2018-2019 Season: Men's Swimming

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Pac-12 announces men's swimmer and diver of the week




SAN FRANCISCO - The Conference office announced today that Daniel Carr of CALIFORNIA was named Pac-12 Men's Swimmer of the Week and ARIZONA STATE's David Hoffer was voted Pac-12 Men's Diver of the Week.


Men's Swimmer of the Week: Daniel Carr, So., California (Colorado Springs, Colo.)

Carr helped Cal sweep a pair of road dual meets against No. 14 Arizona State and No. 21 Arizona with two first place finishes and two second-place finishes. The standout sophomore swept the 100-yard backstroke events with a 47.25 time in Tempe and 47.67 time in Tucson, and took home second in the 200-yard backstroke events, as well. Carr helped the No. 1-ranked Bears improve to 4-0 in dual meet action with just two dual meets remaining before the Pac-12 Championships, March 6-9. Carr was also recently named to the USA Swimming Pan American Games roster in Peru, which takes place this August, where he will compete in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke. This marks his first weekly or monthly Pac-12 swimming honor.
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NCAA QUALIFIERS: WHO'S (PROBABLY) IN AND WHO HAS WORK TO DO?

For elite teams, conference meets serve as somewhat of a warm up for nationals. They don't fully taper their stars because they already secured nationals qualification earlier in the year. Which teams are in a position to rest less changes every year based on who has put up fast times already.

We can get an idea of which teams can comfortably avoid resting and which will have to drop everyone to obtain cuts by looking at how swimmer's times so far this year compare to the projected nationals cuts I published last week.

To categorize times' chances of getting in this year I called times that have been faster than the lower bound of the projected cut range in an event "Safe In." Times in the confidence interval and faster than the projected cut are called "Bubble In," and times in the confidence interval but slower than the projected cut are called "Bubble Out."

The men are led by Cal who have 10 swimmers with at least 1 Safe In time, and 3 swimmers with Bubble In times. Texas are next with 9 Safe In swimmers, 3 Bubble In swimmers, and 5 Bubble Out swimmers.



COLLEGE | SAFE IN | BUBBLE IN | BUBBLE OUT
California | 10 | 3 | 0
Texas | 9 | 3 | 5
Michigan | 7 | 2 | 0
Stanford | 5 | 2 | 3
Indiana | 4 | 1 | 2
Florida | 3 | 0 | 4
Georgia Tech | 3 | 0 | 0
Alabama | 2 | 0 | 1
Arizona | 2 | 1 | 0
Arizona St | 2 | 0 | 0
Georgia | 2 | 2 | 0
Missouri | 2 | 1 | 5
Missouri St. | 2 | 0 | 0
NC State | 2 | 2 | 1
Notre Dame | 2 | 0 | 0
Southern Cali | 2 | 1 | 3
Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 1
Virginia | 2 | 0 | 0


| California | SAFE IN | BUBBLE IN | BUBBLE OUT
| Carr, Daniel | 1 | 1 | -
| Grieshop, Sean | - | 1 | 2
| Hoffer, Ryan | 1 | 1 | 1
| Jensen, Michael | 1 | - | 1
| Julian, Trenton | - | 1 | 1
| Mefford, Bryce | 1 | 1 | -
| Norman, Nick | 1 | - | 1
| Quah, Zheng | 1 | 1 | -
| Sand, Carson | - | 1 | -
| Seliskar, Andrew | 5 | - | -
| Sendyk, Pawel | 2 | - | -
| Thomas, Mike | 1 | 2 | -
| Whitley, Reece | 2 | - | -
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Looking at the 2018-2019 top times, it seems Chris Jhong seems to have a B cut but most likely in the bubble out bucket with the best chance in the 400IM with a 347.99 (B cut 3:51.46).

Excluding divers how many swimmers can be taken - 17?. Texas already has 17 swimmer & I'm sure they will have a number of divers that will qualify which mean a number of their swimmers will most likely kept home.
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Bryce Mefford and the Bears host USC on Friday at Spieker Aquatics Complex.

Bears Back Home To Face USC

Cal Swims At Spieker For First Time Since October

BERKELEY - The Cal men's swimming and diving team will make its first appearance at Spieker Aquatics Complex since early October when it hosts USC in a dual meet on Friday. The Bears last swam in Berkeley on Oct. 10, when they defeated Utah 191-100 in a Pac-12 dual. Friday marks the first of two dual meets at Spieker to close out the regular season. The Bears will also host Stanford on Feb. 23 before preparing for their championships segment of the season.

