2019 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 31 – August 4, 2019
- Prelims 9:00 AM/Finals 5:00 PM (U.S. Pacific Standard Time)
- Avery Aquatics Center (Stanford, CA)
- LCM (50 Meter Pool)
- Meet Site
- Psych Sheet
- Pre-scratch timeline
- TV & Livestream Schedule
- Omega Results
Seventeen-year-old Emma Weyant, who swims for the Sarasota Sharks and is committed to the University of Virginia (c/o 2024), claimed her first national title Friday night in Palo Alto, winning the 400 IM.
She and Stanford’s Brooke Forde battled it out, practically even heading into freestyle, before Weyant pulled ahead and won in 4:35.47. She split 1:03.36/1:10.14/1:19.20/1:02.77 and took more than five seconds off her previous best time of 4:40.64 (from August of last year). Forde finished second in 4:36.06 and Wisconsin Aquatics’ Ally McHugh third in 4:38.65.
Weyant now ranks No. 3 in 17-18 girls’ history; her previous time had her 17th. She is now one of three girls to ever break 4:36 in her age group. Elizabeth Beisel‘s national age group record has stood for eight years at 4:31.78.
Top 5 in History: U.S. Girls 17-18 400 IM
- Elizabeth Beisel, 4:31.78, 2011
- Katie Hoff, 4:32.89, 2007
- Emma Weyant, 4:35.47, 2019
- Dagny Knutson, 4:36.02, 2009
- Becca Mann, 4:37.04, 2015
Weyant raced the 800 free on the first night of the meet, finishing sixth in 8:29.31, an eight-second drop off her prior best time. She also finished ninth in the 200 free in 1:58.36 and is entered in the 400 free and 200 IM later in the meet.
We need a Beisel/DiRado comeback
Beisel and Katie Hoff would still be the fastest Americans this year…..
Maya Dirado also
EMMA drops so much from her personal bests at this meet. No wonder she was under my radar.
She has showed already very good times. But more impressive is the range of her successful events. What are her specialties in swimming?. I’m switching my focus at this meet to watch with all my attention the rest of her loaded program at this championships.
She’s been on a huge improvement curve the past two years. She swims mostly distance free/IM but she’s got a great breaststroke background and her backstroke has been doing really well as of late
I think she should de-emphasize the distance freestyles in favor of the medleys. There is tremendous opportunity right now with Hosszu beyond 30. A specialist could potentially medal year after year. As you indicated, 3 of the 4 strokes are already in good shape.
Besides, at 17 Emma is not particularly young for a distance freestyler. That is the stark reality. The improvement to 8:29 is great but it would need to be followed by another 10-12 second reduction to be competitive internationally, especially since that event is now on the upswing after Ledekcy raised the spotlight beginning in 2012.
Maybe her distance background and training is what provided her to come home so well on free?!? Keep what you are doing Emma and coach!
Whatever happened to Dagny Knutson
The nightmare that is USA Swimming leadership happened to Dagny
The short answer: she turned pro too early.
Todd DeSorbo is smiling
Ear to ear
That would be quite a distance. Dude has to be careful of wind gusts.
He is a smart dude