ACC Championships, Day 5 Prelims: Kate Douglass Tops 100 Freestyle Meet Record
After posting an incredible 100 butterfly split on Virginia’s record-breaking 400 medley relay Friday evening, Kate Douglass returned to individual racing Saturday and lowered the meet record in the 100 freestyle to set herself up for a run at a third individual win in the final. Douglass will be challenged in the final by teammate and defending NCAA champion Gretchen Walsh, and while Douglass skipped the 200 breaststroke after twice lowering the American record so far this season, the Cavaliers’ Alex Walsh and Ella Nelson posted the top two times in that race, with both of those swimmers also aiming for individual title No. 3.
Virginia holds a 286-point lead over NC State in the team competition while Louisville sits in third place, and on the men’s side, NC State leads by a whopping 435.5 points over Louisville, clearly on the way to a eighth team title in the last nine seasons.
Team Scores
Women - Team Rankings - Through Event 30 1. University of Virginia 1128 2. North Carolina State Universit 942 3. Louisville, University of 822.5 4. University of North Carolina 687 5. Duke University 574 6. VA Tech 468 7. Florida State University 461 8. Notre Dame, University of 408 9. Georgia Institute of Technolog 308 10. University of Miami Florida 299 11. University of Pittsburgh 249.5 12. Boston College 137
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 31 1. North Carolina State Universit 1163 2. Louisville, University of 727.5 3. VA Tech 688 4. University of Virginia 659 5. Notre Dame, University of 585.5 6. Florida State University 474 7. University of North Carolina 459 8. University of Pittsburgh 438.5 9. Georgia Institute of Technolog 333.5 10. Duke University 228 11. University of Miami Florida 150 12. Boston College 123
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Women’s 200 Backstroke
NC State’s women scored a pair of individual wins Friday night with Abby Arens in the 200 butterfly and Katharine Berkoff in the 100 backstroke, and it will be freshman Kennedy Noble in the driver’s seat in the 200 back after she posted a top time of 1:51.39 in prelims. The Wolfpack went 1-2 in the morning with fifth-year swimmer Emma Muzzy taking second in 1:52.19, while Louisville’s Paige Hetrick was third in 1:52.46.
Last season, Muzzy placed seventh in this event at the NCAA Championships, but two ACC swimmers finished even higher and broke 1:50: Virginia’s Reilly Tiltmann and Virginia Tech’s Emma Atkinson. Tiltmann, the defending ACC champion this race, qualified fourth in the morning in 1:52.86, and Atkinson was sixth in 1:53.93.
vent 34 Women 200 Yard Backstroke
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MEET: # 1:49.61 2/16/2017 Alexia Zevnik, NCSU-NC
CONF: % 1:49.09 3/18/2017 Alexia Zevnik, NCSU-NC
AMER: $ 1:47.16 3/10/2019 Regan Smith, Riptide
USOP: & 1:47.16 3/10/2019 Regan Smith, Riptide
NCAA: ! 1:47.24 3/23/2019 Beata Nelson, Wisconsin
GAC Pool: ^ 1:47.91 3/21/2015 Missy Franklin, CAL-PC
1:50.50 A
1:53.97 IV22 Invited NCAA 2022
1:57.11 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Noble, Kennedy FR NC State 1:52.58 1:51.39 qIV22
r:+0.66 26.25 54.69 (28.44)
1:23.09 (28.40) 1:51.39 (28.30)
2 Muzzy, Emma E SR NC State 1:51.34 1:52.19 qIV22
r:+0.81 26.59 55.07 (28.48)
1:23.92 (28.85) 1:52.19 (28.27)
3 Hetrick, Paige JR Louisville 1:54.04 1:52.46 qIV22
r:+0.80 26.19 54.65 (28.46)
1:23.57 (28.92) 1:52.46 (28.89)
4 Tiltmann, Reill SO UVA 1:54.63 1:52.86 qIV22
r:+0.75 26.84 55.06 (28.22)
1:23.82 (28.76) 1:52.86 (29.04)
5 Ulett, Rye D SO Louisville 1:53.98 1:53.83 qIV22
r:+0.80 27.52 56.10 (28.58)
1:24.80 (28.70) 1:53.83 (29.03)
6 Atkinson, Emma JR VT 1:52.46 1:53.93 qIV22
r:+0.70 26.87 55.16 (28.29)
1:24.25 (29.09) 1:53.93 (29.68)
7 Bathurst, Ella SO UVA 1:54.40 1:54.03 qB
r:+0.84 26.61 55.12 (28.51)
1:24.28 (29.16) 1:54.03 (29.75)
8 Lindner, Sophie SR UNC 1:53.46 1:55.41 qB
r:+0.74 27.62 56.33 (28.71)
1:25.60 (29.27) 1:55.41 (29.81)
Men’s 200 Backstroke
Virginia Tech’s Nico Garcia used a strong finishing spurt to post the top overall time of the morning in the men’s 200 back with his mark of 1:40.42, leaving him eight hundredths clear of Virginia’s Jack Aikins. Aikins, the ACC runnerup last year and the U.S. Nationals winner in July in the 200-meter back, took second in 1:40.50, with Notre Dame freshman Tommy Janton finishing third in 1:41.19, just ahead of NC State veteran Hunter Tapp (1:41.36).
