32 Males’s Groups Qualify Relays for 2022 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships

2022 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

There are a whole lot of methods to measure the success of collegiate swimming applications on a holistic degree. From the overly-simplistic (factors scored at NCAAs) to the advanced (enchancment curves and attrition charges), swimming is a sport made to investigate a staff’s success.

Considered one of my favorites, although, is wanting on the variety of relay {qualifications} {that a} college has.

To me, when a faculty begins to get 5 relays certified for the NCAA Championships, it enters them right into a particular degree of depth amongst NCAA groups. It means they want at the very least 5 actually good swimmers, and extra usually 7 or 8. It means they’re starting to place collectively some degree of depth and never simply counting on a single star or two to hold them.

To get even a single relay certified for the NCAA Championships is a big turning level for lots of applications.

Beneath is a chart of which groups have made which relays for the 2022 Males’s NCAA Division I Championships.

How Relays Qualify for NCAAs:

• The best option to qualify relays for NCAAs is to hit the “A Minimize,” formally often known as the “Qualifying Customary” in a relay.
• As soon as a staff has an “A” normal relay, they will additionally enter all relays during which they’ve a “B” normal, formally often known as a “Provisional Customary.”
• Groups with 4 particular person swimmers certified can swim relay occasions during which they’ve at the very least a “B” normal.

Some Observations:

• 32 completely different males’s groups have certified relays for the NCAA Championships. Like we noticed on the girls’s meet, that’s a rise from final 12 months, when solely 27 groups certified relays. The Havard and UNLV males are the one mid-major groups (males or girls) to qualify a relay for D1 NCAAs this season.
• 22 of these groups will ship all 5 relays. Two, Kentucky and UNLV, will solely ship 1 relay every.
• 12 colleges hit Qualifying Requirements (“A” cuts) in all 5 relays. That’s a rise of just one from final season.
• Final 12 months, the Stanford males had 1 “A” minimize relay and a couple of “B” minimize relays. This 12 months, they’ve 5 “A” minimize relays – reflective of the noticed enhancements they’ve had this season beneath third 12 months head coach Dan Schemmel.
• Even after a tumultuous season that noticed Notre Dame lose their greatest swimmer Jack Hoagland to damage and their head and affiliate head coaches depart this system a month into the season, the Irish have been resilient: they certified 4 relays for NCAAs (all however the 800 free). That may be a large enchancment from final season, once they certified just one relay for NCAAs – and that 800 free relay was solely a Provisional Customary.
• Like their girls’s staff, Auburn’s males went from 0 relays final season to five this 12 months beneath first 12 months head coach Ryan Wochomurka. Only one, the 400 free relay, didn’t hit the “A” normal.

2022 Males’s NCAA Championships Relay Qualifiers