WHAT'S NEXT

The Bears will host Stanford on Feb. 23 to close out the 2018-19 regular season. It will also serve as Senior Day with Nick Norman, Carson Sand, Andrew Seliskar, Ken Takahashi and Mike Thomas all competing at Spieker Aquatics Complex for the final time as undergrads. Cal Diving begins the postseason at the Pac-12 Championships from Feb. 27 to March 2 and the swimmers head to Pac-12s from March 6-9 with both meets taking place in Federal Way, Wash. NCAA Zone E Diving Championships take place March 11-13 in Flagstaff, Ariz. and the 2019 NCAA Championships are set for March 27-30 in Austin, Texas.

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Pac-12 Weekly Preview: USC Men Face Cal, Stanford; Arizona-ASU Looms


Andrew Seliskar

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NCAA WEEKLY PREVIEW #12: WHAT COLLEGE MEETS TO WATCH THIS WEEK


Andrew Seliskar leads the Cal Bears to Los Angeles for a dual meet against USC on Friday. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography

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OBear073akaSMFan said:

Excluding divers how many swimmers can be taken - 17?. Texas already has 17 swimmer & I'm sure they will have a number of divers that will qualify which mean a number of their swimmers will most likely kept home.


Teams can take a total of 18 athletes to NCAAs. Divers count as 0.5 and swimmers count as 1. If a team has two scoring divers and more than 17 scoring swimmers, makes sense to take two divers if projected points are equal and the marginal swimmers can't contribute on relays.
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Junior Zheng Quah was a double-winner on Friday.

Bears Roll Past Trojans


Cal Overcomes Elements In Impressive Afternoon Of Racing

Results



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February power rankings from SwimSwam on the men's side:
https://swimswam.com/2018-2019-mens-ncaa-power-rankings-february-edition/

#5: MICHIGAN WOLVERINES (prev. #5)
#4: NC STATE WOLFPACK (prev. #4)
#3: INDIANA HOOSIERS (prev. #3)

#2: CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (PREVIOUS RANK: #2)

Cal is just too tough a team for me to not have them #1. There isn't a single hole in their swimming roster, and there are several events where they are insanely deep. I expect February to be Cal's month, in regards to Cal vs Texas, mostly because their conference meet is much more competitive than the Big 12. -SP

Cal versus Texas is really splitting hairs right now. I'm hoping I'm not underestimating what Texas's divers can do, and with Hugo Gonzalez still an unknown, there's not much between these teams. Yes, Texas is known for not swimming fast in-season. No, we can't make too many conclusions from in-season swimming from any one team. But, my word, has Cal been laying down the gauntlet (especially Mr. Seliskar). -KO

I'm notoriously slow to change my #1 vote, but Cal isn't making it easy this time around. I have a sneaking suspicion this sophomore class will take the leap from "surprisingly strong rookie contributors" to "bona fide NCAA studs." For reference, that class includes Ryan Hoffer, Daniel Carr, Sean Grieshop, Bryce Mefford and Trenton Julian. If three of those five are scoring 40+ points individually, watch out. -JA

Still can't do anything at the top until we know about Hugo Gonzalez and whether-or-not he'll be eligible this season at Cal. -BK

I see Texas having a slight lead (see below), but if Hugo Gonzalez does show up for Cal, he could/should provide enough points to swing things for Cal. -RG

#1: TEXAS LONGHORNS (PREVIOUS RANK: #1)
I've still got the Cal swimmers scoring about 60-70 more swimming points than Texas, but I'm assuming that the Texas divers are capable of once again scoring 80 points and securing the Longhorns' 5th-straight swimming and diving title. Once again, it looks like there will no room for error by either team. -RG

All five of our rankers are holding fast on their #1 votes, leaving Texas with a narrow 3-2 advantage. For my part, it's hard to overstate two pieces of this 2018-2019 Texas crew: the rise of Charlie Scheinfeld at what's been the team's clear weak point for several years, and just how many points their diving group will score (last year it was 81). -JA

If there's no eleventh hour appearance from Hugo Gonzalez, which there may well not be, Texas is probably favored slightly. Maybe? It's looking like Bush-Gore 2000. -KO

Texas has a lot of freshmen they're relying on this season. Good news for them, is they have one of the best groups of freshmen I have ever seen. -SP
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Seli !!!

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Pac-12 announces men's swimmer and diver of the week



Men's Swimmer of the Week: Andrew Seliskar, Sr., California (McLean, Va.)

