Townley Haas

2018 Santa Clara Pro Swim Series: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

Chase Kalisz will take on the 200 fly/200 IM double on day 3 of the TYR Pro Swim Series in Santa Clara.

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2018 Santa Clara Pro Swim Series: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

Ryan Lochte will take on the 200 back on day 2 in Santa Clara.

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2018-2019 NCAA Cut Times Released; 19.00 Is New 50 Free ‘A’ Cut

The NCAA has released its Division I qualifying standards for the 2018-2019 college season, including drastically-lowered B cuts and an A cut in the 50 free that has officially reached the 19-second barrier.

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2018 Santa Clara Pro Swim Series: Swim Squad Starter Projections

Caeleb Dressel and Ryan Lochte will be among the swimmers make their TYR Pro Series debuts in Santa Clara.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 75% Pick Dressel’s 17.63 As Most Impressive of NCAAs

In a shocking runaway of votes, SwimSwam voters overwhelmingly picked Caeleb Dressel’s 17.63 in the 50 free as the most impressive swim of men’s NCAAs. That that swim won the poll isn’t a surprise, but the winning margin might be. More than three-quarters of votes went to Dressel’s 50 – in fact, that event tallied ten times more votes than any of the other four events on the ballot.

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Hear What They Said: Top 30+ Quotes From Men’s 2018 NCAA’s (Video)

Hear the top quotes from the media scrum at the 2018 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

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2018 M. NCAAs: After None In 2017, Five Top-2 Seeds Missed The A-Final

Hugo Gonzalez missed a pair of A-finals in the 200 & 400 IM after coming in as the #1 seed.

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2018 NCAA Men’s Championships: Individual Breakdown

The 2018 men’s championships wrapped up last night so now it’s time to look at individual performances.

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Texas Longhorns Win 2018 NCAA Championships, 4th-Straight Victory

Townley Haas led the way for the Longhorns with two individual event victories, as they won their fourth-straight team title.

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And Then There Were Three: Scoring Outlook For Men’s NCAA Day 4

We started with five viable NCAA contenders, and although the meet isn’t over ’til it’s over, we’re effectively down to three contenders, barring any miracles. Let’s take a look at day 4 scoring chances for Indiana, Texas and Cal.

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2018 Men’s NCAA Championships: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

Indiana leads a brutally-close team battle, and also has several event title contenders tonight: among them Ian Finnerty (pictured) in the 100 breast and Blake Pieroni in the 200 free.

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Townley Haas on 1:29.5 200 Free National Title: “It means everything”

Texas’s Townley Haas wanted that American record back, apparently. The junior flew through the individual 200 free, breaking the two-day-old American record with a 1:29.50.

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2018 M. NCAA Day 3: Dressel’s Throwing Down Free Times on Butterfly

We try to put record-breaking swims by Dressel and Finnerty into context, along with some other thoughts from the third day of the 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships.

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Townley Haas Reclaims 200 Free Record in 1:29.50

The 200 free final at the 2018 Men’s NCAA Championships was much anticipated after Indiana’s Blake Pieroni cracked the 1:30 barrier in the 800 free relay. But tonight, Haas reclaimed the record, winning the title in 1:29.50. That took nearly a full second off his best time.

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