The quad dual in Virginia continued this afternoon for Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Penn State. After day one, the Texas men lead Virginia 113-73, West Virginia 149-37, and PSU, 107-79. Penn State lead Virginia 94-92 and Virginia lead West Virginia 137-49. On the women’s side, Texas lead Virginia 110-76, Penn State 127-59, and West Virginia 157-22. Virginia lead West Virginia 146-33 and Penn State 127-59. Click here to view the day one meet recap.
The Longhorn men and women held onto their lead from day one to win today. The Penn State men also topped Virginia for the first time since 1997. Penn State sophomore, Shane Ryan, was unstoppable today, winning the 50 freestyle and then the 100 backstroke just minutes later. Despite the short break after swimming the 50 freestyle, Ryan posted the 4th fastest time in the nation this season in the backstroke. As if that wasn’t good enough, he then led off the 400 freestyle relay, posting the nation’s top 100 freestyle time.
Ryan will be representing Team USA in Glasgow, Scotland at the 2013 Duel in the Pool.
Women’s Results
Texas 196 – 157 Virginia
Texas 242 – 111 Penn St.
Texas 297 – 41 West Virginia
Virginia 226 – 127 Penn St.
Virginia 288 – 250 West Virginia
Men’s Results
Texas 225 – 128 Virginia
Texas 185 – 168 Penn St.
Texas 259 – 93 West Virginia
Penn St. 191 – 62 Virginia
Virginia 226 – 111 West Virginia
The Women’s Meet
The meet picked up at event 21: the women’s 20o medley relay. The Cavaliers added their first victory of the session, claiming the event with a 1:41.20. Ellen Williamson‘s butterfly looks very impressive on paper (22.96), but it is most likely the result of a touch pad error. According to the results, Laura Simon split 30.27, which seems a little slow for the 5th place finisher in the 50m breaststroke at the 2011 Junior World Championships. Simon was 1:02.44 the day before. I am 99% sure the split is a mistake, but if those splits are correct, a 22.96 would be amazing from Williamson! Only two were faster on Virginia’s 200 freestyle relay (22.95 and 22.41).
Virginia freshman Leah Smith recorded the fourth fastest time in the nation in the women’s 1000 freestyle, winning the event at 9:42.00. Texas’ Kaitlin Pawlowicz and Penn State’s Megan Siverling were both under the 10 minute mark, at 9:55.05 and 9:58.55, respectively.
Carolyn Fittin won the first event of the day for Penn State, touching the wall in the 50 freestyle at 23.23. Gretchen Jaques and Brynne Wong went 2-3 for Texas at 23.26 and 23.49.
Courtney Bartholomew led her teammate, Ellen Williamson, to a 1-2 finish for Virginia in the 100 backstroke (53.43 and 54.78). Tasija Karosas was third for the longhorns at 54.81.
Laura Simon won the 200 breaststroke with a 2:14.59. Her teammate, Natalie Martin finished third at 2:19.59, but Madisyn Cox was second for Texas at 2:14.87.
Ellen Williamson won the 100 butterfly at 54.48, while Brynne Wong was second at 54.91 and Carolyn Fittin was third at 54.92.
Sam Tucker from Texas and Alyson Ackman from Penn State were both able to break the 1:48 mark in the 200 freestyle, touching the wall at 1:47.72 and 1:47.94, respectively.
Madisyn Cox won the 400 IM with her time of 4:15.14, leading her teammate, Kaitlin Pawlowicz, to a 1-2 finish, with her time of 4:16.22. Shaun Casey was third at 4:17.79 for UVA.
The Texas women won the final 400 freestyle relay, clocking in at 3:21.33. Penn State was second at 3:21.65, improving to the sixth fastest relay in the nation this season.
The Men’s Meet
The Penn State men won the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:27.75. John Hauser added a 19.5 freestyle split anchoring the relay. West Virginia touched second, posting a time of 1:29.99.
Clay Youngquist and Sam Lewis finished 1-2 for Texas, posting times of 9:11.36 and 9:12.11, respectively. Jan Daniec was third for UVA with a time of 9:12.48, just behind the duo from Texas.
Penn State earned first and third place points from Shane Ryan (20.38) and John Hauser (20.45). Tim Squires from WVU was second at 20.41. Ryan jumped back in the pool minutes later, following the women’s 100 backstroke, and won the men’s 100 backstroke with a time of 47.87. Ryan’s backstroke time is the 4th fastest time in the nation this season. Ryan’s teammate, Nate Savoy, touched the wall in second place at 48.14. He was just ahead of West Virginia’s Bryce Bohman, who finished third with a time of 48.18.
Texas freshman, Will Licon, posted the 10th fastest time in the nation to win the 200 breaststroke at 1:59.49. Taylor Grey and Yannick Kaeser finished second and third for the cavaliers at 2:01.00 and 2:01.04, respectively.