Seliskar helped No. 1 California to a dominant 156-126 dual meet win over No. 10 USC at Spieker Aquatics Complex with three wins in three different strokes. He was the only triple-winner at the meet with first-place finishes in the 200 freestyle (1:33.77), 200 breaststroke (1:53.48) and 200 individual medley (1:44.07), while also swimming a leg on the 200 medley relay team that finished second. The win over the Trojans improved the Bears' dual meet record to 5-0 with one matchup remaining against Stanford this season before the Pac-12 Championships, March 6-9. The senior studying environmental economics and policy will compete at the 2019 FINA World Championships in South Korea, which takes place this July, where he will compete in the 200-meter freestyle. Seliskar earns his first Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week honor, but has previously won two Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors, once earlier this season for the competition month of November and once as a sophomore.

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Seliskar Named Pac-12 Swimmer Of The Week



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The Bears will swim at Spieker Aquatics Complex for the final time this season on Saturday.

Bears Host Stanford On Senior Day

Cal To Honor Its Six Seniors Before Meet Against Rival Cardinal

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No. 1 Cal set to end season with dual meet versus No. 7 Stanford




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The Bears honored their senior class in a pre-meet ceremony on Saturday.

Seniors Lead Bears Past Stanford In Home Finale

Seliskar Wins Twice; Three Pool Records Fall


RESULTS
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The Senior Ceremony was nice, but very low key. Was pointed out that the Bears have finished in the top two at NCAAs for nine consecutive years. The intros were deliberately crafted to accurately reflect each senior's unique personalities. Discussed Seli's and Sand's band Fish Religion, Thomas' standing in the Philly posse and love for the Eagles, and Takaahisi's quiet determination. Was both touching and goofy, and foreshadowed a meet where a chill confident team was all business in the pool, but dominated with considerable swag, joy, and style.

Durden has built a monster juggernaut. Zero holes in any strokes, great relays, and a lot of versatility. Diving's still a concern (moreso at NCAAs), but even the diving points were fairly even with LSJU.

Seli is a beast, can swim anything (relays or individually). Set pool records in the 200 Fly and the 200 Free Relay. Relay was effectively over when Jensen took over the anchor after Seli's leg. When Seli was on the blocks for the 100 Fly (his final individual race in Berkeley), he broke the tension by looking at his teammates on the pool deck and cracked them up with a modified Haka/Kiss face. He bulged his eyes and stuck out a disturbingly long tongue.

Reece is a ginormous human being. I've seen tall swimmers and cut water polo players before, but not the combination. He's like an NBA Power Foward or an NFL rush Defensive End. If he were a hockey player, he'd be the best defenseman of all-time. No Canucks or Euros could reach high enough to pull his jersey over his head in a fight and he'd just calmly throw them over the glass. Thank Oski he's channeled his gifts into more positive good: a blue and gold machine who will make Snots, Condoms, and 'Whorns cry. Can't wait to see what he does when fully tapered at NCAAs.

Best race of the day was the 400 IM. Grieshop blew away the field. Very tight race for second between Takahashi and Liang. Bear Bros were going crazy over Grieshop's time and because they love and respect Takahashi. A really humble, pious guy who's universally beloved across the swimming world. Even though, Liang out touched him, Durden gave Ken a big hug for his race and all he's done for the program. Best Cal swims I've seen from both Grieshop and Ken.

Not complaining, but there weren't too many other close races. Bears frequently went 1/2 or 1/2/3 with plenty of open water. Great racing by Norman, Pawel, Quah, and Carr. Always though Julian was a flyer, but he swam very well in both the 1000 and 500 Frees. Hoffer swam really well in the 50 Free and was seriously stoked with the win.

Durden lets the Seniors choose their races. Sand won the 100 Breast and swam well in the 200 Breast. Following his warm down, he briefly went AWOL. Went up into the stands to hang with his mom for a bit, chatted with his little sisters, hung out with Maggie Gallagher, and saluted the large Young Alumni Bear Bro Council.

Murphy, Prenot, Lynch, and a bunch of their former teammates took it all in. Game recognizes game, so they have mad respect for Seli and Reece. They also are impressed with Pavel, Hoffer, and their boy Jenny.

At one point, saw Cal legend Par Arvidsson walk up to the top of the bleachers. Thought he wanted to hang out with Alumni, but he was just a proud, anxious swim dad, who wanted a better perspective to watch his son Karl race. Karl swam pretty well. Even a stoic Swede briefly flashed a sheepish smile when his accolades were noted (world record holder, Olympic Champion), but he was all about Karl.

Didn't see Matt Biondi, but sure he was there. Nate's really coming on and looked pretty good. Was also funny to see Julian's parents (both Trojan swim royalty) decked out in blue and gold going nuts during Trenton's gutty races.

Hugo was there with the team on the pool deck, but not listed on the roster. Tall, but extremely skinny.

Pretty much the entire Women's team was there. Izzy strolled in Billy. Couldn't have picked a better role model/mentor in and out of the pool. McL and Jenna were greeting Orange County/SoCal and PASA Parents. Abbey was the last one in and her hair was still wet. No way she'll be even remotely tapered for PACs.

