Continuing to geek out As the NCAA Division I swimming championships reached Day 3. The team championship race is as close as I ever remember, but the talk of the meet remains Leon Marchand, the sophmore from Arizona State. His performance in the 400 IM was beyond amazing, pre-race expectations were sky high and he raced passed all of those. Here are his splits on his way to a 3:28.83

• 100 fly – 47.10
• 100 back – 52.20
• 100 breast – 58.59
• 100 free – 50.93

The Arizona State sophomore now owns the three fastest swims in history and seven of the top 10, with his prelim swim standing up 10th.

Leon Marchand (Arizona State), 3:28.82 – 2023 NCAA Championships
Leon Marchand (Arizona State), 3:31.57 – 2023 Pac-12 Championships
Leon Marchand (Arizona State), 3:31.84 – 2023 ASU v. Cal
Hugo Gonzalez (Cal), 3:32.88 – 2022 NCAA Championships
Chase Kalisz (Georgia), 3:33.42 – 2017 NCAA Championships
Leon Marchand (Arizona State), 3:33.65 – 2022 Wolfpack Invite
Carson Foster (Texas), 3:33.79 – 2022 NCAA Championships
Leon Marchand (Arizona State), 3:34.08 – 2022 NCAA Championships
Leon Marchand (Arizona State), 3:34.45 – 2022 Pac-12 Championships
Leon Marchand (Arizona State), 3:34.47 – 2023 NCAA Championships

Take a moment to watch the video and see just how far he finished ahead of Carson Foster who is the World Championship silver medalist.