Thomas Askew Sets National Record on Day 1 of the Collegiate Club Swimming Championships

2024 COLLEGE CLUB SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

A pair of Collegiate Membership Swimming data fell, a number of swimmers repeated as champions, and one upset went on the board in a busy timed-finals session on Friday night on the CCS Nationwide Championships.

Georgia’s Thomas Askew gained the lads’s 200 fly in 1:48.26, efficiently defending his title from final 12 months’s meet. That swim was virtually two seconds higher than his profitable time from final season and a second higher than his lifetime finest that was set at a regional meet final 12 months.

The opposite Meet File got here within the 400 medley relay, the place Purdue’s quartet of Zack Crowe (50.43), Fenry Zhou (55.56), Kellen Reese (47.34), and Bebe Wang (45.07) mixed for a 3:18.40. That broke the previous Meet File of three:19.23 that was set by Liberty final 12 months.

The largest upset of the day got here within the 400 IM, the place Michigan’s Katherine Blake out-touched Michigan State’s Sydney Kelly within the 400 IM 4:35.17 to 4:35.31.

Kelly, the two-time defending champion, was a member of Michigan State’s varsity workforce earlier than this system was lower. Blake, in the meantime, comes from the Rockville Montgomery Swim Membership and was an NCSA Junior Nationwide qualifier in highschool.

Kelly would bounce again later within the session to cruise to a win within the 200 fly in 2:07.45, virtually three seconds forward of the sector.

Different Day 1 Winners:

The defending champion Virginia ladies opened their meet with a dominant 7:53.71 in thee 800 free relay. That relay included Ciara Graves, Marlee Reinhard, Elizabeth Miller, and Anna Sheng, with Sheng anchoring in 1:52.76. The Cavalier ladies bookended their session with a win within the 400 medley relay in 3:58.08 – albeit in a much-tighter battle. This time, Ohio State was simply behind in 3:58.41. Virginia’s relay included Elizabeth Miller, Ciara Graves, Gabriela Belsol, and Anna Sheng.
The Georgia Tech males gained the 800 free relay gained in 6:44.68 with a relay that included Ryan Altera, Louis Cardot, Grant Goding, and Vojtech Kupka. Altera, a former finalist on the USA Swimming Futures Championships and Georgia Excessive Faculty State Championships, led off in 1:39.89.
Grand Canyon’s Tim Koza efficiently defended his title within the 400 IM, touching in 3:59.70 – simply .2 seconds shy of his CCS File from final season. Altera was 2nd in 3:59.89.
Rachel Soubier, swimming in her first School Membership Championship after a season with the Panthers varsity, gained the 200 again in 2:04.00. That was greater than 5 seconds away from the sector.
Liberty’s Drew Baxter gained a nailbiter within the males’s 200 again, touching in 1:48.18. He held-off a giant remaining 50 cut up of 28.14 from Penn State’s Ryan Strotheide, who touched a tenth behind in 1:48.28.
Grand Canyon’s Isabella Parish, who entered the meet as a giant favourite in each breaststroke occasions, gained the 200 in 2:21.07 on Saturday. That’s a brand new lifetime finest, shaving .16 seconds off her time from the Arizona Swimming LSC Senior Championships in March.
One other nailbiter race got here within the males’s 200 breaststroke between Cal teammates John Sita and Joaquin Jamieson. Sita, primarily a distance freestyler for many of his profession, dropped 5 seconds off his finest time to win in 2:01.73; Jamieson was simply behind in 2:01.85.