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?
what a fluke,
speaking of flukes at the American Short course championships there was a 3 way swim off in the mens 100 y free
below are prelim results then the swim off results
31 Selts, Brandon 17 Miami J47.71
10.66 22.52 (11.86) 35.14 (12.62) 47.71 (12.57)
32 Garmendia, Emilio 22 Smu J47.71
10.67 22.53 (11.86) 35.11 (12.58) 47.71 (12.60)
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33 Michaud, Nathan 19 West Austin J47.71
10.73 22.48 (11.75) 34.97 (12.49) 47.71 (12.74)
Event 28S Men 100 Yard Freestyle Swim-off
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43.53 AUTO
44.83 CONS
44.89 NATL
Name Age Team Finals
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- Swim-off
1 Selts, Brandon 17 Miami 46.83
10.63 22.30 (11.67) 34.66 (12.36) 46.83 (12.17)
2 Garmendia, Emilio 22 Smu 47.13
10.69 22.54 (11.85) 34.83 (12.29) 47.13 (12.30)
3 Michaud, Nathan 19 West Austin 47.33
11.00 22.48 (11.48) 34.90 (12.42) 47.33 (12.43)
ande
Originally posted by Rob Copeland
Talk about evenly matched…
In the prelims of the Womens 50 free Anne Botek and Brooke Boncher tied for 5th with a 26.02. In the finals they tied for 7th with 26.13’s.
I'm really impressed with how kelsey ditto finishes her races
notice how she negative split both swims and
how fast her 2 last 50's were
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)
4 Ditto, Kelsey 15 Longhorn Aquatic 8:42.83 8:40.45T 897
r:+0.77 30.61 1:03.13 (32.52)
1:36.03 (32.90) 2:08.96 (32.93)
2:41.94 (32.98) 3:15.09 (33.15)
3:48.12 (33.03) 4:21.06 (32.94)
4:53.61 (32.55) 5:26.38 (32.77)
5:59.26 (32.88) 6:32.36 (33.10)
7:05.52 (33.16) 7:38.71 (33.19)
8:10.40 (31.69) 8:40.45 (30.05)
Ande
Originally posted by hrietz
Sandeno DID swim the 200 fly. She went a 2:16.58 in the prelims (more than 8 seconds) off her best.
I thought that the women's distance events were slow. I don't think that 4:11 in the 400 free and 8:34 in the 800 will make the finals or be anywhere near a medal in Montreal. The good news is that Kelsey Ditto and Kate Ziegler are both young and will hopefully show big time drops over the summer. I would have thought that Ziegler would have been faster. She had been tearing up pools and having great results all winter. Maybe the hype and the pressure got to her???
Talk about evenly matched…
In the prelims of the Womens 50 free Anne Botek and Brooke Boncher tied for 5th with a 26.02. In the finals they tied for 7th with 26.13’s.
Rob I saw that too, how cool is that? I think our world team looks great. Great mix of some vets and a grea opportunity for the youngins to get some good experience and get fired up for Beijing.
All in all it was a great meet. I think these guys and girls will be even faster in Montreal. For the year after the Olympics we are just fine.
GO USA!
