2025 Pro Swim Series – Fort Lauderdale
- Wednesday, April 30 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Recaps
In a few hours, the first full night of competition will get underway at one of the most star-studded pro swim series we’ve seen in years. Based on tonight’s heat sheets, it looks like nearly every star who swam this morning will be back tonight in at least one of their events.
This means that we’re getting the showdowns that this morning set us up for. Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh will face off in the 400 free following a very strong mile showing from Ledecky last night. Regan Smith will take on the 200 fly/50 back double. Smith is the top seed in the former, but in the latter Kylie Masse nearly clipped Smith’s Americas record en route to taking the top seed. On the men’s end, the fastest 500 freestyler of all time, Leon Marchand, will try his hand at the 400 free against American freestyle studs Kieran Smith, Luke Hobson, and Bobby Finke.
The only swimmer to scratch multiple events was Canadian Olympic medalist Ilya Kharun. After earning two B-final placements in the 100 free and 200 fly this morning, the 20-year-old Québécois opted out of a second swim in both events.
There were two A-final scratches: Jack Harvey from the men’s 50 back and Katie Grimes from the women’s 400 free. Harvey will not compete tonight, while Grimes decided to put all her chips into the 200 fly final.
Many other Team USA stars took the same route as Grimes, dropping one event in favor of another. Alex Walsh and Katharine Berkoff will sit out of the first event, the 100 freestyle, to focus on the 100 breast and 50 back, respectively. Torri Huske chose the opposite of Walsh, honing in on the 100 free by scratching the 100 breast.
Full Night 1 Scratch List
Women’s 100 freestyle
- #13 Alex Walsh
- #23 Katharine Berkoff
- #24 Charlotte Crush
Men’s 100 freestyle
- #10 Quintin McCarty
- #13 Jack Dolan
- #16 Ilya Kharun
Women’s 100 breaststroke
- #22 Torri Huske
Men’s 100 breaststroke
- No scratches
Women’s 50 backstroke
- #20 Sadie Buckley
Men’s 50 backstroke
- #6 Jack Harvey
- #18 Hugo Gonzalez
Women’s 200 butterfly
- No scratches
Men’s 200 butterfly
- #13 Ilya Kharun
Women’s 400 freestyle
- #7 Katie Grimes
- #11 Michaela Mattes
- #19 Brooke Travis
- #22 Caroline Pennington
Men’s 400 freestyle
- No scratches
You are jumping like rabid dogs over a kid that just won 2 individual medals this summer. Some of you are quite ridiculous
Everyone hating… he’s at the start of a post Olympic quad. He accomplished most of his hopes and dreams and already claimed double bronze as a teenager. Clearly it makes sense to continue to love the sport and do what’s best to help your team. So what if he focuses on doing more sprint training…., he’s having fun with his group and helping them score big points. Don’t forget he was the world champion in scm this past year. Also Herbie contributed to his paris success and that 1:52 more than a lot of people think. No doubt he will return to that form by the next Olympics
Life comes at you fast when you don’t put in the work lol
Ilya Kharuined
Purely speculating on this but maybe it was an intentional decision for him to focus on other events post-Paris? Winning two Olympic medals and ncaa champion as a teenager.. wouldn’t be the first one to have some type of post Olympic fatigue (if that’s the case) and the 2 fly LCM is hardly a fun event to train for.
I saw someone say he “should be winning gold” in the 2 fly LCM and I sort of disagree… that event has two all-time greats still competing at the top. Maybe Kharun wants to switch things up. Again this is all speculation but wondering if this is a factor. We obviously won’t know until the season is over where his event… Read more »
Kharun realizing that specializing in the 50 free SCY maybe wasn’t a good idea
No idea why he would think that in the first place
Or maybe he just had an off day? Stop assuming things.
It was very sunny and HOT-like walking on the sun…
Say what you want about Bob, but gotta respect how his swimmers rarely if ever seem to scratch out of their events.
Probably scared too, I’d imagine Bob wouldn’t react well and there’s a possibility he’d hold onto it. Not saying he ever would, but I could see how some coaches would blow up over that
lol