WOMEN’S 100 backstroke – 2014 Austin Grand Prix – reported by Jared Anderson / SwimSwam
She won the 200 back last night, and now Canada’s Hilary Caldwell has made it a sweep. The 22-year-old went 1:01.57 to nip current Grand Prix points leader Megan Romano at the wall. Romano was 1:01.72 for second place.
Another Canadian took third; that was Dominique Bouchard who is swimming for Oakville now after a stellar collegiate career with the Missouri Tigers.
SMU’s Isabella Arcila took fourth, while 15-year-old Swim Ontario backstroker Danielle Hanus was fifth. Future Stanford Cardinals Ally Howe and Simone Manuel wound up sixth and seventh, and T2′s Justine Mueller rounded out the field in her second-straight A final.
Remedy Rule touched out a pair of swimmers for the B final win – she went 1:04.55, just ahead of Helene Neuhaus and Cameron McHugh who tied for 10th.
