This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss the Stanford women leaving early from the ACC Championships and the plethora of LCM racing around the world we saw this weekend.
- 0:00 SwimSwam Breakdown Introduction
- 1:10 Stanford Women Leaving ACC Champs Early
- 18:40 Summer McIntosh, Katie Ledecky LCM Racing
- 30:46 International LCM Racing
- 37:26 Carmel Win 39th IN HS State Title in a Row
SINK or SWIM
- 41:55 Does Brooks Curry put Cal over the top for an NCAA title?
- 50:11 SECs, ACCs, or WB1G: Which Conference Champs are you most excited for?
At this point I wonder if Summer breaks the 200 fly or the 800 free world record first
Although it is now old news, what was missed in the discussion of Stanford is that swimming and women’s soccer have different rules regarding the regular season. In women’s soccer, there is a requirement to play a certain number of conference games. Swimming has no regular season requirement to schedule conference opponents at all. Stanford’s only dual meet against a conference opponent was against Cal, which it faced twice. It faced more Big Ten opponents in dual meets (UCLA and USC) than the ACC. The one requirement it has is to participate in the conference championship. While participation may not be spelled out in detail, I think it would be unexpected to reduce your roster in the middle of the… Read more »
Something that I think will be interesting to see will be if the prevalence of roster cuts starts to make D1 schools that don’t offer scholarships national contenders. Specifically, will the Ivy league start to attract more high-end talent?
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I thought I’ve seen it all but holy moly,
According to mister Coleman Hodges a 4:01 in the 400 free is more impressive than 8:09 and then Sophie Kaufmann was only impressed by Summer’s swim because it showed her “Katie’s Greatness”. Lol 😂😂
In addition to that, Coleman started to make the case that Summer can’t swim it at Worlds because she won’t be able to handle prelims and finals 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️. Why weren’t you asking the same question when your american hero did the 1500-200 free double in the same session at multiple competitions in the past?
He was also convinced that Summer couldn’t beat Katie last year because she would have been tired 🥱, well her… Read more »
It’s a cop out by Greg Meehan.
Don’t even bother to send your top swimmers (L. Bell, C. Bricker, T. Huske, L. Nordmann, A. Roghair) while testing the depth of the roster at the 2025 ACC Swimming & Diving Championships.
I think Ledecky’s 1500 was more exciting than the 800. Going her fastest in-season time since 2020 and faster than she went even at OTs shows she’s still hungry for this and not going anywhere. I’d love to see her take on the 1650 at some point this season and get under that 15 minute barrier, and in the form she’s in, she could absolutely do it.
Wait, Ledecky went 15:36 in 1500 this weekend?! Missed the article on that one. That’s fast.
Why haven’t there been any pro swim series??
Because that’s what USAS wanted, or didn’t want, to do. First one is in a few weeks in Westmont, outside of Chicago.