2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
- June 15-23, 2024
- Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN
- LCM (50 Meters)
- Session Start Times (ET):
- 11 a.m. Prelims
- 7:45 p.m. Finals (varying based on broadcast needs)
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam’s Definitive Guide to Trials
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- SwimSwam Pick ’em Contest
- Prelims Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
- Finals Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
The crowd started to clear out, but those who remained cheered for Erika Connolly (née Brown) and Anna Moesch as Darude – Sandstorm played them out of the tunnel.
Both swimmers were right on their opening splits for semis. They swam matching times of 54.09 in different heats, but side-by-side the difference in strategy was stark. Connolly had an early lead and didn’t look back, improving to 53.92. That time would have tied Beata Nelson for 6th had she swum it earlier.
Moesch opened just one-hundredth slower than she did in the semi, but was unable to catch Connolly down the stretch. Her time in semis was her first personal best in two years.
| Erika Connolly, Swim-Off | Anna Moesch, Swim-Off | Erika Connolly, U.S. Olympic Trials Semifinal 1 | Anna Moesch, U.S. Olympic Trials Semifinal 2 | |
| 50 | 26.01 | 26.29 | 26.08 | 26.28 |
| 100 | 53.92 (27.91) | 54.28 (27.99) | 54.09 (28.01) | 54.09 (27.81) |
Connolly is now in the exact same position she was in at 2021 Trials, albeit with another 100 free under her belt. Swimming out of lane 8, she snagged the 2nd individual spot behind Abbey Weitzeil in the final.
Connolly won the swim off in 53.92 and will take lane 8 tomorrow night
In 2021, she was also 8th in the semifinals and wound up placing 2nd in the Final
Will lightening strike twice?— Mark Wild (@Mark_Wild13) June 19, 2024
What is Darude-Sandstorm? This is bad journalism.
For some reason this old techno club song is being played over and over at trials, so the writer, like a few others, are mentioning it in their articles.
In the early 2000s, techno was huge. As it peaked, this was the song. It was excessively played on every radio station, club, sporting event, etc. It was a major hype song that just got overplayed.
Those who lived like to laugh about it.
Just because you don’t know the song doesn’t make it bad journalism…
So proud of the New Jersey kids. It is really cool to watch them.
Just realized this is Erika “Brown”
Thanks!
Not from USA, I was wondering who she is lol
Great job—and good luck! #GBO!
Much stronger field but hoping she snags a relay spot!
Most sane people would disagree with you about your second point.
But she totally bombed the relay last time?
Ultimately it’s unlikely she takes a top-2 spot with Huske, Manuel, Walsh, and Douglass all significantly faster, so if Brown is going to perform poorly on a relay, the prelims relay is the one to do it on since the US should still make the final comfortably.
Why does no one seem to remember her going 52.8 on the medley? Or having the fastest split in Budapest on the same relay?
It’s so strange how people on SwimSwam select who to hate.
They only remember the bad things.
.4 off her time from trials to make the team is a bomb? You wack
Boooooo