Speaking of the Wolfpack, three swimmers qualified for the top heat with Mikey Moore taking sixth (1:42.09) and 100 back winner Kacper Stokowski sneaking into the A-final with his mark of 1:42.13. Stokowski finished just four hundredths ahead of the swimmers who tied for ninth in 1:42.17, Pitt’s Marcin Goraj and Virginia’s Max Edwards.
Event 35 Men 200 Yard Backstroke
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MEET: # 1:37.71 2/29/2020 Coleman Stewart, NC State-NC
CONF: % 1:37.71 2/29/2020 Coleman Stewart, NC State-NC
AMER: $ 1:35.73 3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
USOP: & 1:35.73 3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
NCAA: ! 1:35.73 3/26/2016 Ryan Murphy, California
GAC Pool: ^ 1:35.75 3/27/2021 Shaine Casas, TA&M-GU
1:39.13 A
1:40.92 IV22 Invited NCAA 2022
1:45.04 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Garcia, Nico SO VT 1:41.04 1:40.42 qIV22
r:+0.72 24.03 49.48 (25.45)
1:15.05 (25.57) 1:40.42 (25.37)
2 Aikins, Jack H SO UVA 1:42.37 1:40.50 qIV22
r:+0.56 23.41 48.30 (24.89)
1:14.05 (25.75) 1:40.50 (26.45)
3 Janton, Tommy F FR Notre Dame 1:41.08 1:41.19 qB
r:+0.71 23.56 48.98 (25.42)
1:15.20 (26.22) 1:41.19 (25.99)
4 Tapp, Hunter A SR NC State 1:40.80 1:41.36 qB
r:+0.86 23.61 48.67 (25.06)
1:14.59 (25.92) 1:41.36 (26.77)
5 Webb, Forest H SR VT 1:43.01 1:41.97 qB
r:+0.66 23.58 49.11 (25.53)
1:15.42 (26.31) 1:41.97 (26.55)
6 Moore, Mikey R JR NC State 1:46.01 1:42.09 qB
r:+0.63 23.97 49.72 (25.75)
1:15.75 (26.03) 1:42.09 (26.34)
7 Saka, Berke SO GT 1:40.02 1:42.10 qB
r:+0.72 23.85 49.61 (25.76)
1:15.89 (26.28) 1:42.10 (26.21)
8 Stokowski, Kacp SR NC State 1:41.39 1:42.13 qB
r:+0.66 22.98 48.41 (25.43)
1:15.59 (27.18) 1:42.13 (26.54)
Women’s 100 Freestyle
Kate Douglass recorded a mark of 46.50 in prelims to crush the field and lower the previous ACC meet record of 46.57 established by Louisville’s Mallory Comerford in 2019. Douglass was just two tenths off her lifetime best in this event, a 46.30 which ties her for eighth all-time. She should get a push in the final from Gretchen Walsh, a Virginia teammate who won this event at the NCAA Championships last year. Walsh ranks fourth all-time at 46.05.
Louisville’s Gabi Albiero took third in 47.42, just ahead of NC State’s Katharine Berkoff (47.50), while Virginia got two other swimmers in the A-final with Lexi Cuomo placing sixth (47.71) and Aimee Canny tying for seventh (48.05). Canny, a freshman who placed second behind Alex Walsh in the 200 free two days earlier, split 46.85 as she anchored Virginia’s 400 medley relay to the fastest time in history Friday evening.
