Kasia Wasick on Going From Retirement to #7 Woman All-Time in 50 Free (Video)

2020 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE – MATCH 4

Reported by Retta Race.

WOMEN’S 50 FREE

Last week, the NY Breakers chose to use Kasia Wasick as a relay-only swimmer on day 1, holding her out of this 50 free. This week, they took a drastically different route, holding Wasick off of the relay and swimming her in the 50 free. We’re going to say this week’s strategy was the correct one, as Wasick exploded for a dominant win. She was 23.43 to supplant Sarah Sjostrom (23.48) as the 2020 ISL leader. Wasick’s time would have put her 3rd in the league for the entirety of the 2019 season. She gets two jackpot steals while beating last week’s match 2 MVP Kromowidjojo by almost half a second en route to a new Polish national record.

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Coach Mike 1952
3 years ago

She has a humble spirit yet is a fighter – “I like the underdog role”, & “I think we’re going to make some noise”. Congratulations on the breakthrough Kasia!

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DCSwim
3 years ago

Now THIS is why the ISL is important

NY
Reply to  DCSwim
3 years ago

We need a polish team!

Tomek
Reply to  NY
3 years ago

Oczywiscie 🙂

Andrea M
Reply to  DCSwim
3 years ago

We need a polish team! #polsja

Taa
3 years ago

She swam at masters nationals not that long ago? Talk about stepping up in competition.

pepito
Reply to  Taa
3 years ago

yeah she swam at masters national like 3 months after coming back from retirement and a few months later she was going best times and breaking national records. Way to go Kasia!!

Tomek
Reply to  Taa
3 years ago

Some swimmers benefit from some time off, it looks like Kasia is one of them

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