Mens NCAAs- Day 1 Prelims

Man that Kenyon free relay was moving this morning. Harris with a big 20.1 split. I look for him to have a big meet. How about Amundson’s 20.5 lead off. Look out.

How about that 500 from Rantz? I realize it’s too early to derive such conclusions, but if that swim is any indication, Kenyon has the meet in the bag.

Rantz negative split his 250’s also. Huge swim for Curtis and Spinelli also, but Bryce missed the championship final. Kenyon is on fire right now. Dunn 4:26, maybe that mile record goes after all.

Yes very fast, but if you look at the bottom of the page, you will notice that Bobby Brown went about 4:42 in the 500. Wow off a whole lot, Scarborough also had a rough swim.

KC was moving on that relay. They look ready to play. I know they have emotion and preparation on their side. Not many D-III swimmers have ever split under 20, so that was a strong race.

That 500 is ridiculous: 4:31.5 just to get into the bigs and 4:35 into the consies??!? Glad I am retired years hence! Kenyon is three up and one down, while Denison is 1st, 9th and 11th. Emory has two in the bigs.

I am looking forward to more fast races.

BTW: As an Emory historian (and alumnus), I think Callum’s lead-off is a new varsity record for the Eagles. Great swim! Hopefully faster in the event prelims!

Well I am guessing we see Nelson Hop in and go about 1:49 high hear in the next couple of minutes.

And Kenyon swimmers seem to be winning basically every heat of the 2IM… with big drops… wow.

Ulrich 1:52.0 in the IM, great swim.

When Jim Steen woke up this morning I am pretty sure he was hoping for this kind of morning. They are really swimming well.

Bobo 1:51.8 in the IM, that is a huge drop also.

Seventh place is about as close to not making the Champ final as Nelson probably wanted.

BR Splits:
Gosselar: 30.9
Zarins: 31.6

Fast splits.

KC: 1 up, 4 down in the IMs
Emory, 2 up, 2 down
DU: 1 up

Oh man Nelson almost had a repeat of last year. Based on the splits it looked like he shut down that puppy a little early. Zarins 1:53.7 my god that is ridiculous for that guy.

Any chance we see Joey G go under 2:00 this year in the 200?

Geez. Great swims. Must be a fast pool, but it is great for the whole meet that most everyone is swimming pretty well the first session. Good to know I can sit here and hit “refresh” on my computer for the next hour or so instead of working!

Mitchell 20.2 in the 50. I thought he had a breakthrough conf meet, but this is pretty amazing.

This is unrelated but….

Event 1 Men 200 Yard Freestyle Relay

Heat 3 of 3 – Preliminaries

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School Seed Prelims

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1 Auburn ‘A’ 1:16.52 1:15.56

9.19 18.89 (18.89)

27.77 (8.88) 37.54 (18.65)

46.72 (9.18) 56.67 (19.13)

1:05.61 (8.94) 1:15.56 (18.89)

Who went 18.8?

Yeah that is a crazy fast relay. Kenyon is the Auburn of d3 swimming. They just like Auburn step up when its crunch time. Huge swim for Cielo

19.1 man that sucks for their 3rd guy. Kidding obviously

I see Tim McGlaston improved so much now that he is shaved and tapered for a meet. (this is why you don’t believe people when they swear up and down they arn’t shaved and tapered, and go PR’s by huge margins)

Yeah everyone always lies about their rested swims in season. Hey rhyme 1:54 plus for Higgins in the IM pretty darn good

@swim5599 wrote:

Yeah everyone always lies about their rested swims in season. Hey rhyme 1:54 plus for Higgins in the IM pretty darn good

It is PR for Higgins, not bad at all. a 1:53 would have been nice, but its a good start. Tomorrow is the important one : )

5599 – I got engaged last Sunday. Cool eh? Not to someone you know, but she did go to Wheaton as well.

Hey congrats on the engagement. That is awesome. Higgins 1:40.7 is my call in the 200 tomorrow.

Yeah I am guessing we would have seen Harris go about 20.8 in the 50 flat start.

Irgens for KC will not be on 5 relays. He is not faster than anybody who was on the relay this morning. There must be another reason. I am excited to see what that kid does in the backstroke though.

KC 400 MR dq!

Yeah I just saw that, man what a crappy way to end a stellar day

How? Anybody know? That could be a big blow, but could also fire people up a little for the rest of the meet (both KC and non, for various reasons).

were there really 3 dqs in one heat?

That does open the door for other teams. If Denison were to win that relay, and I am not sure they have enough, but that could be an 80 point swing in one event.

We probably won’t know for a bit, until all the heats have gone. Usually the full results with splits include the take-off splits. However, with 3 teams called in one heat, could be electrical malfunction. Hard to believe three teams all jumped. Besides, isn’t there a back-up of relay panel judges? Wasn’t somethign overturned last week? At SEC’s here at UK, several DQ’s were overruled. If they are using Daktronics, that could be the problem….

5 dqs? no way thats real…..must be a malfunction

That was my thought: FIVE relays get called, and one in the first relay event.

On another note: ZARINS, 55.11 and the flier 48.0

This will be cleared up soon.

more dqs in the medley than the 200free relay seems odd….we’ll just have to wait and see if anything changes

I wonder if the DQ was Zarins? Harris is swimming out of his mind right now. 8 tenth drop from last years 400 MR, of course he also may have been the one that jumped.

Geissinger 44.2 that is moving. Byers seems way off.

Kenyon’s time was a 3:19.91 – quick enough.

Test was loafing a bit because he knew they were in. I’ll take Hopkins tonight in the 4 Medley as long as there is no Kenyon in the picture

Dension winning the relay is not an 80 point swing.

