Adams Family Dominates Des Moines, Leads SwimSquads By 44

2019 PRO SWIM SERIES – DES MOINES

Cammile Adams‘ Adams Family dominated the Des Moines Pro Swim Series, winning her team’s second-straight meet and opening a 44-point lead over the field with four scoring meets remaining.

SCORING FORMAT

  • Prior to each meet, the captain will select 6 swimmers from their overall roster to score.
  • Each of the six athletes is designated for one specific category, and can score in up to two events from that category. The categories are:
    • Free (50 through 1500)
    • Back (50 through 200)
    • Breast (50 through 200)
    • Fly (50 through 200)
    • IM (200 and 400, not the mystery order 200 IM)
    • Flex (any two races)
  • An athlete must make the top 8 to score points:
    • 1st: 10
    • 2nd: 8
    • 3rd: 7
    • 4th: 5
    • 5th: 4
    • 6th: 3
    • 7th: 2
    • 8th: 1

KNOXVILLE SCORING

Total Knoxville Des Moines
Adams Family 194 101 93
Jaeg-Train 148 88 60
Beisel Bunch 145 71 74
DiRadSquad 127 91 36

 

Adams Family 93
Starter Points
Free Margo Geer 50/100FR 18
Back Jacob Pebley 100/200BK 15
Breast Micah Sumrall 100/200BR 5
Fly Kelsi Dahlia 50/100FL 18
IM Gunnar Bentz 200/400IM 17
Flex Michael Andrew 50FR/50FL 20
Beisel Bunch 74
Starter Points
Free Blake Pieroni 100/200FR 18
Back Kathleen Baker 100/200BK 20
Breast Kevin Cordes 50/100BR 0
Fly Justin Wright 100/200FL 4
IM Jay Litherland 200/400IM 18
Flex Hali Flickinger 200FL/400FR 14
Jaeg-Train 60
Starter Points
Free Caeleb Dressel 50/100FR 8
Back 0
Breast Annie Lazor 100/200BR 20
Fly Tom Shields 100/200FL 6
IM Melanie Margalis 200IM 10
Flex Jordan Wilimovsky 800/1500FR 16
DiRadSquad 36
Starter Events Points
Free Lia Neal 50/100FR 4
Back 0
Breast Nic Fink 100/200BR 12
Fly Jack Conger 100 FL 2
IM Bethany Galat 200/400IM 11
Flex Cody Miller 50/100BR 7

Adams was the only captain to not take a zero at one of her six starting spots. A 20-point showing from flex play Michael Andrew was the big scoring force, but Adams also got 18 (a win and a second) from Margo Geer in freestyle and Kelsi Dahlia in fly, plus 17 from IMer Gunnar Bentz and 15 out of Jacob Pebley in backstroke.

As we predicted, Beisel finished second – she was the only team other than Adams who could field a full lineup. Beisel got 20 out of backstroker Kathleen Bakerbut did get zero from breaststroker Kevin Cordes, who missed both A finals in his slated events.

Jaeger has the best breaststroker in the game right now – Annie Lazor – but had no backstroker and got just six points from flyer Tom Shields. The weekend was mostly a disaster for DiRado, who couldn’t field a backstroker and saw star IMer Chase Kaliszscratch at the last minue. DiRado only had two swimmers score double digit points: breaststroker Nic Fink led the way with 12.

 

Looking forward: the next scoring event is Richmond, where most of the college ranks should make their entrance into the series. Directly after is Open Water Nationals, where Beisel might be primed to make a run after devoting four draft slots to open water national teamers.

In This Story

1
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

1 Comment
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
50free
5 years ago

How did Caleb earn 10 points we he didn’t score in the 100free and got second in the 50

About Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson

Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

Read More »