The final morning of the 2019 ACC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships featured the heats of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast and the 200 fly on Saturday morning in Greensboro.
NC State has safely wrapped up its fifth straight ACC men’s swimming and diving title as they put ten in A-Finals tonight. Virginia could put some pressure on Louisville for second as the Cavaliers put eight in A-Finals while Louisville only put four.
Virginia’s Joe Clark, Pittsburgh’s Blaise Vera, Virginia’s Matthew Otto and Louisville’s Nick Albiero are the top seeds in their respective events heading in to Saturday night.
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 14 1. North Carolina State 919.5 10, 4, 2 2. Louisville 784 4, 6, 4 3. Virginia 695 8, 6, 1 4. Florida State 572.5 3, 6, 2 5. Virginia Tech 545.5 3, 3, 4 6. Notre Dame 473 1, 5, 8 7. Duke 450 4, 0, 7 8. Pittsburgh 371 1, 3, 2 9. Georgia Tech 360 3, 4, 4 10. North Carolina 282.5 1, 2, 5 11. Boston College 111 0, 1, 1 12. Miami 101 2, 0, 0
200 Back
Virginia’s Joe Clark had a massive drop from his entry time as he has the top seed in the 200 back with a 1:40.96. Clark came into the meet with a 1:47.95 entry time but had a 1:41.86 best time from the 2017 ACCs. Clark is ahead of 100 back champion Coleman Stewart of NC State (1:41.13).
Virginia also had sophomore George Wozencraft (1:41.76) come in for fifth seed and NC State had senior Noah Hensley (1:41.30) qualify for finals in fourth. Hensley dropped four seconds off his entry time.
Louisville’s Mitchell Whyte, a freshman, dropped four seconds off his entry time as he is third at 1:41.22.
Florida State’s Griffin Alaniz (1:41.85), Georgia Tech’s Rodrigo Correia (1:41.89) and Virginia Tech’s Samuel Tornqvist (1:42.06) also qualified for the final.
Event 17 Men 200 Yard Backstroke
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Conference: % 1:38.56 3/26/2016 Hennesey Stuart, NC State
ACC Meet: & 1:39.05 3/2/2017 Grigory Tarasevich, Louisville
American: @ 1:35.73 3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
U. S. Open: * 1:35.73 3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
NCAA: $ 1:35.73 3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
Pool: ^ 1:39.28 2/27/2016 Grigory Tarasevich, Louisville
1:39.38 A
1:41.18 IV18 Invited to 2018 NCAA
1:45.04 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Clark, Joseph JR UVA 1:47.95 1:40.96 qIV18
r:+0.71 23.71 49.43 (25.72)
1:15.15 (25.72) 1:40.96 (25.81)
2 Stewart, Colema JR NC State 1:40.06 1:41.13 qIV18
r:+0.69 24.08 49.36 (25.28)
1:14.80 (25.44) 1:41.13 (26.33)
3 Whyte, Mitchell FR Louisville 1:45.38 1:41.22 qB
r:+0.63 23.67 49.58 (25.91)
1:15.69 (26.11) 1:41.22 (25.53)
4 Hensley, Noah SR NC State 1:45.22 1:41.30 qB
r:+0.64 23.99 49.76 (25.77)
1:15.69 (25.93) 1:41.30 (25.61)
5 Wozencraft, Geo SO UVA 1:41.62 1:41.76 qB
r:+0.68 23.42 49.36 (25.94)
1:15.02 (25.66) 1:41.76 (26.74)
6 Alaniz, Griffin JR FSU 1:43.57 1:41.85 qB
r:+0.72 23.71 49.31 (25.60)
1:15.56 (26.25) 1:41.85 (26.29)
7 Correia, Rodrig SR GT 1:40.94 1:41.89 qB
r:+0.70 23.49 48.97 (25.48)
1:15.35 (26.38) 1:41.89 (26.54)
8 Tornqvist, Samu SO VT 1:41.93 1:42.06 qB
r:+0.71 23.92 49.79 (25.87)
1:16.07 (26.28) 1:42.06 (25.99)
100 Free
Pittsburgh Blaise Vera (42.04) shocked everybody on deck as he qualified for the top seed on Saturday morning at the ACC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Greensboro. He dropped over a second off his best time of 43.18 to go 42.04 and lead ahead of NC State’s Justin Ress (42.25) and Duke’s Miles Williams (42.41).
