2022 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 23-26, 2022
- McAuley Aquatic Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia (Eastern Daylight Time)
- Prelims 10AM /Finals 6PM
- Short Course Yards (25 yards)
- Live Results
- Championship Central
- Event Page
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Official Psych Sheets
- Virtual Championship Program
- SwimSwam Pick Em’s Contest
- Qualified relay teams
200 IM
- NCAA Record: Caeleb Dressel (FLOR): 1:38.13
- NCAA Meet Record: Andrew Seliskar (CAL): 1:38.14
- American Record: Caeleb Dressel (FLOR): 1:38.13
- US Open Record: Caeleb Dressel (FLOR): 1:38.13
Pool Record: Will Licon (TEX): 1:40.04
Top 8 finishers:
- Destin Lasco (CAL): 1:38.71 (Pool Record)
- Leon Marchand (ASU): 1:38.83
- Carson Foster (TEX): 1:40.07
- Trenton Julian (CAL): 1:40.35
- Carles Coll Marti (VT): 1:40.45
- Hugo Gonzalez (CAL): 1:40.47
- Luca Urlando (UGA): 1:40.65
- Jake Foster (TEX): 1:40.91
I would call the 200 IM prelims this morning fast, but that honestly doesn’t feel like it does the situation justice. Where to start? Well, Cal sophomore Destin Lasco and Arizona State freshman Leon Marchand swam the #3 and #4 fastest times in history this morning. They also became just the 4th and 5th swimmers ever to go under 1:39 in the event. Here are the all-time top 10 performances in the SCY 200 IM:
| Rank | Time | Swimmer | Meet |
| 1 | 1:38.13 | Caeleb Dressel | 2018 SEC Champs |
| 2 | 1:38.14 | Andrew Seliskar | 2019 NCAA DI |
| 3 | 1:38.71 | Destin Lasco | 2022 NCAA DI |
| 4 | 1:38.83 | Leon Marchand | 2022 NCAA DI |
| 5 | 1:38.95 | Shaine Casas | 2020 Art Adamson Invitational |
| 6 | 1:39.26 | Shaine Casas | 2021 SEC Champs |
| 7 | 1:39.35 | Andreas Vazaios | 2019 NCAA DI |
| 8 | 1:39.38 | David Nolan | 2015 NCAA DI |
| 9 | 1:39.53 | Shaine Casas | 2021 NCAA DI |
| 10 | 1:39.54 | Jan Switkowski | 2018 NCAA DI |
The only thing left to do with these two is a split comparison between Caeleb Dressel‘s NCAA Record from 2018, and Andrew Seliskar‘s Pac-12 Record from 2019:
| Split | Caeleb Dressel – NCAA Record (2018 SECS) | Andrew Seliskar – Pac-12 Record (2019 NCAAs) | Destin Lasco – 2022 NCAAs Prelims | Leon Marchand – 2022 NCAAs Prelims |
| Fly | 21.03 | 21.58 | 22.22 | 21.43 |
| Back | 25.01 | 24.46 | 25.17 | 24.31 |
| Breast | 28.37 | 28.05 | 27.99 | 28.46 |
| Free | 23.72 | 24.05 | 23.33 | 24.63 |
| Final Time | 1:38.13 | 1:38.14 | 1:38.71 | 1:38.83 |
A couple of interesting things here. One, Marchand was out very fast. Even faster than Dressel’s NCAA Record swim through the first 150. Next, despite Lasco being one of the top backstrokers in the NCAA today, and someone many think could break the 200 back NCAA record lat er this week, he has the slowest back split out of the 4 swimmers listed above. Now that could be purposeful, because he has the fastest breast split of anyone in this group. There’s some chance, however, that it means Lasco could have a bit more in the tank for his backstroke leg in tonight’s race.
Outside of Lasco and Marchand, this was hands down the fastest 200 IM prelims we’ve ever seen at NCAAs. Caspar Corbeau swam a 1:40.98 and didn’t make the ‘A’ final. To put it in context, last year it took 1:42.21 in prelims to make the ‘A’ final, but this year 1:42.21 would have placed 16th, barely sneaking into the B final. Also, something we don’t often see in prelims of the 200 IM: the top 9 finishers this morning all swam season bests. For many, it was a career best.
Crazy CD is fastest ever and was unshaved
I think what’s scary is that a lot of these guys will be back next year this meet might go down to be one of the fastest in history
pardon my French (Mr Leon) but HOLY SHIT THATS FAST
Hope that Lesco can put up an upset for us Lesco pickers in the Pick’Em. Gonna be a very good race tonight
Idk man, Marchand looked really smooth.
Lasco CRUISED that back. Had the energy to back half that hard
This race is gonna give Bobo a heart attack. At least he’ll go happy…
His two favorite swimmers – Lasco and Marchand!
lasco (backstroker) casually outsplitting a 50.0 breastroker and 2 sub 1.50 2 breastrokers in the breast leg for the 2im
IM breaststroke is a completely different stroke than regular breaststroke
different rules
Destin may be a “backstroker” but he certainly does not have a weak stroke
Too bad Shaine was scared to race NCAAs this year because he would have gotten destroyed!!!