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What athlete doesn’t want to swim for their parent, kinda the dream, right?
While Erin Gemmell (DOB 12/02/2004) has dropped 6.50 seconds in the women’s 400 meter freestyle since the 2021 USA Swimming Olympic Team Trials, Katie Grimes (DOB 01/08/2006) has dropped 7.32 seconds in the women’s 400 meter freestyle since the 2021 USA Swimming Olympic Team Trials.
Congratulations to both of them. That’s terrific. Too bad ledecky hasn’t done the same (sarcasm).
The issue is whether Leah Smith will qualify for the women’s 400 meter freestyle at the 2023 USA Swimming International Team Trials versus fast rising teenagers.
It will be interesting too see if Erin Gemmell (PB 4:05.07) surpasses Leah Smith in the women’s 400 meter freestyle at the 2023 USA Swimming International Team Trials.
Sims and perhaps Grimes would seem to have the inside track… Smith, maybe Madden, maybe Weinstein with a shot.
The women’s 400 meter freestyle at the 2023 USA Swimming International Team Trials wiil be a classic case of whether the old guard (Leah Smith) can fend off a slew of rising teenagers.
Speaking of Weinstein, I would love to see Claire push the 15-16 national age group record in the women’s 200 meter freestyle (Franklin 1:55.06) at the 2023 USA Swimming International Team Trials.
Nice and easy not pretentious sincere interview on both sides. Love this talk.
I like the steadiness in Erin’s progress. Maybe it is just an illusion that she was slow with that because for long period of time she was in a shadow of Claire Tuggle’s impressive NAG records. But this girl who doesn’t have at first sight strong athletic appearance is showing unstop progress that has reached already the level that couldn’t be ignored in any adult competition. 1:54 relay split is the most noticeable achievement this season but I am more happy for her progress in 100Fr. This sprinting abilities is a strong foundation and the best prove that 1:54 isn’t a fluke.
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What the heck are you talking about? Since when has Claire Tuggle been the gold standard of the women’s 200 meter freestyle or the women’s 400 meter freestyle? Claire Tuggle does NOT own the 15-16 national age group record or the 17-18 national age group record in the women’s 200 meter freestyle. Claire Tuggle does NOT own the 15-16 national age group record or the 17-18 national age group record in the women’s 400 meter freestyle. Who are you crappin’?
Maybe he meant Claire Curzan
Curzan doesn’t really swim LC 200 free, and certainly doesn’t do the 400. Let her do her thing in the sprints, she’s quite good at them.
People in the US always seem to want someone to be the next MP, going for an insane number of events, when that is not at all in the best interest of the swimmer.
Tuggle owns the 11-12 NAG and also is the fastest 13yo in the 200, at least at the time both swam at that age. So I guess he means that.
Glad to see she has matured from her younger years – both in swimming and communication
What kind of math are you using? Gemmell’s 1:54.8 split is 1.3 seconds faster than her flat start time. Even if her relay exchange was 0.0 (which it clearly was not on the video), her average flat start reaction time is around 0.7, making that relay swim at least 0.6 seconds faster than her flat start swim.
Whatever I’ve seen of her races this summer her reaction time was 0.8+ with only one exception 0.78 or 0.79. And a relay swimmer not only has earlier start but she does it with the strong moving impulse. And that makes a big difference. In individual race before start all your muscles doing one job only: preventing any movement. When a swimmer takes a start in relay it is quite a opposite situation. Good comparison is high jump: quite a different results with jumping from stand-still position and jumping after running. What can possibly horizontal speed add to high jump? But it does synchronization of all muscles in the body. So all parts of your body are moving up synchronously… Read more »
Off topic, but other news that Swimswam might have missed:
Hvas retiring is kind of shocking. Was looking forward to seeing how he developed.
Missed question. Will she go to UT fall of ‘23 or wait until fall ‘24?
Hadn’t thought of this possibility – good catch! I can ask Erin the next time I see her at a meet. I’m guessing as of now the plan is 2023, but that could also potentially change depending on success she has this spring/summer
I’m usually not one for feedback but you gotta ask what was so sketchy about Mare Nostrum!!
Sounded like she just was talking about having less complete control of her time table. Prelims length, ground transportation etc. Just more unknowns than she is used to.
Yes. Having been to the Barcelona stop, the “sketchy” parts I think Erin was referring to was the tiny outdoor warm down pool, not much deck space; things like that. Especially when these cities are billed as very upscale and then you realize the pools are very normal comparatively