2019 Michigan Last Chance Meet
- March 5th-2019
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Meet Results (PDF)
The University of Michigan hosted a men’s Last Chance Meet mid-week on Tuesday, welcoming in a few swimmers from Pitt to ensure its validity as a bona fide meet.
There were no new times that appear to be fast enough to earn NCAA invites, though there were a few best times put on the board. Among those is Michigan junior Alex Martin, who swam a 1:45.30 in the 200 fly.
Martin has spent most of his focus on the 100 back, 200 back, and 100 fly this season, including swimming those 3 races at Big Tens. Rather than chasing a qualifying time at Big Tens in one of those races, however, he used the opportunity to swim a rested 200 yard fly, where he improved his lifetime best from 1:50.02 to 1:45.30.
For his freshman teammate Eric Storms, the drop was less dramatic, but still substantial: he improved his best in the 100 fly from 49.65 to 49.06.
The other significant result came in the 200 medley relay. There, the Pitt men swam a 1:26.85 in finals. At ACCs, they were 1:24.58, which misses the “A” cut in the event by .02 seconds. Even just a couple of days after the end of ACCs, Pitt wasn’t able to get back close to the cut time.
How are times looking out of the meeting in Austin today?
Nothing of note in prelims. Time Trials and finals are just starting now. It’s only a last chance meet this year.
What other last chance meets are going on today? Anything out of the acc? Sec? Big12?
I’ve been looking but haven’t found any. Miss the days where they had to publish them. There’s one at Purdue on Sunday.
Keep us posted. My calculations show 5 Texas swimmers who are borderline to make NCAAs unless they put up faster swims in Austin this week.
Scrap that, I was wrong