The rest of the A-Final is fairly stacked with 100 fly champ Kanoa Kaleoaloha of Florida State in fourth (42.43), just ahead of fellow Seminole Emir Muratovic (42.46).
NC State had two others in the final with Jacob Molacek (42.56) and Nyls Korstanje (42.65) placing sixth and eighth. Virginia’s Ryan Baker (42.64) is the seventh seed.
Event 18 Men 100 Yard Freestyle
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Conference: % 41.05 3/24/2018 Ryan Held, NC State
ACC Meet: & 41.41 2/24/2018 Ryan Held, NC State
American: @ 39.90 3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
U. S. Open: * 39.90 3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
NCAA: $ 39.90 3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
Pool: ^ 41.31 12/6/2014 Nathan Adrian, California
41.88 A
42.71 IV18 Invited to 2018 NCAA
43.80 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Vera, Blaise SO PITT 43.18 42.04 qIV18
r:+0.67 19.67 42.04 (22.37)
2 Ress, Justin SR NC State 42.74 42.25 qIV18
r:+0.66 20.19 42.25 (22.06)
3 Williams, Miles JR Duke 43.40 42.41 qIV18
r:+0.66 20.27 42.41 (22.14)
4 Kaleoaloha, Kan SR FSU 42.83 42.43 qIV18
r:+0.69 20.42 42.43 (22.01)
5 Muratovic, Emir SR FSU 43.45 42.46 qIV18
r:+0.64 20.11 42.46 (22.35)
6 Molacek, Jacob SR NC State 42.45 42.56 qIV18
r:+1.91 20.55 42.56 (22.01)
7 Baker, Ryan JR UVA 43.46 42.64 qIV18
r:+0.61 20.39 42.64 (22.25)
8 Korstanje, Nyls FR NC State 42.95 42.65 qIV18
r:+0.64 20.42 42.65 (22.23)
200 Breast
Virginia’s Matthew Otto dropped a half second off his best time as he is the top seed in the 200 breast on Saturday morning at the ACC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships. Otto swam a 1:53.46 as he was one of three swimmers to break 1:55. Notre Dame freshman Josh Bottelberghe (1:54.54) had a huge drop for the second seed as he came in to the meet with a 1:57.17. Louisville sophomore and 100 breast champion Evgenii Somov (1:54.90) is the third seed.
Georgia Tech’s Caio Pumputis, who won the 200 IM and was second in the 100 breast, had an off morning swim as he is sixth at 1:55.26. He had the second fastest time in Division I entering the meet, but with his swims so far in Greensboro he could win it from lane seven.
Duke’s Jud Howard (1:55.01), Virginia’s Keefer Barnum (1:55.03), Casey Storch (1:55.43) and NC State’s Daniel Graber (1:55.52) also qualified for the final.
Event 19 Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
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Conference: % 1:52.39 3/2/2017 Brandon Fiala, Virginia Tech
ACC Meet: & 1:52.39 3/2/2017 Brandon Fiala, Virginia Tech
American: @ 1:47.91 3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
U. S. Open: * 1:47.91 3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
NCAA: $ 1:47.91 3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
Pool: ^ 1:52.87 2/27/2016 Brandon Fiala, Virginia Tech
1:52.94 A
1:54.49 IV18 Invited to 2018 NCAA
1:58.43 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Otto, Matthew SO UVA 1:57.99 1:53.46 qIV18
r:+0.68 25.99 54.69 (28.70)
1:23.56 (28.87) 1:53.46 (29.90)
2 Bottelberghe, J FR ND 1:57.17 1:54.54 qB
r:+0.73 26.05 55.34 (29.29)
1:25.10 (29.76) 1:54.54 (29.44)
3 Somov, Evgenii SO Louisville 1:56.42 1:54.90 qB
r:+1.87 25.43 54.35 (28.92)
1:24.16 (29.81) 1:54.90 (30.74)
4 Howard, Jud SR Duke 1:59.11 1:55.01 qB
r:+0.73 26.85 56.08 (29.23)
1:25.27 (29.19) 1:55.01 (29.74)
5 Barnum, Keefer SO UVA 1:56.99 1:55.03 qB
r:+0.68 25.97 55.63 (29.66)
1:25.00 (29.37) 1:55.03 (30.03)
6 Pumputis, Caio SO GT 1:52.38 1:55.26 qB
r:+1.96 25.72 54.57 (28.85)
1:24.32 (29.75) 1:55.26 (30.94)
7 Storch, Casey FR UVA 1:57.85 1:55.43 qB
r:+0.69 26.03 55.16 (29.13)
1:24.82 (29.66) 1:55.43 (30.61)
8 Graber, Daniel SR NC State 1:57.90 1:55.52 qB
r:+0.72 25.96 55.12 (29.16)
1:24.98 (29.86) 1:55.52 (30.54)
200 Fly
Louisville’s Nicolas Albiero (1:41.56) is the top seed in the 200 fly as the sophomore is looking to defend his ACC title he won a year ago. Albiero will have his hands full with NC State seniors James Bretscher (1:41.69) and Andreas Vazaios (1:41.74) as those three were separated by less than two tenths of a second.
