NCAA record in 100 breast sets Julian Smith in the Unique Club

NCAA record in 100 breasts through unique Julian Smith in the Select Club

The first man who breaks 50 seconds for 100 yards chest hat never represented the United States as a senior international, but never took the final of an event during Olympic exams.

The second swam at the University of Minnesota, far from the mainstream of the NCAA high cups.

The third won the C finals at SEC championships in its real academic year in the second year.

And the fourth high school closed the 44th time in the nation in its senior season.

The sub-50 club in breast swimming of men is an unusual brotherhood. It does not include anyone who (still) swung (still) at the long -term Olympic Games or World Cup championships. Instead, it has four swimmers whose trips were surprisingly diverse.

Julian Smith Renewed his membership in this contingent on Friday evening at the SecC championships and rose in 49.51 seconds to reorganize the NCAA and American Records in his second career-Sub 50 swimming picture. He took the recording of Liam bellThe Cal swimmer who set it on NCAAs in 2024. Bell had moved Ian Finnerty The Indiana swimmer has held the record of his perch with 49.69 since 2018 and adds a second swimming of Sub-50 next year. Behind them came the attack of Max. Mchughwhose 49.90 brought one of his three NCAA titles in the event.

It is an amazing – and surprisingly unusual – group to which Smith belongs. Meager:

– Fingerny came from Indiana's breast trich power package, which included the 2024 Olympian Josh Matheny Plus many outstanding actors on the side of the women. He was the first man who broke twice 50, with a 49.85 repeated champion in 2019. But the federty never translated it into the long -term success: he was not swimming in the Olympic attempts after the 11th place in the 100th The only event in 2016.

– Mchugh was a ticket for success in the high school, Sturgeon Bay, in Wisconas, for the success of 51.62 in the high school, a national public school report. He gave this promise with Minnesota in five years and collected four NCAA titles.

-Bell, a native Georgia, was the youngest man who qualified for Olympic exams in 2016. He fought with the Crimson Tide in the second year, skipped the NCAAs (in which he set in the 100 breast on 24th on 24th place) and Olympic attempts before rebirth in Berkeley. He went 50.50 to set the program brand in 2022, and took third place at NCAAS, then sixth place in 2023 at 50.76. Despite this family tree of 50.89 at the PAC-12 championships in 2024 to 49.53 in NCAA. (His fourth place at Olympic exams in June .24 from the second Olympic town is also the next brush of the US international long -term international contracts)

And now Smith. His time of 49.98 in the Georgia Fall Invitational caused the termination. His construction in Gainesville was steady and relentless, even if it seemed unlikely at the beginning, with the male second swimmer of the Meet Honours.

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– Gator swimming and diving (@gatorswimdv) February 23, 2025

Smith completed the High School – the impressive program of the Episcopal School in Jacksonville under Olympia -Gold medalist Martin Lopez-Zubero – With a best time of 100 breast of 55.57. He lowered this to 52.73 as a newcomer in Secs in 2022, then in 2023 and 50.94 in NCAAs in 2024 in NCAAs to take seventh place.

Nevertheless, the leap from a very good breast-fricher and invaluable sprint relay tooth wheel to the best short-term breast trucker of all time is massive. Nevertheless, Smith did it. His event progress in the 100-breast should be framed and the trainers should be offered as Wallhanger.

The versatility is undertaked by its rise: where Funde, Mchugh and Bell Sprint-Breuststroker were, the Kameen produced in the 200, Smith has an all-purpose speed over several lines and distances. His performance at Secs included a 1: 29.67 splitting of Floridas 800 Free Season, which only 0.24 from the fastest time of all time. 11 always in the event. He decided from the 200 breast on Saturday to concentrate freely on 100 and took sixth place in 41.34.

In addition, on Friday evening he supported his record -breaking breaststroke with a relay split of 48.95, whereby he was heading for the top separation of all time Leon Marchand. Together with Josh LiendoSmith was a main force behind the Gators, which destroyed the NCAA record in the 400 Medley relay by 1.6 seconds. His jump from Cog to Star seems representative of the career he had in Gainesville.

And the unorthodox group that he has joined.