Alabama Men’s Swimming & Diving Continues Strong Showing on NCAA Championships Day Two
3/24/2022 8:33:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Crimson Tide scored in the 200 freestyle relay and off the 1-meter springboard on Thursday
ATLANTA – The Alabama men's swimming and diving team continued to roll on day two of the NCAA Championships being held at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga., this week. The Crimson Tide is currently in 14th place in the team competition with 41 points after two days of competition and has its best events of the meet over the next two days.
Alabama closed things out with a big swim in the night's final event, the 200 freestyle relay, dropping a season-best 1:16.31 from the outside lane. Coming into the championships seeded 22nd, the Tide shaved nearly a second off its previous best of the season to score team points, with Jonathan Berneburg, Matt Menke, Derek Maas and Tyler Sesvold combining to take 13th place.
In the championships' first diving event, Kevin Li made the B final off the 1-meter springboard after tallying 333.00 points in prelims. He came back to score 336.50 points in finals to take sixth in the consolation finals and 14th overall. Li is the first member of the UA men's diving corps to score at the national championships since Adam Booher in 2011.
Alabama Head Coach Margo Geer Said
"Before we got started this week, we talked about coming together and fighting for every place and every point and that's just what we saw tonight. We're super proud of the job that Kevin did off the 1-meter in a very tough field. He fought all the way through and scored some big points for us. Then we closed with that 200 freestyle relay surprising a lot of people by winning our heat from the outside lane and moving up in the ranks and putting us in a great position heading into tomorrow."
The Schedule
- Friday and Saturday will feature a full slate of events each day with prelims getting underway at 9 a.m. CT and finals starting at 5 p.m. CT
- Friday's preliminary session includes the 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and the 3-meter springboard, while finals will see the Tide in the 400 medley relay
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