March 27, 1998

AUBURN, Ala. --- Senior Tom Wilkens captured his second career national title in the 400 yard Individual Medley to help top-ranked Stanford University take a commanding lead after day two of the NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships at Auburn University. The Cardinal heads into the third and final day of competition with 411 points, well ahead of second place Auburn's 308.5.

Wilkens touched the wall in 3:43.96, to shave nearly two sconds off the school record of 3:45.59 he established en route to last year's title. Teammate Steven Brown finished second in 3:46.52.

"I was the defending champ in (the 400 IM), so it was very important to me going in," Wilkens, who won the 200 IM in school record time on Thursday night, said. "Our team performance has been outstanding. We brought 16 guys and 16 guys are scoring. We've had momentum since the first event."

In the five individual finals on Friday night, Stanford had 10 competitors. In the 100 butterfly, Sabir Muhammad finished second in 46.18 to shatter the school mark of 46.25 set by three-time Olympic gold meadlist and current Stanford assistant Pablo Morales in 1986. The Cardinal's Dod Wales was third in the event at 46.32.

The Cardinal also made its presence felt in the 100 backstroke with Tate Blahnik (46.93), Muhammad (47.34) and Justin Ewers (47.55) finishing third, fourth, and fifth, respectively.

"We are pleased with how the whole day went," Stanford assistant coach Ted Knapp said. "... We are pleased with the individual and team efforts. It's a wonderful feeling (to be ahead by 102.5 points), and we are excited with where we are."

If Stanford stays on top on Saturday, it will bring home its first men's swimming and diving national title since 1994.

Day #2 Finals

Team Scores
1. Stanford 411
2. Auburn 308.5
3. Texas 274.5
4. Tennessee 178
5. USC 175
6. Arizona 152
7. Georgia 120
8. SMU 117.5
9. Arizona State 100
10. California 99
11. Havard 88
12. Florida State 84
13. Michigan 79
14. Minnesota 76
15. Miami of Florida 75
16. Nebraska 73
17. LSU 57
18. Texas A&M 48
19. Ohio State 47
20. Virginia 40
21. Indiana 36
22. Cincinnati 28
23. Florida 19
24. BYU 15.5
25. Kentucky 15
26. Alabama 14
27T. Syracuse 12
27T. North Carolina 12
29. Iowa State 8
30. UNLV 7
31T. Purdue 6
31T. Eastern Michigan 6
33. UC Santa Barbara 3
34. Iowa 2
35. Maryland 1

200 medley relay
Finals:
1. Auburn 1:25.24 (new NCAA, NCAA Meet, U.S. Open and Auburn Pool record)
2. Stanford (Tate Blahnik 22.58, Anthony Robinson 24.55, Sabir Muhammad 19.74, Scott Claypool 18.83) 1:25.70
3. Tennessee 1:26.25
4. Texas 1:26.36
5. USC 1:27.54
6. SMU 1:27.75
7. Arizona State 1:28.19
8. Florida State 1:28.68

Consolation Final:
9. California 1:27.91
10. Minnesota 1:28.62
11. LSU 1:28.68
12. Georgia 1:28.86
13. Florida 1:28.93
14. Ohio State 1:29.00
15. Arizona 1:29.57
16. Iowa State 1:30.15
   
400 Individual Medley
Finals:
1. Tom Wilkens (Stanford) 3:43.96
2. Steven Brown (Stanford) 3:46.52
3. Owen von Richter (Michigan) 3:48.91
4. Lionel Moreau (Auburn) 3:49.02
5. Beau Weibel (Georgia) 3:50.21
6. Honza Vitazka (Cincinnati) 3:50.42
7. Greg Wriede (Harvard) 3:50.63
8. Thomas Finch (Virginia) 3:56.66

Consolation Finals:
9. Matt Hall (Tennessee) 3:50.17
10. Erik Scalise (UNLV) 3:50.65
11. Rob Canales (Stanford) 3:51.35
12. Robert Iglinski (Indiana) 3:51.90
13. Kris Babylon (Georgia) 3:53.52
14. Michael Windisch (Nebraska) 3:53.65
15. Casey Barrett (SMU) 3:54.00
16. Christopher Read (Georgia) 3:57.77

