Auburn Takes Home Another National Title
The 200 breaststroke now has a new champion and his name is Vladislav Polyakov. After four years of dominance by Brendan Hansen of Texas, the Alabama sophomore seized the moment, taking the NCAA title in a pool record time of 1:53.93.
Polyakov held a substantial lead through 150 yards, but held off a hard-charging Mike Alexandrov of Northwestern, who recorded a brisk 29.30 final split, by .11. Alexandrov came up for second in a time of 1:54.04.
Third place went to Gary Marshall of Stanford after clocking 1:54.54. Marshall maintained thoughts of going two-for-two in the breaststroke events after capturing the 100 crown last night. But the Cardinal senior faded on the final 25 split, losing more than a half second to Polyakov and over a full second to Alexandrov.
Scott Usher of Wyoming took fourth (1:55.33) and Vanja Rogulj of Virginia (1:56.17) placed fifth. Dave Rollins (Arizona), Henrique Barbosa (Cal) and Eric Shanteau (Auburn) complete the championship field in sixth through eighth, respectively.
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posted by Michelle at
3/27/2005 04:40:00 PM
5 Comments:
Big congrats to Auburn!
Texas also didn't do to shabby this year, considering they were without the B-Han, Crockah and Aar-Bear. Thats a mighty blow to the team to have lost those three!
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Sarah, at 3/28/2005 9:01 AM
Congrats to Auburn! I know it made Dave extremely happy. Along with those cheerleaders that is....lol.
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blairbecky, at 3/28/2005 9:01 AM
Congrats Auburn!
The UT swim team deserves a lot of credit as well. Placing 7th after the best breaststroker, butterfly, and backstrokers in the WORLD departed (at the same time at that!) is a great achievement. they did a great job in adjusting to the Trio's absence. Next year should be even better.
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jenny, at 3/28/2005 11:30 AM
Congrats to Auburn they did a great job. And I also want to say congrats to Texas they did pretty good, and seem to have some really good swimmers that I think we will have to be watching out for in the near future. And of course, I have to say congrats to Ryan Lochte for breaking his own record! (I wonder if he got another phone call from Peirsol, pml)
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LongHornLove, at 3/28/2005 3:20 PM
Congrats to Auburn! I have to admit that that is the only NCAA school that I support. If you know me, you know why.
Also, I know that it's been a while since I popped on over here, so- hi everybody!
By
Dana, at 3/29/2005 12:35 PM
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