Watch Gretchen Walsh and Jordan Crooks Dominate The 50 Free At 2022 Tennessee Invite

Yanyan Li
by Yanyan Li 8

November 17th, 2022 College, National, News, Video

2022 TENNESSEE INVITATIONAL

On Thursday, day one of the 2022 Tennessee Invite ensued. If you missed the livestream of the meet, you can watch races from the finals session here, courtesy of the UVA Swimming YouTube Channel.

Some highlights from tonight’s session include Gretchen Walsh‘s 20.94 50 free, Jordan Crooks‘ 18.27 50 free, and Alex Walsh‘s 4:38.34 500 free.

WOMEN’S 200 FREE RELAY

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 1:28.43
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 1:29.21

Top 3:

  1. Virginia ‘A’ — 1:26.96
  2. UNC ‘A’ — 1:26.99
  3. Virginia ‘B’ — 1:27.30 (Gretchen Walsh 21.02 leadoff)

MEN’S 200 FREE RELAY

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 1:16.80
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 1:17.58

Top 3:

  1. Tennessee ‘A’ — 1:15.32 (Jordan Crooks 18.27 leadoff)
  2. Virginia ‘A’ — 1:15.67
  3. Michigan ‘A’ — 1:17.41

WOMEN’S 500 FREE

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 4:35.76
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 4:47.20
  • 2022 Invite Time: 4:43.08

Top 8:

  1. Alex Walsh, Virginia — 4:38.34
  2. Katie Crom, Michigan — 4:39.28
  3. Ella Nelson, Virginia — 4:41.92
  4. Aly Breslin, Tennessee — 4:42.78
  5. Kate McCarville, Tennessee — 4:43.15
  6. Lauren Wetherell, Tennessee — 4:44.95
  7. Kathryn Ackerman, Michigan — 4:46.26
  8. Riley Francis, Michigan — 4:50.76

MEN’S 500 FREE

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 4:11.40
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 4:22.35
  • 2022 Invite Time: 4:14.96

Top 8:

  1. Joaquin Vargas, Tennessee — 4:15.35
  2. Joey Tepper, Tennessee — 4:16.13
  3. Eduardo Moraes, Michigan — 4:17.81
  4. Patrick Hussey, UNC — 4:18.21
  5. Rafael Ponce de Leon, Tennessee — 4:19.05
  6. Louis Dramm, UNC — 4:20.34
  7. Jack Wright, UVA/Connor Hunt, Michigan — 4:23.94

WOMEN’S 200 IM

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 1:53.66
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 1:59.56
  • 2022 Invite Time: 1:56.85

Top 8:

  1. Josephine Fuller, Tennessee — 1:55.90
  2. Abby Harter, Virginia — 1:56.55
  3. Sara Stotler, Tennessee — 1:56.96
  4. Ellie Vannote, UNC — 1:57.07
  5. Letitia Sim, Michigan — 1:57.10
  6. Ella Bathurst, Virginia — 1:57.97
  7. Brooklyn Douthwright — 1:58.17
  8. Devon Kitchel, Michigan — 1:58.52

MEN’S 200 IM

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 1:41.22
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 1:46.52
  • 2022 Invite Time: 1:43.36

Top 8:

  1. Gal Cohen Groumi, Michigan — 1:43.67
  2. Noah Nichols, Virginia — 1:44.72
  3. Jared Daigle, Michigan — 1:45.14
  4. Kamal Muhammad, Virginia — 1:45.28
  5. Ansel Froass, Michigan — 1:45.82
  6. Noah Rutberg, UNC — 1:45.92
  7. Max Iida, Virginia — 1:47.35
  8. Nick Simons, Tennessee — 1:47.56

WOMEN’S 50 FREE

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 21.66
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 22.71
  • 2022 Invite Time: 22.16

Top 8:

  1. Gretchen Walsh, Virginia — 20.94
  2. Kate Douglass, Virginia — 21.46
  3. Grace Countie, UNC — 21.68
  4. Maxine Parker, Virginia — 21.86
  5. Olivia Neil, UNC — 22.03
  6. Mona McSharry, Tennessee — 22.15
  7. Greer Pattison, UNC — 22.22
  8. Lindsay Flynn, Michigan — 22.28

MEN’S 50 FREE

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 18.88
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 19.82
  • 2022 Invite Time: 19.28

Top 8:

  1. Jordan Crooks, Tennessee — 18.60
  2. Gui Caribe, Tennessee — 18.91
  3. Matt King, Virginia — 19.15
  4. Matt Brownstead, Virginia — 19.20
  5. Bence Szabados, Michigan — 19.43
  6. Jack Aikins, Virginia — 19.60
  7. Aleksey Tarasenko, Tennessee — 19.64
  8. Cam Peel, Michigan — 19.88

WOMEN’S 400 MEDLEY RELAY

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 3:31.38
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 3:33.54

Top 3:

  1. Virginia ‘B’ — 3:29.15
  2. Tennessee ‘A’ — 3:30.55
  3. UNC ‘A’ — 3:30.84

MEN’S 400 MEDLEY RELAY

  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 3:04.95
  • NCAA ‘B’ Cut: 3:06.84

Top 3:

  1. Tennessee ‘A’ — 3:03.77
  2. Virginia ‘A’ — 3:04.51
  3. Tennessee ‘B’ — 3:06.39

 

 

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ArtVanDeLegh10
2 years ago

Since we now recognize fastest in season times, we should also recognize fastest individual legs of the IM. Noah Nichols split 27.7 in the breast in his IM which I believe is the fastest breast split ever. I’m pretty sure Will Licon split 27.9 his sr year and Lasco split 27.9 last year.

Also I could be wrong but I believe the fastest relay splits for the 400 MDR – 100 fly, 100 breast, and 100 free are all slower than the fastest flat start times.

Dressel 42.8 – no one has been faster on a relay

Finnerty 49 mid – I don’t think anyone has split faster than that either

Dressel 39.9 – I don’t think he’s… Read more »

Grant Drukker
Reply to  ArtVanDeLegh10
2 years ago

I’ll have to dig through some results, but I know someone has split 27.50 before. Might’ve been 2019 A-final where like 5 swimmers went sub 1:40

Grant Drukker
Reply to  Grant Drukker
2 years ago

Checked the last 5 years and couldn’t find it. Thought maybe it was Cody Miller, but didn’t see anything from his career at B10s or NCAAs. I know there was some other breaststroker that sat back and then had a sub 28 split.

ArtVanDeLegh10
Reply to  Grant Drukker
2 years ago

I follow results pretty closely and I can only think of those 3 going sub 28. Maybe I missed a swim, though. Hopefully someone else can tell us both.

poolboy
Reply to  ArtVanDeLegh10
2 years ago

Only other split that I remember being close was Andrew Wilson in 2017 going 28.1 at D3 NCAAs

Marmot
2 years ago

Alex Walsh is straight HER. She’s got that Thanos “…fine I’ll do it myself” attitude. Impressive 500. And it’s mid-November.

Boxall's Railing
2 years ago

7 strokes down, 8 strokes back – did I see that right? For both Crooks and Walsh!?

VFL
2 years ago

GUI

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Although Yanyan wasn't the greatest competitive swimmer, she learned more about the sport of swimming by being her high school swim team's manager for four years. She eventually ventured into the realm of writing and joined SwimSwam in January 2022, where she hopes to contribute to and learn more about …

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