100 butterfly
Finals:
1. Lars Frolander (SMU) 45.59 (new NCAA, NCAA Meet, U.S. Open and Auburn Pool record)
2. Sabir Muhammad (Stanford) 46.18
3. Dod Wales (Stanford) 46.32
4. Adam Pine (Nebraska) 46.35
5. Nate Dusing (Texas) 46.60
6. Martin Zielinski (Minnesota) 46.74
7. Tucker Shade (North Carolina) 46.86
8. Dan Lindstrom (California) 47.24

Consolation Finals:
9. Shamek Pietucha (Virginia) 47.29
10. Jed Crowe (Stanford) 47.32
11. Bryan Jones (Texas) 47.57
12. Mike Williams (USC) 47.58
13. Brock Newman (Auburn) 47.61
14. Francisco Sanchez (Arizona State) 47.61
15. Derya Buyukuncu (Michigan) 47.99
16. Steve Martyak (Texas) 48.11

200 freestyle
Finals:
1. Ryk Neethling (Arizona) 1:34.19 (new Auburn Pool record)
2. Bela Szabados (USC) 1:34.36
3. Michael Keidel (Harvard) 1:34.94
4. Jay Schryver (Arizona) 1:35.55
5T. Romain Barnier (Auburn) 1:36.03
5T. Jamie Rauch (Texas) 1:36.03
7. Miro Vucetic (Syracuse) 1:36.37
8. Adam Messner (Stanford) 1:36.83

Consolation Finals:
9. Philippe Demers (USC) 1:36.67
10. Eric Matuszak (Harvard) 1:36.80
11. Chris Counts (Arizona) 1:36.91
12T. Arunas Savickas (BYU) 1:37.07
12T. Blaine Morgan (SMU) 1:37.07
14. Steve Parry (Florida State) 1:37.14
15. Scott Goldblatt (Texas) 1:37.98
16. Greg Busse (Auburn) 1:38.10

100 breaststroke
Finals:
1. Jeremy Linn (Tennessee) 53.01 (new Auburn Pool record)
2. Adam Jerger (Auburn) 53.31
3. Dave Denniston (Auburn) 53.68
4. Brendon Dedekind (Florida State) 53.70
5. Kevin Kling (Ohio State) 53.93
6. Blake Holden (Stanford) 54.15
7. Michael Norment (Georgia) 54.21
8. Anthony Robinson (Stanford) 55.28

Cnosolation Finals:
9. Jarrod Marrs (LSU) 53.86
10T. Jay Schindler (Iowa State) 55.15
10T. Russell Chozick (Texas) 55.15
10T. Dmitri Malinovski (BYU) 55.15
13. William Shefchik (BYU) 55.33
14. Christian Bahr (SMU) 55.51
15. Marco Minnone (Iowa) 55.55
Brett Petersen (Florida State) DQ

100 backstroke
Finals:
1. Neil Walker (Texas) 46.66 (new Auburn Pool record)
2. Lenny Krayzelburg (USC) 46.90
3. Tate Blahnik (Stanford) 46.93
4. Sabir Muhammad (Stanford) 46.93
5. Justin Ewers (Stanford) 47.55
6. Michael Gilliam (Tennessee) 47.72
7. Michael Bartz (Auburn) 47.77
8. Alex Massura (Minnesota) 47.97

Consolation Finals:
9. Matt Allen (Arizona) 47.50
10. Chip Crush (Auburn) 48.00
11. Matt Ulrickson (Texas) 48.09
12. Matthew Pierce (Stanford) 48.11
13. Robert Brewer (Georgia) 48.14
14. Derya Buyukuncu (Michigan) 48.24
15. Shamek Pietucha (Virginia) 48.38
16. Eithan Urbach (Auburn) 48.40

Three-Meter Diving
1. Bryan Gillooly (Miami of Florida) 631.40
2. Rio Ramirez (Miami of Florida) 599.15
3. Daren Guertin (LSU) 597.95
4. Michael Collier (Indiana) 575.95
5. Gabby Chereches (Tennessee) 574.60
6. Justin Dumais (USC) 573.00
7. Bert Locklin (Nebraska) 539.35
8. Mike McIntyre (Ohio State) 522.35

800 freestyle relay (timed finals; no preliminaries were held)
1. Texas 6:23.78 (new Auburn Pool record)
2. Arizona 6:24.01
3. Harvard 6:25.92
4. USC 6:26.29
5. Auburn 6:26.59
6. Stanford (Scott Claypool 1:37.61, Justin Ewers 1:37.06, Adam Messner 1:36.04, Dod Wales 1:35.91) 6:26.62
7. Arizona State 6:29.43
8. SMU 6:29.70
9. Michigan 6:30.76
10. Minnesota 6:31.49
11. California 6:31.52
12. Georgia 6:32.40
13. Tennessee 6:34.19
14. Virginia 6:35.45
15. Florida 6:36.62
16. Nebraska 6:38.45
17. Ohio State 6:39.62
18. Florida State 6:40.05
LSU DQ

