VIDEO INTERVIEW: USMS champ Darian Townsend would love to see 100 IM added to NCAA lineup

Former South African Olympian Darian Townsend won the 100 IM at Masters Nationals in a new USMS record. He chats with SwimSwam’s Mike Lewis about that unique event in the video above, saying that he’d like to see the 100 IM more involved in U.S. Swimming, perhaps even added to the NCAA meet lineup.

Townsend seems to now have his sights set on the U.S. National Team, as he says American Pan Pac Trials will be his next major competition.

Video capture courtesy of Mike Lewis.

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cooperhodge
9 years ago

Vlad…. oh my god

cooperhodge
9 years ago

David Nolan??

aswimfan
9 years ago

100 IM is a great race for SCY.
Who among current NCAA swimmers that would dominate 100 IM?
Ryan Murphy?

Franklin?
Boostma?
Olivia Smoglia?

Reply to  aswimfan
9 years ago

I think Bootsma. Great power underwater and a good breaststroke (was the breaststroke leg on a NAG record if I recall)

A Guy
Reply to  aswimfan
9 years ago

Tran

Josa

A Guy
9 years ago

Caitlin Levernz
Katinka Hosszu

A Guy
9 years ago

Kevin Clement
Ryan Lochte
Eric Shanteau

Kirk Nelson
9 years ago

Steve Lundquist

Billy Howard
9 years ago

Neil Walker

Brendan Hansen (I believe he won the 100 IM at the Texas All-Star meet that floswimming had covered)

Gotta think Brian Retterer would have been good, though I don’t know about his Breaststroke

Aaron Peirsol

PK
Reply to  Billy Howard
9 years ago

Ian Crocker won that race with an illegal backstroke underwater, Adam Ritter got second (mods, I’ll toss the link in here, feel free to delete if necessary):
http://www.floswimming.org/coverage/234427-2008-Top-10-Floswimming-Videos/video/104332-9-The-All-Star-100-IM

In terms of the 100 IM, I always thought it’d be a neat thing to do as a swimmer of the meet type dealio at NCAAs (pick the top 6 or 8 guys or girls and have them race it after the 4free relay) but with the schedule the way it is, it’d be really rough on the swimmers. Maybe the last day at short course nats in the winter, with some type of points system to earn your way into the race followed by… Read more »

9 years ago

OK. Let’s do this… who in the NCAA past would have been great 100 IMers???

My quick list…

Vlad Morozov
Darian Townsend
Roland Schoeman
Albert Subirats
George Bovell
Ryk Neethling
Ian Crocker

Natalie Coughlin
Jessica Hardy
Ariana Kukors
Jenny Thompson
Dana Vollmer

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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