Cordes' latest title puts him in elite company
When Kevin Cordes won his fourth consecutive NCAA championship in the 100-yard breast stroke Friday night, it gave him six individual national titles at Arizona. More than that, it put him in some elite company with Olympic gold medalists Brendan Hansen of Texas and Steve Lundquist of SMU. They are the only other swimmers to win four NCAA titles in the 100breast stroke. Lundquist won two gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (100 breast stroke, 400 medley relay) and Hansen earned a bronze medal in the 2012 London Olympics (and a gold in a relay). Cordes won’t catch the top swimmer in UA history, Ryk Neethling, who won nine NCAA individual championships, but he has surpassed multiple Arizona NCAA winners George DiCarlo, Simon Burnett and Albert Subirats.
