2024 Sarasota Sharks Turkey Meet
- November 15-17, 2024
- Selby Aquatic Center, Sarasota, Florida
- Short Course Yards (25 yards), Timed Finals
- Results on Meet Mobile: “2024 SYS Turkey Meet”
The 2024 Sarasota Sharks Turkey Meet kicked off on Friday, with Canadian Olympic gold medalist Summer McIntosh turning heads with a new personal best time in a secondary event.
McIntosh won the 500 free on Friday evening in 4:35.74, about eight seconds slower than her personal best, and followed it on Saturday morning with a 2:08.86 win in the 200 breast.
That 200 breast time was her first time swimming the event in yards; she has a best of 2:27.23 in long course meters and 2:29.31 in short course meters.
McIntosh cemented her status as the world’s top female swimmer in Paris with gold medals in the 200 fly, 200 IM, and 400 IM and a silver in the 400 free, so her having a fast 200 breaststroke is not a huge surprise. Swimming a 2:08, though, at this point of the season, in a local club meet, was enough to catch attention. For perspective, the top 200 breaststroker in the high school class of 2025 (which is likely where McIntosh would have been if she had taken the traditional route) is Addie Robillard with a 2:08.40.
McIntosh just-missed Sabyne Brisson’s 2023 LSC Record of 2:08.34, done when Brisson was a freshman at Georgia Tech.
Given what McIntosh swam in the 500 free, it’s pretty easy to project that she has a 2:06 or 2:05 200 yard breaststroke in her – and that’s in what is probably her 9th or 10th best yards event.
In the 200 IM, where her breaststroke is most important, she split 37.53 en route to gold in the Olympic final. That was a ways behind the silver medalist Kate Douglass, who won the 200 breaststroke in Paris, but is comparable to the other non-breatstroke IMers like bronze medalist Kaylee McKeown (37.77) and Yu Yiting (37.37)
She is also scheduled to swim a 100 fly, 100 back, and 100 breast this weekend, which will fill out her career yards IMX score. She has no 100 yard back time, her best 100 yard breast is a 1:04.11 from this meet in 2022, and her best 100 yard fly time is a 51.10 from Winter Juniors East in December 2022.
The meet was mostly designed as a racing opportunity for Winter Juniors-and-below members of the Sharks team, along with a few other smaller local clubs, so most of the rest of Sarasota’s top swimmers did not compete. For example, McIntosh won the 500 free by more than 30 seconds and the 200 breast by almost 10.
McIntosh is scheduled to race in December at the Short Course World Championships in December, though, and this was McIntosh’s first racing since her triumphant Summer Olympic Games.
Where are the rest of the weekend results? She had other events.
Would love to see Summer race 800 free, I think she could break the WR. Would also love to see what she can do in backstroke.
I keep saying it but I’m really manifesting 8free for sc worlds 🤞🤞
How about the 14 yr old who came in second to her in the 100 fly.
A 58 is nothing special
Seems a bit weird that she goes there, destroys the competition when she probably should just join a much better pro group. Why swim at Sarasota now? It was a Pandemic-related choice but there aren’t any swimmers who can challenge her there now.
I have to assume she’s leaving soon enough. From what Canadian news told me, it was so she could swim with people her age (as opposed to adults at HPC Ontario). now though, she’s (almost) the adult in the room soo
Why continue swimming at the place that trained her to 3 Olympic gold medals and 1 Olympic silver medal?
That’s a real big question that honestly doesn’t have anything to do with Summer…
Did it train her to 4 Olympic medals, though? I remember even Ben Titley saying that a paper bag could successfully coach Summer. But it is a good question..
Summer is indeed a phenomenal talent but you can’t underestimate the success she has had with coach Brent since arriving in Sarasota to join their program.
It sounds like they have a really good working relationship and the results speak for themselves.
I think that’s a bit simplistic. As we know, you can’t make chicken soup out of chicken $h&t. And she is NOT the latter. So, she had tons of talent to begin with and no athlete is coached by just one person exclusively. She had Kevin Thorburn at ESWIM, Ben Titley at HPC and now Arkey at Sarasota. So, she can of course likely stay but she isn’t swimming with swimmers who can come close to challenging her at all. It seems obvious that she move on to a pro group as NCAA isn’t on her bingo card.
Arkey may have coached her whilst she won 4 medals but let’s be honest, she was likely to win them anyway… Read more »
She can’t do NCAA because she has not graduated high school. Just reading between the lines here.
She can’t swim in the NCAA because she already turned pro, years ago.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re just taking this year as a transition year to figure out her plan for the rest of the quad. She just turned 18, she still had friends there.
The bigger question is…if she does leave, does Brent go with her?
She seems to have a very good relationship with her coach. She is still completing high school. No reason to leave there yet.
Most kids with August birthdays are starting high school at 18 in my experience, especially more recently.
Truly a generational talent
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Sorry, really random and unrelated. But I would want David Popovici to move to Australia and train with Dean Boxall. Dean REALLY knows how to coach 200 free obviously and I really want David to go 1:41. I really think he can, especially under a coach like Dean.
She needs to become totally dominant in a few more events
Did the people disliking this comment not sense the sarcasm and joke?😂
She actually does though to be considered the GOAT. Michael Phelps level.
Summer is just Summer and boy are we ever lucky to get to witness what she is and will achieve!! I think she would be an international that would be accepted:)