Tampa vs. Rollins School vs. Florida
- October twenty fifth, 2024
- Tampa, Florida
- Quick Course Yards (25 yards), Double Twin, No Diving
- Meet Outcomes
- Group Scores:
- Males: D1 Tampa 191 – D1 Florida 71
- Males: D2 Tampa 205 – D2 Rollins School 57
- Males: D1 Florida 162 – D2 Rollins School 100
- Ladies: D2 Tampa 130 – D1 Florida 126
- Ladies: D1 Florida 160 – D2 Rollins 94
- Ladies: D2 Tampa 215 D2 Rollins 47
An upset for the ages: NCAA Division II energy College of Tampa, together with the 2024 nationwide champion males’s crew, swept their tri meet towards the College of Florida and Rollins School on Friday.
The scoreline doesn’t inform the complete story – the Gators despatched a crew made up primarily of swimmers who didn’t attend their blockbuster meet towards Virginia final week (although there have been just a few exceptions, like Gracie Weyant).
However nonetheless, with a bunch of high-profile recruits for the deep Gators, the win is a watershed one for Tampa, with each the Gators women and men eyeing prime 5 finishes at this season’s Division I NCAA Championship meet.
This meet was a last-minute addition to the Gator schedule after hurricanes disrupted their early season. It was additionally the season-opener for the Tampa males because of a busy hurricane season in Florida.
Tampa and Rollins swimmers each wore racing fits, whereas Florida didn’t – some extent that was explicitly introduced up within the Florida press launch, which is an uncommon acknowledgement in a faculty’s official communications.
Males’s Recap
The Tampa males set the tone early with a 1-2 end within the opening 200 medley relay. That included a profitable 1:27.80 that tiptoed them previous nationwide rivals UIndy (1:27.84) for the highest time in Division II this season and the #25 time throughout all collegiate divisions.
That was adopted by a 9:03.78 within the 1000 free from sophomore Jacob Hamlin – the highest time in D2 by six seconds.
Hamlin completed third within the 1000 free (8:58.32), sixth within the 1650 free (15:16.22), and eighth within the 500 free (4:25.43) finally yr’s NCAA Division II Championship meet, and is already approach forward of tempo – his greatest time within the 1000 a twin meet final season was 9:20.24, and that wasn’t till January.
The 1000 free is an NCAA Championship occasion in D2.
Hamlin completed 2nd within the 500 free later within the meet in 4:28.32, additionally approach forward of schedule, behind solely his teammate Rafael Nicolas Ponce de Leon, who gained in 4:26.77. Ponce de Leon gained the 200 as nicely in 1:37.13.
One other 1-2 end within the 1000 for the Spartans (Diego Dulieu, 9:11.18) meant the rout was on. The Tampa males gained 11 occasions in complete within the meet. That included a 1:19.77 within the 200 free relay to wrap the meet up, nearly 4 seconds forward of the runners-up from Florida.
Ponce de Leon led off that closing relay in a cut up of 20.75, and he was adopted by Gabriel Rzezwicki (19.66), Tibor Tistan (19.53), and Caleb Brandon (19.83). These three took the highest three spots within the particular person 50 free as nicely, together with Tistan profitable in 19.70. He’s the primary D2 swimmer underneath 20 seconds this season and is tied for sixteenth throughout all divisions.
Rollins School didn’t have the depth of Tampa to take out the Florida split-squad, however they did choose up the opposite two wins on the day. William Slowey gained the 100 breaststroke in 55.03, which is inside a second of his lifetime better of 54.07 from final yr’s mid-season meet. He’s traditionally excellent all year long, although this can be a twin meet greatest for him. Being quick a number of instances didn’t actually price him at season’s-end final yr – he was nearly pretty much as good once more at NCAAs to complete twentieth in 54.14.
Rollins’ different win got here from Evan McInerny within the 200 fly, which he gained in 1:48.45. He used an enormous last 50 cut up of 28.25 to take a second off the runner-up Kenan Dean from Tampa (1:48.87).
These two Rollins wins got here back-to-back in the course of the meet.
The Gators’ lone win within the males’s meet got here from senior Raphael Rached Windmuller within the 200 breaststroke. He swam 2:01.41, one other last-50 difference-maker forward of Tampa’s Jared Mindek (2:01.70).
Florida additionally obtained a very good efficiency from Caleb Maldari within the backstroke races. He completed 2nd within the 100 (50.29) and the 200 (1:48.16). Maldari was on final yr’s US crew for the World Junior Championships and completed seventh on the 2024 US Olympic Trials within the 200 again in lengthy course.
Different Highlights:
- Tampa’s Parker Knollman gained the 200 again in 1:46.71. He was third finally yr’s NCAA D2 Championship meet and the 2 swimmers forward of him are each gone (Santi Zabala of Tampa graduated, Ben Sampson of Colorado Mesa transferred to Texas).
- Tibor Tistan added a win within the 100 free in 44.52 to his win within the 50 free, taking back-to-back races.
Ladies’s Recap
The ladies’s meet was far more aggressive, with the battle between Florida and Tampa coming right down to the ultimate race.
In essence, whoever gained the ultimate relay was going to win the meet.
Florida obtained out to an early lead, and Gracie Weyant (23.34) gave them the quickest cut up of the meet, however finally Tampa simply had ‘another’ sprinter on that last relay. A 23.50 second leg from Tilde Morin put them into the lead, and so they held on to win by over a second in 1:35.49.
A 1:33.80 in that relay from Tampa’s first meet leads D2 by greater than a second.
Morin additionally picked up a person win within the 50 free, touching in 24.12 as a part of a 1-2-3 Spartan end.
The split-squad for Florida put up a very good combat all through the meet, together with freshman Gracie Weyant, who was a part of the squad that traveled to Virginia final week.
She grabbed wins within the 200 free (1:50.54) and 500 free (4:53.30). That swim within the 500 is inside four-tenths of her lifetime greatest completed on the 18 & Beneath Winter Championships in 2020. She hasn’t raced a lot of the occasion within the final three years, however racing the 400 SCM free towards Virginia and now the five hundred right here would possibly point out a shift of focus in Gainesville.
The Florida girls picked up eight wins in 14 occasions, the lion’s share within the meet.
In addition to Weyant, Anna Moore and Addison Reese had been each multi-event winners for the Gators. Moore gained the 100 breast (1:03.43) to steer a 1-2-3 Florida end and the 200 breast (2:16.69) by 2.6 seconds. Reese, a freshman who like Weyant was ranked “Better of the Relaxation” among the many prime recruits within the class of 2024 by SwimSwam, gained the 100 free in 51.39, the 100 fly in 54.81, and the 200 fly in 1:59.74.
For Tampa, the lone double winner individually was a freshman as nicely. Newcomer Carlie Tyler from the famend Sacred Coronary heart Academy program in Louisville that produced swimmers like Olympian Brooke Forde picked up a pair late within the meet. First she gained the 200 again in 1:59.00, main a 1-2-3 end, after which she gained the 200 IM in 2:03.78 within the final particular person occasion of the meet. These swims helped spur a late-meet rally, culminating within the victory-clinching 200 free relay.