American Short Course Championships in Austin Texas

Originally posted by ande new American Record in the 400 IM 1 Phelps, Michael 20 WOLVERINE 3:43.21 3:36.26 23.56 50.55 (26.99) 1:17.32 (26.77) 1:43.58 (26.26) 2:14.89 (31.31) 2:46.76 (31.87) 3:12.10 (25.34) 3:36.26 (24.16) New American Record in the 4 x 50 medley relay Event 2 Men 200 Yard Medley Relay ============================================== American: ! 1:24.46 3/28/2003 Texas, UT Piersol, Hansen, DiToro, Crocker ============================================== 1 LONGHORN 'A' 1:26.00 1:24.00 1) Peirsol, Aaron W 22 2) Hansen, Brendan J 24 3) Crocker, Ian L 23 4) Walker, Neil S 29 21.50 45.34 (23.84) 1:05.24 (19.90) 1:24.00 (18.76) Crocker swam an excellent 100 fly Event 8 Men 100 Yard Butterfly 1 Crocker, Ian L 23 LONGHORN 46.16 44.73 20.60 44.73 (24.13) Event 6 Men 100 Yard Breaststroke 1 Hansen, Brendan 24 LONGHORN 53.09 52.01 24.57 52.01 (27.44) Ande: You are right about the Texas guys swimming real well. In fact they are just about even with what they did at the 2003 NCAA Championships. The 200 Medley Relay was real interesting because of Ian Crocker and Neil Walker. At the 2003 NCAA's the splits were :21.50, :23.59, :20.35 by Dan Ditoro going Fly and 19:03 by Ian Cocker going Free for the 1:34.46. Big difference having Crocker on Fly and Neil Walker going :18.76 in the Free. From these swims, I think they can challenge the 3:04.47 time they did at the 2003 NCAA meet and break another American Record. They have a 3:06.00 seed time. Ian Crocker only .01 off his AR. Brendan Hansen only.05 of his best time off :51.96, and Piersol going a good 200 Free time of 1:34.10 to take second to Jayme Cramer at 1:33.74. Sets up an interesting rematch tonight in the 100 Back. Piersol's best is :45.71 to Cramer's :46.05. I wonder why Neil Walker doesn't swim this being the American Record holder. Will Brendan Hansen and Michael Phelps break there AR in the 200 *** and 200 Fly tonight. Will the Americans come thru in the 50 tonight and beat Roland Schoeman. I think Crocker, Walker, Lezak, and Brunnelli have a chance. On the Womens side there should be a good race in the 200 *** between Kirk and Jendrick. Jendrick suprised me yesterday dropping from a :59.80 best to a :58.87. Kirk is swimming great missing her AR by .18 and the 200 Fly will be a great race with any of the top 5 to win. Ande, I hope you are happy with your 500 Free. By the way did you know that Nick Brunelli broke 2 USMS records so far in the 18-24 age group. I hope someone is measuring the pool and filling out the USMS Record Applications. His 1:35.22 in the 200 Free broke Roman Barnier's record of 1:37.60 and his prelim swim in the 50 of :19.80 broke Eric Mauer's record of :20.25. Remember FINA has nothing to do with this meet beacuse its Yards. So he is eligible for USMS records. He also has a shot at the :43.80 record in the 100 Yard Free.

Originally posted by ande new American Record in the 400 IM 1 Phelps, Michael 20 WOLVERINE 3:43.21 3:36.26 23.56 50.55 (26.99) 1:17.32 (26.77) 1:43.58 (26.26) 2:14.89 (31.31) 2:46.76 (31.87) 3:12.10 (25.34) 3:36.26 (24.16) New American Record in the 4 x 50 medley relay Event 2 Men 200 Yard Medley Relay ============================================== American: ! 1:24.46 3/28/2003 Texas, UT Piersol, Hansen, DiToro, Crocker ============================================== 1 LONGHORN 'A' 1:26.00 1:24.00 1) Peirsol, Aaron W 22 2) Hansen, Brendan J 24 3) Crocker, Ian L 23 4) Walker, Neil S 29 21.50 45.34 (23.84) 1:05.24 (19.90) 1:24.00 (18.76) Crocker swam an excellent 100 fly Event 8 Men 100 Yard Butterfly 1 Crocker, Ian L 23 LONGHORN 46.16 44.73 20.60 44.73 (24.13) Event 6 Men 100 Yard Breaststroke 1 Hansen, Brendan 24 LONGHORN 53.09 52.01 24.57 52.01 (27.44) Ande: You are right about the Texas guys swimming real well. In fact they are just about even with what they did at the 2003 NCAA Championships. The 200 Medley Relay was real interesting because of Ian Crocker and Neil Walker. At the 2003 NCAA's the splits were :21.50, :23.59, :20.35 by Dan Ditoro going Fly and 19:03 by Ian Cocker going Free for the 1:34.46. Big difference having Crocker on Fly and Neil Walker going :18.76 in the Free. From these swims, I think they can challenge the 3:04.47 time they did at the 2003 NCAA meet and break another American Record. They have a 3:06.00 seed time. Ian Crocker only .01 off his AR. Brendan Hansen only.05 of his best time off :51.96, and Piersol going a good 200 Free time of 1:34.10 to take second to Jayme Cramer at 1:33.74. Sets up an interesting rematch tonight in the 100 Back. Piersol's best is :45.71 to Cramer's :46.05. I wonder why Neil Walker doesn't swim this being the American Record holder. Will Brendan Hansen and Michael Phelps break there AR in the 200 *** and 200 Fly tonight. Will the Americans come thru in the 50 tonight and beat Roland Schoeman. I think Crocker, Walker, Lezak, and Brunnelli have a chance. On the Womens side there should be a good race in the 200 *** between Kirk and Jendrick. Jendrick suprised me yesterday dropping from a :59.80 best to a :58.87. Kirk is swimming great missing her AR by .18 and the 200 Fly will be a great race with any of the top 5 to win. Ande, I hope you are happy with your 500 Free. By the way did you know that Nick Brunelli broke 2 USMS records so far in the 18-24 age group. I hope someone is measuring the pool and filling out the USMS Record Applications. His 1:35.22 in the 200 Free broke Roman Barnier's record of 1:37.60 and his prelim swim in the 50 of :19.80 broke Eric Mauer's record of :20.25. Remember FINA has nothing to do with this meet beacuse its Yards. So he is eligible for USMS records. He also has a shot at the :43.80 record in the 100 Yard Free.