Shaine Casas Finding Success One Step at a Time After Making 1st Worlds Team

2022 U.S. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS

Reported by Anne Lepesant.

MEN’S 200 METER BACKSTROKE – FINALS

  • World Record: 1:51.92 – Aaron Peirsol (2009)
  • American Record: 1:51.92 – Aaron Peirsol (2009)
  • US Open Record: 1:53.08 – Aaron Peirsol (2009)
  • Jr World Record: 1:55.14 – Kliment Kolesnikov (2017)
  • FINA “A” Cut: 1:58.07
  • SwimSwam Preview – M200 Back

Podium:

  1. Ryan Murphy, Cal – 1:55.01
  2. Shaine Casas, Unattached – 1:55.46
  3. Jack Aikins, Virginia – 1:56.29
  4. Hunter Tapp, NC State – 1:56.79
  5. Destin Lasco, Unattached – 1:57.31
  6. Keaton Jones, Neptune – 1:57.97
  7. Josh Zuchowski, FAST – 1:58.44
  8. Sam Stewart, Unattached – 1:58.80

Shaine Casas, whose 1:55.57 in prelims this morning was the fastest performance in the world so far this year, got off to a quick start from lane 4. He flipped at 26.8 and 56.0 to lead 2016 Olympic champion Ryan Murphy by two-tenths at the halfway mark. Just behind the leaders was UVA’s Jack Aikins.

Murphy surged on the third 50, outsplitting Casas by half a second to lead 1:25.3 to 1:25.7 on the final wall. Murphy held the lead, through to the finish, winning with 1:55.01 to take over the top time in the world. Casas improved on his prelims time, and now ranks second with 1:55.46.

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PBJSwimming
2 years ago

Shaine’s obviously been reading SwimSwam comments 🙂

Last edited 2 years ago by PBJSwimming
anonymous
2 years ago

Swimming 1 event and representing the USA at the WC is fantastic. He should focus on the little things like starts, turns, finishes, and keeping his head still. He seems to have a side to side rocking motion similar to Chase but not as bad. It is hard to speed the stroke tempo up when one is rocking also side to side. 24.00 in 50 back is super.

Taa
2 years ago

Curious what his 100fly is capable of. His 50 back was pretty damn fast but his 100 was a miss. He didn’t really resolve anything with this performance he is still mostly just a whole lot of potential and his events are really competitive. Could be he goes the next few years bouncing around the USA rankings in the top 5 in 5-6 events.

MIKE IN DALLAS
2 years ago

“Even Eddie might have forgotten that”! Sorry, but I found the entire interview to be defensive and filled with ‘not my fault’ statements. Casas is a great athlete and swimmer, but IMHO, this interview earned him no friends and no brownie points.

BOBFROMTHEISLAND
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
2 years ago

I don’t think Shaine is going to lose sleep over not earning your friendship or brownie points Mike

MIKE IN DALLAS
Reply to  BOBFROMTHEISLAND
2 years ago

I can assure you “bobfromLordkknowswhere” that brownie points from me DON’T count, but from YOUR COACH!????? That’s in the “not good” column — and, yes, I swam at the collegiate level.

Joe
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
2 years ago

You did not swim at the collegiate level…

MIKE IN DALLAS
Reply to  Joe
2 years ago

NAIA

bobthebuilderrocks
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
2 years ago

Could be, but I kinda see it as him wanting to take some pressure off. It’s true, he’s been there for a few months and it must not be easy to have everyone in the swimming world looking at you to be one of the next great swimmers for the U.S.

MIKE IN DALLAS
Reply to  bobthebuilderrocks
2 years ago

. . . . point taken and well made. However, he’s a ‘professional’ now, so the standard is much higher, right?

SwimmySwammy
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
2 years ago

Totally disagree. I think he’s trying to stay positive and control what he can. He’s just getting into his groove with Eddie and figuring out which events are best for him. Sounded humble and dedicated to me.

MIKE IN DALLAS
Reply to  SwimmySwammy
2 years ago

OK — I respect that — but to me, it sounded, well, very off-putting.

Walter
Reply to  MIKE IN DALLAS
2 years ago

Let’s not be hypercritical of the college age people, Mike. I bet you are considerably older with more life lessons behind you. Or maybe back in the day, you solicited criticism from old strangers.

Jacob Whittle 46.90 in Paris
2 years ago

Isn’t it funny that on a good day he could have qualified for 7 individual events but in the end he only qualified second in one event that he probably should have been DQ’d for. Swimming’s funny like that

DMacNCheez
Reply to  Jacob Whittle 46.90 in Paris
2 years ago

50/100/200 Back, 100 Fly, 200 IM. What are the other 2?

Big Mac #1
Reply to  DMacNCheez
2 years ago

The 10k and 50 free

Taa
Reply to  DMacNCheez
2 years ago

75 with fins is one

Armstrong 100 back gold in Fukuoka
Reply to  DMacNCheez
2 years ago

50 fly and 100 free relay maybe?

Armstrong 100 back gold in Fukuoka
Reply to  Jacob Whittle 46.90 in Paris
2 years ago

And that event has a weak field. If Mefford hadn’t decided to retire so early, Shaine wouldn’t have made it.

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