Cal Men on Breaking 6:00 Barrier in 800 Free Relay: “(Dave Durden) Spoke that into existence”

2025 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

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.

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Thomas The Tank Engine
2 days ago

Destin Lasco is an articulate snack. 🥰

Last edited 2 days ago by Thomas The Tank Engine
4 kick pullout
2 days ago

It says video unavailable for me

IU Swammer
3 days ago

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.

Last edited 3 days ago by IU Swammer
Chat09
Reply to  IU Swammer
3 days ago

Chat… No doubt about it

Meeeee
Reply to  IU Swammer
3 days ago

Or even 5:58!

Observor
Reply to  IU Swammer
2 days ago

Maybe 5:58…

Woods
3 days ago

Walking, or pushing off the bottom constitutes a disqualification, I believe that’s a rule.

IU Swammer
Reply to  Woods
3 days ago

There’sa good video from the other side that shows he didn’t push off the bottom.

Anti fan club or something
Reply to  Woods
3 days ago

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

Admin
Reply to  Anti fan club or something
3 days ago

Yeah any implication of a plan is silly given he left the block first and came up 2nd lol.

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