Ok, world trials start tomorrow ... yeah! I am so excited, probably because I am going... anyway ... There are going to be some tough races. I think the 200 back is going to be an amazing race. I'm ready to call in sick to work and go back just for that race. Peirsol, Phelps, and Lochte. It's going to be amazing.
Other races I think will be great ... Phelps and Crocker will go at it agian in the 100fly. The 50 free for the women has an amazing field.
Kaitlin Sandeno is entered in seven events right now, do you think she'll swim all seven? It kind of sounds like she might not, I wonder what she will swim and what she'll drop. I'd love to see her take that schedule on and show the world that you girls can do it, too! Phelps is in seven also (not really surprising) - dropped the 200 fly though.
I'm a little disappointed that Peirsol is only swimming his two backstroke events, I've heard he's a good mid-distance and distance freestyler so I wasn hoping he'd try that out. I was hoping Coughlin would do more events too (she's signed up for the 100 free, 200 free, 100 fly, and 100 back). I think she'd be a great challenge to Hoff and Beard in the 200 IM.
It'll also be great to see who emerges in the 50 free for the men, as Hall is retired and I didn't see Lezak's name on the psyche sheets.
I'm also ready to see if Kate Ziegler who I've heard a lot about will step up at this meet and become the next great american female distance swimmer.
Can't wait till they get going tomorrow.
Any bets on the Peirsol/Phelps/Lochte showdown? What about the Locthe/Phelps showdown in general?
here's the link for results plus order of events
www.usaswimming.org/.../ViewMiscArticle.aspx
Fri Apr 1
Day 1 Heats
W 100 Fly
M 400 Free
W 200 IM
M 100 ***
W 400 Free
M 400 IM
Day 1 Finals
W 100 Fly
M 400 Free
W 200 IM
M 100 ***
W 400 Free
M 400 IM
Sat Apr 2
Day 2 Heats
W 100 Back
M 200 Free
M 100 Back
W 200 Free
M 200 Fly
Day 2 Finals
W 100 Back
M 200 Free
M 100 Back
W 200 Free
M 200 Fly
Sun Apr 3
Day 3 Heats
W 100 ***
M 100 Fly
W 50 Free
W 400 IM
M 50 Free
Day 3 Finals
W 100 ***
M 100 Fly
W 50 Free
W 400 IM
M 50 Free
Mon Apr 4
Day 4 Heats
M 100 Free
W 200 Fly
M 200 IM
W 200 Back
W 800 Free (heats)
M 1500 Free (heats)
Day 4 Finals
M 100 Free
W 200 Fly
M 200 IM
W 200 Back
Tue Apr 5
Day 5 Heats
W 100 free
M 200 Back
W 200 ***
M 200 ***
Day 5 Finals
W 800 Free Final
W 100 Free
M 200 Back
W 200 ***
M 200 ***
M 1500 Free Final
Wed Apr 6
Day 6 Heats
M 800 Free (timed final)
W 1500 Free (timed final)
I will be at the WC Trials this weekend. Indy will be a very busy place with the NCAA Women's Final Four being staged at the same time. Look forward to seeing both 400's tonight. I will report back on the progress of the meet if I can get to a computer.
Wow, some real surprises on the women's side tonight...with Kaitlin Sandeno and Natalie Coughlin missing spots on the team in their first events. Kate Ziegler missed out on the 400 free, too. (But go, Carly Piper!)
Kaitlin placed last in the final of the 400 free with a time that would have put her toward the end of the consolation final as well. I wonder if she's sick or overtired. Whatever it is, I hope the meet picks up for her, because she is amazing!
coughlin surprised me
i thought she'd take it
my guess is kaitlin was wasted from her 200 IM
it's a very tiring race
congrats to katie for her american record in the 200 IM
1 Hoff, Katie 15 North Baltimore 2:11.24A 1005
r:+0.80 28.83
1:02.17 (33.34)
1:39.79 (37.62)
2:11.24 (31.45)
the previous records were
American: A 2:11.70 8/17/2004 Amanda Beard, USA
U.S. Open: O 2:12.02 7/9/2004 Amanda Beard, Tucson Ford
brendan hansen had a great 100 br
15 year old kelsey ditto from austin got second
2 Ditto, Kelsey 15 Longhorn Aquatic 4:12.77 4:11.62T 930
r:+0.77 30.09 1:01.74 (31.65)
1:33.85 (32.11) 2:06.13 (32.28)
2:38.11 (31.98) 3:09.88 (31.77)
3:40.74 (30.86) 4:11.62 (30.88)
what a wickedly close race in the mens 400 IM
talk about coming down to the wire
Ande
Originally posted by kaffrinn
Wow, some real surprises on the women's side tonight...with Kaitlin Sandeno and Natalie Coughlin missing spots on the team in their first events. Kate Ziegler missed out on the 400 free, too. (But go, Carly Piper!)
Kaitlin placed last in the final of the 400 free with a time that would have put her toward the end of the consolation final as well. I wonder if she's sick or overtired. Whatever it is, I hope the meet picks up for her, because she is amazing!
I am not surprised by the women's results. It seems to me as though perhaps the "professionals" such as Beard, Sandeno and Coughlin have been enjoying their non-swimming post Olympic opportunities and are not in top form...This is not necessarily a bad thing in that it will give the younger, internationally inexperienced swimmers such as Myers and Ditto critical big meet experience going into 2008...
An article on Beard in yesterday's USA Today indicated that she may not swim at Trials. Apparently this year and next she intends to build her "business empire" and after that focus on training for 2008. Her schedule for the next couple of weeks is crazy with all sort of appearances as well as meeting with people to develop her own cosmetics line...
Also looks like Beard pulled out of the 200 IM ... hmm ... Sandeno looks like she is making good on her crazy schedule so far. I'd love to see her make the team in 5 events or more.
Has hall officially "retired?" These shoudl be great trial. Are they going to be televised on any station? someone told me that thye might be on OLN or something like that. It is some station that covers outdoors things like camping & sporting events like marathon runs. does anyone know?????
Can't wait to see the NCaa's this afternoon.
Originally posted by jasoneaddy
World Champs Results and Heat Sheets
Found it interesting that Phelps bailed out of the 400IM...
Hope his back is o.k. He sure cut it close in the 400 free. A 3:55 in an early heat was pretty risky.
