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 (also available on the USA Swimming Network app)
- Day 1 Finals Live Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Live Recap | Day 2 Finals Live Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Live Recap | Day 3 Finals Live Recap
Day 4 Saturday Prelims Heat Sheet
The concluding prelims session of the San Antonio stop of the 2024 Pro Swim Series is lined up for the heats of the women’s and men’s 100 back, 200 breast, 200 IM, 50 free, as well as 800 free heats later in the afternoon (start time 3:30pm Central Time).
Olympian Michael Andrew has scratched both the men’s 100 back, where he was seeded 10th, and men’s 200 IM, seeded 12th. Instead, he will go full focus on his signature event, the 50 free. Yesterday, Andrew placed 26th in the 100 fly following a 1st- to 4th-place the day prior in the prelims/finals of the 100 breast. He is currently seeded second in the event behind top seed Gator’s Caeleb Dressel, who won the 100 fly yesterday.
Although initially signed up for the women’s 200 IM, freestyle ace Katie Ledecky has decided not to swim her 11th seed in that event. She will go for her known signature event, the 800 free, where she’s the top seed. Previously, Ledecky easily won the 400 free, but then took a valiant second place in the 200 free yesterday. Fellow Olympian Catie DeLoof also scratched her 9th seed for the women’s 100 back to focus on her identical position in the 50 free. In the 100 free, DeLoof maintained her 7th-place position in both prelims and finals.
Meanwhile, Texas’ Anna Elendt will not contest her 6th seed in the women’s 200 breast. This is following a 2nd- to 5th-place drop in prelims/finals of the 100 breast. Leah Smith has also completely scratched out of Saturday’s prelims heats. Previously, Smith placed 22nd in the 200 free with a five-second gain from her 7th seed.
The cloudiness of unknown no-shows following scratches makes one question if other multi-event swimmers will contest all their prelims events into finals, or if they will even swim in finals. Currently, Leon Marchand is set to swim his top seeds in the men’s 200 breast and 200 IM. So far, Marchand has won the 200 fly and 400 IM, both on separate days.
Likewise, the versatile Kate Douglass is expected to swim her unique 200 breast/50 free double this morning. Douglass previously swam the 100 free/breast double, where she placed 2nd and 6th respectively in each event’s finals. Yesterday, however, Douglass added 3.62s in the 100 fly to place 14th in prelims and scratch out of finals.
DAY 4 SATURDAY PRELIMS SCRATCH REPORT
- Women’s 800 Free: #2 Leah Smith, #7 Kate Hurst, #8 Erica Sullivan, #13 Hannah Bellard
- Men’s 800 Free: #6 Daniel Matheson, #17 Cooper Lucas, #18 Zach Kohm, #19 Gabe Machado, #20 Joaquin Vargas
- Women’s 100 Back: #9 Catie DeLoof
- Men’s 100 Back: #9 Kai Van Westering, #10 Michael Andrew, #12 Nate Stoffle, #16 Jack Wilkening, #18 Rex Maurer, #19 Lamar Taylor, #21 Aiden Hayes
- Women’s 200 Breast: #6 Anna Elendt, #20 Kaitlyn Nguyen
- Men’s 200 Breast: #5 Josh Matheny, #7 Cody Miller, #13 Jorge Murillo, #26 Grayson Nye
- Women’s 200 IM: #11 Katie Ledecky, #21 Stephanie Balduccini, #25 Zoe Vogelmann, #27 Nina Kucheran
- Men’s 200 IM: #12 Michael Andrew, #14 Gal Cohen Groumi, #18 Rex Maurer, #22 Rick Mihm
- Women’s 50 Free: #11 Grace Cooper, #21 Stephanie Balduccini
- Men’s 50 Free: #4 Bjorn Seelinger, #5 David Curtiss, #9 Chris Guiliano, #14 Blake Pieroni, #15 Alberto Mestre, #18 Lamar Taylor, #26 Mikkel Lee
I feel bad for MA..in the Unfiltered podcast he mentioned that he couldn’t do the training that he could do a few years ago and that he has a very balanced life..( a very good thing) but he is also a pro, he is paid to swim, and swim fast…so what I see from his dad’s postings are really sad..he has tried to tweak his start for 6 months..it’s the same, and he posts MA swimming 25s..why?..I really thought after 2021 he would train with a team..I can’t understand why he doesn’t see that when he is in a tight race in a hundred, he spins. ..that is pure swimming alone..can he muster a decent 100 breast at trials? I… Read more »
I feel that Andrew will swim any project, but the final results have always been below the standard, we Chinese netizens ridicule him as the little prince of the preliminary competition😂
Shane Casas has taken that throne.
What, I would not have expected this in a million years
MA needs to move the needle in the 50FR if it is truly his signature event. The 100BR is more so at the moment. It would have been informative to see a 2IM here since he has been working on his freestyle technique for it, but it is equally important he make some type of progression in the 50free so he can choose some direction forward towards trials where he is not his own worst enemy. It feels to me as if his event selection is always in conflict with his training.
Play your strength, hide your weakness.
The M 50 BR and M 50 FL are not contested at the Summer Olympics.
Exactly
Aw, was looking forward to another 30.69
He realized he not built for this
He’s built for tossing his talent into the trash can
Do you actually have a consistent opinion on Andrew?
Do you dispute the results?
We just joking
LOL!
Good move for Andrew. Don’t want to be dying on the last 25 of that 50.
…… Michael Andrew fades to fourth.