Yes I apologize for my horrible math I meant a 40 point swing, but Denison is not even going to come close to winning the 400 MR.

Yeah Webber Gale was 19.1 also

The results are still showing all those DQs in the 400MR.

Is that real???

@miller wrote:

The results are still showing all those DQs in the 400MR.

Is that real???

looks like it. i scored emory, denison and kenyon after day 1 (very quickly done, might have errors).

Kenyon 150
emory 147
denison 84

mitchell is ridiculous.

21.0 from byers is extremely disappointing.

emory looks like they are swimming very well. it’s too bad they missed finals in the 200 FR or else they could be in the fake lead so far.

Trunk won the 50 swimoff for 16th – at least he wasn’t fast enough to have made the Championship heat.

@The Treat wrote:

mitchell is ridiculous.

And Callam is absolutely on fire.

@JHUBreaststroke06 wrote:

2 sub 19 swims at D1s. Cielo- 18.84. BWT- 18.98. The 2nd is an American Record. COngrats.

I’ll be at the D1 finals tonight, is anyone else going? We had two sub 19 here in 2005 as well. Must be the pool. 🙂

looks like a real fast meet so far. anyone else wish they were there to see it? the 500 was blazing. so was that time in the 200 free relay from kenyon, 19.7 is mighty quick….. so much for breaking the streak.

did anyone at the meet happen to see/want to comment on the relay takeoffs? some splits in the 200 relay looked kinda slow compared to flat start 50’s… were they being safe?

@The Treat wrote:

i scored emory, denison and kenyon after day 1 (very quickly done, might have errors).

Kenyon 150
emory 147
denison 84

How does this compare to where they should have been based on the psyche sheet? I was just comparing the psyche to prelims and it seemed like there were some great swims all three (Gosselar in the IM[k], Ulrich in the 500[d], Bobo in the IM[e]) as well as a few setbacks (Kenyon’s 400 MR, Peterson’s 500, Emory’s 200 FR). If Kenyon continues to step up like they have so far I expect they’ll win, but maybe that’s an illusion because of a few really good performances. Also:
@DonCheadle wrote:

I agree with the sentiment, Kenyon has a lot more room to score more points. Denison probably needs a relay DQ to pull this out.

How does the 400 MR DQ impact the meet? After a great morning performance will this damper their attitude between sessions and slow them down tonight? Will it just make them more determined the rest of the way?

@The Treat wrote:

@miller wrote:

The results are still showing all those DQs in the 400MR.

Is that real???

looks like it. i scored emory, denison and kenyon after day 1 (very quickly done, might have errors).

Kenyon 150
emory 147
denison 84

I tried to get everone scored, I also did it real quick, but it should be pretty close. As of prelims I have.

1. Kenyon 146
Emory 146
3. Denison 113
4. Williams 84
5. Johh Hopkins 79
6. Gustavus 74
7. Stevens Point 59
8. Grove City 54
9. Washington and Lee 51
10. St. Olaf 42
11. MIT 26
12. Lacrosse 25
13. Westimister 23
14. Hope
TCNJ 18
16. Wheaton (MA)
Careleton 17
18. Merchant Marine 15
19. U.C Santa Cruz 14
Kalamazoo 14
21. NYU 9
22. Washington U 6
Redland 6
24. Tufts 5
Case Western 5
26. Coast Gaurd 4
27. Depauw 3
28. Wesleyan 2

Emory is swimming great, Kenyon is on fire. Let’s not forget, Kenyon scores more points on Day 3 than most teams will score period, that’s their day, so to be doing this now, with a relay dq’d, wow.

Going into the night session, prelims predicts:

1. Kenyon 146
1.Emory 146
3.Denison 113
Williams 84
4.John Hopkins 79
5.Gustavus 74
6.Stevens Point 59
7.Grove City 54
8.Washington and Lee 51
9.St. Olaf 43
10.Occidental 37
11.TCNJ 30
11.U.C Santa Cruz 30
13.MIT 26
14.Lacrosse 25
15.Westimister 23
16.RPI 23
17.Hope 18
18.Wheaton (MA) 17
18.Carleton 17
18.SUNY Oswego 17
21.Merchant Marine 15
21.Rowan 15
22.Kalamazoo 14
22.RIT 14
24.NYU 9
25.SUNY Potsdam 7
26.Washington U 6
26.Redlands 6
26.CMS 6
29.Tufts 5
29.Case Western 5
29.SUNY Fredonia 5
32.Coast Gaurd 4
33.Depauw 3
33.Middlebury 3
35.Wesleyan 2

so why was kenyon dqed in the 400 medley??

did the breaststroker jump? cuz if not thats a good time

Kenyon holds on in the 200 FR. Washington and Lee 1:21.6 wow. Mitchell 19.57 holy smokes. Courage 19.68.

Zarin’s jumped in the medley. Anyone know what happened to the Oshkosh diver?

@stokes wrote:

Zarin’s jumped in the medley. Anyone know what happened to the Oshkosh diver?

Amazingly, and scary, he went off the board weird doing a twister and hit the wall with his head. Hopefully he’s alright.

Interesting that Steen called yesterday’s morning “in 31 years this morning was the absolute best” Man too bad about the dq. That was one helluva session for them.

The Oshkosh diver is fine … some bruising, concussion, and stitches. He’s out of the hospital and back at his hotel.

@bigdogracing wrote:

The Oshkosh diver is fine … some bruising, concussion, and stitches. He’s out of the hospital and back at his hotel.

Thank goodness – nothing scarier than a diver hitting the deck on a dive. Hopefully he doesn’t have any long term problems from this – and from the sounds of what you’re saying I mean that he will be able to dive again without fear.