2021 LONGHORN ELITE INVITE
- May 20-23, 2021
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
- Austin, TX
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Packet
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Start Times (US CT): Prelims 10AM, Finals 5:30PM
- Wave I & II Trials Cuts
- Day 1 Prelims Recap
- Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap
Reported by Nick Pecoraro.
After becoming the 6th-fastest American all-time in the men’s 400 IM, 19-year-old Carson Foster hit a near-personal best in the 200 free, swimming a sub-1:48 season best of 1:47.59. Placing second and third in the event with sub-1:49 efforts were Drew Kibler (1:48.04) and Townley Haas (1:48.49). Foster’s swim, which was just off his 1:47.47 lifetime best from 2019 World Jrs, moved him into the Olympic relay conversation at No. 7.
2020-2021 US Rankings: Men’s 200 FR LCM
- Kieran Smith, 1:46.30 – 2021 Atlanta Classic
- Andrew Seliskar, 1:47.01 – 2021 PSS San Antonio
- Jake Magahey, 1:47.30 – 2021 Atlanta Classic
- Patrick Callan, 1:47.38 – 2020 U.S. Open Indy
- Caeleb Dressel, 1:47.42 – 2021 Atlanta Classic
- Julian Hill, 1:47.58 – 2021 SUN April Meet
- Carson Foster, 1:47.59 – 2021 Longhorn Elite Invite**
- Grant House, 1:47.69 – 2021 PSS Indy
Dude’s a dude
Nice to listen to someone give an interview without saying ‘you know’ over and over.
Or ommmmm
AMEN! A charming, informative, and uplifting interview!
Drew is the leader of this Texas team.
I like a good Townley interview.
Anyone knows how fast was Haas prior to 2016 trials? That 1,48 from this past weeked gave me a very good feeling
I believe his PB was 1:47-mid, but that was a couple summers prior so not a really good indication of how fast he was.
1:48 does seem likely to put him near his 1:45.0 PB this time around.
1:47.86 (in early June)
At the 2016 Atlanta Classic in mid May that year, he was a 1:50.86. He took that down to a 1:47.86 in early June that year at the Longhorn Aquatics Elite Invite, then dropped down to a 1:45.66 at Trials.
Based on Eddie’s long term 200 magic, Kibler and Foster have to be considered as players, along with Townley. Gjertson, Davis, Goldblatt, Dusing, Rauch, Walters, Berens, Townley, Conger, Smith, all medaled in the 4×2 and the list should grow
Absolutely! And add Maxime Rooney to your list of Longhorns watch at trials!
There shouldn’t be any shortage of 1:46 type guys at us trials. But USA needs to find a couple more 1:45s to be in the gold conversation for the relay. Hopefully a couple of these Texas guys can get down there.
145…… yeah let’s hope not In order to be able to keep up with Great Britain we’re gonna need at least one or two people to go 44 mid if not a 43
Yeah probably. For USA to win gold we’ll probably need at least two sub 1:45s to keep pace with GB.
But I’m talking about the 3-6 spots. We can’t afford a bad 1:47 split or something like that. Even a 1:46 will make it pretty hard for us to stay up with GB.
Gone are the days where US could afford a mediocre split on this relay and win anyway due to Phelps dropping a 1:43 lol
Will they take 2 alternates? They must swim the alternates!!!! Weren’t they 7th in prelims in 2019?
Smith looks like he has the potential to go 1:44, or at least 1:45 (he was 1:46.30 in May, similar to Scott and Dean’s in-season times before going 1:44s at trials).
Haas split 1:43.78 at 2018 Pan Pacs, and hopefully he can be at least close to that this summer when it matters.
Seliskar’s best time is a 1:45.70 and he’s been looking good this season, and Pieroni split 1:44.98 in 2019.
GB still the narrow favorites over Russia/Australia/US as of now, but wait for Trials.