2012 USA Swimming Nats & JRs

Two American records during my commute! Event 20 Men 100 Yard Breaststroke ========================================================================= American: A 51.32 03/23/12 Kevin Cordes, Arizona U.S. Open: O 50.86 03/27/09 Damir Dugonjic, Cal/SLO Meet: M 51.35 12/03/10 Michael Alexandrov, Tucson Ford Deal Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points ========================================================================= === A - Final === 1 Cordes, Kevin 19 Univ. of Arizona 51.86 51.10A 20 r:+0.74 23.94 51.10 (27.16) Event 22 Men 100 Yard Backstroke ========================================================================= American: A 44.60 03/24/06 Ryan Lochte, Florida U.S. Open: O 44.60 03/24/06 Ryan Lochte, Florida Meet: M 44.82 12/03/10 Matthew Grevers, Tucson Ford Deal Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points ========================================================================= === A - Final === 1 Grevers, Matt 27 Tucson Ford-AZ 45.87 44.55A 20 r:+0.66 21.43 44.55 (23.12)

Day 2 prelims have started another site for Results

Very impressive final Event 17 Women 200 Yard Freestyle ========================================================================= American: A 1:41.21 03/16/12 Megan Romano, Georgia U.S. Open: O 1:41.21 03/16/12 Megan Romano, Georgia Meet: M 1:42.36 12/04/09 Dana Vollmer, California Aquat Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points ========================================================================= === A - Final === 1 Franklin, Missy 17 Colorado Stars-C 1:45.73 1:42.42 20 r:+0.79 24.28 50.43 (26.15) 1:16.65 (26.22) 1:42.42 (25.77) 2 Erndl, Erika 34 T2 Aquatics-FL 1:44.92 1:43.46 17 r:+0.79 24.57 50.81 (26.24) 1:17.29 (26.48) 1:43.46 (26.17) :applaud: Let's hear it for the Oldster! :cane: :D

I completely missed the memo that Ricky Berens unretired. I remember reading that he was coaching but I had no idea that he was back in swimming. sports.yahoo.com/.../ricky-berens-return-swimming-despite-recent-retirement-204600059--oly.html Event 18 Men 200 Yard Freestyle ================================================================== American: A 1:31.72 03/27/09 David Walters, Texas U.S. Open: O 1:31.20 03/24/06 Simon Burnett, Arizona/GBR Meet: M 1:32.13 11/30/07 Michael Phelps, Club Wolverine Name Age Team Seed Prelims ================================================================== === Preliminaries === 1 Berens, Richard 24 Una TXLA-ST/TXLA 1:46.56L 1:33.21 r:+0.71 22.18 46.19 (24.01) 1:09.74 (23.55) 1:33.21 (23.47)

It's really a shame about Nathan Adrian's finger. After his smoking fast 50 in prelims, I was really looking forward to his swim in the finals and in the 100. Plus it's just fun to look at him... Not to mention it would have been super fun to see a head to head race with Grevers - he and Nathan were the best bromance of the Olympics. :)

This is incredible!! :bow: Event 32 Men 200 Yard Breaststroke ========================================================================= American: A 1:51.73 12/04/10 Michael Alexandrov, Tucson Ford Deal U.S. Open: O 1:51.40 03/28/09 Neil Versfeld, Georgia/RSA Meet: M 1:51.73 12/04/10 Michael Alexandrov, Tucson Ford Deal Name Age Team Prelims Finals Points ========================================================================= === A - Final === 1 Cordes, Kevin 19 Univ. of Arizona 1:51.93 1:50.73O 20 r:+0.74 24.92 53.37 (28.45) 1:21.86 (28.49) 1:50.73 (28.87) 2 Burckle, Clark 24 Tucson Ford-AZ 1:52.76 1:51.20O 17 r:+0.65 25.15 53.33 (28.18) 1:22.04 (28.71) 1:51.20 (29.16) 3 Alexandrov, Mike 27 Trojan Swim Club 1:54.85 1:52.24 16 r:+0.67 25.16 53.74 (28.58) 1:22.75 (29.01) 1:52.24 (29.49)

This is incredible!! Ledecky, Katie 15 Nation's Capital 15:40.38 15:28.36M 20 r:+0.72 25.17 52.53 (27.36) 1:20.41 (27.88) 1:48.52 (28.11) 2:16.89 (28.37) 2:45.16 (28.27) 3:13.78 (28.62) 3:42.08 (28.30) 4:10.43 (28.35) 4:38.82 (28.39) 5:07.15 (28.33) 5:35.37 (28.22) 6:03.84 (28.47) 6:32.31 (28.47) 7:00.63 (28.32) 7:28.68 (28.05) 7:57.08 (28.40) 8:25.56 (28.48) 8:53.93 (28.37) 9:22.35 (28.42) 9:51.09 (28.74) 10:19.60 (28.51) 10:48.23 (28.63) 11:16.48 (28.25) 11:44.73 (28.25) 12:13.13 (28.40) 12:41.38 (28.25) 13:09.39 (28.01) 13:37.35 (27.96) 14:05.43 (28.08) 14:33.47 (28.04) 15:01.57 (28.10) 15:28.36 (26.79) Second fastest performance of all time, new NAG record, and she would have won NCAA by 10 seconds last year :bow:

2012 SPEEDO WINTER JUNIOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS begin today Thu Dec. 6 - 8, University of Tennessee, Knoxville RESULTS WATCH Info