Reported by Lauren Neidigh.
WOMEN’S 100 BREAST
- NCAA Record: Lilly King (2017)- 56.30
- American Record: Lilly King (2017)- 56.30
- U.S. Open Record: Lilly King (2017)- 56.30
- Championship Record: Lilly King (2016)- 56.85
- 2016 Champion: Lilly King (Indiana)- 56.85
- Lilly King (Indiana)- 56.71
- Lindsey Horejsi (Minnesota)- 58.03
- Laura Simon (Virginia)- 58.20
Indiana’s Lilly King wasn’t quite as fast as she was at the Big Ten Championships, but she still downed her own Championship Record to dominate the 100 breast in 56.71. Minnesota’s Lindsey Horejsi blasted the 8th fastest performance of all time to take 2nd in 58.03, while Virginia’s Laura Simon just out-touched FSU’s Natalie Pierce (58.25) for 3rd.
Louisville’s Andee Cottrell was also 58-low, rounding out the top 5 in 58.39. UMBC’s Emily Escobedo had a big swim in the B final, putting up the 6th fastest time of the night in 58.49 to place 9th.
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“It’s hard for me to get up and race when I don’t have a race… the other girls in the heat had great swims though!”
please. stop. talking.
“Oh well, it was ok, but I’ll do better next time” lol I died. That statement was so accurate…too many swimmers do that.
I’m not surprised that she didn’t beat her 56.30. She swam a perfect race to get that time, so anything less was going to be slower.
She won the championship race and has the NCAA and American record.
Lilly still has the 100 meter breast WR to chase. Ruta M. owns the WR in 1:04.35.
She is a perfectionist and this is why she is not happy.
You should mention NCAA championship record in the headline. The NCAA record is a different record.
She is looking for perfection and wanted to break her American record at that meet. She’s 0.41s slower than 3 weeks ago so I understand she’s not satisfied. She knows she has no rival in that event at the college level and already has the world final of Budapest in mind against Efimova.
It is laughable (in a good way) that she won an NCAA final by 1.3 SECONDS and is this disgusted by her time. The key to success truly is to never be satisfied.