United States Enters Just 1 Man, Michael Andrew, into 100 IM

2018 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

It’s not often that the United States leaves an event slot empty at a major international championship meet, but that’s just what will happen at the 2018 Short Course World Championships.

Michael Andrew, the defending World Champion in the 100m IM, will be the only American entry in the event often viewed by American coaches as a summer league or age group race (even though it is now a sanctioned NCAA event). Andrew will swim the race as one of 5 on his schedule in a sprint-heavy lineup that will likely include multiple relays as well. He’s entered in the 50 free, 50 breast, 50 fly, 100 breast, and 100 IM at the meet individually. He’s the top seed in the 100 IM in the absence of Russian Vlad Morozov, the World Record holder, with his next best pre-meet standings being the #4 seeds in the 50 free and 50 fly.

Among swimmers on the American roster, the next-fastest 100m IMer is Josh Prenot (7th in US history). The American entries in the 200 IM are Gunnar Bentz and Prenot.

The Americans will also leave an empty spot in the men’s 200 free.

On the women’s side, Melanie Margalis and Kathleen Baker are swimming the 100 IM: the same two swimmers as are entered in the 200 IM for the US.

American Entries in non-Olympic Distances at the 2018 Short Course World Championships

Men’s 50 Back

  • Ryan Murphy – #22 seed
  • Matt Grevers – #27 seed

Men’s 50 Breast

  • Michael Andrew – #9 seed
  • Andrew Wilson – #31 seed (with LCM time)

Men’s 50 Fly

  • Michael Andrew – #4 seed
  • Caeleb Dressel – #23 seed (with LCM time)

Men’s 100 IM

Women’s 50 Back

Women’s 50 Breast

  • Molly Hannis – #3 seed
  • Katie Meili – #21 seed

Women’s 50 Fly

  • Kelsi Dahlia – #2 seed
  • Kendyl Stewart – #15 seed

Women’s 100 IM

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Swimmer
5 years ago

Reading the headline made me chuckle. A year ago MA was a junior now he is a ‘Man.” 🙂

Anonymous
5 years ago

Rediculous. Still waiting for the stroke 50s and 1im to trickle into college and Open age events. NCSA J Nats managed to do it recently. What is the hold up?

STRAIGHTBLACKLINE
5 years ago

A single entry in the 100IM isn’t really noteworthy. It is after all a Mickey Mouse event.

Zane Grothe
5 years ago

I’ll do it

ArtVanDeLegh10
5 years ago

Hell has frozen over. An article with Michael Andrew’s picture on it, and focused on him, and not one comment is about him.

Swimming4silver
Reply to  ArtVanDeLegh10
5 years ago

so about Dressel instead…

Swammer
Reply to  ArtVanDeLegh10
5 years ago

Hopping coach Greg Troy treats this meet more like an ncaa taper for Caleb instead of an mid-season invite meet. Just because this would be his only taper meet betweeen last summer and this one coming up. Kinda like what the Texas pros did this year with the Atlanta pro swim series. Then Caleb and us could both get a treat, he can rest and we can watch. And for MA we aren’t talking about him because we know he’s ready for this meet, more mystery with a Florida pro like Caleb.

Pvdh
Reply to  Swammer
5 years ago

He hit some pretty wicked times at the Purdue invite last year tho.

Swammer
Reply to  ArtVanDeLegh10
5 years ago

MA always is ready to swim fast.

Wondering
Reply to  Swammer
5 years ago

And to lose to Vlaf

tea rex
5 years ago

It’s hard for sprinters when there are a ridiculous SEVEN relays. Example: Morozov is only entered in the 50 and 100 free, but could have 15 races over 6 days.

tea rex
5 years ago

Murphy? Grevers? Prenot? Chadwick? Held? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

swimmerTX
Reply to  tea rex
5 years ago

Wait who’s Bueller

phelps swims 200 breast rio
Reply to  swimmerTX
5 years ago

Oh, he’s very popular. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads – they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.

Danjohnrob
Reply to  phelps swims 200 breast rio
5 years ago

Best Swimswam comment ever! LOL!

running start to touch backstroke flags
5 years ago

Try this: “It’s not that often that the USA swims SCM, leaving SCM meters meets entirely without USA swimmers historically..

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