Alabama Stuns in 200 Medley Relay, Robert Howard Closes in 18.22
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The Alabama Crimson Tide won the 200 medley relay on Friday night at the 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas with a 1:22.26. The team of Zane Waddell (20.41), Laurent Bams (23.24), Knox Auerbach (20.39) and Robert Howard (18.22) won the title for the Crimson Tide.
It came down to four teams on the final leg as the Cal Golden Bears snuck into second place at 1:22.43 thanks to an 18.17 anchor from Ryan Hoffer. Cal finished in second with Daniel Carr (20.92), Reece Whitley (23.68), Pawel Sendyk (19.66) and Hoffer (18.17) as the Golden Bears finished in second ahead of NC State (1:22.47) and Texas (1:22.58).
Coleman Stewart (20.66), Daniel Graber (23.49), Nyls Korstanje (20.06) and Justin Ress (18.26) finished third for the Wolfpack.
Texas was in the lead at the 150 after a stunning 19.83 split from John Shebat on the fly leg.
The quickest splits outside the top three came from Texas’ Ryan Harty (20.86), USC’s Carsten Vissering (22.88), Florida State’s Kanoa Kaleoaloha (19.77) and Tennessee’s Kyle DeCoursey (18.46).
Louisville (1:23.23), Tennessee (1:23.56), Florida State (1:23.81) and Southern Cal (1:23.82) also swam in the A-Final.
Alabama now has two NCAA titles in the 200 medley relay joining the 2016 winning team.
Event 14 Men 200 Yard Medley Relay ================================================================================== NCAA: N 1:21.54 24-Mar-17 Texas J Shebat, W Licon, J Schooling, B Ringgold Meet: M 1:21.54 24-Mar-17 Texas J Shebat, W Licon, J Schooling, B Ringgold American: A 1:21.88 23-Mar-18 California D Carr, C Hoppe, J Lynch, R Hoffer U. S. Open: O 1:21.54 24-Mar-17 Texas J Shebat, W Licon, J Schooling, B Ringgold Pool: P 1:22.83 27-Mar-14 California Murphy, Katis, Cox, Messerschmidt School Prelims Finals Points ================================================================================== === Championship Final === 1 Alabama 1:23.13 1:22.26P 40 1) Waddell, Zane JR 2) r:0.34 Bams, Laurent SR 3) r:0.18 Auerbach, Knox SR 4) r:0.23 Howard, Robert SR r:+0.65 20.41 43.65 (23.24) 1:04.04 (20.39) 1:22.26 (18.22) 2 California 1:23.78 1:22.43P 34 1) Carr, Daniel SO 2) r:0.14 Whitley, Reece FR 3) r:0.33 Sendyk, Pawel JR 4) r:0.07 Hoffer, Ryan SO r:+0.69 20.92 44.60 (23.68) 1:04.26 (19.66) 1:22.43 (18.17) 3 NC State 1:23.23 1:22.47P 32 1) Stewart, Coleman JR 2) r:0.17 Graber, Daniel SR 3) r:0.15 Korstanje, Nyls FR 4) r:0.07 Ress, Justin SR r:+0.70 20.66 44.15 (23.49) 1:04.21 (20.06) 1:22.47 (18.26) 4 Texas 1:23.77 1:22.58P 30 1) Harty, Ryan JR 2) r:0.22 Scheinfeld, Charlie FR 3) r:0.24 Shebat, John SR 4) r:0.32 Jackson, Tate SR r:+0.57 20.86 43.92 (23.06) 1:03.75 (19.83) 1:22.58 (18.83) 5 Louisville 1:23.57 1:23.23 28 1) Whyte, Mitchell FR 2) r:0.09 Somov, Evgenii SO 3) r:0.12 Harting, Zach SR 4) r:0.14 Barna, Andrej JR r:+0.55 21.00 44.32 (23.32) 1:04.43 (20.11) 1:23.23 (18.80) 6 Tennessee 1:23.96 1:23.56 26 1) Garcia, Matthew JR 2) r:0.20 Houlie, Michael FR 3) r:0.20 Verhage, Braga JR 4) r:0.16 Decoursey, Kyle SR r:+0.66 21.70 45.19 (23.49) 1:05.10 (19.91) 1:23.56 (18.46) 7 Florida St 1:24.01 1:23.81 24 1) Muratovic, Emir SR 2) r:0.24 Bastian, Izaak FR 3) r:0.22 Kaleoaloha, Kanoa SR 4) r:0.15 Pisani, Will SR r:+0.69 21.32 45.40 (24.08) 1:05.17 (19.77) 1:23.81 (18.64) 8 Southern Cali 1:24.07 1:23.82 22 1) Mulcare, Patrick SR 2) r:0.25 Vissering, Carsten SR 3) r:0.25 Grissom, Kyle SR 4) r:0.11 Miljenic, Nikola SO r:+0.70 21.82 44.70 (22.88) 1:04.89 (20.19) 1:23.82 (18.93)
Men - Team Rankings - Through Event 14 1. California 372 2. Texas 329 3. Indiana 277.5 4. NC State 215 5. Louisville 149 6. Florida 136 7. Alabama 110 8. Harvard 98 9. Missouri 88 10. Tennessee 82 11. Virginia 78 12. Southern Cali 75 13. Arizona 72 14. Texas A&M 71 15. Stanford 69 16. Florida St 66 17. Michigan 62 18. Ohio St 56 19. Georgia 46 20. Minnesota 45 21. Purdue 38 22. Arizona St 36.5 23. University of Miami 30 24. Georgia Tech 29 25. South Carolina 18 25. Penn 18 27. Duke 17 27. Penn St 17 29. Grand Canyon 16 30. Columbia University 14 31. Kentucky 11 32. Lsu 9 33. Missouri St. (M) 7 34. Auburn 6 34. Princeton 6 34. Virginia Tech 6 37. Navy 4 38. Hawaii 3 38. Notre Dame 3 40. Towson 2 41. Denver 1
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That was a great race.
Not stunned, have you heard of Jonty Skinner?
wow…good swims everyone…fast!???
Nothing stunning about it, ROLL TIDE!
Roll Tide!
Alabama is really incredible this year!
Yeah, but who came in second?
Michael Aversano who is on first, what is on second
RTR!!! Congratulations! Very Impressive showing of Alabama’s strengths.
Roll Tide!
WOW!!!
Congrats! Rtr
You’ll enjoy this Stefan Ioan Gherghel ?
Howard must train with Bruno
Jim Askervold
Was I seeing things, or did Hoffer actually die coming home in a 50 free? He had the lead coming off the wall.
Joel Dodds he still had the fastest split! ??♀️
18.22… Wow
Congratulations