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2024 NCAA Men’s Championships: Florida’s Macquire McDuff Scratches 50 Free on Day 2

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By Anne Lepesant on SwimSwam

2024 Men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships

THURDSAY MORNING HEAT SHEETS

Florida junior Macquire McDuff has dropped out of the 50 free individual race on Thursday. He came in seeded 13th with 18.87. McDuff swam legs on both the 200 medley and 800 free relays on Wednesday night, helping the Gators set the NCAA, meet, and U.S. Open records in the medley with his 18.34 anchor. He also led off Florida’s 4th-place 4×200 with 1:31.82. He will likely be on all five of Florida’s relays and he is still expected to compete in the 200 free on Friday, where he is #1 seed (1:30.64) and the 100 free on Saturday (#5 seed, 41.30).

Three more top-32 swimmers have also dropped the 50 free and are presumably swimming 5 relays instead: Virginia Tech freshman Brendan Whitfield (#26, 19.10), NC State senior Luke Miller (#31, 19.18), and Stanford junior Andrei Minakov (#32, 19.29) will not compete in heats on Thursday morning. Whitfield is seeded 23rd in the 200 free and 13th in the 100 free; Miller, 4th in the 100 fly and 11th in the 100 free; and Minakov, 3rd in the 100 fly and 2nd in the 200 fly.

500 free

  • No scratches

200 IM

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SwimSwam: 2024 NCAA Men’s Championships: Florida’s Macquire McDuff Scratches 50 Free on Day 2

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