2025 U.S. OPEN
- December 3-6, 2025
- Austin, Texas
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
- Prelims: 10 a.m. EST
- Finals: 7 p.m EST (Day 1: 5 p.m. EST)
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
Gretchen Walsh has had a busy fall, competing at all 3 World Cup stops (and going 9-for-9 in her races) before traveling for much of the month of November and capping it off at the US Open. In Austin, Walsh took first in the 50 and 100 fly, 2nd in the 100 free, and 3rd in the 50 free.
Now, the sprint star looks forward to taking a break from training during the holidays to replenish herself mentally before going all-in on LCM training leading up to the Pan Pacific Championships in August.
How can you be so inconsistent with training at this level? Im shocked
Coleman, who was the heckler?
Me
Easy to do for 50/100 swimmers. Not as easy (not impossible) for 200 up swimmers.
A great interview from Gretchen! That public speaking class paid off. I can see a difference in this interview. I appreciate her discussion of taking a break from the pool. I feel like in the Phelps era, the “no days off” mentality was so prevalent and frankly damaging to some athletes. It may have worked for Phelps (and that’s debatable considering how it may have impacted his mental health), but it doesn’t work for everyone and athletes like Gretchen have shown that it’s not necessary to be successful.
Titmus got trashed constantly as a “part time swimmer” whenever she took time off even when she was breaking world record and winning Olympic golds lol
Titmus is Australian
Walsh is an American
Americans can do no wrong, you should know that by now.
Australian and American are both thrash
Ok well that’s wrong that she got trashed. I wasn’t trashing her (and didn’t even know people said that about her), so not sure why my comment deserved an “lol.” Titmus did pretty well taking time off too.
I wasn’t taking a swipe at you. But saying Gretchen has showed that taking time off can make you successful when the actual best recent example of that was trashed constantly on this site (not by you) was funny to me
Titmus didn’t really get trashed much for taking time off from training, it was more about the fact that she would carry herself like she was the only elite swimmer facing pressure or injury, or making sacrifices to compete. Her retirement announcement was just more of the same. Also, it should be noted that Titmus (unlike G. Walsh) did not swim four or five years in an NCAA program or seek to earn a university degree while also training for international competition.
Post 2008 he took days and weeks off.