2016 OHIO STATE INVITATIONAL
- Full Results
- Meet info
- Hosted by Ohio State University
- Friday, November 18th-Sunday, November 20th
- 25 yards
- Invite format
FINAL TEAM SCORES:
| WOMEN’S TEAMS | SCORE | MEN’S TEAMS | SCORE |
| Stanford | 1080 | Ohio State | 1233 |
| Kentucky | 615 | Utah | 746.5 |
| Ohio State | 609 | Kentucky | 629.5 |
| Yale | 385 | Penn State | 488.5 |
| Iowa | 375 | Iowa | 375.5 |
| Pittsburgh | 342 | Pittsburgh | 317 |
| Utah | 279 | Stanford | 108 |
| Penn State | 198.5 | Kenyon | 92 |
| Washington State | 147.5 | ||
| Kenyon | 15 |
On the final night of competition at the 2016 Ohio State Invitational, Stanford freshman Katie Ledecky went out with a bang. Ledecky set a new NCAA and American Record for the 2nd time this weekend, winning the 1650 by a full minute with her 15:03.92. She also broke the NCAA and American Records in the 500 free on Friday night, and the NCAA Record in the 1000 free last week, so she owns the NCAA Records across the board in the distance free races.
Stanford teammates Simone Manuel and Lia Neal went 1-2 for the Cardinal in the 100 free. Manuel, the 2016 Olympic champ in the 100 meter free, popped a 47.37 to take the win, while Neal followed in 47.70. Rounding out the top 3 was Ohio State All-American Zhesi Li in 48.39.
Manuel and Neal were also a part of Stanford’s winning 400 free relay, with Manuel posting the fastest split on the 3rd leg at 47.05 and Neal anchoring in 48.37. Janet Hu led off with a 48.19, and Ledecky popped a post-mile 48.94 on the 2nd leg in the team’s overall winning time of 3:12.55.
All-American and NCAA Champion Ella Eastin, a Cardinal sophomore, had a strong showing in the women’s 200 fly. Eastin raced to a 1:52.62 in that event to grab her 3rd win of the weekend, beating the rest of the field by over 4 seconds.
Defending NCAA Champion Danielle Galyer took to the pool in tonight’s 200 back final, but she wasn’t the fastest Wildcat in the water this time. While Stanford’s Janet Hu won the race in a blazing 1:50.69, Kentucky freshman Asia Seidt also turned heads with her 1:51.18 for 2nd place. Galyer followed for 3rd in 1:52.21.
On the men’s side, Shane Ryan picked up his 3rd win of the weekend while completing his sweep of the men’s sprint frees. Ryan, who won the 50 free on Friday and the 100 back on Saturday, won tonight’s 100 free in 42.49. Coming in behind him to round out the top 3 were Ohio State standouts Josh Fleagle (43.02) and Matt McHugh (43.97).
A pair of Kentucky swimmers brought home wins for their team on the men’s side. Drew Aviotti kicked things off in the 1650 free, racing to a 14:58.50 victory ahead of Ohio State’s Brayden Seal (15:00.32). Later in the session, Kyle Higgins gave the Wildcats another victory with his dominant 1:42.66 in the 200 fly.
Additional Event Winners:
- Women’s 100 breast- Taylor Vargo, Ohio State, 2:09.43
- Men’s 200 breast- Jack Burton, Utah, 1:56.67
- Men’s 200 back- Thomas Trace, Ohio State, 1:43.72
- Men’s 400 free relay- Ohio State (Fleagle, Belanger, Appleby, McHugh), 2:54.39
To show how far swimming has come, the news of Katie Ledecky’s NCAA record made the Mike and Mike talk show on ESPN. This show is almost exclusively football, baseball and basketball. Gone from just being reported to being discussed.
Cate – they discussed swimming a TON during and right after the Olympics, and even had Ledecky on the show! Golic’s daughter swam at Notre Dame, so he’s very much a swimming fan. His wife, Christine Golic, actually follows SwimSwam on Twitter!
Ledecky would have placed 3rd in the men 1650!
Good Fall season peak meet for Stanford. It looks to me like they most likely qualified 13 swimmers for NCAAs in their individual events, not to mention the 5 relays. Only concern being breaststroke, but they got some reasonably good efforts there too – maybe good enough to get their medley relays into A finals in Indianapolis.
Off the top of my head I have: Ledecky, Manuel, Neal, Hu, Howe, Eastin, Engel, Williams, Poppe, Szekely, Voss, Stafford, Drabot and Stevens. That’s 14. By March, could add Halsted (I haven’t seen her this season. Not sure what if any injury?) Also divers: Cook, Farnsworth, and Laydon Mahoney. That’s almost reach the limit.
I think you’re missing Byrnes from your list, but I believe Poppe and Williams probably still need slightly faster swims to qualify as individuals (although they are clearly part of the picture for the medley relays).
Ah yes, Byrnes!
Agreed with you about Poppe and Williams. They might get invited but probably won’t earn points for individual swims unless they can go sub 1 min. It might take sub 59s to get in the A Final.
Poppe is a least coming back to her old form. Her 200 Br wasn’t bad for the 3 50s. Her last 50 split was not good. She needs more endurance training. Williams was better at 200 Br. But I think Poppe can go sub 1 min for 100 Br. and sub 2:08s for 200 Br by March.
Eastin probably won’t swim the BR leg. She can score tons of points for 200IM, 400IM and 200 Fly. Ledecky… Read more »
Who is going to beat Stanford women this year? With Ledecky and Manuel they are the powerhouse this year.
If only Ella Eastin could one day convert her great SCY progression from the last 12 months to the big pool….
Hopefully the click will come in 2017.
Where was the brunt of Stanfords men team?
They’re going to the Texas invite
None of them were there – just the women.
Oh they scored 108 so I was confused
Probably diving
Oh hadn’t noticed – I just saw the initial announcement that only the women were competing.
Was the men’s swimming team from Stanford there??
No
*Women’s 200 Breast