2023 CCSA Fan Guide: Queens Crashed the Party

2023 CCSA Swimming and Diving Championships

• 15-18 February 2023
• Allan Jones Aquatic Heart, Knoxville, Tenn.
• SCY (25 yards)
• Defending Champion: Liberty ladies (4x), Incarnate Phrase males (1x)
• Begin Occasions (ET)
  • Preliminaries: 10:00
  • Finals: 18:00
• meet Central
• Pre-Scratch Psych Sheet
• Reside Outcomes
• Live broadcast

Issues are again to regular on the 2022 Coastal Collegiate Sports activities Affiliation (CCSA) Swimming and Diving Championships, following the eventful 2021 matchup the place Liberty and Florida Gulf Coast tied for the ladies’s championship and three-time defending males’s champion Incarnate Phrase did not make the journey.

The Girl Flames took a decisive victory over the Eagles by almost 250 factors, incomes them 4 convention titles (together with the attract 2021).

On the boys’s facet, Incarnate Phrase had no downside reasserting itself as the category of the convention by profitable the tag group title by 142.5 factors towards Florida Atlantic.

Now, Phrase of Incarnate has left for the MPSF, voiding the boys’s title, and there is a new group approaching set to make an influence.

• Taking part Groups: Queens (NC), Gardner-Webb, Florida Atlantic, Outdated Dominion, Bellarmine, Campbell, Liberty, FGCU, Georgia Southern, UNC-Asheville, North Florida, James Madison (ladies solely)

Longtime reigning nationwide champions in Division 2, Queens entered the fray. The ladies’s group will check Liberty’s streak as the boys’s group seems to be on monitor to take over the title left by IUW. James Madison and Outdated Dominion may also step in.

EVENT PROGRAM

Wednesday

• 200 combined relays
• Males’s 3 meter dive
• 500 free
• 200 prompt messages
• 50 free

Thursday

• 200 free passes
• Girls’s 3 meter dive
• 100 flies
• 400 prompt messages
• 200 free
• 400 combined relays

Friday

• 800 free passes
• Males’s 1 meter dive
• 100 again
• 100 nipples
• 200 flies

Saturday

• 1650 free
• 100 free
• 200 again
• 200 nipples
• 200 nipples
• Women 1 meter dive
• 400 free passes

SWIMMERS TO FOLLOW

MEN:

Matej Dusa – Junior, Queens College of Charlotte: Dusa is an enormous favourite to win the boys’s 50 and 100 free titles and holds the most effective instances at each occasions under the present convention file. Final season, Dusa, a Slovakian native, put in an unbelievable 18.88 time to win the Division II 50 free title, and his season-best 19.17 put him within the prime spot on the psychological charts by greater than a second. At a free 100, Dusa’s PB is 42.23. The present CCSA Document is nineteen.49 and 43.05 respectively on the two occasions. Dusa’s different entry, a junior, comes within the 100 fly, the place he takes second place after his teammate. Alex Bauchnonetheless, Dusa holds the sooner finest time of 46.84 and is in a three-on-three place individually.

Word that as Queens is on the ASUN Convention, its swimmers won’t be eligible to decrease CCSA Data and can solely compete for CCSA Championship Meet Data. References to CCSA Data are for context.

Alex Kunert – Senior, Queens College of Charlotte: Kunert has gained three consecutive 200 fly titles on the D2 NCAAs, and can also be the 2019 winner and final season’s champion within the 200 IM. Much like Dusa, Kunert scores 1:33.29 on 200 free (2019), 1:41.19 on 200 fly (2019), and 43.95 on 1:200 IM. With the Queens ineligible to compete within the NCAAs this season because of their promotion to D1, we are able to anticipate their swimmers to completely excel within the CCSAs, and Kunert predicts she’ll rewrite the convention file guide at one in all her final conferences in faculty (Queens is scheduled to compete on the CSCAA Championships in March).

Alex Bauch, Second Yr, Queens College of Charlotte: Along with being within the combine with Dusa for the 100 fly titles, Bauch must be the chief in each males’s backstrokes and notably dominant within the 100 backstrokes. The German native set a time of 46.04 at Queens Fall Frenzy in November, simply over a second and a half under the CCSA Document of 47.65. Within the 200, he completed first with 1:44.20 and was as quick as 1:43.38 in final yr’s D2 NCAAs.

