Arizona Men's Swimming and Diving Team in Eighth Place After Day One of NCAA Championships
In the championship finals of the 200 freestyle relay the Wildcats placed fifth swimming to the time of 1:18.04. Competing in the relay were junior Roland Schoeman, freshmen Eric la Fleur and Tyler Johnson and senior Jay Schryver. The Cats placed sixth in the consolation finals of the 400 medley relay, 14th overall with the time of 3:16.84. la Fleur, Schoeman, sophomore Jeff Dash and Schryver made up the 400 medley relay team.
In the consolation finals of the 500 freestyle senior Tyler Painter placed sixth (14th overall) with the time of 4:20.84. Senior Ben Anderson swam in the consolation finals of the 200 IM. Anderson also finished the race in sixth place (14th overall) at 1:47.78.
Senior Nate Dusing of Texas broke the NCAA record, the American record, the US Open record and the pool record when he swam to the time of 1:42.85 in the championship finals of tonight's 200 IM. Texas also had a relay team break all four records tonight (NCAA, American, U.S. Open and pool). The Longhorn relay team broke the records in the 400 medley relay, swimming to the time of 3:05.37.
The Stanford Cardinal 200 freestyle relay team set a new pool record when they touched the wall at 1:16.83. USC freshman Klete Keller set a pool record in the 500 free at 4:14.67. Cardinal senior Anthony Robinson also broke a pool record. Robinson broke the record in the 50 free (19.15) when he upset California's Anthony Ervin the 2000 Olympic gold medalist in the 50m free.
The second day of the 2001 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships will be tomorrow, March 25. Prelims will begin at 12 p.m. C.S.T. followed by finals at 7 p.m. C.S.T.
1) TEXAS 185 15) PENN STATE 21.5
2) STANFORD 170 16) KENTUCKY 21
3) TENNESSEE 114.5 17) VIRGINIA 18
4) SOUTHERN CAL. 85 18) INDIANA 16
5) AUBURN 83 19) ARIZONA STATE 12
6) CALIFORNIA 80 19) NORTHWESTERN 12
7) FLORIDA 68 21) COLUMBIA 11
8) ARIZONA 58 22) LOUISIANA STATE 10
9) TEXAS A&M 54 23) OHIO STATE 9
10) MICHIGAN 47 24) HARVARD 7
11) SOUTHERN METHOD. 44 25) SOUTH CAROLINA 6
12) MINNESOTA 42 26) MIAMI (FLORIDA) 5
13) GEORGIA 29 27) WISCONSIN 4
14) IOWA STATE 24 27) BRIGHAM YOUNG 4