Day #2 Preliminaries
 

200 medley relay
Finalists:
1. Stanford A (Justin Ewers 22.26, Anthony Robinson 24.44, Jed Crowe 20.81, Scott Claypool 19.13) 1:26.64 (new pool record)
2. Texas 1:26.69
3. Tennessee 1:26.94
4. Auburn 1:27.45
5. SMU 1:27.75
6. Arizona State 1:27.97
7. USC 1:28.12
8. Florida State 1:28.35

Consolation Finalists:
9. Georgia 1:28.52
10. Minnesota 1:28.54
11. California 1:28.55
12. LSU 1:28.71
13. Ohio State 1:28.94
14. Arizona 1:29.04
15. Florida 1:29.05
16. Iowa State 1:29.36

Others:
17. Texas A&M 1:30.40
18. Purdue 1:31.38
Nebraska DQ

400 Individual Medley
Finalists:
1. Steven Brown (Stanford)  3:47.70
2. Lionel Moreau 3:49.07
3. Tom Wilkens (Stanford) 3:49.16
4. Owen von Richter (Michigan) 3:49.33
5. Honza Vitazka (Cincinnati) 3:50.41
6. Greg Wriede (Harvard) 3:50.55
7. Thomas Finch (Virginia) 3:50.93
8. Beay Weibel (Georgia) 3:51.21

Consolation Finalists:
9. Matt Hall (Tennessee) 3:51.31
10. Erik Scalise (UNLV) 3:52.08
11. Michael Windisch (Nebraska) 3:52.13
12. Christopher Read (Georgia) 3:52.37
13. Kris Babylon (Georgia) 3:52.56
14. Rob Canales (Stanford) 3:52.89
15. Robert Inglinski (Indiana) 3:53.04
16. Casey Barrett (SMU) 3:53.17

Others:
17. Chris Mylan (USC) 3:53.21
18. Bill Bishop (Minnesota) 3:53.23
19. Ryan Zahorik (Wisconsin) 3:53.35
20. Bret Awbrey (USC) 3:54.07
21. Andy Potts (Michigan) 3:54.27
22. Bart Sikora (California) 3:54.39
23. Jon Younghouse (Texas) 3:54.69
24. Jonathen McLeod (Minnesota) 3:54.99
25. Nuk Sirisanont (California) 3:55.22
26. Bart Wickard (SMU) 3:55.36
27. Mark Kwok (USC) 3:57.35
28. Valery Kalmikovs (Nebraska) 3:58.54
29. Bryan Kim (Florida) 3:58.67
Devin Howard (Texas A&M) DQ

100 butterfly
Finalists:
1. Lars Frolander (SMU) 45.65 (new NCAA, NCAA Meet, American, U.S. Open and Auburn Pool record)
2. Dod Wales (Stanford) 46.46
3. Sabir Muhammad (Stanford) 46.47
4. Adam Pine (Nebraska) 46.50
5. Nate Dusing (Texas) 46.58
6. Dan Lindstrom (California) 46.98
7. Martin Zielinski (Minnesota) 47.00
8. Tucker Shade (North Carolina) 47.08

Consolation Finalists:
9. Shamek Pietucha (Virginia) 47.38
10. Bryan Jones (Texas) 47.42
11. Brock Newman (Auburn) 47.43
12. Mike Williams (USC) 47.45
13. Francisco Sanchez (Arizona State) 47.50
14. Jed Crowe (Stanford) 47.51
15. Steve Martyak (Texas) 47.54
16. Derya Buyukuncu (Miochigan) 47.69

