De Lucca Continues Tear at USA Short Course Nationals

Saturday, December 1

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USA Short Course Nationals

December 01, 2012 | Swimming & Diving

Dec. 1, 2012

University of Louisville junior Joao De Lucca continues to make waves at the 2012 AT&T Winter National Championships. The championships are being held Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 at the University of Texas-Austin.

After qualifying fourth in the 100-freestyle, he moved up to second in the finals, shaving a full second off his prelim time to post a 42.05, being out-touched by Matt Grevers, who touched in 41.71. De Lucca's second split of 21.75 was faster than Grevers final split of 21.98.

"He was hard-charging down the stretch," said U of L head coach Arthur Albiero.

Event 30  Men 100 Yard Freestyle=========================================================================     American: A 41.08  03/28/09  Nathan Adrian, Cal.    U.S. Open: O 40.92  03/29/08  Cesar Cielo, Auburn/BRA         Meet: M 41.35  12/04/10  Matthew Grevers, Tucson Ford Deal    Name                  Age Team              Prelims     Finals Points=========================================================================                            === A - Final ===
  1 Grevers, Matt          27 Tucson Ford-AZ      42.90      41.71   20    r:+0.67  19.73        41.71 (21.98)  2 *De Lucca, Joao        22 U. of Louisville    43.03      42.05   17    r:+0.70  20.30        42.05 (21.75)  3 Berens, Ricky          24 Una TXLA-ST/TXLA    42.92      42.37   16    r:+0.69  20.62        42.37 (21.75)  4 Smith, Giles           21 Univ. of Arizona    42.86      42.63   14.5    r:+0.58  20.33        42.63 (22.30)  4 *Lobintsev, Nikita     24 Trojan Swim Club    43.20      42.63   14.5    r:+0.71  20.57        42.63 (22.06)  6 Weber-Gale, Garrett    27 Longhorn Aquatic    43.37      42.89   13    r:+0.68  20.45        42.89 (22.44)  7 *Sukhorukov, Alexande  24 Trojan Swim Club    43.18      43.26   12    r:+0.76  20.94        43.26 (22.32)  8 Babaev, Pavel          29 Swim Florida-FL     43.07      43.57   11    r:+0.66  20.29        43.57 (23.28)