NYU takes the lead
We saw it coming on the women's tables; the men's tables are more of a surprise. Plus, Salisbury breaks through, and more.
We love this time of year.
We are about to give you revised tables with new leaders and a bunch of new teams. We first encourage you to read the post from last night to get a sense of the context here.
As we suspected, the results from the Phoenix Open proved relevant.
First, there is this.
Your new single event SRS leader is Kaley McIntyre. Not much of a twist there. She now holds three of the top five event SRS scores. And Ms. McIntyre is now also the individual SRS leader as well.
Note that Hannah Fathman of Albion continues to be a factor in sprint freestyle. Here is some history.
A People's History of 22.82
Yesterday, at the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Championships, Albion’s Hannah Fathman swam the Women’s 50 Free in 22.82.
That 22.68 is her fastest swim ever in that event. SwimCloud says it is a Nationals A Cut.1 It isn’t. But it might as well be, because Ms. Fathman is now a lock for a Nationals invite.
NYU has taken over the top spots on both the women’s and men’s tables.
There are now 16 NYU women generating positive SRS points, with Kaley McIntyre, Nicole Ranile, Caitlin Marshall, Calista Lynch, Aanya Wala, Hope Xayaveth, and Daria Chtokolov each producing more than 2 SRS.
The achievements of the NYU men register as more of a surprise for us.
Based on their time’s from this weekend, NYU’s Max Nechydyuk and Connor Vincent jump into the top five, along with Chicago’s Cooper Costello. And now there are no fewer than six NYU athletes with more than 2 SRS points in men’s events,2 and a total of 15 athletes with some sort of positive SRS total in men’s events, making NYU - at this moment - the deepest men’s team in Division III.
News and Notes
Salisbury is now on both the men’s and women’s tables. Sydney McCallie and Mason Potts are driving the action for the Sea Gulls, but there are new team records being set up and down both rosters.
Ella Pennington of Rowan had quite a weekend at the Franklin & Marshall Invitational, winning 100 Back, 200 Back, 100 Fly, and 200 IM in times that registered significant SRS points.
Remember you can interact with the individual and team SRS ratings here. And let us know if you have any questions about methodology.
Max Nechydyuk, Connor Vincent, Teddy McQuaid, Victor Derani, Pierce Downs, and Jaeden Yburan.
So far, in this early part of the season, it looks like a handful of freshman are scoring at a massive SRS level, including on the women’s side, Emory’s Allison Greenway and Elodie Mitchell; and on the men’s side, NYU’s Max Nechydyuk and Teddy McQuad.
Of particular note, Max’s midseason 400 IM time of 3:48 was 3 seconds under last season’s winning NCAA time of 3:51!
I think we should wait before proclaiming NYU National Champions. I know you guys just want to do that. However, there are some big swims to come. NESCAC has hardly begun their season and there are still some top D3 Invites in 2 weeks (with 2 more weeks of training and prep to be had) that include Emory, Denison, MIT, Williams, Tufts, Calvin and Wash U men and women, all top 10 or near top 10 teams last season, as well as others. I’m sure Trevor (Miele) would love for the season to end right now but let’s wait until March just for the fun of it.
Also, it seems that the damage the pandemic did to swimming, particularly to the women and D3, has been overcome. From my perspective, we are seeing much faster times compared to the last couple of years. In season swims for the women appear to be up a level so with the 5th years and what amounts to most teams’ best recruiting class being seniors, we are at the peak. The men weren’t damaged quite as much, it seemed, but there are still improvements to the in-season swims. Let’s just say by December 8th, we will have a little better idea of where teams stand.