I will profess I don't follow college swimming that closely so I can't speak intelligently on what the Hokies are expected to do.
I did read a nice article HERE that gave a preview.
I watched a little bit on ACCNX and I have to say the 25 yard pool just looks so short. I didn't realize that the events were measured in yards instead of meters.
After Day 1, the Hokies finished in 11th in the women's 200 medley relay, DQ in the mens 200 medley relay due to an early start, 6th in the women's 800 free relay, and 9th in the mens 800 free relay. No Hokies divers advanced in the women's 1 meter or the mens 3 meter.
After Day 1, the Hokie women are in 11th and the men are in 13th so a lot of work to do over the next couple of days.
Back to with prelims tomorrow morning and finals in the evening.
UVA women did break Stanford's 2017 record in the 800 free. That Stanford team had Simone Manuel and Katie Ledecky on it so though it pains me, it is damn impressive.
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"I watched a little bit on ACCNX and I have to say the 25 yard pool just looks so short. I didn't realize that the events were measured in yards instead of meters."
There are short course and long course pools with different ones built to be yards long and others built to be meters. Not sure if there is a standard for the NCAA or if different venues have different pool lengths, but my daughter's travel team would have different meets that were X-many yard events and others that were X-many meters.
NCAA is standard 25y short course, which is the USA Swimming standard
Typically, meters is out doors, yards indoors for short course. Olympic is 50m however what most forget is that it is 25m across and lots in the US are 25y across so not officially olympic sized.
These are US rules only, the rest of thenworld uses meters and pretty much only meters.
Edit: to add to this, in competition in the US 25m is rare-ish. Summer leagues do this but once you are in USA swimming (year round) or Masters swimming you don't swimming a lot of 25m races. It's why I'd always go to the meet in at the montgomery county aquatics center as they would have it at 25m and I could get national top ten finishes because there were so few meets. Heck I swam next to a woman that set the national record for 100m short course fly in that pool (national record for 75-79 year olds)
Except when they hold States in Virginia Beach, or at least my senior year when I swam at States. The RECenters they hold meets at are 25m.
Northern Virginia Swimming League (NVSL) is 25m except one pool IIRC. I don't know about other summer leagues.
I don't think I ever swam at the MoCo pool but I swam at the PG Aquatic Center in Landover.
Right, they are rare-ish. The Reston Connunity Center was 25m until the remodel. It was weird practicing different stroke counts than meets.
Good thing I never learned my full lap stroke count. Thanks ADD!
I missed a flio turn once because we were at GMU and they have 3 lines at the end depending on the configuration and you want to flip on two, welkin was the 1990s or 1650 and I just drifted away fore a second and was like okay 1, 2, 3 flip on .. oh shit wall!
For back?
I never swam very many races at GMU. Hated that pool though, it was always too cold and I would get stiff muscles and cold hands.
na free, because of the bulk head it has three crosses at each end.
aight, I got you. Yeah always hated that, especially at super deep pools
Day 2 and Day 3 Results of Note
-Womens 200 free relay - Hokies finished 7th
-Mens 200 free relay - 3rd
-Mens 200 IM - Carles Coll Marti is your ACC Champ
-Mens 50 free- Brendan Whitfield was 4th
-Mens 100 fly- Mario Molla Yanes was 4th and Youssef Ramadan was 5th
-Mens 200 free - Luis Dominguez finished 8th
After Day 3 the women are in 11th and the men are up to 6th.
Final Results of Note:
-Men's 200 Fly Finals - Landon Gentry took 7th
-Women's 100 Back - Carmen Weiler Sastre finished 6th.
-Men's 100 Back - Mario Molla Yanes finished 7th. Not bad for a guy that hadn't recorded any 100 back times until this fall.
-Men's 100 Breast - Carles Coll Marti finished 4th.
-Men's 400 Medley Relay - VT finished 3rd.
-Women's 1650 Free - Kate Anderson finished 8th.
-Women's 200 Back - Carmen Weiler Sastre finished 5th and Emma Atkinson finished 6th.
-Men's 100 Free - Brendan Whitfield finished 3rd for the 2nd year in a row.
-Men's 200 Breast - Carles Coll Marti takes the win in 1:49.62 breaking his own meet and conference records. This is his 3rd title in the event.
-Women's 400 Free Relay - VT finished 6th.
-Men's 400 Free Relay - VT finished 4th
Hokie women finished the meet in 9th place. The men finished in 6th place, two spots ahead of UVA.
Carles Coll Marti was named the men's meet Most Valuable Swimmer. Coll Marti and Brendan Whitfield were also named to the All-ACC team.