2024 UAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
- February 14-17, 2024
- SCY (25 yards)
- Chicago, Illinois
- Meet Mobile: “2024 UAA Swimming & Diving Championships”
- Live Results
MEN’S RECAP
The NYU men kicked off the night with a win as Connor Vincent won the 1650 free in a 15:28.67 to win by over eight seconds. Vincent won the event at UAAs a year ago and went on to finish 3rd in the event at NCAAs.
Derek Maas continued the momentum as he won the 200 backstroke in a 1:42.40 to set a new UAA record. Maas was out in a 49.99 at the 100 mark. His swim broke the previous UAA record that stood at a 1:44.61 that WashU’s Alex McCormick swam a year ago. McCormick was faster than his old record here as he swam a 1:43.30 for 2nd. Maas notably was primarily a breaststroke as an undergrad at Alabama but swam the backstroke events at UAAs.
Emory picked up their first win of the night as Nick Goudie won the 100 free in a 44.23 and battled UChicago’s Sebi Vernhes who touched in a 44.32.
Jake Meyer also picked up a win for Emory as he touched in a 1:56.54 in the 200 breast. Meyer won the 100 breast at 2023 NCAAs and was second in the 200.
UChicago had a strong showing to finish the meet as they tried to pass NYU in the team standings. Cooper Costello won the 200 fly in a 1:45.27 breaking Jesse Ssengonzi‘s UAA record that Ssengonzi swam a year ago (1:45.32, UChicago). UChicago also won the final event of the meet as their 400 free relay touched in a 2:57.00. Vernhes anchored in a 42.93, the fastest split of the field.
Final Scores:
- Emory 1711
- NYU 1431
- UChicago 1348.5
- Carnegie Mellon 1202
- WashU 1105
- Case Western 812.5
- URochester 509
- Brandeis 393
WOMEN’S RECAP
Emory started the night strong as they had a 1-2-3 finish in the 1650 free. Sloane Donovan led the way touching in a 16:50.52 to win by over 10 seconds ahead of teammate Morgan Main who touched in a 17:00.83. Donovan defended her title from a year ago.
The Emory women had a strong showing in the 200 backstroke with a 1-2-3 finish. Megan Jungers led the way swimming a 1:59.64. Jungers took back the title after winning the event in 2022.
Freshman Katie Cohen touched first in the 200 breast swimming a 2:17.42 to touch ahead of Emory teammate Fiona Arwood who swam a 2:18.06.
After already earning two wins, Kaley McIntyre of NYU won the 100 free on the final night in a 49.47 to break the UAA record. The previous record stood at a 49.72 set just last year by Emory’s Caroline Maki. McIntyre did not swim the event a year ago as she instead swam the 200 back.
The NYU women also picked up another win as Caitlin Marshall won the 200 fly in a 1:59.41 to finish ahead of UChicago’s Alesha Kelly who touched in a 1:59.76. Kelly had a strong final 50 but came up just short.
UChicago and Emory battled it out to close the night in the 400 free relay. UChicago was third heading into the final leg but a big 49.80 split by Karen Zhao moved them ahead of Emory and NYU.
Final Scores:
- Emory 1744
- UChicago 1574
- NYU 1482
- WashU 1162
- Case Western 943.5
- Carnegie Mellon 850
- URochester 468.5
- Brandeis 384
Derek certainly played a large part, but the NYU men stepped up as a whole. Moved up from 5th last year to 2nd this year. With a strong group of returners and one of the best recruits in D3 history coming in next year, this seems to be their norm going forward.
Agreed! NYU has a lot of fast returning swimmers for next year, especially a deep freshman class!
Who is the new recruit?
Crazy fast meet, very interesting how the men’s side balances the double taper as the top 6 teams all will have multiple individual qualifiers and likely relays as well at NCAAs. Derek obviously stole the show but it was an extremely deep meet showing the wave of talent coming to division 3. Pretty much every event on the men’s side is seconds faster than just two years ago and you have freshman and sophomores going times that would final at power 5 conference meets. I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again, the top tier of Division 3 men’s swimming is becoming full of talented individuals on a strong improvement curve at the end of high school looking… Read more »
Jeff Echols and Jason Starbuck are #1 in our hearts.
Fun meet. Surprising to see a few top swimmers go PBs here when they can just train through for NCAAs. Overall I think this solidified Emory’s mens place as the heavy favorite going into NCs, yet again. I haven’t scored it or anything but the number of individual scoring level swims on their roster seems a lot higher than anyone else. I was sort of hoping for a bad year for them only because if they were slightly slower then you might actually have like a 5-8 team race for a national title, which would just be wild. But it’ll still be a very tight pack in spots 2-8 from what I can tell.
Women’s side is slightly less packed,… Read more »
Derek Maas definitely has to be one of the more successful people I have ever met. Elite 90 winner, DI All-American, SEC Champ, now attends one of the best med schools in the country. On top of that, he continues to pursue his passion for swimming at a high level. People hate on a guy like him for “dunking on DIII”, but he is a class act and an all around great dude.
Not only all of that, but is crushing it doing a completely different stroke than his formerly specialty!
The username SwimMaxxing is an appropriate name to also describe Derek. As an outstanding career at Alabama, get’s into a top medical school, continues to swim. Chad.
Couldn’t agree more. I think it’s very reasonable for Derek to spend his 5th year doing what he loves and doing it well.
Maas passed Kosian to become the #2 swimmer in D3 history in the 2 back
He was actually already faster (1:42.7 from the fall). But Im still not quite sure why he’s doing backstroke at all tbh rather than breast
Wouldve loved to see him race Meyer
The combination of him on back with their 54.xy breaststroker makes more sense for the medleys than his breaststroke and the other backstroker.