Quah Zheng Wen's 2nd in the NCAA's 200-yard butterfly, but Joseph Schooling wins overall

Schooling was down with fever, but swam anyway.

Henedick Chng | March 26, 2017, 11:06 AM

Quah Zheng Wen swam to second place in the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 200-yard butterfly final on Sunday (Mar. 26).

Quah, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, swam a time of 1 min 38.83 sec. He was behind Jack Conger from the University of Texas, who broke Joseph Schooling's record of 1 min 37.97 sec, by clocking 1 min 37.35 sec.

Joseph Schooling

Joseph Schooling, who was down with a fever, failed to qualify for the 200-yard butterfly finals, finishing last in the heats.

Nevertheless, Schooling managed to recover enough to help his University of Texas team win the 400-yard freestyle relay and set an NCAA record for the event. He swam the fourth leg of the event with a split time of 41.02 seconds.

Schooling also had more to cheer about as his University of Texas team are the overall champions of the 2017 NCAA Division 1 Men's Swimming & Diving Championships with 542 points. They are 193 points ahead of Quah's University of California, Berkeley team in second place.

Speaking on his performance, Schooling said he could have done better in his individual events:

"On the whole, I think it could have been a better meet for me with regards to my individual events. It didn't help that I was down with fever before the 100 Fly but I managed to get by that day. It got worse and I was contemplating on scratching the 200 Fly but I didn't want to let the team down by not being able to swim in the 400 Freestyle Relay. Glad that we did it in the 400 Freestyle Relay and took the record as well."

Schooling also congratulated Conger and Quah on their performances in 200-yard butterfly event:

"I would also like to congratulate Jack Conger on his first individual title. He has been my training buddy the last couple of years and he definitely deserved it, especially in his final swim in this Championships. Congratulations to Zheng Wen as well, definitely good to see him swim in the NCAA and he will get better from here."

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