2019 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, March 27 – Saturday, March 30
- Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, Texas
- Prelims 10 AM / Finals 6 PM (Central Time)
- Defending champion: Texas (4x) (2018Â results)
- Day 4 prelims heat sheets
- Psych Sheet
- Live Stream
- Live results
Harvard’s Dean Farris continued his outstanding showing at the Men’s NCAA Championships on Saturday morning, becoming the fifth fastest performer in history in the 100 freestyle.
The junior clocked a time of 41.00, erasing his previous best of 41.42 and jumping from 14th to 5th. He qualified first into the A-final by over four-tenths of a second, followed by Bowe Becker (41.44) of Minnesota and Daniel Krueger (41.49) of Texas.
Farris was out in 19.62 and closed in 21.38.
The Atlanta natvie also tied Caeleb Dressel for the 11th fastest performance in history.
The top seed coming into the meet, Tate Jackson, missed earning a second swim altogether in 25th place. Farris came in seeded second. He also broke Jackson’s Pool Record of 41.06.
So far in the meet Farris has been on fire, setting a new American, NCAA, and U.S. Open Record in the 200 free (1:29.15 leading off the 800 free relay), winning the 100 back while becoming the #2 performer of all-time (43.66), and also placing sixth in the 50 free. Along with the final of the 100 free, he still has prelims and potentially finals of the 400 free relay remaining on his schedule.
Update: Farris led off Harvard’s prelim 400 free relay in 41.12, helping them advance to tonight’s consolation final in 11th.
ALL-TIME PERFORMERS, MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE
- Caeleb Dressel, 39.90
- Vladimir Morozov, 40.76
- Cesar Cielo, 40.92
- Michael Chadwick, 40.95
- Dean Farris, 41.00
- Ryan Held, 41.05
- Tate Jackson, 41.06
- Nathan Adrian, 41.08
- Blake Pieroni, 41.16
- Simonas Bilis, 41.18
Swimmer of the meet.
Crazy how he can be this quick in the 100 when he can just barely break 19 in the 50. Curious to see his splits
Just shut up already. Go to an incognito tab and do your thing or whatever. We don’t want to hear you
Agree he’s annoying… but he also might be on to something???
Not really. No one on that list is as fast in the 200 as he is. Closest is Pieroni who’s best 50 is 18.93 — just a hair slower than Farris. Chadwick is another who barely broke 18.
He has a shot to be first one to break 19/41/1:30
All these time drops are because of the new suits!! I thought you arent allowed to wear suits with 2 layers and now all the suits have them to trap air. This is getting unfair again! The NCAA should ban 2 layer tech suits or just jammers all together and have skill be the only factor!!. ANYWAYS Id LOVE to see those muscular guys go at it in speedos on the live stream 🙂
Excuse me, this is a Wendy’s.
If everyone is wearing the same suit why does it matter?
Why would it matter if everyone was wearing a Full body arena suit either Its because the suit is giving swimmers who can afford them an advantage over the poor swimmers
This is college swimming…. not an age group meet.
Every athlete on deck at this meet gets their tech suits for free as part of being on the athletic team so the “rich vs poor” argument doesn’t apply here. The suit you have just depends on the schools sponsors
What we really need is for everyone to have a copy of Johnny Weissmuller’s full body suit!
Fun hint, if you buy your mizuno on Ebay, you can get it for considerably less than the swimoutlet or mizuno website asking price
Don’t tell everyone our secrets!
Oh I know. 🙂