Really fun day of racing. May not beat the 'Whorns in Austin, but certainly won't be intimidated. Very loose, likable team that gets the job done while having a blast. Wouldn't bet against them.
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I was fortunate enough to be in the stands for the Cal-Stanford Big Swim. BD offered his usual helpful insight into the classic beat down of a talented Stanford squad that had dismantled USC two weeks ago. While Cal was a heavy favorite going into Saturday's meet, I also was on the Farm last year when Stanford upset the Bear's, so it was satisfying to witness a dominating performance in front of a large home crowd at Spieker. A few additional comments:

1) Trenton Julian finished 2nd in both the 1000 and 500, out swimming the more highly touted True Sweetser in both events. Julian looks set to swim the 500 free, 400 IM and 200 Fly at NCAAs, which is a very demanding slate. I happened to be sitting with Trenton's aunt and uncle who I initially thought were his parents. Nice folks who I hope to see at future events.

2) Daniel Carr (100 back) and Bryce Mefford (200 back) continue to shine this year and should be able to score in both events at NCAAs, but that would mean that Mefford, who placed 8th last year in the 200 free opts to swim the 100 back, where he currently holds the 8th best time this season.

3) Senior Carson Sand had a fine meet, winning the 100 breast by out touching teammate Reece Whitley, and being part of the winning 200 medley relay squad.

4) Jack Levant won the only two swimming events (500 and 200 free) for the Cards, ably filling in for star Grant Shoults who had shoulder surgery in early January. Their top sprinter from last year, Venezuelan Alberto Mestre was also a no-show and has yet to swim this season for Stanford.

5) One of the bearant's I spoke with offered that Hugo Gonzalez's ability to swim this season is being delayed since his former coach, Sergio Lopez is refusing to give the swimmer a release. It kinda sucks that Lopez can leave Auburn for VTech but stick it to a swimmer who prefers not to relocate to Blacksburg.

6) We are really going to need an in-form Gonzalez next year as we lose a ton of talent in the departing seniors (Seli, Thomas, Norman and Sand) and we have relatively thin classes in 2018 and 2019. BTW, Youtube has Durden's comments on the current seniors as they were entering as freshmen in 2015. Amazing that they all stayed to graduate together, even with David Puczkowski taking leave "to serve his country".

7) Slightly disappointed that the band was MIA but they played at the women's meet last week.

Should be an exciting NCAAs with health, nerves and tapers playing a huge role in the final results. Purdue diver Steele Johnson's (best sports name?) recent injury must be considered a boost for Texas.
I'm hoping that Seli's likely move to swim the 200 free versus the 400 IM at NCAAs improves his chances of finally winning gold in either the 200 IM, 200 free or 200 breast, his likely NCAA individual event lineup. Swimming two 200 frees on day 3 is no picnic, but has to be less taxing than swimming two 400 IMs.
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Andrew Seliskar, Noah Vigran Earn Pac-12 Weekly Honors

Men's Swimmer of the Week: Andrew Seliskar, Sr., California (McLean, Va.)

In his final home dual meet, Seliskar led No. 1 California past rival No. 7 Stanford with three victories and a new Spieker Aquatics Complex pool record in the 200-yard butterfly with a winning time of 1:41.89. It is the 12th-best mark in the event in Division I this season, behind teammates Michael Thomas (1:41.29) and Zheng Quah, who holds the best time in the nation at 1:39.29. Seliskar was a part of the Bears' 200-yard freestyle relay team that set a new pool standard with a time of 1:17.75. He was the only multiple winner at the dual meet, helping improve Cal's record to 6-0 before the Pac-12 Men's Swimming Championships, March 6-9. Seliskar looks to follow up last year's performance at the Conference Championships where he earned Pac-12 Swimmer of the Meet honors after winning two individual titles and setting Pac-12 Championships records in both the 400-yard individual medley (3:38.65) and 200-yard breaststroke (1:51.30). The senior studying environmental economics and policy earns his second-straight Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week honor and has previously won two Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors, once earlier this season for the competition month of November and once as a sophomore.

ALSO NOMINATED:
Swimmer:
Jack Levant, STANFORD; Kyle Grissom, USC; Daniel McArthur, UTAH.

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Tate Jackson only swam 200 medley relay and 50y prelim at Big12 and skipped the rest of the meet.
He is arguably the most important member of the 2019 UT team.
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Tate Jackson only swam 200 medley relay and 50y prelim at Big12 and skipped the rest of the meet.
He is arguably the most important member of the 2019 UT team.

