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100 BUTTERFLY – FINALS
- NCAA – 44.18 – Austin Staab, Stanford – 2009
- Championship – 44.18 – Austin Staab, Stanford – 2009
- American – 44.18 – Austin Staab – 2009
- US Open – 44.18 – Austin Staab – 2009
- 2014 Champion – Marcin Cieslak, Floria – 44.87
The 100 fly was the Texas Longhorn party, with 6 different Texas swimmers in the championship final. That amounted to 92 total points, as Longhorns went 1-2-3-4-6-8.
Sophomore Jack Conger led early, turning at 20.82 at the 50. But his freshman teammateJoseph Schooling ran him down, really picking up his stroke tempo over the final 50 yards to go 44.51. That’s the second-fastest time in history, and breaks a Texas school record held by legendary Olympian Ian Crocker.
Conger wound up second in 44.55, also breaking that school record. Conger is #3 in history. He’ll be back later tonight to swim the 100 back.
Senior Tripp Cooper nearly became just the fourth Longhorn ever under 45, taking third place in 45.06. Sophomore Will Glass rounded out the Longhorn 1-2-3-4 sweep in 45.56. That’s the first time any team has swept the top 4 spots in NCAA swimming history.
The top non-Longhorn was North Carolina’s Sam Lewis, who went 45.66 for fifth place.
Sixth was Matt Ellis in 46.12, and Texas’s final swimmer was 8th-place John Murray(46.72). In between was Ohio State’s Matt McHugh in 46.45. McHugh will also swim the 100 fly/100 back double, and is in the B final of the latter event, a big part of a huge day 2 for the Buckeyes.
In the consolation final, former Bolles School Sharks teammates Caeleb Dressel andSanto Condorelli dueled for the win. Dressel, now a freshman with Florida, beat out Condorelli, now a USC sophomore, 45.69 to 45.79 for 9th place. With Schooling also a Bolles alum, that means former Sharks swept both heats at the NCAA Championships.
As we expected, that race was pretty much a dagger swim for any team hoping to run down Texas for the team title. The Longhorns now lead Cal by a whopping 125 points, and it would take a major catastrophe for that lead to evaporate anytime soon.
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Schooling proves once again that you don’t have to be extremely tall or muscular (or even come from a big country!) to become a champion swimmer! Congratulations Joseph! 🙂
Some little details not mentioned in your comment above which makes your argument sounds a bit disingenuous (and this is in no way to diminish Schooling’s accomplishment, this is just to show a little perspective):
1. Schooling didn’t come from a big country, but his home country Singapore is a very rich country, and in fact Singapore’s per capita GDP is higher than USA’s. Let me know the next time a Nepal-trained Nepalese swimmer getting to world’s top 20 ranking. Or a Suriname swimmer winning an Olympics medal who is not trained in USA.
2. Schooling trained for a number of years with Bolles under one of world’s greatest coaches, and continued training for a year under an even… Read more »
Aswimfan, I don’t know why you felt it necessary to write your comment. Yes, it is true that shorter, less muscular swimmers than Joseph Schooling have become champions; however, since I did not state he was the shortest or least muscular swimmer to have EVER become a champion, your comment is essentially in agreement with mine on that point.
It is also true that Singapore is a comparatively wealthy country. My comment re: the small population of his country is only to point out that it doesn’t take an enormous, grass-roots program like that in the US to find and train a champion. Yes, Joseph had exceptional coaches, and as a result has been well-trained and demonstrates wonderful technique.… Read more »
Disingenuous is maybe not an appropriate word to use, but misleading certainly is, even if it is unintentional.
1. I am in agreement that you don’t have to be extremely strong or muscular to win international medals, even when using Schooling as an example is not ideal.
2. As for “the small population”, you said “did not come from a big country”, and this is where it is very misleading. First off, whats so special being from a small country? PLENTY swimmers from small countries have been Olympics champion, many are even poor countries, Coventry, Meilutyte, Nesty etc etc. It is also relatively easier to be a champion swimmer if you are physically talented, come from rich country, highly privileged,… Read more »
I am here to enjoy the wonderful reporting that Swimswam provides, and if possible to make friends with other fans of the sport I love. I am not here to argue.
It sounds like you have a personal issue with swimmers like Schooling who have had the priviledge to train under exceptional coaches. I don’t know anything about the financial situation of his family or how much money the government of Singapore is spending to support Joseph’s training. Indeed, he has been fortunate. There are many talented swimmers around the world who might be just as successful if they had the same opportunities. Perhaps you are even one of them.
I could go on to discuss: 1. Why there was… Read more »