UAAs

Big night, horse-race recap at the end

We don’t write quickly, so we are going to try to push this out in—for us—record time. It’s going to have a looser, slightly more improvisational feel.

Stuff we have to note

• Cooper Costello and Brayden Morford faced off in the 100 Fly final.

  • Cooper Costello: 46.59 (broke his own UAA record)

  • Brayden Morford: 46.84

• Nicole Ranile’s 100 Fly: 54.23—just 0.03 seconds off the UAA record.

• Max Nechydyuk set a new UAA record in the 400 IM with a 3:49.35. Did we mention he’s a first-year? Victor Derani (NYU) and Peter Meng (Case Western) both went under 3:54.

• Calista Lynch (NYU) won the 400 IM for the second year in a row, successfully defending her UAA title as a sophomore.

• Kaley McIntyre set another UAA record in the 200 Free. It’ll be interesting to see if she swims that event at nationals…

• Emory’s McKee Thorsen and Chicago’s John Butler had a thrilling showdown in the 200 Free, with Mr. Thorsen barely edging out his first-year opponent.

• Emory’s Katie Cohen (1:02.47) narrowly out-touched NYU’s Anna Li (1:02.51) in the 100 Breast. The UAA record stood at 1:02.42.

• Emory’s Henri Bonnault won the 100 Breast in 52.71—just 0.01 off the conference record.

• Brayden Morford looks primed for championship season. After placing 2nd in the 100 Fly, he came back strong to take 1st in the 100 Back.

Horse-race recap

The NYU men are still within striking distance, just a few key performances away, but the depth of the Emory squad is staggering. Even knowing how deep they are, this performance is still...wow.

On the women’s side, NYU is marginally ahead of Emory heading into the final day. Three days ago, a former NYU swimmer’s dad asked us if we thought the NYU-Emory battle would come down to the last relay. At the time, we thought that was unlikely. But now… maybe, Ed. Just maybe.