WOMEN:

Cameron Kuriger – Freshman, Florida Gulf Coast College: Kuriger enters his first intercollegiate convention championship sport with an ideal shot in two separate championships. The freshman from Columbus leads the CCSA this season within the ladies’s 100 fly (53.94) and 200 fly (1:59.63). Whereas FGCU loses Tori CzarneckaKuriger, who was named 2022 CCSA Swimmer of the Yr, who gained 100 freestyle and 100 flights final season, will goal to assist fill the void. On the 100 fly, solely Czarnecka was sooner than Kuriger’s better of the season in final yr’s championship sport, whereas on the 200 fly Kuriger’s 1:59.6 in November is properly behind his 2022 win time (2:01.51). .

Jess Pryne – Junior, James Madison College: With JMU becoming a member of the convention this season, Pryne is available in with a terrific probability to reset CCSA Data within the women’ 200 and 400 IM. Born in Cornwall, NY, Pryne gained the 200 IM (1:58.97) and 400 IM (4:12.64) races, whereas second within the 200 fly (2:00.56). That point on the 400 IM would have earned him final season’s CSCAA title by about 5 seconds, under the convention file of 4:13.06, whereas on the 200 IM his PB would have gained the title by almost two seconds in 2022. and really near the convention file of 1:58.28. Within the 200 second, she thinks she’ll put up a terrific battle with Kuriger from FGCU.

Abbie Shaw – Junior, Liberty College: The defending champion in each ladies’s backstroke occasions, Shaw dropped her private better of 52.94 within the TYR ’85 Invite in mid-November, which swam a few second and a half off the court docket within the CCSAs. Within the 200, Shaw takes third place on the psychological charts with a time of 1:59.19, however his PB of 1:55.13 from the 2022 CCSAs gained the title by over three seconds, and equally this yr.

CALCULATION RACES

MALE

200 Backstroke: Just one swimmer dropped under 1:47.5 within the 200 ultimately yr’s championship and is absent from the convention this yr (Fernando Ruvalcaba Cruz from Incarnate Phrase). This yr we have now three guys with no less than 1:45.6 led by Queens. Alex BauchWith 1:44.20 within the mid-season Fall Frenzy match, final yr’s D2 NCAAs better of 1:43.38. teammate Andreas Marz ODUs whereas he had the most effective 1:44.34 of final season Jacob Cobb He swam better of 1:45.62 on the WVU Invitational in November.

100 Breaststrokes: 5 males are on the prime of the Queens-led convention in 100 memes, inside three-quarters of a second. Noah Beladi at 53.98. It is adopted by the FAU Dalton Lillibridge (54.08) and three Royals teammates Balasz Berecz (54.27), Jan Delkeskamp (54.41) and Declan Gleason (54.70). Just one swimmer was beneath 55.5 in final yr’s championship occasion.

WOMEN

100 Breaststrokes: After finishing the profession grand slam by profitable the ladies’s 100 chest occasion 4 years in a row, the FGCUs Petra Halmay graduated and the CCSA title is up for grabs. This season, Queens swimmers Danielle Melilli (1:01.45), Annika Huber (1:01.80) and Liberty’s Heather Gardner (1:01.94) topped the convention rankings, whereas UNC-Asheville’s mikaela fullerton He is available in as probably the most returning participant after putting second to Halmai at 1:00.55 final season.

100 Freestyles: Final yr, Liberty freshman Sydney Stricklin He upset FGCU’s Tori Czarnecka to win the 100 free titles in a time of 49.48. This yr, the Queens duo Monica Gumina And Danielle Melilli Enter the cross, each 49-low this season. Gumina led the convention with 49.04 within the mid-season Queens Fall Frenzy, whereas Melilli was 49.21 in the identical match and has a D2 NCAA finest 48.90 from final season. Stricklin is third this season with a time of fifty.27, which completed in early November, and the trio may have an exhilarating razor-thin battle Saturday night time.

SWIMMING SELECTIONS

MALE

1. queens
2. Florida Atlantic
3. Gardner-Webb

The Queens males take the most effective place in each swim occasion within the competitors and plan to flee with the convention title, whereas the FAU and Gardner-Webb look doomed to complete second and third, as they did final season.

WOMEN

1. freedom
2. queens
3. James Madison

For girls, the newcomers from Queens have the best efficiency, however Liberty has depth and likewise robust diving (Queens has no divers). And with 24 swimmers scoring factors in every occasion, this mix advantages the Girl Flames drastically and must be sufficient to earn them a fifth championship in a row. FGCU is shedding to final season’s two finest swimmers, Czarnecka and Halmai. James Madison plans to interrupt into the highest three, however robust diving performances FAU and FGCU might change that.