Casas Hits 1:58 LCM 200 IM In Prelims of Art Adamson Invite Day 1

2019 Art Adamson Invite

  • Thursday, November 21 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
  • Texas A&M Natatorium, College Station, Texas
  • Prelims 10 AM / Finals 6 PM (U.S. Central Time)
  • Prelims Long Course Meters (LCM) format
  • Finals Short Course Yards (SCY) format
  • Live results

Texas A&M sophomore star Shaine Casas crushed a career-best 1:58.54 in the 200 long course meter IM this morning. That would have ranked 6th among American men last season.

The Art Adamson Invite at Texas A&M is adjusting its format this year, featuring long course meters for morning prelims and short course yards for finals at night. That allows athletes to go after Olympic Trials cuts in prelims and NCAA qualifying times at night.

Last summer, Casas took his long course 200 IM best time from 2:03.0 to 1:58.8, ranking 6th among American men. This morning, he chopped another three tenths off that, going 1:58.54 to lead prelims of the Art Adamson meet by almost five seconds.

The big swim from Casas should set up for some more excitement later in the meet. Casas had a breaout freshman year at A&M in both long course and short course. He’ll get a shot at a nation-leading time in the short course yard IM tonight. Prior to this weekend’s invites, Indiana’s Mohamed Samy led the national ranks at 1:44.9, but Casas’ career-best is 1:42.2, and his new lifetime-best in long course converts to much faster than that – our Swimulator converter roughly translates it to 1:40.9.

Other big swims from day 1 prelims:

  • Fellow Aggie sophomore Caroline Theil also had a huge career-best to lead the 200 IM. The 20-year-old went from 2:17.34 to 2:14.39. She was already under the U.S. Olympic Trial cut from an October swim, but just barely. Now, she’s three seconds under the cut, and should rank 4th among American women this season.
  • International Swimming League star Beryl Gastaldello is competing in College Station this week. The French national is an A&M alum and still trains out of Texas A&M. She went 24.91 to lead the 50 free, which should be a new career-best for her.
  • USC’s Nikola Miljenic leads the 50 free in 22.44. That’s a lifetime-best for the Croatian, and he could be in line to challenge his short course best of 19.3 in tonight’s final.
  • Stanford paced both 400 frees. Katie Drabot was 4:11.43 as Stanford went 1-2-3-4 this morning.
  • For the Stanford men, senior Grant Shoults went 3:51.48 to lead the men’s event. That’s a nice swim for Shoults, who is returning from shoulder injuries that cost him his college season last year. His 3:51 is his best swim in this event since 2018 Pan Pacs, when he went 3:48. Shoults was 3:52 at Worlds last summer and 3:57 at U.S. Nationals.

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world class
4 years ago

Forgot about Carson Foster. So actually hoping Chase gets 6th at trials behind Lochte’s first or second place and any order from Casas, Andrew, Foster, or Seli.

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  world class
4 years ago

yep

Captain Ahab
4 years ago

My 2020 men’s 200 im pick em is going to be messed up. Right now I’m picking chase kalisz and Carson foster 1 and 2.

woah
Reply to  Captain Ahab
4 years ago

Good prelims swim. Historically, he makes most of his big drops at night. Curious what his 200 IM will look like in 7 months.

woah
Reply to  woah
4 years ago

1:40.1… Guess I was right.

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  woah
4 years ago

he will be fast & in contention for a spot , thats clear to me since nationals

FlyNDie
4 years ago

Where is Carson Foster with his time from the Pro Swim Series?

Charge
Reply to  FlyNDie
4 years ago

Since 1/1/2019 his 1:58.93 would put him 24th, behind his own 1:58.4 from world juniors.

Since 9/1/2019 (kind of arbitrary) he is third behind Desplanches and Casas

FlyNDie
Reply to  Charge
4 years ago

Well for this entire year, he’s a little further behind. I was more commenting on this season which I believe SwimSwam has technically started a ‘new’ long course season since the championship meets over the summer.

Tokyo 2020
4 years ago

Omaha will be very interesting to watch

JCO
4 years ago

I’m conflicted because I want Lochte to get the 2nd spot behind Kalisz next summer at trials, but at the same time, it’d be awesome for a new star like Casas to make it

World class
Reply to  JCO
4 years ago

Hoping Lochte and either Casas, Andrew, or Seli for the second spot. Chase getting 5th behind them would be lit. He be washed up and is now considered inconsistent. We want someone red hot representing.

Dbswims
Reply to  World class
4 years ago

You realize Chase still finished 3rd in the 2 Im at worlds last summer dispite the bad 400 im

CourtneyCaldwellSuperFan
Reply to  Dbswims
4 years ago

You realize worlds was slow and Chase getting 3rd does not disprove his inconsistency?

SWISHER
Reply to  CourtneyCaldwellSuperFan
4 years ago

Ok, but his time at that slow Worlds (1:56.7) is still faster than any of those other guys have ever been, aside from Lochte obviously.

CourtneyCaldwellSuperFan
Reply to  SWISHER
4 years ago

Once again, one solid swim for him (his best in the last year i might add) does not disprove his inconsistency…..

leisurely1:29
Reply to  JCO
4 years ago

Prediction- Kalisz will either decide to taper for Trials and drop a 1:55-low to take that first spot, or focus “long-game” on Tokyo and miss a 2IM berth entirely.

Sqimgod
Reply to  JCO
4 years ago

Either lochte is first or 4th no such thing as 2nd

He Gets It Done Again
4 years ago

#2 time this FISCAL year 😉

CourtneyCaldwellSuperfan
4 years ago

Multiple people faster than Samy in the 200 IM at Missouri last night

Wowswim
4 years ago

Great swim by Shoults

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