2022 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Males 50 Yard Freestyle
- NCAA: 17.63 3/22/2018 Caeleb Dressel Florida
- Meet: 17.63 3/22/2018 Caeleb Dressel Florida
- American: 17.63 3/22/2018 Caeleb Dressel Florida
- U.S. Open: 17.63 3/22/2018 Caeleb Dressel Florida
By now, most individuals know who US Tokyo Olympian Brooks Curry is. What most individuals could not know is that two freshmen, Jordan Crooks and David Curtiss, are already seeded to make the A remaining of the lads’s 50 freestyle at NCAAs.
Brooks Curry completed fourth within the 100 freestyle on the Wave II Olympics Trials final June to qualify for the Olympics to signify the USA. Curry swam on the prelims relay of the lads’s 4×100 freestyle relay and led off in a time of 48.80. The relay ended up profitable a gold medal in finals. Since then, Curry has continued to make headlines together with swimming the #9 50 freestyle cut up of all-time on the 2022 SEC Championships.
Though Curry could arguably be essentially the most well-known identify as of just lately, he truly is the second seed within the occasion with a time of 18.67. Tennessee freshman Jordan Crooks is the highest seed as he swam a time of 18.53 to win SECs. That point made him the quickest freshman ever in addition to #5 all-time.
Crooks will not be the one quick freshman within the discipline already. NC State’s David Curtiss is the #4 seed after swimming a time of 18.74 at ACCs. That point has already positioned him at #4 for freshman all time. Crooks was constant at ACCs, swimming three 18.7’s.
Final 12 months’s runner-up within the occasion, Bjorn Seeliger, of Cal is seeded third going into the meet. Seeliger went a 18.91 in prelims and a 18.71 in finals finally 12 months’s meet. That was the largest drop of all of final 12 months’s A finalists. Seeliger additionally received the occasion at this 12 months’s Pac-12 Championships swimming a time of 18.86 in prelims and a 18.84 in finals. He additionally led off the varsity’s 200 freestyle relay in a 18.73, his seed time for NCAAs.
Florida’s Adam Chaney was third within the occasion final 12 months swimming a 18.88 in finals. Chaney has already been sooner, swimming a 18.81 at SECs. If he continues to enhance, he has the potential to earn one other spot within the carefully packed discipline.
Like Curry, Ohio State’s Hunter Armstrong additionally represented the US on the Tokyo Olympics. Armstrong represented the US within the 100 backstroke. Armstrong is the tenth seed coming into the meet after profitable B1Gs in a 18.93. The most important distinction right here is that Armstrong received B1Gs by 0.22, he can be with a a lot sooner discipline right here at NCAAs which could possibly inspire him extra.
Virginia Tech’s Youssef Ramadan was eighth on this occasion final 12 months swimming a 19.08 in prelims and a 19.45 in finals. Ramadan was third at ACCs with a time of 18.87 which locations him because the sixth seed right here. Ramadan broke his personal ACC report within the 100 butterfly and has been enhancing this 12 months. If he is ready to hold that enchancment up, he ought to have the ability to slip into the A remaining right here.
Matthew Brownstead swam a 19.02 in prelims and a 19.01 in finals at ACCs. He led off Virginia’s American File setting relay in a fair sooner time of 18.87. That point has him seeded ninth. He swam a 19.21 in each prelims and finals final 12 months, and has proven his consistency.
Darkhorse- Drew Kibler (Texas Senior): Kibler opted to swim the 50 freestyle this 12 months as a substitute of the five hundred freestyle. Kibler is the twenty sixth seed coming into with a time of 19.19 and has a private better of 19.08. He was fifth within the 500 freestyle final 12 months, so it’s attention-grabbing that Texas picked the 50 freestyle over the five hundred freestyle right here. It reveals that the teaching workers will need to have been assured sufficient that Kibler can drop time to earn a spot within the A remaining (at the least).
