprint program is improving. Look to Callam last year as an example.

@screeeeeeeeech wrote:

Also, I heard that Mason White has only been swimming for about 2 years,

Rumor has it that he was a (massachusetts) state high school champion in the 1 meter. i can see him making the show on the boards, that would be kinda funny. These recruits arent “studs” like curtis, newton, peterson, duda, but rather kids who i can imagine Howell thought they would improve. Its tough to say the U-C guy is a stud, i can only agree with saying hes got room to improve and will make the waves and not ride it.

Also, not trying to take anything away from emory ’11, but it looks like theres one stud, Bernstein, and he may be one of the studs in the whole division’s class.

what happened to that Matt Pringle ??

Mason White swam for Weston High School, a small high school with traditionally very good (for massachusetts) high school swimming. He has come on very strong in the past few years but I believe he swam all four years in high school he just has only been doing year round swimming for a couple years

@Colbybr wrote:

I believe he swam all four years in high school he just has only been doing year round swimming for a couple years

He started swimming his junior year in HS and swam for Chuck Bachler of ABF-NE the summer of his junior here

We’ll see if he ends up like the mythical Ben Johnson. I imagine that Bernstein is the moneymaker for that class since he’ll have Petroff and Brown to train fly with and he’ll be with Lake for distance training. Hopefully for Emory the freestylers can get their sprints down a bit.

As usual, Emory’s distance and IMers will make up the crux of their NCAA team. It seems like they never manage to bring in sprinters. Hopefully they can develop some…or their relays will struggle come March.

@t3hhammer wrote:

As usual, Emory’s distance and IMers will make up the crux of their NCAA team. It seems like they never manage to bring in sprinters. Hopefully they can develop some…or their relays will struggle come March.

Oh, they bring in some, they just don’t develop them. To their credit, they do amazing things with IMers, and distance guys.

@silentp wrote:

@RhymeAndReason wrote:

@t3hhammer wrote:

As usual, Emory’s distance and IMers will make up the crux of their NCAA team. It seems like they never manage to bring in sprinters. Hopefully they can develop some…or their relays will struggle come March.

Oh, they bring in some, they just don’t develop them. To their credit, they do amazing things with IMers, and distance guys.

This is why I am interested to see what they do with these breastrokers, since they have clearly not done well in the breastroke if you look at their top 10 list. I guarantee the IMers do very well though.

Its pretty obvious that emorys breaststroke is just as weak if not weaker than their sprinters. with Callam gone, what are they gonna do? Sloan (6’9??)…

While it doesn’t rival their distance/IM record, I don’t think it’s quite fair to say that Emory doesn’t develop sprinters. How many teams in the country have developed at least 3 20.x sprinters in the past 3 years?

Are you saying three total over three years. or 3 a year for three years? If you are talking about total, I can name a whole bunch of schools.

Three in three years. I’m not saying that its some unbelievable feat, but to say that they don’t develop sprinters is at best a bit unfair. Again they may not develop them at the rate that they develop distance swimmers, but they do go pretty fast. Add in that all of those guys were complete swimmers who could do more than swim a fast 50. One of those guys who went 20. also scored in the 200 Fly, so it’s not as if all he could do was sprint.

I agree they have developed some guys, but they are currently known for IMers and distance freestylers. ANd unfortunately you can not win an ncaa championship without a lot of sprinters and short stroke guys.

@3 6 Mafia wrote:

emorys breaststroke is just as weak

what about Scott Bobo? he won consies at the show in 07

Yes, it’s just interesting that what Emory does worst, they still do better than most people for whom that’s what they do best.

@swim5599 wrote:

I agree they have developed some guys, but they are currently known for IMers and distance freestylers. ANd unfortunately you can not win an ncaa championship without a lot of sprinters and short stroke guys.

Michigan won in 95 (?) with mostly distance swimmers. Their only real sprinter was Gustavo Borges.

Why is there so much interest in Emory’s class and none about Kenyon or Denison?

DU is always slow with their freshmen. Lets face it. People don’t always stick around, and the team is huge, maybe there were cuts. But I have some guesses about who is on the team.

Alphonse Harris – 2:00 200 IM
Ethan Drutchas – 47.94 100 free, 21.87 50 free
Robert Meyers – 21.54 50 free, 48.75 100 free (a few years ago)
Andrew Krawchyk – 1:48.8 200 free, 1:58.81 LCM 200 free
James Lewing – 1:45.98 200 free, 54.42 100 back
Kyle Chabot – 54.12 100 bk, 53.93 100 fl, 4:18.4 400 im
Michael Cobb – 2:01.35 200 im
Callan Hetterich – 1:43.28 200 free (alt adj to 1:42.08 according to USA swimming)
Brendan Sullivan – 22.86 50 free
Ben Terry – 52.87 100 fl, 1:45.10 200 free

And I think there was a transfer, John Nemeth, 58 low 100 br.

99 red if your info is correct Denison 2011 looks pretty weak.

Considering the academic standards to which Emory swimmers must comply for acceptance, it would seem that the 2011 class, overall, is as good as it gets. That coupled with still developing 2010, talent should make them a force to be reckoned with
come March.

As for the comment about the 95 U of M team that won NCAA’s. Take into consideration that was 13 years ago. The sport has changed. It would be very difficult to win that way again.

The sport has changed, but the meets format has not. It was difficult for them to win the meet the way they did, but they proved it was possible, which was my point, it is possible.

@swim5599 wrote:

As for the comment about the 95 U of M team that won NCAA’s. Take into consideration that was 13 years ago. The sport has changed. It would be very difficult to win that way again.

Why would it be more difficult? Like ACT said, the meet format hasn’t changed. It was tough then, and it’s still tough, but I don’t think it’s gotten tougher.

We place more emphasis on sprinting now. ANd Michigan won that title because of a guy by the name of Tom Dolan tearing the world up over 3 days.

I would have to look back but I am almost sure that Michigan only finished in the top 5 in one of the sprint related relays. The 4 medley and I might even be wrong on that, but I would have to say that no one wins the d 1 title that way anymore.

I don’t see how sprinting has more emphisis now then it did then. Sprinting became more of an emphasis when the NCAA add the 200 free and Medlay relays. Yes, Dolan may have been ripping it up, but it takes more then one man win a title. Dolan may have been more talented, but Gustabo Borges (sp?) was probably more valuable that year as he won then 50, 100, and 200 frees and made their sprint relays competitve. As for no one wins the D1 title that way any more, Michigan is the only one to win the title that way. It is not any more difficult to win the meet that way then it is now. It was difficult, it still is difficult, but still possible.

But who won the 200 FR both those years? I think Kenyon knows how to sprint, they just know how to do everything else also. Their guys can only swim 3 individuals (just like everyone else), they have to make some choices – they just didn’t choose to swim the 50 or 100 (well, other than Mitchell)

You cannot compare D1 to D3 because a 100 backstroker with A cuts, a 200 IM’er with A cuts and 2 sprinters with no cuts can put together a top 8 relay at D3. Not so in D1.

My point was this regarding Michigan. I can’t rememember the last time a team only placed top5 in one of the sprint related relays and won. If you take that same type of team that Michigan had then they do not win today. ANd I loved that team.