Event 36 Women 100 Yard Freestyle
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MEET: # 46.50 2/18/2023 Kate C Douglass, UVA-VA
CONF: % 46.05 3/17/2022 Gretchen Walsh, UVA-VA
AMER: $ 45.56 3/18/2017 Simone Manuel, Stanford
USOP: & 45.56 3/18/2017 Simone Manuel, Stanford
NCAA: ! 45.56 3/18/2017 Simone Manuel, Stanford
GAC Pool: ^ 46.02 3/20/2021 Maggie MacNeil, MICH-MI
47.18 A
48.44 IV22 Invited NCAA 2022
49.44 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Douglass, Kate SR UVA 47.49 46.50#qA
r:+0.65 10.62 22.16 (11.54)
34.47 (12.31) 46.50 (12.03)
2 Walsh, Gretchen SO UVA 46.89 47.20 qIV22
r:+0.79 10.70 22.38 (11.68)
34.96 (12.58) 47.20 (12.24)
3 Albiero, Gabi M JR Louisville 47.49 47.42 qIV22
r:+0.64 10.88 22.61 (11.73)
35.25 (12.64) 47.42 (12.17)
4 Berkoff, Kathar SR NC State 47.56 47.50 qIV22
r:+0.78 11.02 22.97 (11.95)
35.39 (12.42) 47.50 (12.11)
5 Regenauer, Chri SR Louisville 47.97 47.70 qIV22
r:+0.67 10.88 22.90 (12.02)
35.47 (12.57) 47.70 (12.23)
6 Cuomo, Lexi M SR UVA 48.76 47.71 qIV22
r:+0.69 10.74 22.56 (11.82)
35.26 (12.70) 47.71 (12.45)
7 Webb, Abbey C JR NC State 48.83 48.05 qIV22
r:+0.77 11.34 23.36 (12.02)
36.00 (12.64) 48.05 (12.05)
7 Canny, Aimee FR UVA 49.68 48.05 qIV22
r:+0.78 11.26 23.36 (12.10)
35.85 (12.49) 48.05 (12.20)
Men’s 100 Freestyle
Virginia Tech earned the top seed in back-to-back men’s events, and this time, Youssef Ramadan recorded a 41.69 in the 100 free, a quarter-second ahead of the 200 free winner, Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano. Ramadan has already posted the nation’s fastest time in the 100 fly and third-fastest time in the 100 back this week.
Guiliano was second in 41.94, followed by Louisville’s Michael Eastman (42.17) and Virginia’s Matt Brownstead (42.21). Once again, NC State went three up, with Luke Miller, David Curtiss and Noah Henderson all making it into the A-final, only split by Virginia’s Tim Connery in seventh place.
Event 37 Men 100 Yard Freestyle
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MEET: # 41.22 3/27/2022 Matt Brownstead, UVA-VA
CONF: % 41.05 2/24/2018 Ryan Held, NC State-NC
AMER: $ 39.90 3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
USOP: & 39.90 3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
NCAA: ! 39.90 3/24/2018 Caeleb Dressel, Florida
GAC Pool: ^ 40.90 3/27/2021 Ryan Hoffer, CAL-PC
41.64 A
42.34 IV22 Invited NCAA 2022
43.59 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Ramadan, Yousse JR VT 41.99 41.69 qIV22
r:+0.62 9.52 19.99 (10.47)
30.72 (10.73) 41.69 (10.97)
2 Guiliano, Chris SO Notre Dame 42.32 41.94 qIV22
r:+0.64 9.72 20.32 (10.60)
31.23 (10.91) 41.94 (10.71)
3 Eastman, Michae Louisville 42.93 42.17 qIV22
r:+0.65 9.56 20.06 (10.50)
30.98 (10.92) 42.17 (11.19)
4 Brownstead, Mat JR UVA 42.63 42.21 qIV22
r:+0.64 9.60 20.28 (10.68)
31.41 (11.13) 42.21 (10.80)
5 Miller, Luke D JR NC State 43.16 42.40 qB
r:+0.60 9.78 20.42 (10.64)
31.50 (11.08) 42.40 (10.90)
6 Curtiss, David SO NC State 42.53 42.45 qB
r:+0.66 9.59 20.12 (10.53)
31.38 (11.26) 42.45 (11.07)
7 Connery, Tim SO UVA 42.54 42.50 qB
r:+0.73 9.87 20.69 (10.82)
31.73 (11.04) 42.50 (10.77)
8 Henderson, Noah SR NC State 43.15 42.53 qB
r:+0.63 9.44 19.99 (10.55)
31.17 (11.18) 42.53 (11.36)
Women’s 200 Breaststroke
Two weeks after she lowered the American record for the third time in less than a year, Kate Douglass skipped the 200 breast to focus on the 100 free, but another Cavalier, Alex Walsh, is the third-fastest performer ever in this event at 2:03.02, and she claimed the top seed in 2:06.31. Walsh already has wins in the 200 free, 100 breast and three relays this week. Just behind Walsh was Ella Nelson, another Cavalier who has two individual wins this week (500 free and 400 IM). Nelson posted a time of 2:06.39, well ahead of a pack of 2:08s led by Duke’s Sarah Foley (2:08.27).
Virginia showed off depth once again with four Cavaliers getting into the A-final, with Anna Keating (2:08.79) and Emma Weber (2:09.62) joining Walsh and Nelson in the final. Duke (Foley and Kaelyn Gridley) and NC State (Andrea Podmanikova and Heather MacCausland) also put two swimmers each into the field.
