TEXAS VS. VIRGINIA
- November 4-5, 2022
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, Texas
- Live Results
- Event Lineup
- Friday Live Recap
As reported last night, Gretchen set the pool ablaze in Austin, going 21.16 in the 50 free and 52.09 in the 100 IM within minutes of each other. Walsh actually almost missed the 100 IM, thinking that there would be the women’s and men’s 500 free before her race. However, she let adrenaline and her training carry her, noting that Todd DeSorbo actually has his sprint group do a lot of 100 IM’s in practice.
Gretchen is amazing!
Saying you swim fast in practise is the death knell for anyone on SwimSwam. Commenters will mention it every single time that swimmer doesn’t break a WR lol
That’s such a click bait headline. She was talking about the quick turnaround between events and how she has to swim fast in practice without a lot of rest in between when she said she does stuff like that all the time in practice. Not saying she goes the fastest time ever all the time.
best bet is to never comment about practice. except “we go hard all the time and do what the coaches says”
It’s terrible though if swimmers don’t want to say anything meaningful because they’re afraid swim media will put a BS spin on their words.
I agree. You could just read the headline without watching the clip and conclude she’s really arrogant, which isn’t the case at all.
i guess someone could say “she got pissed”
“I gotta get up for my hos” lol
She honestly might be just as versatile as Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh, I want to see her race a 200 IM next to see how she compares to them. It would also be cool to see where she’s at with the 100 breast or 200 free, but that’s just the swim nerd in me talking.
It would be really cool to see her race a 100 or 200 breast at some point. Obviously a 25 breast as part of a 100 IM is different but Douglass is a world podium finisher in the 200m breast (and 200y record holder) and G Walsh didn’t lose an inch of ground to her on that leg. Don’t know whats in the water at UVA but they seem to have be able to pump out high level breaststrokers out of every good athlete they get.
Reverse Schooling.