200 yard freestyle relay
In the 200 freestyle relay, defending NCAA 50 and 100 yard freestyle champion Cesar Cielo lead off the Auburn relay with a new meet record and the fastest 50 yard time in history, destroying his own NCAA record by 22 one hundredths of a second, touching in a time of 18.47.
Cielo was followed by teammates Alexei Puninski, Luke Weniger and Scott Goodrich, who won the 200 yard freestyle relay for the fourth year in a row, finishing in a time of 1:15.66.
Arizona finished second in a time of 1:16.55 just ahead of Cal who finished third in a time of 1:16.94.
500 yard freestyle
Michael Klueh from Texas came into the meet as the Big 12 champion in the 500 yard freestyle, winning the event in an impressive time of 4:11.41 shattering the conference record by 2.69 seconds and giving him the top qualifying time going into the meet.
After the prelims Georgia's flying Frenchman Sebastien Rouault was the top seed with a time of 4:13.67, which set up a great show down in the finals.
Klueh used his speed to take a decisive lead early, but Rouault didn't back down, lurking, swimming right beside the lane rope to take advantage of drafting Klueh, he waited for his time. That moment came at the 250 yard. Rouault made his move both with his kick and off of each of his walls overtaking Klueh and win in a time of 4:09.48, which is an improvement of 3.42 seconds.
Klueh touched in a time of 4:10.00 and coming in third was Jean Basson from Arizona.
200 yard IM Going into the 200 yard IM final the top two teams in meet scores were Texas with 58 points and Arizona with 50. The two top qualifiers from the prelims in the morning were Darian Townsend from Arizona and Ricky Berens from Texas. With team points on the line both swimmers knew they needed to take their swimming to a whole new level, once again.
Both swimmers made incredible improvements in prelims, Townsend went a best time by 1.03 seconds and Berens by 1.36 seconds. With team points on the line both swimmers knew they needed to take their swimming to a whole new level, once again.
Townsend who only started swimming this event two years ago took the lead right from the first stroke of the butterfly. Berens stayed within striking distance of Townsend, closing in on him in the last 50 of freestyle. Townsend hung onto the lead to touch in a time of 1:42.72 and Berens finished a close second in a time of 1:43.25. TP Patrick from Indiana was third in a time of 1:44.55.
50 yard freestyle
Cesar Cielo started the night off by breaking his NCAA 50 yard mark swimming the lead off position in the 200 yard freestyle relay. It was going to be hard for this junior from Brazil to top that performance in the individual event.
Once the race was started it was over. Cielo swam a near perfect race and all the others swimmers could do is watch and fight for second. Although Cielo did not break his NCAA record from earlier in the evening, he did finish in an impressive time of 18.52.
Alex Righi from Yale finished second in a time of 19.08 and placing third was Albert Subirats from Auburn.
400 yard medley relay
The night finished the same way it began, with incredible and exciting relay events. The 400 yard medley was a two horse race between Arizona and California until the butterfly leg where Stanford started to gain group.
With 100 freestyle to go there was not clear cut winner. Swimming the final leg for Arizona was a Canadian, Joel Greenshields. Greenshields had the swim of his life going 41.95 in the 100 yard freestyle leading his team to victory with a final time of 3:04.43.
California finished second with a time of 3:04.38, followed by Standford with a time of 3:05.43.