2024 Minnesota Invite
It’s the second evening of finals on the 2024 Minnesota Invite, the place we’ll see finals of the five hundred freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, and 200 freestyle relays. It was a busy prelims session and because the session went on, the Cal Golden Bears bought stronger and stronger, culminating in sweeping the highest eight spots within the males’s 50 freestyle.
We’re nonetheless ready on the finals warmth sheets to verify, however barring any scratches, Minnesota has the highest seed within the 500 freestyles due to Katie McCarthy (4:43.09) and Bar Soloveychik (4:18.65), whereas Cal has the highest seed within the different 4 particular person occasions.
Isabelle Stadden posted the quickest time within the ladies’s 200 IM (1:56.99) earlier than touching second within the 50 freestyle prelims behind freshman Mary-Ambre Moluh (22.19). The lads’s morning was highlighted by an enormous finest time within the 200 IM by Gabriel Jett, who was on the again half of a 500 free/200 IM double. He posted a 1:41.89, main defending NCAA champion Destin Lasco (1:44.90) in his NCAA season debut (1:44.60). Bjorn Seeliger dropped a season-best 19.22 to qualify first within the 50 freestyle. He’ll be in lane 4 for the all-Golden Bear closing, round him two notable swims got here from freshman Nans Mazellier (2nd, 19.52) and sophomore Nikolas Antoniou (seventh, 19.78) who each certified for the ‘A’ closing by breaking 20 seconds for the primary time.
WOMEN’S 500 FREE – Last
- NCAA File: 4:24.06, Katie Ledecky (Stanford) – 2017
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 4:37.89
- 2024 NCAA Cutline: 4:41.19
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MEN’S 500 FREE – Last
- NCAA File: 4:02.31, Leon Marchand (ASU) – 2024
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 4:10.74
- 2024 NCAA Cutline: 4:14.90
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WOMEN’S 200 IM – Last
- NCAA File: 1:48.37, Kate Douglass (Virginia) – 2023
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 1:53.66
- 2024 NCAA Cutline: 1:57.03
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MEN’S 200 IM – Last
- NCAA File: 1:36.34, Leon Marchand (ASU) – 2023
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 1:41.03
- 2024 NCAA Cutline: 1:43.05
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WOMEN’S 50 FREE – Last
- NCAA File: 20.37, Gretchen Walsh (Virginia) – 2024
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 21.63
- 2024 NCAA Cutline: 22.11
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MEN’S 50 FREE – Last
- NCAA File: 17.63, Caeleb Dressel (Florida) – 2018
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 18.82
- 2024 NCAA Cutline: 19.13
High 8:
Girls’s 200 Free Relay — Timed Last
- NCAA File: 1:23.63, Virginia — 2024
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 1:28.42
- 2025 NCAA ‘B’ Reduce: 1:29.00
High 8:
Males’s 200 Free Relay — Timed Last
- NCAA File: 1:13.35, Florida — 2023
- 2025 NCAA ‘A’ Reduce: 1:16.51
- 2025 NCAA ‘B’ Reduce: 1:17.13
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