Video produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Tony Carroll.
400 FREESTYLE RELAY – FINALS
- NCAA –
3:09.40 – Georgia – 2013 - Championship –
3:09.40 – Georgia – 2013 - American –
3:10.63 – Arizona – 2013 - US Open –
3:09.40 – Georgia – 2013 - 2014 Champion – Stanford – 3:10.83
With a new American, US Open, and NCAA record, Stanford wins the final event of the day with a 3:08.54. Lia Neal lead off with a 46.84, followed by a 47.98 from Janet Hu, a 47.93 from Lindsey Engel, and a 45.79 anchor split from Simone Manuel. California was also under the previous record with a 3:09.76. Missy Franklin lead off with a 46.66 100 freestyle.
Georgia was third with a 3:12.08 and Texas A&M finsihed fourth at 3:13.20. They needed a fourth place relay finish to pass Virginia in the team race for fouth place overall. A fifth place finish in the relay would have resulted in a tie for fourth place.
NC State finished fifth at 3:13.21, Wisconsin was sixth at 3:13.84, Florida finished seventh at 3:14.27, and Auburn was eighth at 3:15.49.
Hats off to Meehan, but what does Terri McKeever have to do to earn the confidence of those outside the loop who think her methods are too unorthodox or that she isn’t rigorous enough or that she wouldn’t do right by Missy Franklin and cause her decline? Four NCAA championships in seven years and mind blowing time improvements says it all. Why doesn’t she deserve to be women’s head coach again in Rio?
missy has had one summer with teri. wouldnt most say meh about results?
One summer?
Mr Meehan is a great young coach. The future of US coaching.
I really hope he will lead the US women’s olympic team next year. He deserves it.
And if it’s not him, pick coach McKeever.
Great meet. UVA slipped to 5th by one one hundredth then on final relay. TAMU out-touched NCSU by that. Congrats to TAMU though – they did what they needed to.
Good stuff. The Stanford women performed very well. Interesting thought on the 800 free relay.
I especially liked Greg’s comment about what he said to the 200 medley relay personnel before their “B Final” swim: “I want you to swim so fast that people will make fun of you afterwards.” That swim could have played out in a variety of different ways (most of them slower). Good coaching on his part (and good swimming on their part).
It must make him smile when he sees 3 frosh and a sophomore on the 400 free relay!