2022 NCAA Men’s Championships: Brendan Burns Springs Surprise in 200 Fly
Make Brendan Burns your guide star, as in every race you’re wondering why swimmers leave fast, you’ll punish yourself and eventually get submerged in the water.
Indiana Jr., who flew under the radar in the 200 Butterfly final on Saturday night, jumped out of the gate in the final. The longer he’s in front, the more likely he’s to surprise his favorites in the field.
The result was the first national title.
Burns stood in front of all the walls when he put together the perfect race to lead Luka Wooland and Nicholas Albiero to victory. Burns quickly took it out and stayed there, reaching the wall first at 1: 38.71.
She said, “That means everything. It’s life-changing.” “I knew I had to race perfectly with the guys out there, like Luka, Nick, Trenton, etc. All these guys out there were amazing 200 butterflies, or maybe much more than me. He is an excellent swimmer. Fortunately, this is a short course and I worked really hard on the underwater kick.
Burns was the fourth seed from qualifying, but he was in front of all the walls. He overcame a long slide on a 150m wall and had a long finish, but still put his hand on the wall 0.11 ahead of Arland.
The 200cc fly produced a great finale, with the top four finishers 0.29 seconds away. Arland of Georgia was chasing his first title of the week after finishing second in the 100m fly and third in the 200 IM. Albiero wanted to repeat himself as an NCAA champion and brought the top seed to the final in 0.5 seconds.
But Burns was better than both. Arland moved up to the second place at 1: 38.82. Albiero was third at 1: 38.88 and reinforces two sixth places with 100 flies and 100 backs from Friday night. This is the first NCAA title at the event since Gary Hall Sr. finished seventh in last year’s 1973
burn. He was second with 100 backs, 0.11 seconds ahead of Katsupelstkovsky in North Carolina, and ninth with 100 flies. In the
team race, Trenton Julian finished fourth at 1: 39.00, almost winning the California title. Gabriel Jet was 6th.
Burns described the 200 bow ties as “my baby.” This is an event he is crazy about as a form of “artistic expression”. The NCAA’s success at a very important event in his mind feels like a perfect Saturday, as the player who swam twice in the Meet’s Big Ten Championship didn’t have enough NCAA he wanted. I did.
“Last year’s NCAA was a little disappointing,” said Brendan Burns. “Despite reaching the two A finals, I had higher goals and higher ambitions for myself. This year I used it as a motivation and worked hard. This year Really, there was a really big goal …. When I swim 200 flies, it feels so natural, it feels so good, and for.
