TENNESSEE AQUATICS JUNE INVITATIONAL
- Dates: June 3-6
- Location: Allan Jones Aquatic Center (University of Tennessee), Knoxville, TN
- Meet Information
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
Caeleb Dressel, who was a pedestrian 50.71 in prelims of this race this morning, rocked a new personal best in the finals tonight. The rising Florida junior posted a 48.74 to easily win the event, as well as take four hundredths off of his best.
Dressel split 23.82/24.92**, somewhat of a Phelpsian swim, if you will. He split this differently at U.S. Nationals last summer (23.33/25.45) when he posted his previous best of 48.78. Notably, this is not only Dressel’s best time, but it’s also his first time under 49 seconds at a non-championship meet.
** Last night, live results showed these splits– today, however, they reflect a 23.09/25.65 splitting. We’re working to confirm which splits are correct.
Andrew Marsh (50.25) was 2nd in that event behind Dressel, and Roland Schoeman 3rd (51.03).
Megan Romano won the women’s 100 free, finishing in 55.86 in a close finish over Alia Atkinson (56.08). Natalie Hinds took third in 56.68. Romano got another win later on in the 100 back, finishing at 1:02.00 ahead of Elizabeth Beisel (1:02.25).
Beisel bounced back for an easy win in the 400 free– the 23-year-old shaved more than three seconds off from prelims to post a 4:10.87 to take the win in finals. She was well ahead of Ashley Neidigh (4:18.24), Erica Lanig (4:18.82), and Autumn Finke (4:19.85). True Sweetser took five seconds off of his morning time to win the men’s 400 free with a 3:54.44.
The men’s 200 breast went to Jorge Murillo Valdes at 2:15.99. Molly Hannis was the only swimmer under 2:34 in the women’s 200 breast– her time of 2:27.31 easily won her the race.
In the men’s 100 back, South African and University of Alabama swimmer Christopher Reid topped his teammate Luke Kaliszak (55.47) as well as Tennessee alumnus Sean Lehane (55.61).
schoeman is training with bama, so taking that into account, with some real coaching his time from last night converts to a solid 48. pretty swift!
Surely it’s time for Roland Schoeman to retire? Let’s not watch a wonderful champion turn into a journeyman pro swimmer.
Only one way he matches this time in Omaha. Some say he only pushes himself in racing when there’s enough space to comfortably change in the stall. Keep your eyes open swimswam. Mark my words:
Caeleb Dressel can and will cramp up if not given enough stall space to change suits.
I guess you are a teammate? Does he have to change in a stall?
Perhaps team usa can give him one of those private family changing rooms to use for trials.
If he doesn’t swim under 48 this summer, I don’t understand anything about swimming.
Assuming that I’ve already understood something of course. 🙂
It’s mentioned 23.09/25.65 in the live results.
Hmmm. Coming back in 24.92 is a lot different than 25.65. Makes me wonder how accurate the articles are. I don’t know why but I seem to trust Live Results (a computer?) more than an article, particularly since I see typos and other unedited mistakes in articles all the time. Don’t get me wrong – I love the overall time of 48.74, which beats Phelps’ winning time of 49.49 in the Longhorn Aquatics meet on the same day.
Better wait for his 50 to gauge his 100 correctly.
Oooohhhhh, Omaha is going to be good!!!
How do you even get down voters on this?
Just click the little thumbs down button. You just gave me the idea.
Aw, and you can’t downvote your own comment. I tried.
Caeleb is great at posting amazing times right at the start of taper, and then completely blowing them out the water when the big meet comes. Very exciting to be under 25 on the way back!
This is a fantastic sign for Trials. It’s looking like it’s going to be an exciting (and hopefully very very fast) meet