2024 TYR PRO SWIM SERIES – SAN ANTONIO
- April 10-13, 2024
- Northside Swim Center, San Antonio, TX
- LCM (50m)
- Start Times
- Wednesday Distance: 5pm (Central Time)
- All Prelims: 9am (Central Time)
- Thurs-Sat Finals: 6pm (Central Time)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Livestream (USA Swimming Network)
- Day 1 Finals Live Recap
Day 2 Prelims Heat Sheet
This morning in San Antonio will be the first prelims session of the meet, set to include the heats of the women’s and men’s 100 free, 100 breast, 200 fly, 400 free. However, this first prelims session will have some missing familiar faces following another round of scratches and heat sheet updates.
Most notably, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey will only be contesting in the 100 free, and not the 100 breast. In the latter event, Haughey was 5th seed at 1:05.92, which helped her earn bronze at 2024 Worlds in February. In the 100 free, however, Haughey comes in as the top seed at 52.02, more than a half second ahead of the nearest seed (Kate Douglass, 52.57).
Haughey also scratched out of the 400 free, where she was also seeded 5th at 4:05.30. The second-fastest women’s 400 free seed, Olympian Leah Smith, as well as fellow Olympian Erica Sullivan (18th) scratched out of the eight-length freestyle race.
In the men’s 100 free, No. 3 seed Blake Pieroni and No. 7 seed Chris Guiliano have opted out of the Thursday session. In Westmont, Olympian Pieroni placed 6th in the 100 free final at 48.80. At the same time, NCAA All-American Guiliano was seeded 7th at 47.98. At the most recent SCY NCAA Championships, Guiliano placed 5th in the 100-yard free final.
Also not racing again after a solid bout in Westmont is Cody Miller, who scratched his No. 3 seed in the 100 breast. Two more top-10 seeds, No. 4 Josh Matheny and #9 Jorge Murillo, also scratched from the men’s breaststroke. At the recent Westmont PSS stop, Olympic medalist Miller placed fourth in the 100 breast final at 1:01.27. At NCAAs, Worlds teamer Matheny placed 6th in the 100-yard breast final.
Day 2 Thursday Prelims Scratch Report
- Women’s 100 Free: #13 Stephanie Balduccini, #25 Grace Cooper
- Men’s 100 Free: #3 Blake Pieroni, #7 Chris Guiliano
- Women’s 100 Breast: #5 Siobhan Haughey, #21 Caroline Bricker
- Men’s 100 Breast: #3 Cody Miller, #4 Josh Matheny, #9 Jorge Murillo, #21 Aidan Kreiley
- Women’s 200 Fly: #16 Katie Crom
- Men’s 200 Fly: #9 Aiden Hayes, #18 Conor McKenna, #19 Diego Nosack, #21 Tyler Ray
- Women’s 400 Free: #2 Leah Smith, #5 Siobhan Haughey, #18 Erica Sullivan
- Men’s 400 Free: #9 Rex Maurer, #10 Daniel Mathieson
PSS Scratch City Day 2. SwimSwam storylines dropping like flies.
I understand the swimmers (especially the guys) coming off of NCAA’s- that is a tough turnaround to miss even more school…and training to get a base back…BUT…ya kind of knew this signing up for the meet….were swimmers shut out of this meet because it was full? If so…I know this won’t be popular, but there has to be some sort of penalty for this (a fine…)
A fine or for the meets during the college season (which this could be considered as) increase the limit by the average scratching between entry deadline and the meet.
If you have about 100 people scratching in total over these weeks, then increase the limit by 100
Why enter if all you are going to do is scratch?
I run a lot of pickleball games in the city of Philadelphia, so I’ve had a ton of experience with this.
Basically: there are no significant consequences for doing so, and so they grab a spot “just in case” because it’s a finite resource and if they decide they want to swim later, they won’t be able to jump in.
The NBA had this problem. They addressed it with significant penalties (and incentives), and the problem has receded.
USA Swimming is afraid to address the problem because of concerns that any hinderance on a total free-for-all will impact Olympic results.
this report ends up more exciting than the meet half the time
All that scratchin’ is making me itch.
NOOOO NO GUILIANO OR YOUTUBE BOY MILLER
SADNES