2022 US Open Water National Championships
- April 1st- April 3rd, 2022
- Lynn Hall Park, Fort Myers Beach, FL
- Open Water
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheet
- Live Stream
- 10k Results
Though it’s April Fools, this is no joke! Katie Grimes (SAND) is your women’s 10k National Champion. The Tokyo pool Olympian finished 6 laps around the Fort Myers Beach course ahead of Mariah Denigan and France’s Carolina Jouisse.
The conditions appeared to be extremely rough as cloudy skies, high winds, and massive waves could be seen throughout the swimmer’s course.
Women's 10K Official results:
1. Katie Grimes
2. @m_denigan
3. Caroline Jouisse (FRA)#OWNats x @USASwimming pic.twitter.com/qy3VEEJHGv— USA Swimming News (@USASwimmingNews) April 1, 2022
2022 US Open Water Nationals Top 8 Finishers – Women’s 10k
- Katie Grimes – 2:16.40
- Mariah Denigan – 2:17.50
- Caroline Jouisse (FRA) – 2:18.34
- Aurelie Muller (FRA) – 2:21:01
- Summer D Smith – 2:21:07
- Caroline Pou (FRA) 2:21:44
- Anna R Auld – 2:21:50
- Kensey McMahon – 2:22:00
It was actually Grimes’ Sandpipers and Olympic teammate Erica Sullivan who took the early lead over the entire field through the first 3 laps. Grimes was hanging onto the 2nd spot, and made her move heading into the 4th lap. Grimes would maintain her lead through the final 3 laps to win the event.
Sullivan, who won the women’s 10k last year, faded out of the top 3 finishers.
The event will serve as a selection meet for the 2022 US Open Water National Team, as well as the perks and funding that go along with that status. The top 6 finishers in the 10k will automatically earn a spot on the National Team, which means that Grimes and Denigan have both qualified for the National Team. This is Grimes’ 1st Open Water National Team appearance.
This week’s meet also serves as a selection event for the 2022 World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships, set for September 1st-4th in Beau Vallon, Seychelles.
Grimes’ swim earns her a spot on both the 2022 US Open Water National Team and Junior Team, as well as a roster spot on the 2022 FINA World Junior Open Water Championships which will take place in Beau Vallon, Seychelles.
We’ll have to wait until the end of the meet for the selection of the 2022-2023 US Open Water National Team and 2022 World Championship Team, as these both follow a points-based system throughout the National Championships.
The 2022 Open Water National Championships didn’t include the United States’ two female open water Olympians, Haley Anderson and Ashley Twitchell. Anderson announced her retirement yesterday, and Twitchell is expecting her first child in 2022. This would’ve been their 13th-consecutive appearance at the US Open Water Nationals.
Full results are not yet available, but we will update as they are published.
Typo Fort Myers*
She’s 16 for 2 months.
Who do you think was USA hope in long distance events in spring of 2012? If you think it was Katie Ledecky then your are very wrong. It was 14 years old prodigy Rebecca Mann. She is a half of a year younger than Ledecky and was then already under 8:30 in 800 FR. And then she shifted her focus to the Open water competition. The competition in the pool was soon forgotten.
One cannot sit on two chairs… These two sport exercises are different and require honing different skill set.
This is nonsense
Sure, tell it to Katie Ledecky that she is missing a bunch of gold medals not competing in open water.
Katie Ledecky doesn’t train open water. You make no sense. It seems like you have a mental block where you think that if one person has success doing something a certain way then everyone should do the exact same thing. People are different. Training everyone in open water isn’t going to work for everyone, training everyone like Katie Ledecky isn’t going to work for everyone
What do you think chances are of Formula 1 super power car in competition on rough terrain?
This is one of Yozhik’s worst takes, and that’s saying something.
Stay tuned, more lovely takes to come 😀
I think Ron trained Erica Sullivan from the time that she was 13 also swimming every open water national championships and any international opportunities available and she ended up doing pretty well in the pool last summer. So I believe Katie Grimes will probably be ok as well.
Mike, the beauty of such discussion is that there is no such a thing in the history of coaching like “What if” game. We will never know what would happen to Erica if her coach didn’t do it and trained her exceptionally in the pool letting her swim in the ocean for enjoyment of bathing in salt water only.
