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NCAA Men’s Championships: Sates, Marchand, Crooks Hold Top Seeds for Thursday Prelims (Heat Sheet)
The individual portion of the NCAA Men’s Championships will begins Thursday morning at 10 a.m. ET in Atlanta with three individual events, the 500 freestyle, 200 IM and 50 freestyle. Qualifying in one-meter diving will also take place at the end of the morning session.
Check out the full heat sheet for the Thursday morning session here.
The 500 freestyle will feature Georgia freshman Matt Sates as the top seed after he defeated American-record holder Kieran Smith and defending NCAA champion Jake Magahey to win the event at the SEC Championships last month. Sates, a native of South Africa, broke multiple world junior records on the FINA World Cup circuit in the fall before enrolling at Georgia this semester, and he will swim next to his teammate, Magahey, in the final heat of the event. Smith, meanwhile, was the Olympic bronze medalist in the 400-meter free at the Tokyo Olympics last summer. Texas freshman Luke Hobson is also seeded under 4:10, while Arizona’s Brooks Fail and NC State’s Ross Dant should be in the mix, and another 400 free Olympic finalist, Michigan’s Jake Mitchell, is seeded 12th.
In the 200 IM, 2021 champion Shaine Casas of Texas A&M has moved onto the professional ranks, and the top two seeds both hail from Arizona State University, Leon Marchand and Grant House. Marchand is the only swimmer in America who has been under 1:40 this season, and he got his first NCAA Championships off to a huge start with a 1:29.96 split anchoring the Sun Devils’ 800 freestyle relay Wednesday night. The Cal duo of Hugo Gonzalez and Destin Lasco return after placing second and third, respectively, last season, and Texas star sophomore Carson Foster is the fifth seed.
The splash-and-dash is led by a new name on the scene, Tennessee freshman Jordan Crooks, and he is seeded just ahead of LSU’s Brooks Curry, Cal’s Bjorn Seeliger (the runnerup last year) and NC State’s David Curtiss. A total of 10 swimmers have already record times under 19 seconds this season, including Texas’ Cameron Auchinachie, Virginia Tech’s Youssef Ramadan, Florida’s Adam Chaney, Virginia’s Matt Brownstead, Ohio State’s Hunter Armstrong and Arizona State’s Matt Dolan.
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