Cal Men Pick Up Two New Qualifiers at Last-Chance Meet (Full Last Chance Reports)

Ohio State Last Chance Meet

  • Indiana’s Nicholas Schwab swam a 4:18.70 in the 500 freestyle in prelims, and though he couldn’t better that in finals, that bumps him to 29th in the country and squarely on the bubble in the 500 free. Pulling out guys who are unlikely to swim the race (Florida’s Sebastien Rousseau is the obvious one) makes his situation look even stronger.
  • Louisville’s Carlyle Blondell only matched his season-best in the 50 free with a 19.88, but in the 100 free prelims he was a 42.79. That moves him up to 13th in the country, which will put him into NCAA’s individually.
  • Notre Dame’s Cameron Miller swam a 1:55.46 in the 200 breaststroke. That ranks him 22nd in the country this year, and will ensure him a spot at the NCAA Championships.

Meet results available here (temporarily).

Georgia Tech Last Chance Meet

  • North Carolina’s Brett Nagle swam a 15:02.26 in the 1650 free. That ranks him 28th in the country this year, which should put him on the right side of the bubble.
  • Cal’s Fabio Gimondi swam a 42.8 in the 100 free, which puts him in the top 20 in the country and will send him to NCAA’s. See why this time didn’t count here.
  • Cal’s Ben Hinshaw was a 1:44.7 in the 200 IM, which will put him at 22nd in the country, and into NCAA’s.
  • Florida State’s Josh Friedel was a 1:42.8 in the 200 back, which moves him from the wrong side of the bubble (31st) to the right side (25th) and into NCAA’s.
  • Georgia Tech’s Eric Chiu has become their only NCAA qualifier with a 46.4 in the 100 fly. That ranks him in the top 20 in the country.

American Short Course Championships (Austin)

  • The Texas men’s 200 free relay swam a 1:18.87, which is a provisional standard after going just 1:21.00 at Big 12’s. Because they have an automatic qualifying time in the 800 free relay, that means that they can enter this 200 free relay as well now.
  • Texas’ Tripp Cooper swam a 46.70 in the 100 fly, which puts him 27th in the country (adding in Chiu’s swim from Atlanta, which is not yet in the database), which should put him into NCAA’s.
  • Texas’ Cole Cragin swam a season-best of 47.04 in the 100 backstroke, which ranks him 35th in the country. There are a few “scratch” candidates ahead of him (Vlad Morozov, for example) but that probably leaves him without an NCAA individual qualification.
  • Texas’ Patrick Murphy swam a 1:41.92 in the 200 back. That puts him 14th in the country, and if his t-28th in the 100 wasn’t good enough, this swim will surely put him in to NCAA’s. Kip Darmody was 1:43.25 in that same race, which was a season-best. His 100 back from Big 12’s should have him comfortably in, though.
  • Andrew Torres from Denver was a 1:44.87 in the 200 fly, which puts him 33rd in the country. That probably leaves him out of NCAA’s, but there is an outside chance. Even two-tenths faster, with a slew of guys at 1:44’s, would’ve made him a lot more comfortable.
  • Texas A&M’s Omar Enriquez swam a 15:03.38 in the 1650 free. That puts him 31st in the country (with Nagle’s swim), which puts him dead-on-top-of the bubble.

Meet results available here (temporarily).

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Swimswamswum
11 years ago

Fabio Gimondi’s 100 free time (42.83) has been removed from the top times list. Conspiracy? What’s going on here?

Swim3057
Reply to  Swimswamswum
11 years ago

It is possible that Gimondi participated in two last chance meets. Under NCAA rules, you are limited to one last chance meet and if you participate in more than one times from the first competition are used and those from the second last chance meet are negated. So if Gimondi swam on March 3rd in a last chance meet and then again on 3/9-3/10 the 42.83 from GA Tech would be negated.

ole 99
11 years ago

Based on Braden’s info. for the Georgia Tech meet, I clear line 29 with 232. If the cap is 235 for swimmers, that obviously leaves 3 from line 30 to hash it out. I have Kevin Quinn (Columbia), Lovre Bilonic (St. Peter’s), and Jordan Wilimovsky (Northwestern) in based on tiebreakers. Here’s my calculation of lines 28 – 31 (with tiebreaker for line 30):

220 – Colley, Ben (UNC) Line – 28
221 – Hurley, Mike (Indiana) Line – 28
222 – Kron, Kristian (Univ of Utah) Line – 28
223 – Moore, Charlie (Texas) Line – 28
224 – Nagle, Brett (UNC) Line – 28
225 – Roberts, Cody (UNLV (M)) Line – 28
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ole 99
Reply to  ole 99
11 years ago

on my run, the last time in (i.e. line 29 except for 200 FL, 200 BR, and 1650 FR) for each event is as follows:

50 FR – 19.66
100 FR – 43.13
200 FR – 1:35.34
500 FR – 4:18.81
1650 FR – 15:03.07
100 BK – 46.95
200 BK – 1:43.03
100 BR – 53.37
200 BR – 1:56.08
100 FL – 46.74
200 FL – 1:44.78
200 IM – 1:45.03
400 IM – 3:46.39

ole 99
Reply to  ole 99
11 years ago

Two more stats before I shut down…

Invites by Year:
FR 45 19.1%
SO 66 28.1%
JR 68 28.9%
SR 56 23.8%
Total 235 100.0%

# of Top 10 seeds (individual only):
Michigan 21
Florida 14
California 12
Indiana 10
Auburn 8
Georgia 7
Arizona 6
Southern Cali 6
Texas 6
Florida St 4
Stanford 4
Tennessee 4

Huh?
Reply to  ole 99
11 years ago

Nerd… Thanks 🙂

Rafael
Reply to  ole 99
11 years ago

I can´t see the times at this PC, but isn´t Chiereguinni also a top 30 at 100 Fly? An event he probably won´t swim at all.. which would open a spot?

ole 99
Reply to  Rafael
11 years ago

His 100 fly time is 32nd, so it wouldn’t change anything.

jeantuehl
11 years ago

Gimondi’s 100 was 42.83 which ties him with Utah’s Soedel.

Webster
11 years ago

How many do you think they are going to take for the guys meet

swimlong
11 years ago

Texas also has an aggregate Automatic Qualifying Time in the 400 Medley Relay.

Webster
11 years ago

What’s the cut off number looking like for the guys meet?

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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