Michigan
NCAA Championships (Day 1)
Wolverines in 11th After First Day of NCAA Championships
3/27/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team amassed 42 points Thursday (March 27) and sits in 11th place after the first day of action at the NCAA Championships at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. Auburn, looking for a gender sweep of the NCAA swimming and diving team championships, jumped out to an early day one lead, compiling 206 points.
| | Ketchum broke a seven-year-old school record in the 200 IM preliminaries. |
In the consolation final of the event, freshman Davis Tarwater (Knoxville, Tenn./Webb School) placed 11th overall when he clocked in with a personal-best time of 4:18.78. Senior Justin Drake (Phoenix, Ariz./Arcadia HS) rounded out Michigan's point scorers in the race, finishing 16th overall with a time of 4:26.87.
Junior Dan Ketchum (Cincinnati, Ohio/Sycamore HS) earned his seventh All-America honor and his first in the 200-yard individual medley when he posted a time of 1:47.60 for an eighth-place finish in the race and 11 more points for the Wolverines. Earlier in the day Ketchum, 2003 Big Ten runner-up in the event, set a new school record with a time of 1:45.46 in prelims, breaking Jason Lancaster's 1996 time of 1:45.58.
In the Skippy Browning Diving Facility, junior Jason Coben (Newtown Square, Pa./Marple Newtown HS) earned All-America Honorable Mention with his 14th-place finish on the one-meter springboard. Coben totaled a 10-dive score of 287.40, earning an additional three points to the Wolverines' first-day team total. It marked his first national honor on the one-meter board as his previous best finish in the event was a 26th-place showing at the 2002 NCAA Championships.
In the final event of the evening, the 400-yard medley relay, Michigan's foursome of freshman Chris DeJong (Holland, Mich./Holland HS), fifth-year senior co-captain Jeff Hopwood (Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto HS), Tarwater and senior Garrett Mangieri (Closter, N.J./Mercersburg Academy, Pa.) finished 14th overall when they posted a consolation final time of 3:15.05.
NCAA Championships action continues through Saturday (March 30). Preliminary events begin each day at 11 a.m. CST, with finals starting at 7 p.m.
Top Teams (after Day 1)
1. Auburn 206 2. Stanford 121 3. California 115 4. Texas 107 5. Florida 81 6. Southern Cal 69 7. Minnesota 61 8. Georgia 55 9. Arizona State 52 10. Texas A&M 45 11. MICHIGAN 42 12. Arizona 41 13. Virgina 40 14. Wisconsin 38 15. Kentucky 28
Top Eight/U-M Finishers (Day 1)
(Preliminary time in parentheses if faster than finals time for U-M)
200-yard Freestyle Relay
1. Stanford 1:17.03 (Randall Bal, Andrew Schnell, Peter Marshall, Bobby O'Bryan) 2. Auburn 1:17.28 3. California 1:17.39 4. Arizona 1:18.28 5. Texas A&M 1:18.61 6. Texas 1:18.78 7. Florida 1:18.97 8. Arizona State 1:19.24
500-Yard Freestyle
1. Erik Vendt, Southern Cal 4:13.63 2. Robert Margalis, Georgia 4:14.24 3. Ous Mellouli, Southern Cal 4:15.50 4. Peter Vanderkaay, U-M 4:15.69 5. Francis Crippen, Virginia 4:16.48 6. Chris Kemp, Texas 4:18.60 7. Justin Mortimer, Minnesota 4:19.27 8. B.J. Jones, Auburn 4:22.32 11. Davis Tarwater, U-M 4:18.78 16. Justin Drake, U-M 4:26.87 (4:21.42)
200-yard Individual Medley
1. George Bovell, Auburn 1:42.66!*^% 2. Joe Bruckart, California 1:44.30 3. Rainer Kendrick, Texas 1:22.51 4. Ryan Lochte, Florida 1:44.58 5. Markus Rogan, Stanford 1:45.50 6. Dan Trupin, Stanford 1:45.53 7. Mark Gangloff, Auburn 1:46.26 8. Dan Ketchum, U-M 1:47.60 (1:45.46)
50-yard Freestyle
1. Fred Bousquet, Auburn 19.31 2. Mike Cavic, California 19.37 3. Anthony Ervin, Califorina 19.38 4. Derek Gibb, Auburn 19.51 5. Ryan Wochomurka, Auburn 19.62 6. Renato Gueraldi, Tennessee 19.67 7. Andy Haidinyak, Auburn 19.81 8. Randall Bal, Stanford 19.88
One-meter Diving
1. Joona Puhakka, Arizona State 395.80 2. Andy Bradley, South Carolina 359.00 3. Clayton Moss, Kentucky 355.00 4. Aaron Russell, Brigham Young 350.20 5. Zach Wilcox, Flordia 346.95 6. Kris Daughterty, Georgia 343.50 7. Phil Jones, Tennessee 336.15 8. Todd Avery, Georgia 285.90 14. Jason Coben, U-M 287.40
400-yard Medley Relay
1. Texas 3:04.47!*^% (Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, Chris Kemp) 2. Stanford 3:07.24 3. Auburn 3:07.28 4. California 3:08.68 5. Minnesota 3:09.89 6. Southern Cal 3:11.19 7. Florida 3:11.72 8. Wisconsin 3:12.48 14. MICHIGAN 3:15.05 (3:13.36) (Chris DeJong, Jeff Hopwood, Davis Tarwater, Dan Ketchum) % Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center record ! NCAA record * U.S. Open record ^ American record # Michigan school record
N O T E S
Dan Ketchum became the first Wolverine to earn All-America honors in the 200-yard individual medley since Jason Lancaster (1995-96) finished third at the NCAA Championships in 1996. Ketchum finished eighth in the event.
Peter Vanderkaay earned his first All-America citation when he posted a personal-best time of 4:15.69 to finish fourth in the 500-yard freestyle. The time bettered his previous personal best by 1.51 seconds as his old mark stood at 4:17.00 set during the prelims of the event earlier this afternoon.
Davis Tarwater broke his personal best in the 500-yard freestyle when he clocked in with a 4:18.78. The time bettered his previous best of 4:19.15, also set earlier in the day during preliminary qualifying.
During preliminaries of the 500-yard freestyle freshman Tyler DeBerry (Tucson, Ariz./Sabino HS) set his personal best when he touched the wall in 4:21.52. Senior Justin Drake also bettered his personal-best clocking when he qualified for the consolation final with a time of 4:21.42.
Q U O T E S
U-M Head Coach Jon Urbanchek
On the first day ... "We had some good things happen today. Dan Ketchum broke the school record in the 200-yard individual medley during preliminaries, which got him into the finals. Obviously the best performance went to Peter Vanderkaay in the 500-yard free. He hung in with all the big boys and he had a really good battle for third with the freshman from Southern Cal. To finish fourth as a freshman is a great start for a young career."
On what the team has to do tomorrow ... "We are going to do extremely well in the 200-yard freestyle and we have to do well in the 800-yard freestyle relay, which we should. In the 400-yard individual medley Chuck Sayao and Brendan Neligan should compete for spots in the consolation finals, which will give us some nice points. Jeff Hopwood and Chris DeJong will also help us out in the breaststroke and backstroke as well. Then we have Jason Coben and he gets better as the board goes higher, and tomorrow he is on the three-meter."
On Dan Ketchum swimming the 200 IM ... "Dan came to me and said he didn't want to take a spot away from someone else in the 500-yard free and that would have been the case tonight. He said it would be best for the team and it looks like he made the right call."
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