Unnecessary DQ Erases Gold Medal Dream For Louisville At NCAA Swimming Championships

The Division I men’s NCAA swimming championships started on the 27th of March 2024 and are set to be completed on the 30th, at the IU Natatorium, in Indianapolis. Considering only short-course swimming races in the league this time, the 200 medley relay was one of them. Though every men’s swimming team aspired for the gold, some unfortunate misconduct, took to a toll and delivered striking results for Louisville this season.

Hosted by the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Indiana Sports Corporation, the 2024 NCAA DI men’s championship encompassed a total of 270 qualified swimmers who qualified on March 13, for the preliminary and final sessions, of which some down on lucky men swimmers from Louisville got disqualified due to their inappropriate reaction time.

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The official page of Swim Swam News on Instagram quoted the disheartening news, “Louisville’s 200 Medley relay was DQed over a -.05 reaction time on the breast-butterfly exchange. The relay touched at 1:22.54, which would have placed 8th. Do you think this is a DQ?” Thus, had team Louisville not given a (-0.05) reaction time, which was a false start to the swim exchange, then it could have managed to reach the top 8th position during the 200 medley relay.

While The Florida team clinched its way to the top during the 2024 NCAA swimming championship with a 1:20:15 NCAA record this season, Arizona State set a 1:20:55 record and NC State stood third with a 1:20:98 score in the 200 medley relay. However, despite everything going smoothly this season, a major highlight was the disqualification that team Louisville owned.

An unfortunate disqualification that led others to go past them

Louisville ranked 12th unfortunately with a score of 24 points, accounting for the DQ they had. A false start, which they had encountered, is where a player leaves the stationary position before he is supposed to jump into the pool. While Denis Petrashov of Louisville marked an under-23 timing of 22.91 precisely, his score could have got him applause, had his team not owned a disqualification sadly.

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Thus erasing their gold medal dream, Louisville in the backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke, could not break through. Also to mention, along with the Louisville team getting DQed (disqualified), Penn State seemed to join hands with them in the disqualification.

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