Coach Eddie playing possum again with Tate, who has current top time in 100 free and is #2 in the 50 free. No need for Tate to show-off in conference meet, but his 18.81 anchor leg in the 200 medley suggests he is in-form.

Tate will score big in the free sprints and factor in 4 relays, but he will need a big drop to score in a third event (100 fly?). Haas likely scores more individual points in his event line-up, likely 500 free, 200 free and 100 free, but should swim in only two relays (800 and 400 free).

Must not overlook the addition of frosh breaststroker Charlie Scheinfeld, who has a top 5 time in the 100 breast and is a huge addition to the Whorn's medley relay teams.
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Nicely written SW article...


Reece Whitley Powers Cal Into Pac-12 Championship


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Can neva eva get enuff of Seli's flexin'...



Blue Collar Swimmer: Andrew Seliskar

Cal's Humble Superstar
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Oh well - what might have been @ 2019 NCAAs (but as most of us had suspected by now)...

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NCAA RULES HUGO GONZALEZ ELIGIBLE TO SWIM FOR CAL THIS FALL

In September, Lopez told SwimSwam's Torrey Hart that Gonzalez had not trained with Virginia Tech, which would make it easier for Gonzalez to be immediately eligible to compete for Cal.

SwimSwam has been told that while this is true, NCAA rules state that if a student is enrolled full-time on the first day of classes, that is the same net-effect of attending class. While Gonzalez tried to unenroll from classes before the first day, because of safeguard systems in place at Virginia Tech designed to prevent students from unintentionally going below full-time enrollment, he was unable to unenroll before the first day of classes.

Evidence presented to the NCAA supports the claim that he never attended class, which apparently is part of the reason that the NCAA also ruled that he will eligible in the fall, rather than having to sit out until the spring of 2020.

The silver lining is that, according to Durden, Gonzalez's brief stay at Virginia Tech will not cost him a year of eligibility, so he will be able to compete for three years at Cal, taking through him the 2022 season.

While in the long term, Cal will add another elite swimmer to their star-studded roster, in the short term having Gonzalez this season would've been a huge boost for Cal's chances of ending Texas's streak of four-consecutive titles. Anything close to his times at last year' SECs could net Cal roughly 40 points, and this year is shaping up to be another tight battle at NCAAs, just as it was last year, when the Longhorns topped the Bears by only 11.5 points.

Cal's championship season gets under way tomorrow, as the Pac 12 Championships begin in Federal Way, WA.

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Re Hugo

This sucks

Not unexpected ruling by NCAA, but overly technical for my biased taste. The NCAA guys appear to concede Hugo not only did not attend classes, but tried to dis-enroll before classes started.
So while the NCAA come down on Hugo and Cal, the SEC continues to pay football and basketball players to play. Hugo's mistake was not playing basketball for Kentucky or football for Bama.

https://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-basketball/2012/7/2/3131744/charles-barkley-auburn-dirk-nowitki-recruit

Even with Hugo, the NCAAs were too close to call. Now, the Texas diving edge appears too much, barring injuries.

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Even with Hugo, the NCAAs were too close to call. Now, the Texas diving edge appears too much, barring injuries.

Good news is, our incoming Bear Bro IM/Back/Breaststrokers (Jason Louser (IM/Breast), Jacques Lauffer (Breast), Will Pelton (Back)) have an excellent training partner for 3 years.

Bad news, if we lose NCs to the Horns under some small and uncanny margin that was too close and too good to be true... Hugo would probably have made a huge difference in that.
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Carrying on from this thread: 2019 Men's Pac-12 Swim&Dive Champs...haven't had a chance to go thru the 2019 NCAA pre-selection psych sheet, but here's the info - SS will be publishing a more detailed series of articles once they have crunched all the numbers, no doubt!

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NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP MEN'S PRE-SELECTION LISTS ARE POSTED

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2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Pre-Selection Psych Sheets Released: Seliskar in 200 IM, 200 Free, 200 Breast



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PROJECTING THE CUTLINE: 2019 MEN'S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

In a calculation that will delight bubble swimmers across the country, SwimSwam's Andrew Mering has calculated that all swimmers ranked 30th-or-better in an event nationally this season will be invited to the NCAA Championships.

The Texas men lead the way with a whopping 20 invited swimmers. They are only allowed to take 18 of those, so they'll have to cut 2 today (which will change these invite lists), and they'd have to cut a further 2 in order to bring the 3 divers that they qualified on Monday at the Zone D Championships.

