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March 24, 2000
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – University of Virginia second-year All-American EdMoses (Burke, Va./Lake Braddock) shattered the week-old short course worldrecord in the 100-meter breaststroke by 46 hundredths of a second Fridayafternoon, March 24 in the second day of preliminaries at the 2000 NCAADivision I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships at the UniversityAquatic Center in Minneapolis. Moses clocked a time of 58.05 in settingthe new short course (25-meter pool) world record in the 100 breast. Hissplit of 26.96 at the 50-meter mark established an American record in the50-meter breaststroke as well.
Russia’s Roman Sloudnov set the former world record in the 100 breast witha time 58.51 at the Short Course World Championships in Athens on March 17.In addition to the world record, Moses now also holds the American and U.S.records in both the 100 and 50-meter breaststroke. In the 100 breast,Moses broke the former American record held by Jeremy Linn by 1.4 seconds(59.45). The old U.S. Open record was 58.79 by Fred deBurghgraeve ofBelgium. The former American and U.S. Open 50-meter short coursebreaststroke records were held by Linn with a time of 27.11.
Auburn junior David Denniston was second to Moses in the 100 breast with atime of 58.64.
Virginia fourth-year All-American Doak Finch (Southern Pines, N.C./O’Neal)finished 11th in the prelims of the 100-meter butterfly with a time of53.02 to advance to tonight’s consolation finals. The Cavaliers alsoqualified for the consolation finals of the 200-meter medley relay with atime of 1:39.29. The foursome of second-year Chris Mousetis (Newport News,Va./Woodside), Moses, Finch and third-year Troy Johnson (St. George,Utah/Dixie) finished with the 15th fastest time of the prelims.
In addition to Finch, UVa first-year Evan Taylor (Issaquah, Wash./Issaquah)was 27th in the 100 butterfly with a time of 54.36, but did not advance totonight’s finals. Mousetis failed to advance in the 100-meter backstrokeas he posted a 29th-place time of 56.14.
Virginia will also be competing in the 800-meter freestyle relay in thisevening’s finals.
UVa stands in a 13th-place tie with Hawaii with 55 points after yesterday’ssix events. The Cavaliers have a total of eight athletes competing at theMen’s NCAA Championships, which run through Saturday, March 25. Virginiaentered the 2000 NCAAs ranked a program-best seventh in the latest CollegeSwimming Coaches Association of America Top 25 Poll. UVa finished 14th atthe 1999 NCAA Championships, its highest finish ever.
The NCAA Championships are being swum in meters for the first time.Complete meet results can be obtained on the NCAA’s home page atwww.ncaa.org