Ricky Berens was swimming for a 200 split on his 500 freestyle on Thursday at the American Short Course Championships; so naturally during his 200 free prelims on Friday he was swimming for a 100 split. Make sense?
Berens’ hokey schedule was the result of scheduling problems as he flies out this afternoon to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of fellow Olympic Champion Matt Grevers. He made sure to get some quality yards racing in before leaving though (not an opportunity many elite swimmers get).
Berens ended up splitting a lifetime best of 41.90 in the 100 freestyle on Friday, which is the fastest time of his career by four-tenths of a second. That’s well off of Nathan Adrian’s American Record of 41.08, though surely Berens will be satisfied with that time in March.
On Thursday, he broke the American Record in the 200 free. Read about that swim, and watch the video, here.
The true purpose of this meet is as a last-chance collegiate event, though it is sanctioned to have both NCAA and club swimmers can participate. On the front of trying to achieve NCAA qualifying times, through three sessions at least it’s been fairly sluggish.
Since you mentioned the fact that the meet is being used as a last chance qualification for NCAA’s I figure this is as good a place as any for me to leave an update of my “bracketology”. I updated yesterday’s USA Swimming’s Top Times (to 45 positions) with the Ivy League Championship results as it doesn’t appear they have been reported/posted on the top times otherwise.
230 swimmers invited through line 30. 8 swimmers at line 31 (with a tie in the tiebreaker for the last spot). Swimmers currently at line 28 – 31 are as follows (with tiebreaker % for line 31):
215 -Brumm, Pete (Michigan) - 28 -
216 – Ferguson, Stuart (Auburn) - 28 -
217 – Friedel, Josh (Florida St) - 28 -
218 – Stephens, Chase (Northwestern) - 28 -
219 – Wilimovsky, Jordan (Northwestern) - 28 -
220 – Bilonic, Lovre (St. Peter’s) - 29 -
221 – Blondell, Caryle (Louisville) - 29 -
222 – Coetzer, Stephen (NC State) - 29 -
223 – Frank, Simon (Texas A&M) - 29 -
224 – Hurley, Mike (Indiana) - 29 -
225 – Knight, Connor (Florida St) - 29 -
226 – Moore, Charlie (Texas) - 29 -
227 – Stilley, Jt (UNC) - 29 -
228 – Cooper, Tripp (Texas) - 30 -
229 – Szele, David (UNLV (M)) - 30 -
230 – Yildirimer, Ediz (Georgia) - 30 -
231 – Van Duijn, Nico (Georgia Tech) - 31 – 0.958734394
232 – Duckitt, Kyle (Michigan) - 31 – 0.958526932
233 – Stephens, Thomas (Stanford) - 31 – 0.955574183
234 – Nelson, Ryan (Wyoming (M)) - 31 – 0.950490692
235 – Gustafson, Aaron (Texas) - 31 – 0.949340145
235 – Karpov, Nick (Southern Cali) - 31 – 0.949340145
237 – Weir, Caleb (Texas) - 31 – 0.947441537
238 – Robinson, Cooper (TX Christian) - 31 – 0.945084746
There is a tie of the tiebreaker between Gustafson and Karpov for the last spot since both have the same time in 100 back.
Key Assumptions:
- Elliott, Matt (Florida) – Listed in both 400 IM and 100 BR, removed from 400 IM.
- Hamilton, Will (Cal Berkeley) – Listed in both 500 FR and 200 IM. Removed from 200 IM
- Hill, Dax (Texas) – Listed in both 200 FR and 100 BR. Removed from 100 BR
- Morozov, Vladimir (Southern Cali) – Listed in both 100 BK and 100 BR. Removed from 100 BK
- Nolan, David (Stanford) – Listed in both 200 IM and 50 FR (Day 1). Removed from 50 FR. Listed in both 200 BK and 100 FR (Day 3). Removed from 100 FR
- Ortiz, Miguel (Michigan) – Listed in both 100 FL and 100 BR. Removed from 100 FL
- Quintero, Cristian (Southern Cali) – Listed in both the 1650 FR and 100 FR. Removed from 100 FR
- Rairden, Sam (Tennessee) – Listed in 100 FL, 100 BK and 200 FR. Removed from 200 FR
- Ress, Eric (Indiana) – Listed in 200 FR and 100 BK. Removed from 200 FR
- Rousseau, Sebastien (Florida) – Listed in both 500 FR and 200 IM (Day 1). Removed from 500 FR. Listed in 400 IM, 200 FR and 100 FL (Day 2). Removed from 200 FR and 100 FL
- Shields, Tom (Cal Berkeley) – Listed in 100 FL, 100 BK and 200 FR. Removed from 200 FR
- Tarczynski, Marcin (Cal Berkeley) – Listed in 100 FL and 100 BK. Removed from 100 BK
- Wayne, Aaron (Stanford) – Listed in both 200 FR and 100 FL. Removed from 200 FR
- Weiss, Michael (Wisconsin) – Listed in both 200 FR and 400 IM. Removed from 200 FR
- Fletcher, Sean (Michigan), Grier, Sean (Penn St), Jarzen, Jacob (Mich St), Mosley, Logan (Missouri), Rairden, Sam (Tennessee), and Shields, Tom (Cal Berkeley) all entered for potential double on Day2 (although Mosley’s time in one event is below the cut off)