Event 38 Women 200 Yard Breaststroke
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MEET: # 2:03.02 2/19/2022 Alexandra J Walsh, UVA-VA
CONF: % 2:01.43 11/19/2022Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
AMER: $ 2:01.43 11/19/2022Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
USOP: & 2:01.43 11/19/2022Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
NCAA: ! 2:01.43 11/19/2022Kate Douglass, UVA-VA
GAC Pool: ^ 2:03.86 3/20/2021 Sophie Hansson, NCSU-NC
2:06.18 A
2:09.15 IV22 Invited NCAA 2022
2:13.89 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Walsh, Alex J JR UVA 2:03.93 2:06.31 qIV22
r:+0.77 28.65 1:00.43 (31.78)
1:33.09 (32.66) 2:06.31 (33.22)
2 Nelson, Ella E SR UVA 2:07.06 2:06.39 qIV22
r:+0.72 29.02 1:00.72 (31.70)
1:33.14 (32.42) 2:06.39 (33.25)
3 Foley, Sally Duke 2:06.61 2:08.27 qIV22
r:+0.68 29.23 1:01.79 (32.56)
1:34.85 (33.06) 2:08.27 (33.42)
4 Podmanikova, An SR NC State 2:06.77 2:08.34 qIV22
r:+0.73 28.59 1:00.57 (31.98)
1:33.97 (33.40) 2:08.34 (34.37)
5 Gridley, Kaelyn Duke 2:07.82 2:08.37 qIV22
r:+0.77 29.29 1:01.92 (32.63)
1:35.02 (33.10) 2:08.37 (33.35)
6 Keating, Anna E JR UVA 2:07.91 2:08.79 qIV22
r:+0.74 29.69 1:02.50 (32.81)
1:35.70 (33.20) 2:08.79 (33.09)
7 Weber, Emma FR UVA 2:08.41 2:09.62 qB
r:+0.72 29.55 1:02.41 (32.86)
1:35.66 (33.25) 2:09.62 (33.96)
8 MacCausland, He SR NC State 2:08.82 2:09.70 qB
r:+0.63 28.97 1:01.73 (32.76)
1:35.32 (33.59) 2:09.70 (34.38)
Men’s 200 Breaststroke
Defending ACC champion Carles Coll Marti will try to hold off 100 breast winner Noah Nichols and 2022 runnerup Denis Petrashov in the final. Virginia Tech’s Coll Marti, who swam a conference record of 1:49.69 in placing fourth at last year’s NCAA Championships, finished first in the morning in 1:52.40, while Virginia’s Nichols took second in 1:52.95. Louisville’s Petrashov was third in 1:53.49, just ahead of a tie for fourth from the Virginia Tech duo of Keith Myburgh and AJ Pouch, with both men swimming times of 1:53.65.
Event 39 Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
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MEET: # 1:49.69 3/26/2022 Carles Coll Marti, VT-VA
CONF: % 1:50.79 3/25/2019 Caio Pumputis, GT-GA
AMER: $ 1:47.91 3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
USOP: & 1:47.91 3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
NCAA: ! 1:47.91 3/25/2017 Will Licon, Texas
GAC Pool: ^ 1:51.26 2/27/2021 Evgenii Somov, LOU-KY
1:51.54 A
1:53.23 IV22 Invited NCAA 2022
1:57.95 B
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Coll Marti, Car JR VT 1:52.82 1:52.40 qIV22
r:+0.64 25.52 54.31 (28.79)
1:23.32 (29.01) 1:52.40 (29.08)
2 Nichols, Noah P JR UVA 1:52.62 1:52.95 qIV22
r:+0.68 25.27 54.22 (28.95)
1:23.53 (29.31) 1:52.95 (29.42)
3 Petrashov, Deni SO Louisville 1:54.68 1:53.49 qB
r:+0.73 25.61 54.78 (29.17)
1:24.03 (29.25) 1:53.49 (29.46)
4 Myburgh, Keith SR VT 1:57.58 1:53.65 qB
r:+0.58 25.94 54.99 (29.05)
1:24.06 (29.07) 1:53.65 (29.59)
4 Pouch, AJ J SR VT 1:55.83 1:53.65 qB
r:+0.70 25.91 54.46 (28.55)
1:23.57 (29.11) 1:53.65 (30.08)
6 Iida, Max S SO UVA 1:53.81 1:54.03 qB
r:+0.66 25.56 54.55 (28.99)
1:23.87 (29.32) 1:54.03 (30.16)
7 Van Der Laan, C SR PITT 1:55.25 1:54.43 qB
r:+0.66 26.04 55.41 (29.37)
1:25.04 (29.63) 1:54.43 (29.39)
8 Chen, Jerry SR PITT 1:57.39 1:55.42 qB
r:+0.66 26.03 54.92 (28.89)
1:24.36 (29.44) 1:55.42 (31.06)
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