As we head into the final stretch before college conference championships, let’s take a look at the current D1 swimmers who are in possession of NCAA “A” cuts at this point.
If you’ve followed along with our previous two posts on the subject, both in November and December, you’ll notice that not much has changed since late 2015, highlighting not only the grind that athletes are currently in, but also revealing the fact that we’re in an Olympic year.
Not only are several of the NCAA’s top swimmers red-shirting this year to focus solely on Rio, such as Chase Kalisz, Kierra Smith, Santo Condorelli just to name a few, but some swimmers still in the college mix are trying to balance SCY with LCM swims to score Trials cuts and simply more long course racing experience for Omaha.
Current Women’s NCAA “A” Cuts Per Individual Event:
- 50 freestyle (21.86) – Olivia Smoliga (Georgia) 21.82, Liz Li (OSU) 21.83, Beryl Gastaldello (Texas A&M) 21.86
- 100 freestyle (47.79) – Olivia Smoliga (Georgia) 47.69, Lia Neal (Stanford) 47.74, Natalie Hinds (Florida) 47.75
- 200 freestyle (1:43.82) – Hali Flickinger (Georgia) 1:43.56, Jackie Keire (Cincinnati) 1:43.58
- 500 freestyle (4:36.30) – Leah Smith (Virginia) 4:30.85, Brittany MacLean (Georgia) 4:33.75, Hali Flickinger (Georgia) 4:35.01
- 1650 freestyle (15:53.50) – Leah Smith (Virginia) 15:39.66, Brittany MacLean (Georgia) 15:46.72
- 100 backstroke (51.51) – Courtney Bartholomew (Virginia) 50.69, Janet Hu (Stanford) 51:45, Olivia Smoliga (Georgia) 51.50
- 200 backstroke (1:51.95) – Courtney Bartholomew (Virginia) 1:49.63, Tasija Karosas (Texas) 1:50.49, Danielle Galyer(Kentucky) 1:51.52
- 100 breaststroke (59.04) – Sarah Haase (Stanford) 58.27, Lilly King (IU) 58.45, Katharine Ross (Mizzou) 58.66, Andee Cottrell (Louisville) 58.67, Abby Duncan (Mizzou) 58.83, Emily Fogle (Purdue) 58.88
- 200 breaststroke (2:07.42) – Abby Duncan (Mizzou) 2:07.02, Emily Fogle (Purdue) 2:07.30
- 100 butterfly (51.56) – Madeline Banic (Tennessee) 51.19, Annie Ochitwa (Arizona) 51.35, Kelsi Worrell (51.36)
- 200 butterfly (1:54.22) – Hali Flickinger (Georgia) 1:52.82, Ella Eastin (Stanford) 1:53.34
- 200 IM (1:55.35) – Madisyn Cox (Texas) 1:54.29, Ella Eastin (Stanford) 1:54.53, Kaitlyn Jones (Virginia) 1:55.11, Bethany Galat (Texas A&M) 1:55.22
- 400 IM (4:05.37) – Ella Eastin (Stanford) 4:01.04, Bethany Galat (Texas A&M) 4:04.06
Current Men’s NCAA “A” Cuts Per Individual Event:
- 50 freestyle (19.18) – Caeleb Dressel (Florida) 18.77, Michael Chadwick (Mizzou) 19.17
- 100 freestyle (42.37) – Michael Chadwick (Mizzou) 41.89), Caeleb Dressel (Florida) 42.02, Brett Ringgold (Texas) 42.04
- 200 freestyle (1:33.34) – Matias Koski (Georgia) 1:33.07, Long Gutierrez (Cal) 1:33.10
- 500 freestyle (4:13.60) – Clark Smith (Texas) 4:08.82
- 1650 freestyle (14:46.04) – Matthew Hutchins (Wisconsin) 14:38.14, Townley Haas (Texas) 14:41.09, Chris Swanson (Penn) 14:41.54, Evan Pinion (Tennessee) 14:44.23
- 100 backstroke (45.44) – Ryan Murphy (Cal) 44.75, Luke Kaliszak (Alabama) 45.42, Taylor Dale (Georgia) 45.42, Jack Blyzinskyj (45.43)
- 200 backstroke (1:40.33) – Ryan Murphy (Cal) 1:38.35, Jacob Pebley (Cal) 1:38.86, Hennessey Stuart (NC State) 1:40.22, Sean Lehane (Tennessee) 1:40.33
- 100 breaststroke (52.08) – Fabian Schwingenschlogl (Mizzou) 51.36, Caeleb Dressel (Florida) 51.88
- 200 breaststroke (1:53.07) – Josh Prenot (Cal) 1:51.75, Will Licon (Texas, 1:52.82), Anton McKee (Alabama) 1:53.00
- 100 butterfly (45.85) – Joseph Schooling (Texas) 44.98, Caeleb Dressel (Florida) 45.01, Jack Conger (Texas) 45.19, Justin Lynch (Cal) 45.66, Long Gutierrez (Cal) 45.80
- 200 butterfly (1:42.43) – Joseph Schooling (Texas) 1:40.46, Pace Clark (Georgia) 1:40.66, Jack Conger (Texas) 1:41.40, Jan Switkowski (Florida) 1:42.08)
- 200 IM (1:42.51) – None at this time.
- 400 IM (3:41.15) – Jay Litherland (Georgia) 3:38.68, Gunnar Bentz (Georgia) 3:39.61, Josh Prenot (Cal) 3:39:94
Women’s 100br. SIX have the cut. And I believe ONLY Haase returns from last year’s finalists. Does that seem bizarre to anyone else?
50 free is the same day as 200 IM
Interesting that no one has yet to get the 200 IM cut yet. In my opinion, it seems like sprint free, butterfly, and perhaps the backstroke events seem to be the deepest events so far. Still mind boggling to me that Dressel went a 51 in that 100 breast, I could be wrong but I never remember hearing anything about his breastroke in the past few years. I imagine if he really wanted to he could get the A cut in the 2 IM.
Correct me if I am wrong, but did’t he say (maybe it was at an interview during Jr Nats when we went 18) that he was going to Florida to work on his IM? I thought I remember hearing that, so maybe bringing along his breast was the first step towards this.
High School swimmer Ryan Hoffer is faster than the college guys in the 100 free. Wow!
The men’s 200 free is probably the hardest A cut to get. It could get second or third at many NCAA champs
It’s strange – I feel like there are a disproportionate number of 1:31-1:32 splits relative to the number of swimmers that can put up 1:32 in an individual race. I wonder if it’s something psychological related to having to race it three times in one day, where swimmers unconsciously hold back a little bit. It’s also been pretty common for coaches to scratch swimmers that had legit shots of scoring in the 200 so they could save up for the relay. It’ll be interesting to see if the times in prelims / finals go down significantly in this event given that the 8 free relay is now two days earlier, though of course it would be impossible to actually say… Read more »
Have those total numbers changed from last year? Last year, 235 men got in (and 35 divers). The line ended up at about #29-30 for men (not 35).
Anyone have predictions for each event what it will take to make it?
Prediction?
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Pain
Most confusing time of year for me anyway. 270 women/322 men, right? For women, If you’re 40th with a “B” cut you’re pretty much guaranteed not to go. 35th and you’re pretty much guaranteed to go. Right? Regarding relays you don’t get individual swim unless you earn it even if you swim in a relay? Does his pretty much sum it up?
marley09 – more or less, that’s correct/
your women men totals are backwards.
ooops. my bad.