Others:
17. Matthew Pierce (Stanford) 47.71
18. Brett Hawke (Auburn) 47.94
19. John Cahoy (Minnesota) 48.04
20. Mike Greene (Utah) 48.06
21. Jeff Somensatto (Auburn) 48.16
22. Keith Ebbert (Nebraska) 48.19
23. Mitch McGinty (Iowa State) 48.22
24. Patrick O'Keefe (SMU) 48.24
25. Joel Shapiro (Tennessee) 48.30
26. Joakim Dahl (Iowa State) 48.33
27. Adam Engle (Tennessee) 48.46
28. Brendan Crowley (Tennessee) 48.56
29. David Foster (Nebraska) 48.59
30. Henrik Ingesson (Iowa State) 48.71
31. Razvan Petcu (Clemson) 48.73
32. Ben Anderson (Arizona) 48.74
33. Kevin Northup (Miami of Ohio) 48.84
34. Aaron Ciarla (Auburn) 48.88
35. Guillermo Diaz DeLeon (Arizona State) 48.95
36. Josh Ilika (USC) 49.02
37. Jason Lezak (UC Santa Barbara) 49.13
38. Brandon Jernigan (SMU) 49.23
39. Will Moore (California) 49.29
40. Ruben Pineda (LSU) 49.48
41. David Morrow (Texas A&M) 49.74
42. Jason Fox (Ohio State) 50.30

200 freestyle
Finalists:
1. Michael Keidel (Harvard) 1:35.09 (new pool record)
2. Ryk Neethling (Arizona) 1:35.22
3. Jay Schryver (Arizona) 1:35.41
4. Miro Vucetic (Syracuse) 1:35.51
5. Romain Barnier (Auburn) 1:35.63
6. Bela Szabados (USC) 1:35.79
7. Adam Messner (Stanford) 1:35.85
8. Jamie Rauch (Texas) 1:35.94

Consolation Finalists:
9. Arunas Savickas (BYU) 1:36.37
10. Chris Counts (Arizona) 1:36.62
11. Eric Matuszak (Harvard) 1:36.68
12. Steve Parry (Florida State) 1:36.92
13. Blaine Morgan (SMU) 1:37.01
14. Scott Goldblatt (Texas) 1:37.11
15. Philippe Demers (USC) 1:37.21
16. Greg Busse (Auburn) 1:37.45 (1:38.17 swimoff)

Others:
17. Eric Godsman (Wisconsin) 1:37.45 (1:38.20 swimoff)
18. Glenn Counts (Stanford) 1:37.48
19. Steve Steketee (Northwestern) 1:37.61
20. Zane Dewitz (Tennessee) 1:37.69
21. Trent Hartl (Kansas) 1:37.81
22. Craig Hutchison (Arizona State) 1:37.83
23. Scott Von Schoff (Arizona State) 1:37.85
24. Tom Malchow (Michigan) 1:37.96
25. Reeve Irvin (Georgia) 1:38.08
26. James Griffin (Georgia) 1:38.60
27. Scott Gaskins (Arizona) 1:38.73
28. Alex Greenberg (Georgia) 1:38.79
29. Dan Draeger (Toledo) 1:38.87
30. Andy Eckerman (Texas) 1:39.09
31. Per Helgesson (SMU) 1:39.13
32. Gregory Plank (Arizona State) 1:39.14
33. Rodney Panek (Tennessee) 1:39.20
34. Bryan Carlson (Minnesota) 1:39.37
35. Matthew Drenik (Florida) 1:39.40
36. Mike McWha (Michigan) 1:39.66
37. Ryan Papa (Michigan) 1:39.99
38. Oswaldo Quevedo (Auburn) 1:40.20
39. Steve Kemmerling (SMU) 1:40.72
40. Alex Kurmakov (Harvard) 1:41.29
Lars Merseburg (California) DQ

100 breaststroke
Finalists:
1. Jeremy Linn (Tennessee) 53.16 (new pool record)
2. Dave Denniston (Auburn) 53.74
3. Brendon Dedekind (Florida State) 53.79
4. Kevin Kling (Ohio State) 53.82
5. Adam Jerger (Auburn) 54.12
6. Blake Holden (Stanford) 54.42
7. Anthony Robinson (Stanford) 54.50
8. Michael Norment (Georgia) 54.54

Consolation Finalists:
9. Jarrod Mars (LSU) 54.55
10. William Shefchik (BYU) 54.71
11. Jay Schindler (Iowa State) 54.74
12. Dimitri Malinovski (BYU) 54.75
13. Russell Chozick (Texas) 54.80
14. Marco Minonne (Iowa) 54.95
15. Christian Bahr (SMU) 54.99
16. Brett Petersen (Florida State) 55.11

