Penn’s Chris Swanson kicked the events off on Saturday evening with his school’s first-ever NCAA title in any men’s swimming or diving event. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com
The Stanford Cardinal, keeping the tradition of proving they can spell Stanford alive. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Josh Prenot finished 2nd to a Will Licon record in the 200 breaststroke. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Texas’ bench cheering on Townley Haas and Clark Smith in the 1650 free. They finished 4th and 12th, respectively. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Jack Conger was a second faster than the previous NCAA Record in the 100 fly, but that was still only good enough for 2nd place behind his teammate Joseph Schooling. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Eddie Reese’s 12th NCAA title made him the winningest coach in men’s NCAA Division I history. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Officials monitor the turns closely in the 200 breaststroke final. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Florida sophomore Caeleb Dressel completed his double, winning the 100 free in a new American Record of 40.46. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Caeleb Dressel behind the block preparing for the 100 free final. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Caeleb Dressel in the water after the 100 free final.
Caeleb Dressel celebrates after a new NCAA Record in the 100 free. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Cal teammates Ryan Murphy (left) and Jacob Pebley (right) finished 1-2 in the 200 back. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
More Eddie. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Joseph Schooling blew right past the 1:38s and to a 1:37.97 in the men’s 200 fly final.
Will Licon broke a record that was expected to stand a long time, and did it by half-a-second in the 200 breast (1:48.12). (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Joseph Schooling celebrates his record-setting win in the 200 fly. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
Ohio State diver Zhipeng Zeng came away as the platform champion on Saturday night. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
A view of the action from the Texas seats. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
The North Carolina State Wolfpack finished 4th in the team standings: their highest NCAA placing in 61 years. That included a meet-closing win from their 400 free relay. (Photo Courtesy: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)
The whole championship was amazing! Great swims by great swimmers. Kudo’s to the coaches for working their magic.
IT has been a long time since I watched NCAA DI from wire to wire, including all prelim sessions.
It was simply magnificent.
Now, the challenge remains: WHAT CAN THEY DO IN THE 50-METER POOL AND AT TRIALS!
That will, indeed, be an interesting next step. While transitioning has not always gone well, with the
speed shown here, I can’t help but the top dogs will do well @ OT.
Great photos!