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2006 Men's NCAA DI Swimming and Diving Championship Recap - Day 3

Saturday 25 March 2006

By , About.com Guide

After the last day's morning preliminary events, Auburn, on paper, had about a 40-point advantage over Arizona on paper, more than enough to move back into first place and claim the NCAA title. Move up they did!

  1. Auburn (486.5) claimed its 4th straight NCAA Swimming and Diving National title. The rest of the top 10 teams:
  2. Arizona 440.5
  3. Stanford 362.5
  4. Texas 307
  5. Florida 268.5
  6. Cal. Berkeley 250.5
  7. Southern Cal 223
  8. Michigan 209
  9. Georgia 197
  10. Northwestern 183.5

  • The 1,650 free was won by Sebastien Roualt (14:29.43) from Georgia, with Peter Vanderkaay (14:33.76) from Michigan in 2nd and Larsen Jensen (14:44.89) in 3rd.

  • The 200 back featured the meet powerhouse swimmer, Ryan Lochte (1:37.68 - NCAA, American, US Open record) from Florida outdoing the rest of the field. Hongzhe Sun (1:40.25) of Stanford and Nick Thomas (1:42.20) from Arizona filled the other top spots.

  • Texas' Garrett Weber-Gale (42.11) was the man in the 100 free. Ben Wildman-Tobriner (42.17) from Stanford claimed 2nd and Simon Burnett (42.54) from Arizona was 3rd.

  • Henrique Barbosa (1:53.97) from Cal. Berkeley was first in the 200 breast, with Alabama's Vlad Polyakov (1:54.08) in 2nd and Stanford's Paul Kornfeld (1:54.41)in 3rd.

  • The 200 fly champion was Davis Tarwater (1:41.84) of Michigan. Gil Stovall (1:42.10) of Georgia came in 2nd and Viktor Bodrogi (1:43.10) of Southern Cal. was 3rd.

  • Coming through for Auburn was platform diving champion Steven Segerlin (469.30 - he was 3rd on the 1 and 3-meter boards). Chris Colwill (443.95 - the 1 and 3-meter board champion) from Georgia came in 2nd, and Purdue's Steve Lobue (349.60) came in 3rd.

  • The final event of the meet, the 400 free relay, was won by Arizona (2:48.39), with Auburn (2:48.89) 2nd and Texas (2:51.56) 3rd.

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