2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
- March 26-29, 2025
- Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center, Federal Way, Washington
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- SwimSwam Pick’Em Contest
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Psych Sheet
- Day 1 Heat Sheets
- Day 1 Live Recap
The first night of competition in Federal Way ended with a massive record, seeing the Cal men not only break their own NCAA record in the 800 free relay but do so by over 2 seconds to become the first squad to dip under the 6:00 barrier. The Bears revealed that they had had this goal for quite some time now. Just before tonight’s finals session, head coach Dave Durden made it clear that he had faith that his team would be able to dip under the massive barrier.
Destin Lasco is an articulate snack. 🥰
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I think Henveaux would have been a second faster had he not messed up his start. Cal would have been 6:58! His splits from his middle hundred are pretty similar to Jett, Alexy, and Lasco, but his first and last 50 are significantly slower. So, I think he put a lot into that first 50 to make up for the start issue, and he was dying on the last 50. There’s obviously no way to know, but if Henveaux has good swims the rest of the meet, then in my mind forever, he would have been a 1:30.4 on that relay.
Chat… No doubt about it
Or even 5:58!
Maybe 5:58…
Walking, or pushing off the bottom constitutes a disqualification, I believe that’s a rule.
There’sa good video from the other side that shows he didn’t push off the bottom.
It is but awkward timing considering Henveaux didn’t. Watch the youtube video literally everyone linked.
The dumbest part about people commenting this is that it implies some master scheme by Cal to go faster than they would have otherwise. If you’re hitting the bottom of the pool at all, you’re not going in the fastest possible line. Pushing off the bottom isn’t going to save nearly as much time as people would like to think, which I’m not even suggesting that he did.
And then you get the “oh it was written all over his face” like real conclusive evidence guys. Low point in commenter IQ smh
Yeah any implication of a plan is silly given he left the block first and came up 2nd lol.