I was just looking at the prelim results for the Western Sectional meet going on in Federal Way, WA. It looks like we should see a good race tonight in the women's 100 meter ***. Here are the top two seeds from this morning:
1 QUANN, MEGAN 20 TITANS-PN 1:09.57
2 BEARD, AMANDA 22 FORD AQUATICS-AZ 1:10.32
Here's a link to the results: www.swimvast.org/.../index.htm
Check back later tonight to see who wins!
My prediction is Megan Quann wins, but not by much. She's better in the 100 and Beard is better in the 200.
Originally posted by breastroker
Did you look at the 200 Fly results:
2 BAKER, DENNIS 42 DDSC-OR 2:06.94 2:06.33 OPEN
Not bad for a 42 year old!!!!
Yes, that guy's awesome! It's gotta feel strange to be up on the blocks with a bunch of teenagers.
We are very proud of our Coach Bake and hope he can drop that extra 3 seconds to make the Olympic trials. He did a summer time trial at 2:05+. He works very hard with his masters team and the high school team and the young kids he coaches also.
He does this and also swims 6 days a wk trying to make the cuts.
Now that's dedication.
Megan also qualified first on Thursday in the 200 ***, but scratched finals (Amanda didn't swim the 200 ***). Amanda won the 200 free on Friday in 2:02+. Here's hoping they both swim tonight.
I hope Megan wins just for style points! She has changed the way she swims, took guts for a Gold Medal winner to switch.
I would love to see her get back to the 1:05 level!!
"Back to 1:05" would be pretty great for Megan; her AR is 1:07:05. Alas, she scratched again tonight, so it was Amanda in 1st with a 1:08.65 - not bad since she's no doubt in heavy training.
Dennis Baker, more of a 200 swimmner, could "only" manage 15th in the 100 with a 58.6. He's an inspiration to all of us in Oregon.
Originally posted by Robin Parisi
Megan swims a lot of meets in Federal Way and, in my observation, scratches finals much more often than she swims them. Don't know why, but it's always disappointing to her fans.:)
What a gyp! That would have been a great race.
I noticed Amanda also swam the anchor leg in the 800 free relay.
Megan used to dream about winning the Olympics, I believe her winning time was 1:05.7.
I wonder why she scratched? Amanda will race any one any where at any time. She is great.
Megan's 1:07 is from Sydney in 2000 - see the top times lists at:
www.usa-swimming.org/.../womens_event_history.pdf
Megan swims a lot of meets in Federal Way and, in my observation, scratches finals much more often than she swims them. Don't know why, but it's always disappointing to her fans.:)
Amanda seems to be focusing on the 200 IM this year as well as the breaststroke events. The 200 IM is scheduled for tomorrow, and the psych sheet shows her entered.
