Jordan Crooks Splits 18.90 50 Fly To Become First Swimmer Sub-19 On Relay

Yanyan Li
by Yanyan Li 29

February 14th, 2023 ACC, College, National, News

2023 SEC SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

MEN’S 200 MEDLEY RELAY — FINALS

  • NCAA Record: 1:21.13, Florida – 2022 NCAA Championships
  • SEC Record: 1:21.13, Florida – 2022 NCAA Championships
  • SEC Championship Record: 1:22.06, Florida — 2022
  • NCAA ‘A’ Cut: 1:23.76

On Tuesday, Tennessee’s Jordan Crooks became the first swimmer to ever split sub-19 in the 50 fly on a relay, going 18.90 to help Tennessee run down Florida and claim the SEC title in the 200 medley relay.

Before Crooks dove in the water, Tennessee was trailing Florida by 0.48 seconds. After Crooks’ leg, Tennessee had a 0.53-second lead over Florida, and Gui Caribe held on as anchor to help secure the win for the Vols.

Prior to today, the fastest 50 fly splits of all time were recorded by Joseph Schooling and Eric Friese, who both went 19.36—a time that is 0.46 seconds slower than what Crooks just went.

TOP-10 ALL-TIME 50-YARD FLY SPLITS

  1. Jordan Crooks, Tennessee — 18.90
  2. Joseph Schooling, Texas/Eric Friese, Florida– 19.36
  3. –
  4. Andrei Minakov, Stanford – 19.42
  5. Dalton Lowe, Louisville – 19.50
  6. Blaise Vera, Pitt – 19.52
  7. Nyls Korstanje, NC State – 19.55
  8. Luca Urlando, Georgia – 19.57
  9. Dylan Carter, USC/ Cody Bybee, ASU– 19.60
  10. –
  11. Matt Targett, Auburn/ Chris Brady, Michigan – 19.66

Splits show that Crooks went out in a 8.28 and came home in 10.62.

Crooks’ fastest-ever 50 fly split prior to SECs was the 19.87 he swam at the 2022 Tennessee Invites. He has made huge jumps since last season, as less than a year ago, he had split 20.15 at 2022 NCAAs.

Tennessee’s Bjoern Kammann (21.07), Michael Houlie (23.03), Crooks, and Caribe (18.47) combined for a time of 1:21.43 to win the 200 medley relay SEC title, breaking Florida’s meet record time of 1:22.05 from last year’s meet.

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M L
1 year ago

Did Dressel ever swim a rested 50 fly in this relay?

Payton
1 year ago

Where can I watch this madness?

bubo
1 year ago

IT HAS OCCURRED

DoinB
1 year ago

Bro is a human missle wtf 😂😂😂

Bailey Ludden
1 year ago

So crooks is obv going 43low in the 1fly here or at NCAAs right?????

Octavio Gupta
1 year ago

Here’s the video

https://youtu.be/vC6QwbkPf1Y

Joel Lin
1 year ago

Epic.

Tree man
1 year ago

Was Caeleb never the main flyer for Florida Medley relays?

Reply to  Tree man
1 year ago

At least at NCAAs, usually did free. Fly in his freshman year with 20.10/20.11 splits. In 2018 did free and had the fastest split ever at 17.30 on the medley.

Bailey Ludden
Reply to  James Sutherland
1 year ago

Do we know what dressel was to the feet in that 17.3? I tried to look but didn’t see anything

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Although Yanyan wasn't the greatest competitive swimmer, she learned more about the sport of swimming by being her high school swim team's manager for four years. She eventually ventured into the realm of writing and joined SwimSwam in January 2022, where she hopes to contribute to and learn more about …

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