We don’t know what would happen to Michael Phelps should he have different coach. Maybe nothing different, maybe better, maybe worse.
Neither my example with Becca Mann nor your example with Erica prove anything. But it was nice talking to you. And you know why? Because there were no “personal attack” arguments.
I was really impressed other day… Read more »
You won’t get a powerful conversation when you post a terrible take with no actual personal knowledge on what you are talking about.
You watched Becca Mann slow down in the pool and thrive in open water swimming, so Katie Grimes shouldn’t do open water swimming. You realize how ridiculous that sounds.
Did someone piledrive your head onto concrete or something?
yozhik is clearly running out of material when his target is someone from 10 years ago
Long time no see 😀
I observed very interesting group behaviour. When our subdivision is visited by coyotes and one of the pet dogs notice her then all dogs begin barking even they don’t see or smell her. Same does my dog. But when I walked him once unleashed and he suddenly met young coyote face to face there was complete silence with the indecisive pause on both sides. I rushed to intervene taking my dog on leash making two of us against her. And she departed peacefully. Oh, and then my dog began barking inviting all other neighbouring dogs to join him.
So we are the dogs and you are the coyote that posts bizarre, verging on creepy things always about female swimmers
First part was somewhat factual, but no, most open water swimmers don’t train open water whatsoever. I’m sure something else happened in Becca’s life that led to what you mentioned, but it certainly was not putting an emphasis on open water. The open water national championships are literally nothing more than a turn-less pool race with some jockeying and a very long distance. The Sandpipers probably train for their 400s the same way they would for a 10K. They’re an age group club team; and in America, that usually means lots of distance sets. Contrary to popular belief- there are probably many more swimmers in the US that are perfectly prepared to swim a 10K, just most aren’t willing to… Read more »
Yay Caroline!
Name ✍️ future ✍️ daughter ✍️ Katie ✍️ So ✍️ she’s ✍️ good ✍️ at ✍️ distance ✍️ swimming ✍️
Who were the top 6 USA ?
Want to know too. It looked like Sullivan left during lap 4 and DF but the stream was awful so I can’t really tell
Word is Sullivan injured her shoulder on a big wave. Still no full results hours later? What is USA Swimming doing?
16 Y/O
Congrats but I fear she will not reach her full potential in the pool by also focusing on open water.
I feel like with an Olympic silver medal at age 15, she and her coaches probably know what they’re doing.
Grimes didn’t win any medal in Tokyo, I think you’re confusing her with Bella Sims
Whoops, I was looking at the prelims results. Still, fourth at the Olympics at 15 isn’t something to sneeze at.
The Sandpipers’ coaches are doing just fine with their program. Thank you very much.
An Olympic gold medal is an Olympic gold medal if it’s won in the pool or open water and she’s got the capability to win this in Paris. Romanchuk and Ous Mellouli have shown that it’s possible to excel at both simultaneously. I’m sure there’s very little they do differently in training to prepare for these events.
Lol I like that the only comments we get from Bobo now are the horrible takes.
Conspiracy theory: He’s an imposter
Oh no, as oxyswim said the most common takes were the bad takes. (But now there’s not 10,000 other words about an age group meet to distract ya.)
The most common Bobo takes were always that swimming in the 25 yard “bathtub” is a waste of time, and that prodigious talents need to only focus on one event to reach their capabilities.
His buddy Destin Lasco has certainly gone the other way, and seems to be doing OK
and the whole UVA women’s team
And don’t forget that you need to economize in the prelims.
Bobo’s philosophy was shook the second Dressel went 50.0 in the prelims of 100 fly at 2017 Budapest worlds. He hasn’t quite recovered since.
My favorite was when he was losing his mind over Dressel swimming like eight events at a Sectionals meet during the summer after his freshman year. The 50 was the only event he finaled in that year, so it was clear that it was less about the events and more about Troy training him to swim fast on quick turnarounds. Bobo was just incredulous that a sprint freestyler was swimming the 200 IM and 100 breast.
…..And then he built his endurance and learned how to swim fast on quick turnarounds and went on to win everything in sight.