COLLEGE STATION, Texas — LSU swimmer Christoph Lubenau secured honorable mention All-America honors with an 11th-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly Friday to lead the 17th-ranked Tigers on the second day of the 2009 NCAA Championships in College Station, Texas.
Lubenau swam a school-record mark of 45.97 seconds, two one-hundredths of a second faster than his previous record time, to place ninth in the preliminaries. The senior then recorded a time of 46.05 in the consolation finals to take 11th and tally six points for his squad. The German’s finish marks the second straight season he’s received All-America recognition in the race.
The 200 medley group of Hannes Heyl, Julius Gloeckner, Lubenau and Brandon Selts finished 20th with a time of 1:27.36. In addition, Gloeckner earned a second swim in the 400 individual medley with a prelim time of 3:46.03, but the senior was disqualified in the consolation final.
Heyl placed 33rd in the 100 fly with a time of 47.36, while senior diver Niko Dalman recorded a score of 279.95 in the three-meter springboard.
Saturday’s action will conclude the men’s NCAA Championships. The prelims will begin at noon (CDT), and the finals will start at 7 p.m. Live video of the prelims and live results will be available on www.LSUsports.net.
2009 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships ? Schedule of Events
Saturday, March 28
Prelims ? 12 p.m. (CDT)
200-yard Backstroke
100-yard Freestyle
200-yard Breaststroke
200-yard Butterfly
400-yard Freestyle Relay
Platform Diving
1,650-yard Freestyle
Finals ? 7 p.m.
1,650-yard Freestyle
200-yard Backstroke
100-yard Freestyle
200-yard Breaststroke
200-yard Butterfly
Platform Diving
400-yard Freestyle Relay