With the first round of fall invitational meets coming up this weekend, we at SwimSwam thought it would be helpful to give ours writers (and our readers) a handy at-a-glance chart of the top times in NCAA Division I swimming so far this season.
Times reflect the USA Swimming database as of the morning of Tuesday, November 19th.
Women
| Event | Time | Swimmer | School |
| 50 Free | 21.96 | Erika Brown | Tennessee |
| 100 Free | 48.17 | Erika Brown | Tennessee |
| 200 Free | 1:45.51 | Paige Madden | Virginia |
| 500 Free | 4:38.67 | Paige Madden | Virginia |
| 1000 Free | 9:42.96 | Kensey McMahon | Alabama |
| 1650 Free | 16:12.35 | Sophie Cattermole | Louisville |
| 100 Back | 51.31 | Beata Nelson | Wisconsin |
| 200 Back | 1:52.49 | Beata Nelson | Wisconsin |
| 100 Breast | 59.55 | Kate Douglass | Virginia |
| 200 Breast | 2:07.92 | Kate Douglass | Virginia |
| 100 Fly | 51.12 | Erika Brown | Tennessee |
| 200 Fly | 1:55.09 | Grace Oglesby | Louisville |
| 200 IM | 1:55.15 | Kate Douglass | Virginia |
| 400 IM | 4:05.33 | Calypso Sheridan | Northwestern |
| 200 Free Relay | 1:29.08 | Thompson, Hynes, Keil, Moderski | Missouri |
| 400 Free Relay | 3:16.93 | Dressel, Bates, Hillis, Garofalo | Florida |
| 800 Free Relay | 7:08.89 | Webb, Oeztuerk, Hetzer, Meynen | Auburn |
| 200 Medley Relay | 1:35.87 | Hynes, Winer, Thompson, Keil | Missouri |
| 400 Medley Relay | 3:34.15 | Schoof, Astashkina, Oglesby, Visscher | Louisville |
Men
| Event | Time | Swimmer | School |
| 50 Free | 19.53 | Blaise Vera | Pittsburgh |
| 100 Free | 43.03 | Daniel Krueger | Texas |
| 200 Free | 1:34.08 | Kieran Smith | Florida |
| 500 Free | 4:18.46 | Jack Walker | Virginia |
| 1000 Free | 8:57.69 | Zach Yeadon | Notre Dame |
| 1650 Free | 14:56.04 | Victor Johansson | Southern Cal |
| 100 Back | 46.51 | Joe Clark | Virginia |
| 200 Back | 1:43.25 | Nick Alexander | Missouri |
| 100 Breast | 52.59 | Max McHugh | Minnesota |
| 200 Breast | 1:53.49 | Reece Whitley | Cal |
| 100 Fly | 45.98 | Zheng Quah | Cal |
| 200 Fly | 1:43.47 | Zheng Quah | Cal |
| 200 IM | 1:44.95 | Mohamed Samy | Indiana |
| 400 IM | 3:48.36 | Casey Storch | Virginia |
| 200 Free Relay | 1:18.34 | Kibler, Rooney, Willenbring, Krueger | Texas |
| 400 Free Relay | 2:53.56 | Kovac, Leach, Dahlgren, Lima | Missouri |
| 800 Free Relay | 6:40.68 | Cury, Hill, Krawczyk, Thomas | Missouri State |
| 200 Medley Relay | 1:26.20 | Staka, Scheinfeld, Jiang, Krueger | Texas |
| 400 Medley Relay | 3:10.96 | Hein, Staver, Kovac, Lima | Missouri |
On the women’s side, Erika Brown of Tennessee and Kate Douglass of Virginia have three nation-leading times each. On the men’s side, Cal’s Zheng Quah is the only swimmer with more than one top time.
Most, although certainly not all, of the times came from swimmers who were “suited up,” whether at one of the early invites like the Trojan Invite or the SMU Classic, or from suiting up at dual meets. Either way, we’d expect that the leaderboard should look almost completely different in a few days, as many of our top-ranked teams will be competing and swimmers will be shooting for NCAA automatic qualifying times.
Finally, it’s worth noting that we’ve only listed official times here, and that we have some seen some faster times at a few teams’ intrasquad meets, including Maggie MacNeil’s 49.57 100 fly at Michigan’s impromptu intrasquad, and Daniel Krueger’s 41.99 100 free at the Texas Orange-White meet.
Blaise was not suited for his 19.5 or 43.1
Ya mena he swan neckked????
When is Blaise Vera going to get a picture under “In this story”. He seems to be mentioned in almost every article and will be mentioned even more after the invites are over #stillontop
For a team that suited for every meet, Mizzou doesn’t have a lot of times on this list.
They have four of the eight relays that have been seriously contested by most teams. That’s pretty good.
wearing a suit doesn’t automatically make you the fastest in the country…
This time of year it should. Yikes
Except that, as the article says, many teams have suited up and taken a shot at top times.
No it shouldn’t. Who on Mizzou is suddenly going to be faster than say Erika Brown or Beata Nelson solely because they put on a suit?
Ouch that 800 free relay for men is going to be destroyed.