Jack Conger was the second freshman in a row to win an event for the Longhorns. He was 47.47 in the 100 butterfly, which was enough to win the event. Conger’s time from the meet today was the fourth fastest time swum this year. Conger currently has the second fastest time in the nation in this event. He was slightly faster at the Indiana, Michigan tri-dual, where he posted a 47.21. Sean Grier was second for Penn State at 48.79 and Parker Camp finished third at 49.37 for the Cavaliers.
Clay Youngquist is currently the nation leader in the 200 freestyle with his 1:35.71 from the Indiana, Michigan tri-dual. Today, he won the 200 freestyle with the sixth fastest time in the nation swum this year at 1:36.97. John Hauser led Penn State to a 2-3-4 finish with his 1:38.12, which was good for second place.
John Martens won the 400 IM for Texas and led his teammate, Will Licon, to a 1-2 finish, posting times of 3:53.59 and 3:56.14. Martens time will stand as the ninth fastest time in the nation this season. David Ingraham was third for the Cavaliers at 3:56.31.
Penn State closed out the meet with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay. Shane Ryan led off the relay with a nation leading time in the 100 freestyle, at 43.79. He is the third swimmer to dip under the 44 second mark this season, joining the duo from Lousiville, Caryle Blondell and Joao De Lucca. The Penn State relay finished in 2:57.86, posting the fifth fastest time in the nation. Texas finished second at 2:59.84.
Word on the street is that Patrick Schirk is back in training and inspiring the entire team with his unique training of pounding a 5th daily and not entering the pool at all. Worked in 2008 when he was the the first and only PSU swimmer to win NCAAs individually, that year he went up to an impressive handle a day and didn’t even shave his beard for NCAAs because that is soft.
I doubt that Penn State shaved but remember coach Murphy has Ivy League background and you never know coming into a meet in the middle of season and the other team is shaved. The result of ancient rivalries.
PS this may be the most entertaining swimming troll-thread in history
Like Braden said we have debunked the rumor of PSU shaving for this meet. But the real factor in the meet was almost all of PSU’s swimmers had fully charged JO crystals would definitely helped increase stroke rate and power by 10x From the stands I could see both the Texas and UVA swimmers had seemingly forgotten their JO crystals at home. So we cannot truly know the real outcome of the meet for sure.
For those of us on here who are not aware, what is a JO crystal? It has to do with junior olympics, right? If my son wins his events, will that be the prize?
Thanks,
Mr. F
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Shane Ryan’s comment before is wrong. I only maxed out my overhead deadlifts before i got on the bus. Sean Grier(pronounced gry-er) on the other hand, did fully shave and taper for this meat. He has a unique taper where the main focus is three times per week he maxes out dance moves in a thirty second interval. Unlike his other teammates, he opts to not fully charge his JO crystal because he cannot bring himself to harness the energy of the JO crystal from his bros to the fullest. Word on the pool deck is that Penn State was seen snorting pure sport, and butt chugging chocolate milk after each session to absorb nutrients faster and in turn recover… Read more »
The good news is that we don’t even have to have this conversation any more, because Shane Ryan just Tweeted a picture of his hairy arms.
Yet another illogical comment by Achilles. Sure, PSU got blown out by OSU…that single fact has little to do with overall revenue. See Texas football the past three years….Medicare football and STILL the most revenue in the country, and it’s not even close.
Not sure why all the angst towards PSU…a great school with even better people. I don’t see people on here chastising Texas for the Charles Whitman incident of 1966…the ignorant kids on here probably don’t even know who Whitman was. Several schools out there have their demons…
Is medicare football STILL having revenue the answer to all of America’s problems? Knock the concussions out by combining medicare with football, while eliminating the national debt with the revenue!
I full tapered and shaved. My friend, Nate Savoy, on the other hand, did not. He maxed out on dead lift, power clean, RDL, and bench press 3 hours before we left for the meet. Before the 200 back, he said, and I quote, “My RDL’s are so sore.” The RDL is the muscle worked during the Russian Dead Lift (RDL) exercise. Yet, he still swam pretty fast. I am sure most of you know that the RDL’s are the most important muscle group during the backstroke events.
Also, not the real Shane Ryan, for people who don’t pick up on the satire.
And by RDL you mean Romanian Deadlift….the ignorance on this board is mind-boggling.
Everyone knows the old baby oil/vaseline trick…its been out their for years and has been passed down by the swimming deities themselves. The Penn State swim team must have come across this sacred tradition. From a reliable source of mine I heard on their way down to UVA they stopped by lake minnetonka to cleanse themselves of all impurities, thus resulting in Penn State having the fastest 15 meters off every wall in the country.
Ya wrong mate, it wuzz Mud Mucca Bay where thay purified their souls with the holy chant of the Mucca Mad Boys n followed the purification with the channeling of pure rage and hatred of the Fennel Hell Men to propel them to best times and victory