Vazaios is the defending NCAA Champion in the 200 butterfly but is searching for his first win this weekend at ACCs after he was out-touched in the 200 IM on Thursday.
The rest of the field is not too far off the leaders with Virginia senior Zachary Fong (1:41.79) sitting in fourth place. Louisville senior Zach Harting (1:42.00), who will represent Team USA at World Championships later this summer, is the fifth seed. Harting had the fastest seed time of anyone in the top eight so he has a chance to win. He was second in the 200 free last night.
Virginia Tech’s Antani Ivanov (1:42.51), Virginia’s Ted Schubert (1:43.23) and NC State’s Zachary Brown (1:43.39) also qualified for the final.
Event 20 Men 200 Yard Butterfly
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Conference: % 1:38.60 3/26/2018 Andreas Vazaios, NC State
ACC Meet: & 1:41.08 2/24/2018 Nicolas Albiero, Louisville
American: @ 1:37.35 3/25/2017 Jack Conger, Texas
U. S. Open: * 1:37.35 3/25/2017 Jack Conger, Texas
NCAA: $ 1:37.35 3/25/2017 Jack Conger, Texas
Pool: ^ 1:41.08 2/24/2018 Nicolas Albiero, Louisville
1:41.02 A
1:42.52 IV18 Invited to 2018 NCAA
1:46.69 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Albiero, Nicola SO Louisville 1:42.96 1:41.56 qIV18
r:+0.65 22.73 48.77 (26.04)
1:15.11 (26.34) 1:41.56 (26.45)
2 Bretscher, Jame SR NC State 1:43.63 1:41.69 qIV18
r:+0.69 22.93 48.84 (25.91)
1:15.11 (26.27) 1:41.69 (26.58)
3 Vazaios, Andrea SR NC State 1:41.83 1:41.74 qIV18
r:+0.72 23.72 49.66 (25.94)
1:15.45 (25.79) 1:41.74 (26.29)
4 Fong, Zachary SR UVA 1:42.02 1:41.79 qIV18
r:+0.65 22.89 48.91 (26.02)
1:15.90 (26.99) 1:41.79 (25.89)
5 Harting, Zach SR Louisville 1:41.08 1:42.00 qIV18
r:+0.97 23.09 49.26 (26.17)
1:15.41 (26.15) 1:42.00 (26.59)
6 Ivanov, Antani FR VT 1:42.90 1:42.51 qIV18
r:+0.67 23.15 49.48 (26.33)
1:15.86 (26.38) 1:42.51 (26.65)
7 Schubert, Frede JR UVA 1:43.08 1:43.23 qB
r:+0.65 23.34 49.54 (26.20)
1:16.38 (26.84) 1:43.23 (26.85)
8 Brown, Zachary FR NC State 1:43.39 1:43.39 qB
r:+0.64 23.35 49.61 (26.26)
1:16.32 (26.71) 1:43.39 (27.07)
Platform Diving
Miami has the top two seeds in platform diving with David Dinsmore (448.20) and Zach Cooper (402.75) on top. The men’s diving events took place last week at the women’s championships and are being added to the men’s scoring totals as if they were happening this week.
Event 15 Men Platform Diving
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Conference: % 548.90 3/27/2011 Nick McCrory, DUKE-NC
ACC Meet: & 523.95 2/27/2010 Nick McCrory, Duke
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Dinsmore, David JR Miami (FL) NP 448.20 q
2 Cooper, Zach SO Miami (FL) NP 402.75 q
3 Brady, James JR NC State NP 354.80 q
4 Moretti, Evan SR Duke 328.50 331.45 q
5 Allen, Bryan SO UNC NP 325.00 q
6 Zawadzki, Noah FR VT NP 314.85 q
7 Hernandez, Nath JR Duke 380.45 295.75 q
8 Casillas, Matt SR GT NP 293.35 q
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