Georgia vs Emory
- Saturday, January 29th, 2022
- Gabrielsen Natatorium, Athens, GA
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Results
Team Scores
Women
- Georgia – 150
- Emory – 126
Men
- Georgia – 175.5
- Emory – 128.5
This post contains a handful of race videos from yesterday’s UGA meet. All videos are from UGA Swimming & Diving’s YouTube page. To watch all race videos from yesterday’s meet, click here.
Matt Sates made his Georgia debut yesterday in a dual meet with Emory. Although Sates started out with a great first race, swimming a 1:33.89 in the 200 free, his first SCY meet wasn’t without its hiccups.
Many swimmers who come to the NCAA from abroad need a bit of an adjustment period to really feel comfortable in the transition from SCM to SCY racing. Sates looked very comfortable in the 200 free, but he had a bit of bad luck in his first 500 free. Sates spent much of the race in 4th place, swimming 55-point 100 splits (4:35 pace) through the middle of the race. Then, as you’ll see in the video below, UGA teammate Tommylee Camblong stopped at the 450, which caused Sates, who was in the next lane over, to stop as well. They quickly realize they have another 50 to go, and Sates actually goes on to pass Camblong on that 50, and ultimately touch in 3rd place with a 4:31.29.
Men’s 500 Free
Men’s 200 Free
Watch Sates swim a 1:33.89 200 free in his first individual SCY race.
Men’s 200 IM
Luca Urlando 1:45 200 IM
Men’s 1650
Watch Jake Magahey swim a season best 14:49 mile, which will qualify him for NCAAs
Haters, leave the kid alone. He just arrived to the U.S. and is still getting acclimated. He’ll show his stuff soon enough.
I am sure he will be a very good college swimmer at some point, maybe even this year. But really, a suited 200 free at almost 1:34 and 2 very ordinary unsuited times in the 200 IM and 500 free are not that great compared to many other male college swimmers. It is time to take a step back, leave him alone and tone down the expectations for the guy. Too much pressure, way too soon for a college freshman, no matter what his abilities are.
Well said. If they want to post videos of mediocre swims, there about a thousand other swimmers more deserving that have put in the time with their team!
Lol if you want more attention for your child, why don’t you just tell us who your child is?
You don’t have to always pretend like ss is the ‘enemy’ to get what you want, you know…
Hi Parent of Swimmer, your child’s team doesn’t post their race videos on YouTube that I know of. In fact, we reached out to the coaches about some coverage of a workout they were doing this week, and they said “nah it’s not a big enough deal, that’s cool.”
If you would like to ask your child’s coaches to post all of their race videos on YT, we would love that and would happily post them.
Your swimmer didn’t have a meet this weekend. We did cover both of his meets last weekend though!
Ooooh were the swims good or mediocre???
how do you know who it is LMAO
I’m loving this new era of Braden lately that taunts rude commenters with the knowledge of their identities.
We have all asked for them to post more. I think he’s trying not to show his hand! For those asking about my swimmer, my swimmer is not a great duel meet swimmer but tapers well. I cursed my child with below average height. Size does matter!
Actually Sates and Luca aren’t big guys neither tall nor muscular. Don’t let that misconception hold your kid back!
No way I’m the only one thinking “this was newsworthy, glad there’s a place to see it.”
Silly thing to get up in arms at SwimSwam for posting IMHO.
Most impressed with Luca’s performances. No tech suit needed for him to swim fast. I must be too old school?! Not sure why they just can’t wait for conference to put on a tech suit and make their cuts/swim fast?!
A lot easier to swim fast with no pressure imo
Other than “we always used to do it” can you explain why it makes sense to intentionally slow yourself down during certain races?
Most elite coaches have adopted the mindset that every chance to race is precious and should be treated as an opportunity to swim fast. Wearing a tech-suit is part of that philosophy. Also, it’s much easier to evaluate a taper if you have multiple mid-season tech-suited races to compare it to… There are still a few old-school coaches out there that only try to have their swimmers swim fast 1-2 meets per year, but most have realized the opportunities they are missing with this philosophy.
It is also demoralizing to a swimmer to have to wait 6+ months to swim fast.
Or worse – they wait 6+ months and don’t swim fast.
Been there, got stomach flu, year-end taper, and therefore season, was a train wreck… off the best training of my life. So… yeah.
If I had my way, we would practice in tech suits almost every day, at least always on Fast Fridays. The budget sort of prevents that. I don’t care how much money the football team brings in, we can’t afford fast suits every day.
I know this is just a hypothetical, but the thought of putting a tech suit on nearly every day for years at a time sounds like my own personal hell. Some things are better off being outside of our reach imo.
Does Missouri still suit up in tech suits for every meet? It hasn’t worked out so well for them in the past.
I do not understand the old school thought process of never practicing how you are going to swim at your taper meet. It is good to get confidence from fast swims and to understand how your body feels in a suit in the pool and swimming fast.
As a non-elite coach, I’m a big proponent of racing how you race at the end of the season and encourage my swimmers who are of the appropriate age, age groupers or Masters, to suit up as often as they are comfortable with.
As a swimmer, I almost always suit up at meets, though in season meets are usually wearing my previous season’s USMS Nationals suit. My stroke counts for all 4 strokes change between being suited and unsuited, which I found out the hard way at USMS Nationals early in my Masters swimming career and nearly wiped out on both of the first two turns in the 200 back.
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Exactly. Your body position in the pool in a suit that offers compression is totally different