1957 NCAA swimming and diving championships explained

1957 NCAA swimming and diving championships
Hostcity: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dates:March 1957
Venues:Bowman Gray Pool
University of North Carolina
Teams:22
Events:16
Previous:1956
Next:1958

The 1957 NCAA swimming and diving championships were contested in March 1957 at the Bowman Gray Pool at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the 21st annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving among its member programs in the United States.

A total of sixteen individual events, alongside a team championship, were contested as part of this year's program.

Michigan regained the national title, the Wolverines' seventh (and first since 1948), after finishing eight points ahead of Yale in the team standings.[1]

Program changes

Team standings

Michigan 69
61
52
48
North Carolina (H) 24
23
15
12
10
9
7
5
Bowdoin
Illinois
4
Wisconsin
3
Purdue
Texas
2
1
Stanford

Individual events

Swimming

50 yard freestyle Amherst 22.1
100 yard freestyle Harvard 49.4
220 yard freestyle William Woolsey (DC) Indiana 2:02.5
440 yard freestyle William Woolsey (DC) Indiana 4:38.2
1,500 meter freestyle Michigan 19:04.8
100 yard backstroke North Carolina 58.1
200 yard backstroke North Carolina 2:07.8
100 yard breaststroke Oklahoma 1:03.0
200 yard breaststroke Michigan 2:20.0
100 yard butterfly Yale 54.6
200 yard butterfly Yale 2:09.5
200 yard individual medley Yale 2:09.4
400 yard freestyle relay Yale (DC) 3:23.9
400 yard medley relay Michigan 3:50.0

Diving

1 meter diving Michigan 401.65
3 meter diving Michigan 441.35

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NCAA Men's Division I Swimming and Diving Championship. NCAA. NCAA.org. August 12, 2016. 7–9.