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Duke Looks to Build Off Divers' Strong Start at ACCs
2/20/2018 1:53:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
DURHAM, N.C. – Following a successful showing by the Duke women and the program's divers at last week's ACC Championships, the men's swimmers take their turn in Greensboro this week. The 2018 edition of the conference championship gets underway Wednesday at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.
The Men's ACC Championships kick off Wednesday at 4 p.m. and continue Thursday, Friday and Saturday with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m. each day. Finals sessions Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be broadcast on ACC Network Extra.
Click here for a complete schedule of events and more championship information.
ACC Championship Rewind: Recapping Last Year's Meet
The Blue Devil men concluded the 2017 ACC Championship meet eighth in the team standings with a score of 607 points. Over the course of the four days in Atlanta, the squad rewrote the record book, establishing new benchmarks in seven individual and two relay events. Peter Kropp captured All-ACC recognition with a second-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke while also punching his ticket to the 2017 NCAA Championships.
Blue Devils in the Conference Landscape
The Duke men have set school records in two individual events already this season. Junior Max St. George broke the program record in the 100 backstroke (46.73) and heads to Greensboro seeded eighth in the conference in that event. Junior Sean Tate erased the previous program benchmark in the 100 individual medley earlier this season and is ranked 10th in the ACC in the 100 breaststroke (54.43) while classmate Judd Howard is sixth (53.95). Howard also ranks 10th at the 200-yard distance (1:57.73).
Junior Yusuke Legard is seeded 10th in the 50 freestyle (19.83) and sophomore Miles Williams 17th in the 100 freestyle (1:37.03). Williams is also 15th on the psych sheet in the 100 butterfly (47.55).
“The ACC Championships experience our upperclassmen have is really important,” said head coach Dan Colella. “It's not only important for them individually, but they're also going to be helping the freshmen not get overwhelmed with the ACC experience and instead enjoy it and let all the hard work come to fruition.”
The Blue Devil men have notched NCAA provisionally-qualifying marks in 10 individual swimming events.
Divers Vault Duke into First Place
The men's swimmers enter this week's action sitting in first place behind outstanding performances by the program's divers last week. Juniors Evan Moretti and Josh Owsiany, sophomore Nathaniel Hernandez and freshman Teddy Zeng combined for 212 points across the three disciplines to put the Blue Devils first in the team standings heading into Wednesday's events.
Hernandez was sixth and Moretti seventh in the first event of the meet, the three-meter springboard. Moretti was back in a championship final on the second night, finishing fourth on the one-meter board while Zeng, Owsiany and Hernandez finished 10th, 11th and 12th, respectively. Hernandez then rounded out the meet with a sixth-place showing on the platform, with Moretti, Zeng and Owsiany also scoring from inside the top 16 spots.
Scouting the Competition
Six ACC squads were ranked in the Jan. 31 edition of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Division I Poll, led by reigning ACC champion NC State at No. 5. No. 14 Louisville, No. 19 Notre Dame, No. 20 Virginia Tech, No. 21 Florida State and No. 23 Virginia rounded out the group of ranked teams.
“This meet is not slowing down,” Colella. “The ACC, really in the last five years, has taken a quantum leap. We've always had a lot of very talented individuals but what we've seen in these last five years is the depth has just been remarkable. As we've told our athletes, you need to absolutely bring your best to prelims. That's where it needs to happen in order to even get a chance to swim again at night. They know this, they've rehearsed it, they're excited and that's what we're looking forward to.”
Colella's Take
“It's always great when the women's team is able to perform the way they did last week,” Colella said. “That only enhances the excitement for the men, to see their counterparts who they trained with all year perform the way they did. I know they're really looking forward to the coming week. In addition, to be going in with the 212 points scored by the diving program, everybody is really stoked about that. It makes it that much more exciting.”
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