Joseph Schooling Entered in 2 Events at Austin Sectionals

2017 Southern Zone Sectionals – Austin

The 2017 Southern Zone Sectionals meet at Texas’ Lee & Joe Jamail Swim Center on the University of Texas campus won’t carry the same prestige as it sometimes does because of its proximity to the USA Swimming World Championship Trials, but there’s still plenty of talent in the Lone Star state to give the event some excitement.

That talent comes in many forms: local youth talent, who may or may not have made the trip to Trials or may be saving their tapers for Junior Nationals or the U.S. Open instead; American college swimmers from two of the best NCAA programs in the country the Texas men and Texas A&M women; and international swimmers from those same programs.

That last category includes Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling, who knocked off Michael Phelps in the 100 fly in Rio. Schooling hasn’t shown much this summer, but coming off the NCAA Championship meet, he’s had little motivation to do anything but train and wait for the World Championships at the end of July – he has no trials meet to worry about.

Schooling is scheduled to swim just the 100 free and 100 fly, perhaps hinting at a pared-down schedule for those World Championships. He’s the top seed in both races.

His female foil is Texas A&M swimmer Beryl Gastaldello, who is one of the fastest short course butterfliers in history. She’ll be a member of France’s delegation for the World Championships. She’s entered in the 100 back, 200 back, 100 free, and 100 fly at this weekend’s meet.

Other swimmers with name recognition at the meet include Tate JacksonTripp Cooper, Jonathan Roberts, and Brett Ringgold from the NCAA Champion Texas men’s team, Mexican National Teamers Ester Gonzalez and Mauro Castillo Luna from Texas A&M, and Princeton commit Regan Barney.

 

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dawser
6 years ago
MichaelTran
6 years ago

If Schooling wants 2golds, watch out maybe he wants 100m free gold? :))))

crooked donald
Reply to  MichaelTran
6 years ago

Maybe in the Singapore games.

a_trojan
6 years ago

the extreme Schooling hate on this site continues.

Billabong
Reply to  a_trojan
6 years ago

We’ve seen it all before……..last year Chad was the whipping boy. It has something to do with beating the GOAT, and then not apologising for it.

ellie
Reply to  Billabong
6 years ago

Yes. That was what happened to poor Paul Biedermann and Chad Le Clos.

bobo gigi
6 years ago

Live webcast on floswimming.com

Buona
6 years ago

According to straits times, Joe said that he is gunning for 2 golds. I am surprised he said that he is confident in 50 fly. Let’s see.

jelly
Reply to  Buona
6 years ago

Maybe he can surprise us but we’ll see. I think the 50 fly is a tad unrealistic right now but if he says he can do it, I guess he can?

Hswimmer
Reply to  jelly
6 years ago

He won’t maybe a bronze

Rafael
Reply to  Hswimmer
6 years ago

All medals on 50 fly will be below 22,9 maybe even below 22,8

crooked donald
Reply to  jelly
6 years ago

The 100 fly is a tad unrealistic too.

jelly
Reply to  crooked donald
6 years ago

Oh it’s unrealistic to win an event which you won at the Olympics and one where you own the fastest swim in textile?

crooked donald
Reply to  jelly
6 years ago

Yeah, in the year you took a third of it off from training and got your butt kicked at NCAAs.

Bigly
Reply to  crooked donald
6 years ago

Agreed. He’s shown nothing since Rio, has trained much less, and now how the bull’s eye on his back.

Hater of swimvortex
Reply to  Buona
6 years ago

To win the 50fly you should go somewhere close to the WR, if not faster than.

Buona
Reply to  Buona
6 years ago

Yup since he said he can, maybe he can do it. He is a talented swimmer. And i can see anti-jo person coming in to comment. maybe u r at a wrong page?

Jelly
6 years ago

I believe Joe has at least a sub 50 in him for the 100 free and 51 low for the 100 fly in this meet

crooked donald
Reply to  Jelly
6 years ago

Maybe at Worlds.

ellie
Reply to  crooked donald
6 years ago

Are you Bigly? lol.

jelly
Reply to  ellie
6 years ago

I was thinking the same thing! Haha

Bigly
Reply to  ellie
6 years ago

Nope. Just another guy with a rational point of view and not a man-crush on the one-hit wonder.

stingtex19
Reply to  Bigly
6 years ago

How exactly is Schooling a “one-hit wonder”? He was an elite recruit coming out of the same Bolles program as Murphy and Dressel, and has won multiple individual/team NCAA titles (sharing Swimmer of the Meet honors with his former HS teammates). At the international level, he’s already earned a bronze at Worlds in ’15 and followed that up with a gold in Rio last summer. All of this at the ripe “old” age of 22.

Dressel is a fantastic swimmer and the 100 m fly at Worlds could be a great race. Swim fans should be excited about the next big rivalry in the 100 fly rather than resorting to the type of ridiculous statements such as the one above.

ellie
Reply to  Bigly
6 years ago

If Schooling is one-hit then Dressel is zero-hit.

Jay
Reply to  Jelly
6 years ago

48.74 in the free. Not bad.

Fremdsprachen
6 years ago

Wouldn’t be the worst idea to skip the 200 fly at worlds.
He doesn’t have a 1:53 in him…yet

Jelly
Reply to  Fremdsprachen
6 years ago

We don’t know what he has in him, but come Worlds we dhall find out

crooked donald
Reply to  Fremdsprachen
6 years ago

Ever.

Bigly
Reply to  crooked donald
6 years ago

He doesn’t have a 1:55 in him any more. Like you said, he’s Cavic all over again.

crooked donald
Reply to  Bigly
6 years ago

Except Schooling doesn’t have Cavic’s 50 fly game. Just the 100.

Bigly
Reply to  crooked donald
6 years ago

True. Just the 100 fly. Maybe a top 4 finish at Worlds.

jelly
Reply to  Bigly
6 years ago

He did a 1.56 untapered in May, wouldn’t he be able to go faster when tapered

crooked donald
Reply to  jelly
6 years ago

Untapered. That’s funny. He was 6 weeks out from NCAAs and obviously was tapered for that 1:56. Kalisz was even still swimming fast at that meet, and he was training distance. (He beat Schooling, BTW). That was off Schooling’s best time from Kazan by 0.4 sec. Untapered was the 2:00 stinkeroo he put up last month. So, he’s never done a 1:55, and never will.

crooked donald
Reply to  Bigly
6 years ago

He’s never done a 1:55. There’s no “any more.”

Justin Thompson
6 years ago

I’m guessing there will be zero taper for this meet, more of just getting in a few races before WC. I think he’ll go a 52 low 100 fly and 49 100 free.

jelly
Reply to  Justin Thompson
6 years ago

He went a 51 high 100 fly at the Texas Senior Circuit untapered and according to the New Paper in Singapore he’s into his second week of taper so I think it’d be safe to say a 51 low or mid in the 100 fly

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