2021 TAC TITANS LONG COURSE PREMIER MEET
- Thursday, April 8 – Sunday, April 11, 2021
- Triangle Aquatic Center, Cary, North Carolina
- Long Course Meters (50 meters), Prelims/Finals
- Meet Central
- Live Stream
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
Just after Claire Curzan‘s huge 100 back, Arlington Aquatic Club’s Torri Huske shot out to a new best time to win the 50 free by almost a second.
Huske clocked a 24.44, a massive outing for just her first swim under 25 seconds in the event to snap Simone Manuel‘s 17-18 NAG record of 24.56 from 2014.
Huske’s best coming into the meet was a 25.34, which she took down modestly with a 25.26 this morning to tie with Curzan for the top time of prelims. Curzan tied her again in finals but was DQ’d for a 15-meter underwater violation. Had that been a legal swim, she would’ve easily cleared Gretchen Walsh‘s NAG record in the 15-16 category (24.71).
After going a blazing 21.39 in March in the yards version of this event, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Huske would be able to break 25, but going that far under 25 suddenly puts her into the Olympic team conversation here.
That 24.44 moves Huske all the way up to #6 on the all-time top performers list for Americans, as she’s now just the seventh American woman to go faster than 24.50 in the event.
TOP U.S. PERFORMERS, 50 FREE
- Simone Manuel – 23.97
- Dara Torres – 24.07
- Amanda Weir – 24.23
- Abbey Weitzeil – 24.28
- Madison Kennedy – 24.39
- Torri Huske – 24.44
- Jessica Hardy – 24.48
- Lara Jackson – 24.50
Within the Olympic Trials qualifying period (beginning November 28, 2018), Huske is now the #2 American behind Manuel (24.05) and ahead of Weitzeil (24.47). This season, though, the 18-year-old Stanford commit is now the top American in the event, coming in at #9 in the world rankings.
2020-2021 LCM Women 50 Free
McKeon
23.81
| 2 | Cate Campbell | AUS | 23.94 | 06/17 |
| 3 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | NED | 23.97 | 05/18 |
| 4 | Pernille Blume | DEN | 24.06 | 05/17 |
| 5 | Sarah Sjostrom | SWE | 24.07 | 08/01 |
| 6 | Kasia Wasick | POL | 24.17 | 05/18 |
| 6 | Claire Curzan | USA | 24.17 | 05/14 |
| 8 | Abbey Weitzeil | USA | 24.19 | 07/31 |
| 9 | Maria Kameneva | RUS | 24.20 | 04/09 |
| 9 | Liu Xiang | CHN | 24.20 | 09/28 |
With a 56.69 in the 100 fly and a 53.46 in the 100 free already this weekend, Huske has quickly become a three-event threat individually for the U.S. Olympic team.
I wouldn’t count Weitzeil out so quickly. The young uns are immensely gifted but Trials is a DIFFERENT ball game. Abbey has a lot of experience pacing herself through the heats, holding composure and getting her hand on the wall when it counts.
Remember when she anchored the Cal 400 free relay in a 46.0 with her arm wrapped? I’m with you, she shows up when it counts.
And just think just think back in 2015 the American woman were lacking in all four legs at the world championships on the medlay relay and now heading into Tokyo they legit have at least four different options for each leg and they still can win gold
(Smith baker curzan smoliga white bacon bilquist) -back
(King jacoby hanis lazor margalis)-breast
(Curzan huske dahlia stewart smith mclaughlin)- fly
(Manuel weitzeil walsh huske commerford brown ledecky ) free
They can probably put 3 relays together and sweep the podium
I think ur reaching on some of those names but I get your point lol
Wow that sucks for Curzan. But wonderful swims by both ladies, trials is going to be crazy.
Weitzel will still be in tokyo at least for 4×100 free relay individual seem less likely now
Stanford is gonna be deadly next year with her, smith, possibly Ruck, and the other redshirts and recruits coming in.
Yeah they might be three top 10 (maybe top 5) swimmers in NCAA next year haha
And Curzan hasn’t committed for the next year yet. We know what that too often means. Could she, Torri, and Regan really all swim at the same school…and would it be possible for that school to actually still be in a battle for the title?
Charlotte Hook hasn’t committed yet either. The talent in Charlottesville though, especially considering Gretchen is heading there, may be too much to overcome.
I think Virginia has next year under control.
2022-2023? If Stanford got Hook and Curzan, that would make it a battle.
Imagine a medley relay where Torri Huske is the freestyler and not the butterflier.
I hope Curzan will go to Virginia to create a better balance with Stanford
Love that the two of them have each other to use to get better. Excited for the future.
This and the 100 fly are two simply insane races. Very exciting to see young swimmers looking like they are ready to compete for OT spots.
Torri also swam a 2:11.6 in the 200 IM. That would’ve placed ahead of Kathleen Baker at the Mission Viejo meet. It’s going to take a lot to beat Cox/Margalis/Baker at Trials, but Huske is certainly putting her name in contention for multiple Olympic events. She is in beast mode!
It’s going to be tight
That’s what she said
dont you have homework to do or playing with little action figures?
I’m not in school, good try.
Huske did the 2:11 200IM as the very next women’s final after 50Free on Sunday schedule, immed after the adrenaline she burned up going 50 crazy meters with Curzan right there nose and nose. lots of fine young adult athletes would have shaking legs and drained tank. She dove in and had a better leadoff 50 split than any of the “big girl” IMrs at Mission Viejo on Sunday final. They were all fresh and rested overnight. Everything is pretty special