T&T’s Dylan Carter continued his build-up to his final involvement at the NCCA Swimming and Diving Championship with some impressive gold medal splashes for the University of Southern California in two recent dual swim meets.
First up, on Friday, Carter had two wins as the ten ranked USC Trojans won five events, including a sweep of the springboards, but fell to top ranked California, 168-123 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center, Centre.
A member of T&T 2014 Olympic Games swimming team with George Bovell, Carter, 21, nailed down the Trojans first win of the day, the first of three in a row, fighting back Cal's Andrew Seliskar to win the 200 yard freestyle in one minute, 33.24 in a pool record, breaking former Bear Tom Shields' mark of 1:3370 while Michael Jensen took third, 1:36.81.
The T&T swimmer also had a sixth placed finish in the 100 yards freestyle in 44.83 seconds before he returned to lead USC to victory in the 400 yard freestyle relay with team-mates Ralf Tribuntsov, freshman Justin Nguyen and Robert Glinta for a combined time of 2:54.68.
Second was California University in 2:55.62, and their second team was third as well in 2:58.15.
A day later, Carter was part of four of USC ten wins as they fell to fourth Stanford in a nail biter, 151.5-148.5 at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center.