Simon Fraser’s Collyn Gagne Lowers NCAA Division II Document in 400 IM to three:42.49

2022 NCAA Division II Males’s Swimming and Diving Championships

Males’s 400 IM – Finals

• NCAA DII Document: 3:43.84 – Nick Arakelian, Queens (NC) (2015)
• Meet Document: 3:43.84 – Nick Arakelian, Queens (NC) (2015)
• 2021 Champion: Fabio Dalu, McKendree – 3:45.84

Podium:

1. Collyn Gagne, Simon Fraser – 3:42.49
2. Cedric Buessing, Indy – 3:48.40
3. Jarryd Baxter, Nova S’jap – 3:48.49
4. Yannick Plasil, Queens (NC) – 3:50.14
5. Erikas Kapocius, NMU – 3:50.48
6. Keegan Hawkins, Grand Valley – 3:51.10
7. Mohamed Hegazy, Queens (NC) – 3:52.91
8. Andreas Marz, Queens (NC) – 3:55.95

Collyn Gagne of Simon Fraser College crashed by means of the NCAA Division II and meet data, successful the lads’s 400 IM with 3:42.49 to slash 1.35 seconds off the mark set by Nick Arakelian in 2015. The junior from Oakville, Ontario in Canada additionally lowered his personal college file by 5 seconds. (Simon Fraser is the one Canadian college within the NCAA.)

Gagne’s energy is within the second half of the race, and he was untouchable on Thursday night time. Yannick Plasil of Queens set the tempo early on, main the sphere on the butterfly leg (51.00) with Nova S’jap’s Jarryd Baxter simply behind (51.15). Gagne was only a tick behind the leaders (51.21). Baxter took over the lead on the backstroke leg (56.27) and Gagne moved into second place (57.11).

It was then that Gagne clicked into one other gear. He blew away the sphere away with a 1:02.3 breaststroke leg, the quickest by about three seconds, and he headed into the freestyle with a 3 body-length lead. Gagne got here dwelling in 51.8, once more the quickest break up, to complete almost six seconds in entrance of Indy’s Cedric Buessing, who had overtaken Baxter on the ultimate 50 yards.

Facet-by-side break up comparability:

In 2019, Gagne was fourth within the 400 IM on the NCAA Division II Championships in 3:51.08.