Recently at a Virginia practice filmed by SwimSwam, coach Todd DeSorbo finished warmup with a 100 IM all out. You can see world record-holder Gretchen Walsh pushing the pace here, with DeSorbo ultimately clocking her at 52.7.
***EDITOR’S NOTE: Coach Todd’s watch is typically very quick. This practice is no exception. His philosophy is to start his watch when the swimmers’ feet pass the flags (instead of when they leave the wall) because he feels this simulates what they would go from a start off the blocks. It is not how most coaches time practice swims, but coach DeSorbo is consistent with this method and his results speak for themself.***
She is so smooth. And those underwaters, she just seems to accelerate so much before breakout. Elite.
Thought the person two lanes down from her was a girl and then I saw a comment that it’s a guy
she beat the dude in the nearest lane to camera by what 2 seconds?
The 3 dislikes on the comment are from him and his two burners
I never realized before how heavily muscled she is
muscle mommy
But she sure slides through the water beautifully!!
Frankly, she doesn’t look like she’s pushing it that hard.
The DeSorbo watch thing cracks me up. I mean the guy can do whatever he wants obviously and ultimately practice times are meaningless, but I have never seen or heard of another coach that uses a watch that way.
She’s broken 1:00 in the 100 breast. Would love to see her swim it in the coming Texas duals.
the 100 breast? absolutely not… this meet is gonna be exciting and most likely fast lets not waste our time with her 10th best event or whatever it is
How is this comment getting downvoted so much? Putting her in the breastroke at the Texas meet is a ridiculous idea and the above commenter rightly called that out.
She already has the top times in the events she focuses on. There’s no need to prove any more before championship season. The UVa staff tinkers in these meets — she swims off events in them, like the 200 back at Tennessee, also a fast meet. But be outraged anyway.
Outraged no, continually baffled by people’s stupidity yes.
GW also swam a 1:52 200IM last year. Would like to see her swim that this year.
And hoping for a 200 free leading off UVA 800 relay at ACC champs!