RANK | SCHOOL | # OF INVITEES
1 | Texas | 20
2 | Florida | 15
3 | California | 14
4 | Missouri | 12
4 | Stanford | 12
6 | Michigan | 11
6 | Virginia | 11
8 | Indiana | 10
8 | NC State | 10
10 | Georgia | 9

SWIMMER | EVENT | SEED
Seliskar, Andrew | 200 Breast | 1
Quah, Zheng | 200 Fly | 2
Thomas, Mike | 400 IM | 2
Whitley, Reece | 200 Breast | 3
Sendyk, Pawel | 50 Free | 3
Mefford, Bryce | 200 Back | 5
Norman, Nick | 1650 Free | 6
Carr, Daniel | 200 Back | 7
Hoffer, Ryan | 50 Free | 7
Arvidsson, Karl | 200 Breast | 9
Grieshop, Sean | 400 IM | 9
Jensen, Michael | 100 Free | 11
Julian, Trenton | 500 Free | 17
Sand, Carson | 100 Breast | 25

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SCORING OUT THE 2019 MEN'S NCAA DIVISION I PRE-SELECTION PSYCH SHEETS

While no cut lines have been made official, we can still score out the psych sheet pretty reliably the cut line usually falls somewhere around 30, meaning the top 16 seeds should be unaffected. Our resident numbers expert Andrew Mering has already tallied up the points, setting up the true Texas-Cal-Indiana showdown we've all been waiting for.

The big wrinkle not included in these projections is diving. Texas scored 81 diving points last year, and should return all 81 after their top three divers qualified for NCAAs yesterday. Indiana scored 98 diving points a year ago, but did graduate 36 of them with Michael Hixon. Cal didn't score any dive points, but did have one diver qualify for the meet he's booked a repeat qualification this year.

SCHOOL | PSYCH POINTS | INDIVIDUAL | RELAY | TOP 16 RANKED INDIVIDUAL SWIMS


California | 402 | 256 | 146 | 21
Indiana | 354 | 204 | 150 | 17
Texas | 311 | 188 | 123 | 17
NC State | 253 | 123 | 130 | 13
Florida | 245 | 125 | 120 | 16
Michigan | 234 | 164 | 70 | 13
Alabama | 192.5 | 60.5 | 132 | 6
Louisville | 189 | 66 | 123 | 9
Missouri | 151.5 | 43.5 | 108 | 6
Tennessee | 133 | 65 | 68 | 5
Ohio St | 130 | 54 | 76 | 6
Florida St | 111.5 | 29.5 | 82 | 4
Virginia | 82 | 58 | 24 | 8
Arizona | 81 | 57 | 24 | 6
Southern Cali | 70 | 38 | 32 | 3
Georgia | 66.5 | 66.5 | 0 | 7
Minnesota | 65.5 | 59.5 | 6 | 4
Texas A&M | 64 | 16 | 48 | 3
Stanford | 60 | 42 | 18 | 8
Arizona St | 52.5 | 36.5 | 16 | 4

Cal leads the way in both points and individual scoring swims, but Texas and IU should both make up serious ground on diving. Adding in returning diving points from last year would have IU winning by 14 over Cal, with Texas 10 points back of California.

Texas will also have to make some roster decisions. They've got 20 men invited, but the roster caps them at 18. Complicating matters is that the 20-person figure is swimmers only and doesn't include their three divers. Since the divers are all returning scorers, it seems pretty likely all three will make the roster. Divers count as half an athlete towards the 18-person roster cap, so Texas will essentially have to cut four swimmers leaving home four men who were invited to NCAAs, but can't fit on Texas's roster.

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2019 NCAA MEN'S DIVISION I PSYCH SHEETS POSTED


The official psych sheets for the 2019 Men's NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships have been released.

The cut line is in the middle of line 31, meaning all of the 30th-ranked athletes got in, while a handful of 31st ranks made the invite cut as well.
A few key changes have shaken up our invite projections a bit. First of all, Texas has already culled its swimming entries down a bit. We had 20 Texas swimmers projected to make the invite cut, which would go over the NCAA roster cap of 18. It appears Texas has cut freshman Andrew Koustik and junior Josh Artmann. We had Koustik projected to make the invite cut in the 200 fly, but he was the team's lowest invited seed at 28th. Artmann was projected 25th in the 200 back. Texas did choose to keep 27th-seeded 500 freestyler JohnThomas Larson on the roster, along with 24th-seeded 200 flyer Max Holter and 24th-seeded miler Jack Collins.

Texas will have to make more cuts in the coming weeks, though. They've qualified 3 divers for NCAAs already through the Zone D Championships. Divers count as half a roster spot, so Texas will need to either cut 2 more swimmers or 1 swimmer and 1 diver.

45 teams had athletes get invited in swimming. Texas leads with 18 (currently). Florida has 15 swimming invitees, Cal has 14, Missouri, Virginia and Stanford 12 each and Michigan and NC State 11 each. Indiana is the other double-digit invite team with 10.


