Florida Males’s Swim into NCAA Favourite Standing within the four-hundredth Medley Relay
There’s not a lot the Florida males’s swimming and diving crew would not do on the NCAA scene. In the course of the pristine decade of dominating the SEC with Olympians and NCAA report holders, Gators has been within the higher shell of school packages.
However the occasions of the boys’s 400 medley relay on the Texas A&M Scholar Leisure Aquatic Middle on Friday night time take issues to a different degree.
Florida’s quad Adam Chaney, Dillon Hillis, Josh Liendo And Macguire McDuff went 2:59.48 to win the occasion. It is an SEC report and an SEC Championships report and buzz inside 1 / 4 of a NCAA report.
How shortly it occurred then is arguably extra spectacular than what Florida has mentioned about its schedule.
The primary is time jumps. Previous to final season, the SEC report had been frozen amber for the reason that tremendous match days of the 2009 NCAA Championship, held by Auburn at 3:01.39. The Gators landed under this at 3:01:00 on the NCAAs, then the report fully skipped 3:00 to press the NCAA mark (2:59.22) set by Texas in 2017.
Surprisingly, just one particular person remained from final yr’s crew, Chaney. They misplaced a star anchor leg kieran smith till commencement, however the center two legs have been changed from the within whereas successful the occasion three years in a row.
Comparability of divisions:
2022 (3:00:00)
- Adam Chaney 44.43
- Dillon Hill 51.20
- Eric Friese 44.41
- Kieran Smith 40.96
2023 (2:59.48)
- Adam Chaney 44.17
- Dillon Hill 50.63
- Josh Liendo 43.35
- Macguire McDuff 41.33
Though McDuff was somewhat slower on the anchor than Smith, the opposite legs greater than made up for it. Notably noteworthy is the year-to-year enchancment (Hillis, Chaney) and the power to advertise from throughout the crew (Liendo for Friese). Three members of this yr’s crew are from the decrease class. The one upcoming departure is fifth-year senior Hillis, who has earned 100 chests, however she is probably going to get replaced. Alexas Savickas, freshman who positioned second in that occasion, .05 again.
SEC, SEC MEETS AND SCHOOL RECORD 🔥
Males’s 400 Medley Relay Last:
1. Florida – 2:59.48 🥇
Chaney, Hillis, Liendo, McDuff3 instances defensive champion 🐊 pic.twitter.com/bPDTPbhxmN
— Gators Swimming & Diving (@GatorsSwimDv) February 18, 2023
Florida males have an enormous alternative this yr. The Gators gained 200 medley relays and 200 freestyle relays on the NCAAs a season in the past, bringing the full variety of nationwide relay championships to 12. They continue to be favorites within the 200 freestyle relays, with SEC instances inside 0.06 of one other Auburn 2009 report. Florida hasn’t gained the 400 medley since 1991 and was quicker on Friday (3:00.36) than Cal used to win the NCAAs final yr. Cal introduced again three of final season’s swimmers, whereas 4 from runner-up Indiana additionally returned.
This second is non permanent. Because the Olympic yr approaches, Liendo is prone to really feel pressured to put on a purple shirt in Canada; the identical goes for Savickas, one in every of Lithuania’s greatest swimmers. However earlier than that chaos subsides subsequent yr, the Gators have an opportunity to make historical past.
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