2023 U.S. Open
- November 29-December 2, 2023
- Greensboro, N.C.
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
Psych sheets have dropped for next week’s U.S. Open, and they are absolutely loaded.
The vast majority of the best American swimmers will be action for the four-day competition in Greensboro, which kicks off next Wednesday, Nov. 29 and runs through Saturday, Dec. 2.
The field is highlighted by American superstars Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky, Canadian sensation Summer McIntosh and the triple French world champion Leon Marchand, among others.
Dressel, who will race in the long course pool for the first time since the U.S. National Championships early in the summer, is entered in the men’s 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly, with his highest seed being 10th (100 fly).
Other key entrants on the men’s side include sprinters Michael Andrew, Ryan Held, Brooks Curry, Matt King and Hungarian Nandor Nemeth, while current NCAA stars such as Jordan Crooks and Josh Liendo will also be in the mix.
On the distance side, Ahmed Hafnaoui and Bobby Finke will lock horns in the 400, 800 and 1500 free, while the backstroke field will include all three world champions in Hunter Armstrong, Ryan Murphy, Hubert Kos, plus 2022 50 back world champion Justin Ress.
Carson Foster, Chase Kalisz, Nic Fink, Shaine Casas, Kieran Smith and Cody Miller are other notable names entered.
The women’s side is probably even deeper, with some of the best U.S. swimmers entered (along with Ledecky) in Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske, Lilly King, Katharine Berkoff and Claire Curzan, plus veterans Abbey Weitzeil, Olivia Smoliga and Simone Manuel.
Arizona State pro Regan Smith is entered in her three primary events, the 100 back, 200 back, and 200 fly, but also the 200 and 400 IMs – races that her coach Bob Bowman specializes in, but that we’ve not seen her race much at a high level, though the intrigue is there.
Her Arizona State teammates and World Champions Leon Marchand (200 IM/400 IM/100 breast/200 breast/200 back) and Hubert Kos (100 back/200 back/100 fly/200 IM) are also entered.
Bella Sims, a freshman at the University of Florida and Olympic silver medalist in the 800 free relay, will also attend – but is only swimming backstroke races. She’s been shifting more and more toward the backstroke events since matriculating from her home Sandpipers of Nevada club.
Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko is another intriguing name on the entry list.
NC State commit Daniel Diehl is also notably entered under California Aquatics, though he normally trains out of Cumberland YMCA in Maryland. Diehl tells SwimSwam that this is just an error in the entry lists.
Thank you for updating the article to include Regan 😊 I’m excited to see her race the 400IM!!
I’m sure this was Bob’s idea!
Dressel will do well. Not there yet but he is making finals in each of his events.
Some Info on live stream video for this meet: According to NBC Sports:Finals are at 6 ET each night — streaming on USASwimming.org on Nov. 29 and Dec. 2 and Peacock on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
Link: https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/us-open-swimming-peacock
I they say something like this every time, but it’s usually available on Youtube every day…
Go ahead and downvote me if you want, but I say Douglass breaks the 2 IM world record here to fire off a warning shot heading into 2024. After that practice 2:07, I just don’t think she’s messing around this year.
I think McIntosh and Douglass both go 2:06 but don’t see a WR yet. But we shall see…
will be a hell of a race if kate can improve that backstroke.
She can do it. I don’t think she’s doing it until 2024 though and absolutely won’t do it if she lets the field get 4 swimmers in front of her after her back leg. That 1 second will come mostly from backstroke and a fraction from each of the other strokes except her free leg which is bananas. She needs half second improvement in backstroke
I think Douglass might win, but only beause it’s right after the 400 FR.
Without the 400 FR I would predict
McIntosh: 2:06.0 – 2:06.6
Douglass: 2:06.45 – 2:06.95
im ready 🍿🍿🍿
If anyone breaks it, it’s gonna be Summer. Kate only has the edge in breaststroke, but so does the WR.
But Summer swims the 400 free right before
I think she will scratch one of them.
Interesting take snailSpace. That is a possibility, however I think Summer will swim both. She hasn’t swam a LCM 200 IM since early April at the Canadian Trials and I would imagine she will take this opportunity to see where she’s at in this event especially against top competition like Douglass and A.Walsh.
No way is she scratching the 400 Free either against KL especially after their epic race at last years US Open when Katie edged Summer by a fingernail.
As a swim fan I hope I’m right as we don’t get to see these type of matchups that often which at the end of the day are great for the sport.
About as likely as a Cody Miller 58 100 breast.
Hope Penny is finally injury free and can have a great run up to Paris!
It’ll really suck if there’s a lot of scratches given how the entries and cap happened for this meet. I hope all of these stars truly show up and race
Leon is not going anymore
Interested to see how Luca Orlando does in the 200 free. He should have a good shot at making the relay if he can stay healthy.
Is Luca related to Tony and Dawn?
Can’t wait to see what Simone does in the 100 free, looks like she’s been training well and her last few races have been promising. Have seen her post on socials recently and she looks strong. Her best recently is 54.21, hopefully she’s mid to low 53, she needs to take it out with Siobhan.