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Official Psych Sheets for 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships Posted: Line at 30, 31


Alternates:
  • 10. Ethan Young, California, 100 Back

  • Scoring Projections (based on psych sheets)
    • California, 402
    • Indiana, 354
    • Texas, 312
    • NC State, 253
    • Florida, 245
    • Michigan, 234
    • Alabama, 192.5
    • Louisville, 188
    • Missouri, 161.5
    • Tennessee, 133
    • Ohio State, 130
    • Florida State, 111.5
    • Virginia, 82
    • Arizona, 81
    • Southern Cal, 70
    • Georgia, 66.5
    • Minnesota, 65.5
    • Texas A&M, 64
    • Stanford, 60
    • Arizona State, 52.5

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    DOLFIN SWIM OF THE WEEK: CAL SEEKING 100 FREE REDEMPTION



    Last season, a valiant Cal charge for the national title was soured by one off event: the 100 free. But a solid Pac-12 performance out of the returning sprint group has Cal primed for 2019 redemption. Archive photo via Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com

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    Jonathan Robinson came in 5th in the platform followed by Callahan in 6th place. I believe in platform they are taking the top 6 divers. Callahan had previously qualified in the 1 meter too. So it looks like we will have 2 divers in the NCAA championship.

    Men Platform (6 Dives)
    Diver Team PlaceScore

    Noah Vigran STAN 1 734.00

    Youssef Selim ASU 2 729.55

    David Hoffer ASU 3 657.65

    Johan Sandell HAWA 4 655.90

    Jonathan Robinson CAL 5 626.00

    Connor Callahan CAL 6 624.70

    Jesse Cawley UNLV 7 622.25

    Casey Ponton ARIZ 8 593.60

    Daniel Theriault UTAH 9 591.15

    Nathan Gonzales BYU 10 590.60



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    2018-2019 NCAA Men's Power Rankings: Final Edition



    #2: CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS (PREVIOUS RANK: #2)
    And here we are again, pretty much the exact same place we were last year. Cal will score the most swimming points at NCAAs by far, and again, the question is will it be enough this time? Their returners from last year are looking to be in good position to be even faster this year, and the addition of Reece Whitley should be huge. Cal's even improved notably in what was their worst relay: the 800 free. At Pac-12s, they swam over 2 seconds faster than their fastest time from last season, and did so without Bryce Mefford, who was a 200 free A finalist at NCAAs last year. -SP

    Cal has one of the bigger rosters at NCAAs with the most projected swimming scorers (based on psych sheets) and the most projected swimming points. One guy who could have a massive impact relative to seed: sophomore Trenton Julian, who is seeded to score zero points but is 17th in the 500 free, 18th in the 200 fly and dropped a full second from seed at NCAAs last year in his 200 fly. -JA

    Cal has such a talented roster, and they can still make this a very competitive meet. Their 200 strokers are very good, and a final day charge could make things interesting. -KO

    From top to the bottom, this is the deepest swim team in the NCAA, with multiple potential scorers in almost every event. If Texas falters at all, Cal would end up winning by a fairly wide margin. -RG

    #1: TEXAS LONGHORNS (PREVIOUS RANK: #1)

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    Cheering on our Bear Bros, and kudos to them and coaches Durden and Kreitler for their hard work this season! One more week till the big dance.
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    HBear said:

    Cheering on our Bear Bros, and kudos to them and coaches Durden and Kreitler for their hard work this season! One more week till the big dance.
    Results are in, over at the 2019 NCAA Championships (Men's Swim/Dive) thread: https://bearinsider.com/forums/5/topics/87614/5

    (SPOILERS: Bears won!!! )
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    Glad that with all of the content that SwimSwam keeps churning out, I don't yet to have grasp the reality that the swim season is over... plus, given that the men's meet concluded just last week, I'm sure SS will put out a few more recruiting-in-hindsight articles reflecting upon individual scorers and graduating classes, as per the women's side this week.

    20 HEADLINES FOR 20 TEAMS AT THE 2019 MEN'S NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS, here:



    Love a good photo featuring the stacked sophomore class!
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    REVISITING NCAA RECRUIT RANKINGS: MEN'S HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2015



    Ft. top two recruits Haas and Seli ... Andrew originally ranked as #1, with 192 points over his 4 years, and Townley ranked #2, with 198 points over his career, though as SwimSwam adds, "But any argument between the two is a pretty classic case of nit-picking. They were the top two scorers in the class by at least 60 points, and both won multiple NCAA titles Haas won six overall, three each in the 200 free and 500 free. Seliskar won three overall, all in his senior year. Both were massive relay weapons and both led their teams to an NCAA points title."

