Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss the new changes to the NCAA Championship format, recap last weeks college swimming, and preview the upcoming World Cup stop in Carmel, Indiana.
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Coleman Hodges
Coleman started his journey in the water at age 1, and although he actually has no memory of that, something must have stuck. A Missouri native, he joined the Columbia Swim Club at age 9, where he is still remembered for his stylish dragon swim trunks. After giving up on …
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Coleman hating on the 25 metre freestyle but loving all short course yard swims that hardly have any “swimming” is an interesting take.
@DavidClossey you are incorrect that Diving points are scored from prelims. The consols always competed before the beginning of the final’s session.
Getting rid of B finals to make the meet (tv) viewer friendly is a red herring.
NCAAs for D1 men already has the shortest sessions of any major competition.
You’re not sitting through more than a half-dozen heats of any event, and there are no slow swimmers.
And no one who’s not a hard core swim fan is watching the obscure ESPN broadcast of the meet anyway. So there’s no one to complain the broadcast sessions are too long.
Try the following instead: dump Ambrose, and add Beisel. Run the meet on ESPN 1, 2 or U, live. Actually run some ads for the meet (weeks or even months) in advance, on 1, 2 or U. Then evaluate.
Change can feel major but we usually adjust and settle in … or change it back, which seldom occurs unless huge problem agreed by large majority..
Till the late ’60s, only 6 places scored;
Late ’60s consolation finals (through 12th) were added.
Further expansion occurred in mid- ’70s, with 8 in finals and 8 in consols.
Along the way 4×50 relays (Medley and Free) were added, as well as Tower dive event; Meet was expanded from 3 days to 3.5 days; new program adds another half-day.
Another historical item:
-Back then (late ’60s), the winner of an event
at D2 or D3 was allowed to come and compete in that event at the D1 meet.
-Not completely sure, but, I think that
opportunity disappeared in the late 1980s).
-I was swimming AAU Nationals when the
consolation were added. One of my more
polite names was “constipation finals.”
-Yes, it will be an interesting 2025-2026
season wuth ALL of these experimental
changes. Remember: DIVING MATTERS!
Except in Virginia
Amen, Mark!
Point of interest in Indiana, Texas A&M, USC and UCLA is that there are only three men’s teams as UCLA has none. Unusual to see them competing in a ‘mixed’ meet.
3/4 of that meet is a classic big ten matchup!
Coleman: from Wikipedia: “Dressel attended Clay High School in Green Cove Springs, Florida, and trained with the Bolles School Sharks in Jacksonville.”
He did NOT GO to Bolles School. He trained there.
Apologies if this question has already been answered elsewhere. Any word on whether conferences are considering adopting the same order of events for their conferene championships?
No word yet. I don’t think we’ve even received the official report of the changes.
How about one selected stroke 50 per World Cup meet? 50 Fly one meet; 50 Back in next, etc.