College Meet Round Up 11/19/15-11/22/15

This weekend’s invites saw standard setting swimming across the nation. Here are a few of the highlights from four of this weekend’s big meets, in case you missed them:

Georgia Tech Invite

Ben Southern, Georgia Tech (Courtesy: Georgia Tech Athletics)

At the Georgia Tech Invite, competition was in long course- giving swimmers the opportunity to hit their Olympic Trials cuts. At the meet, there were thirteen swims that were under the Omaha standard. Four of those were from Americans. These included Georgia Alum’s Maddie Locus (50 free, 25.79), as well as the Alabama trio Mia Nonnenberg (400 IM, 4:52.75),  Luke Kaliszak (100 back, 56.44), and Alex Gray (200 free, 1:51.76).

The final team scores saw the Alabama men on top, while their women were second to Arkansas. The host team, Georgia Tech, came third in the men’s competition and fifth in women’s:

The Ohio State Invitational

University of Florida (Courtesy: Gatorzone)

This weekend at the Ohio State Invitational, prelims were swum in long course meters, while finals were swum in short course yards. Throughout the weekend, there were over forty swims that were within the Olympic Trials qualifying times. One of the stand-out’s from the meet was Caleb Dressel‘s 50 free. He touched in 18.77, just 1/10 slower than he was when he won NCAA’s last year. This time marks the first sub-19 swim in the NCAA this year. Here are how the team scores shook out:

Louisville Invite

Louisville Swimming (Courtesy: Louisville Athletics)

Kelsi Worrell and the Louisville Cards shone this past weekend when they hosted the Louisville Invite.  Worrell lowered the meet and pool record in the 200 IM (1:56.75), as well as posted the top time in the 50 free (21.97).  For the Louisville men, Nolan Tesone broke his own pool record in the 200 IM (1:44.94) achieving a B cut. Teammates Josh Quallen, Jonathan Zucha, David Boland, and Grigory Tarasevich all touched within the B standard. Both the men’s and women’s teams for Louisville came out on top for the weekend:

Louisville Invite
Men’s Teams	Score	Women’s Teams	Score
Louisville	2461	Louisville	2067.5
Wright Stae	1500	Ohio University	1457
Kenyon	1146	Illinois State	1131
		Kenyon	1079.5
		Wright State	734

Nike Cup

NC State Swimmer (Courtesy: Chris Tanouye)

One of the stand out swimmers at this meet was NC State’s Hennessey Stuart. He hit the “A” qualifying bench march in the prelims of the 200 back on Saturday morning- touching in 1:40.22. Stuart did not compete in the finals of the 200 back, allowing UNC’s Nic Graesser to get the win in 1:46.41. Stuart was a little over a second off the “A” cut in the 100 back in both the prelims and the finals. But he was well under the “B” standard in the event. Another notable absence from the meet was NC State’s Simonas Bilis,  who missed the first two days of the meet, going on to only swim a relay on day 3. Below are the team scores:

 

Nike Cup
Men’s Team	Score	Women’s Team	Score
Duke	1721	UNC	1815
NC State	1545.5	Duke	1769
UNC	1434	Yale	1519
Navy	1297	NC State	1328.5
Yale	1038.5	East Carolina	698.5
East Carolina	905	Marshall	661.5
Old Dominion	593	Old Dominion	551.5
Clemson	195
James Madison	49

Art Adamson Invite

Beryl Gastaldello. Courtesy of Texas A&M S&D

Texas A&M hosted its annual Art Adamson Invite, bringing powers like Stanford, Utah, LSU and Arizona State to College Station for one of the weekend’s biggest meets.

Individually, Stanford freshman Ella Eastin put up some of the biggest numbers, particularly a 4:01.04 in the 400 IM that would have won last year’s NCAA title. Utah won the men’s title, led by three wins from Bence Kiraly, and Texas A&M took the women’s meet, getting an A cut of 21.86 in the 50 free from Beryl Gastaldello.

 

Art Adamson Invite
Men’s Team	Score	Women’s Team	Score
Utah	838	Texas A&M	1166
Texas A&M	777.5	Stanford	833
Air Force	701	LSU	572.5
LSU	652	Boise State	340.5
ASU	419	Utah	326
SMU	308	San Diego State	243
TCU	177.5	SMU	174
BYU	2	ASU	130
		Nebraska	53
		TCU	36