Others:
17. Matt Buck (Georgia) 55.13
18. Tom Klement (Auburn) 55.13
19T. Christian Claytor (California) 55.26
19T. Arsenio Lopez (Florida) 55.26
21. Scott Grayson (Maryland) 55.27
22. David Taylor (USC) 55.32
23. Brandon Chestnut (Kansas) 55.51
24. Devin Meece (Pittsburgh) 55.52
25. Scott Werner (Michigan) 55.70
26. Chris Bundy (Arizona) 55.75
27. Vilmos Kovacs (Purdue) 55.85,
28. Davin Quinn (Princeton) 55.88
29. Jason Flint (TCU) 56.00
30. Jeff Livingston (Texas) 56.09
31. Ty Bathurst (Minnesota) 56.27
32. Glendon Flint (Arizona) 56.46
33. Adam Guzauskas (Arizona State) 56.47
34. Mike Tucker (Missouri) 56.72
35. Dave Schwartz (Harvard) 57.53
36. Oscar Godoi (Minnesota) 57.54

100 backstroke
Finalists:
1. Neil Walker (Texas) 47.20 (new pool record)
2. Tate Blahnik (Stanford) 47.29
3. Lenny Krayzelburg (USC) 47.31
4. Justin Ewers (Stanford) 47.48
5. Michael Bartz (Auburn) 47.63
6. Alex Massura (Minnesota) 47.74
7T. Sabir Muhammad (Stanford) 47.87
7T. Michael Gilliam (Tennessee) 47.87

Consolation Finalists:
9. Robert Brewer Georgia) 47.92
10T. Derya Buyukuncu (Michigan) 47.94
10T. Chip Crush (Auburn) 47.94
12. Matt Allen (Arizona) 47.96
13. Eithan Urbach (Auburn) 48.03
14. Shamek Pietucha (Virginia) 48.11
15. Matthew Pierce (Stanford) 48.12
16. Matt Ulrickson (Texas) 48.22

Others:
17. Shawn McNew (Tennessee) 48.28
18. Ted Brisson (North Carolina) 48.28
19. Matthew Cole (Florida) 48.29
20. Craig Gilliam (Tennessee) 48.42
21. Gordon Kozulj (California) 48.44
22. Carlos Arena (Texas) 48.46
23. Marko Strahija (Ohio State) 48.72
24T. Ryan Crosby (Minnesota) 49.05
24T. Steve Martyak (Texas) 49.05
26. Jason Webb (Virginia) 49.17
27. Mike Greene (Utah) 49.26
28. Eriek Hulseman (Minnesota) 49.38
29. Jason Hornbeck (Florida) 49.40
30. Ken Ackermann (Indiana) 49.42
31. David Foster (Nebraska) 49.61
32. Pablo Abal (Arizona State) 49.70
Martin Zielinski (Minnesota) DQ

Three-Meter Diving:
Semifinalists:
1. Bryan Gillolly (Miami of Florida) 618.90
2. Rio Ramirez (Miami of Florida) 597.95
3. Mike McIntyre (Ohio State) 577.00
4. Daren Guertin (LSU) 566.20
5. Justin Dumais (USC) 565.45
6. Gabby Chereches (Tennessee) 562.90
7. Bert Locklin (Nebraska) 545.65
8. Michael Collier (Indiana) 536.75

Others:
9. Daniel Bergman (Nebraska) 533.70
10. Grant Gritzmacher (Texas) 527.25
11. Mark Naftanel (Texas A&M) 520.80
12. Brent Roberts (Alabama) 516.05
13. Judson Campbell (Georgia) 511.70
14. Paco Rivera (Kentucky) 510.05
15. Brett Wilmot (Michigan) 498.85
16. Kevin Burke (Maryland) 487.75
17. Ryan Harmon (Texas) 482.35
18. Chris Mantilla (Miami of Florida) 478.05
19. Justin Wilcock (BYU) 477.45
20. Chad Sheldon (South Carolina) 476.25
21. John Eisler (Texas) 473.00
22. Seth Kane (Penn State) 471.15
23. Shannon Roy (Tennessee) 468.90
24. Drew Jackson (Penn State) 463.20
25. Simon Chrisander (Iowa) 460.35
26. Chris Alderman (Penn State) 460.25
27. Thomas Davidson (Indiana) 455.20
28. David Garrow (Ball State) 442.55
29. Dustin Jones (Utah) 440.05
30. Matthew Dahl (BYU) 439.20
31. Trey Hart (Georgia) 438.60
32. Alex Wright (Southern Illinois) 417.00
33. Nicholas Smith (Utah) 413.30
34. William Dobbins (Navy) 403.00
35. Greg Walker (Harvard) 402.05