    (Plus, unbiased opinion obviously, but what a stellar end to Seliskar's time as a collegiate Bear with 3 individual titles and a team NCAA title to boot!)
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    REVISITING NCAA RECRUIT RANKINGS: MEN'S HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2015

    MEN'S RECRUITING CLASS RANKS REVISITED: TOP 12 SCHOOLS FOR 2016-2019

    2. CAL GOLDEN BEARS

    Top-tier Additions: #1 Andrew Seliskar, #3 Michael Thomas, Carson Sand, #18 Nick Norman
    The rest: David Puczkowski, Ken Takahashi
    • NCAA finishes over 4 years: #2, #2, #2, #1
    • Number of NCAA scorers in class: 4/6
    This class very much lived up to the hype. The four top additions ended up combining for 300 individual points. Seliskar was the best swimmer in the nation in his senior season. Both Thomas and Norman needed a year or two to break into NCAA scoring, but made up for it after that with double-digit outputs. Sand also scored in each of his final two seasons. Takahashi was an individual invitee one season. All six of these men remained on the roster through their senior seasons.

    RE-RANKING THE CLASSES

    Certainly individual points don't encapsulate everything a recruiting class brings to a program over four years. But they are the easiest way to rank the classes against each other four years later.

    And our new top 12, purely in terms of individual NCAA points:

    #1 TEXAS
    #2 CAL
    #3 INDIANA
    #4 NC STATE
    #5 STANFORD
    #6 USC
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    With 50 yard to go in Friday's finals session, Texas was primed to cut Cal's points lead down to just 29. But Cal anchor Ryan Hoffer had other plans. Current photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography


    DOLFIN SWIM OF THE WEEK: THE ANCHOR SWIM THAT WON THE TITLE FOR CAL

    BY JARED ANDERSON
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    Congrats to Seli, Reece & Dave for such well-deserved awards!



    Pac-12 announces 2019 men's swimming & diving postseason awards






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    2019 MEN'S NCAAS: HOW DID OUR TOP 20 RECRUITS PERFORM AS FRESHMEN?



    Ft. our own Reece, having been ranked (and re-ranked) as the #1 recruit in the c/o 2018. Ultimately scored second-highest amount of points at NCAAs (29) behind #4 recruit, fellow breaststroker Max McHugh (33 @ University of Minnesota).

    Definitely some strong performances from the freshmen at NCAAs, including Whitley, McHugh, Texas' Kibler, Krueger, and Scheinfeld, among others, but also a fair amount of the top 20 scoring zero points or not getting invites to the meet. In that vein, thus truly something on behalf of the coaches and our 5 sophomore studs from last year's top 20 (Hoffer, Grieshop, Julian, Carr, Mefford) that they were all able to score in double-digit points last year and improve upon their progress to really step it up a notch through this season and at their second NCAA meet!
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    Also not nearly as gifted with the analyses as some of my commentator counterparts on this board, but dropping in 2 more links on the men's behalf, thanks to these SS writeups:

    WHO RETURN THE MOST POINTS? LOOKING AHEAD TO 2020 D1 MEN'S CHAMPS

    Big takeaways here highlight how Cal has the most returning points (even after losing our senior scoring studs Seli, Sand, Norman, Thomas) -- 279 to Texas' 176, but Texas still has a sharp freshman class incoming, top divers, and possibilities for big moves up depending on performance of current Horns like Katz, Pomajevich, Harty, etc., and others who relatively underperformed this year.

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    MEN'S RECRUITING RANKS IN-PROGRESS

    Look at all of the classes and their respective contributions.

    I had forgotten how highly/previously heralded the existing junior class was, with (as SS notes) 5 of the top 20 domestic recruits originally headed to Cal (Jensen, Xie, Vergani, Young, and Gwo -- then Vergani and Gwo never made it out here, IIRC, with Xie and Young still on the roster and not quite at NCAA-level beside Jensen) besides Quah and Sendyk (the class' international duo of studs at Cal!).

    Edit: Looking at the junior class (h/s 2016, college 2020) as a whole provides an interesting glimpse of general performance across the board. As a whole, the international and unranked men in this class have far outswam the top 20 recruits (headlined, point-wise, by LSJU's Shoults, Sweetser, Michigan's Cope and Swanson, FL's Rooney, and Jensen here) -- look at Dean Farris and Coleman Stewart, among international swimmers Quah, Sendyk, Auboeck, Avecedo, et al.

    However... beyond the juniors' performance (Cal and otherwise), seeing the accomplishments of the sophomores (Hoffer, Grieshop, Mefford, Carr, Julian) on paper is truly something. What a monster class!

     
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