2017 SOUTHERN ZONE SECTIONALS – AUSTIN
- July 6th-9th, 2017
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Swimming the 100 free in Austin, Joseph Schooling swam a time of 48.74 for the win by almost a full second. That time is just .06 outside of cracking the world’s top 25, and it’s his 5th best time ever as well as his 5th time under 49 seconds. His lifetime best is a 48.27 from the 2016 Olympic Games– he’ll most likely have to be under 48, though, to snag a medal in Budapest. That said, this is his fastest 100 free time that wasn’t done at either an Olympics or a South East Asian Games.
2nd place went to Tate Jackson, his Texas teammate, at 49.61. That’s Jackson’s first time under 50 seconds– his previous best was a 50.01 from July of 2016. For the women, Stanford commit Lauren Pitzer clocked a 55.79 for the win.
Quinn Carrozza was far and away the top 200 backstroker on the women’s side tonight, going 2:11’s in prelims and finals to end up at 2:11.01 this evening. That was four seconds ahead of 2nd place Kaitlin Harty (2:15.12), who touched just ahead of Austin Swim Club’s Kendall Shields (2:15.90). For the men, Josh Artmann was the fastest to the wall at 2:01.62.
In a close finish, Samuel Stewart ended up on top in the 200 fly with a 2:04.19. Andrew Limpert of Mansfield Aquatic Club was 2nd in 2:04.58, with Mason Tenney of Longhorn Aquatics third at 2:05.84 and 15-year-old John Grieshop fourth (2:05.90).
For the women, Ashlyn Fiorilli touched first in 2:14.66 with Tiffany Futscher 2nd at 2:14.88.
Comparing Schooling to Phelps is absurd. Let’s see if he can repeat as champ at Worlds.
In no way am I a Schooling fan, but this talk between him and Andrew is just ridiculous. Schooling is your reigning Olympic champion, with one of the fastest times in history.
Following the year he’s had, I expect someone else to win the 100 fly in Budapest, but that does not take away from the fact that he’s an Olympic champion.
Well said thanks for some sensible commentary finally
Why do you expect someone else to win the 100 fly?
Even if schooling is off his Olympic form.. how many guys are we really expecting under 51, 2 maybe 3?
Hell, could be like NCAAs where schooling still does a great time but dressel or maybe le clos are also there with him
There’s a video interview of him talking about the rumored 50.7 on floswimming. Honesty I’m skeptical, but he admits he hasn’t “done anything yet”, and he tries to rush off the question, helps me gain some big respect for him. I think his coaches threw it out there to hype Schooling up but we shall see Saturday in the official race…
Around 1 minute in in the floswimming video he says in his 50.7 swim: “I was 3, 4, 7, 3.” Does anyone know what he is talking about with these numbers?
Stroke counts.
def splits… 23.4 27.3
Any idea where they are counting from? 4 numbers sounds like a short course 100, and the 7 is not like the others.
He’s referring to the splits, 23.4, 27.3
Yeah, good point – mbl is probably right, probably splits. (I didn’t watch the interview, ha).
That’s a helluva DPS. Sounds like he swam it SCY with long underwaters. Hilarious.
Splits. 23.4, 27.3.
Schooling is trying to become Sarah Sjostrom!!!
he’s the next phelps, but even better!
If he does 200free, 200IM, 400IM :)))
If he wins gold medals during 15 years. If he wins world and olympic golds in the 100 fly/200 fly/200 free/200 IM/400 IM and if you say “even better” I add the 100 free! He must also break dozens of world records. So far he has one olympic gold in the 100 fly and no world title. We’ll see first if he can win something outside of the 100 fly..
Michael Andrew has a world title. Schooling does not. Schooling also has no NCAA individual event records, WRs, US Open Records. The most over-hyped athlete of all-time.
You worked very hard to prove Andrew is better than Schooling, but everyone knows who is actually better.
Depends on the event. By best times, MA can take him in the 50’s of 3 strokes, 100’s of two strokes, 100 IM, 200 IM, 200 breast, 400 IM —- that’s 9 events. Schooling is better in the 100 free, 200 free, 50 fly, 100 fly, 200 fly. Who’s better again?
Lol. i dont know what the crap are u talking about. An Olympic gold already wins a person who only owns world championship title. Schooling has no ncaa records etc, u might need to do some research..
Bigly said individual NCAA records – Dressel and Conger broke both of his this past year. He still has relay ones.
Um. Just curious, Jay (or is it Joe?). What individual NCAA record, WR, US Open Record did your extensive research come up with for Mr. Schooling? I think the media should be alerted.
He finaled in one event in Rio. Yeah, the next Phelps.
He’s just Cavic without a 50 fly and with better luck to face an old and very tired (200 IM-100 fly double) Phelps.
Oh give over – Nobody was beating Schooling that day. His swim was stunning. He’ll win in Budapest, too.
Of course not. Phelps had swum his 14th race about 30 min before and had to go to his gold medal ceremony instead of warming down from his 200 IM. No way he wins in Budapest.
Puh-leaze.
Just for the record. It seems Liukonnen went 21,58 50 free on his nationals
Now that is news
That has been coming: His 21.9 to win Mesa didnt get the attention it deserved. Europeans busting sprints out beyond Manaudou is good news.
The 50 free will be very interesting.
we are like 2.5 weeks out…i seriously doubt he is in heavy training at this period
He had a very brief period of heavy training. He was 1:56 in the 200 fly (his best is 1:55 mid from 2015) on May 7 as a second taper off NCAAs at the end of March. Between May 7 an June 10, he was in heavy training as evidenced by his 50.1 100 free and 2:00 200 fly. It’s not like he’s tapering off of months of hard training. He’s very rested at this point.
Rumor has it he went 50.7 in the 100 fly in practice. Not official by any means and probably caught on a stopwatch. We’ll see officially on Saturday if he’s got a 50. in him before worlds.
Rumor has a lot of things. What ia your source for this info?
there’s a video out there of him talking about it… a google search will lead you to it.
There is a video on Flo Swimming where he talks about it. I don’t for a second believe he went that fast in a practice, except maybe with the stop watch starting late or the bulkhead in the wrong place. I think he’s just trying to get into Dressel’s head.
If you listen to the interview he admits skepticism. His splits were 23.4-27.3 which is awfully fast going out. It makes a lot of sense that the coaches would be about ~.5 fast on the reaction at the start which would manifest itself in the opening split.
24.0-27.3 for a 51.3 with a jammer on makes a lot of sense for a 50.3 guy just starting his taper. His coaches probably just jumped the gun a bit on the watch for a psychological boost.
Yeah. He had a drag suit on, and it was at the end of a 200 fly set.
He basically confirms it here: http://www.floswimming.com/video/1223502-video-joseph-schooling-went-507-100-fly-in-practice-the-day-after-dressels-508
It is hard to tell if he’s being serious or if he’s trolling all of us for the sake of psyching out his competitors.
“Rumor has it you went a 50.7 in pratice?”
“Huh? Oh yeah, I totally did that, you know, dressel put up a… serious swim and I responded with that… 50. … 7”
thanks for the link. so it looks like he has started taper but certainly not at full taper yet.
He says in the video he’s about a week into taper.
He’s not tapering off much of a base, so he’s not going to get much more bang from his taper.
Nobody at Texas has ever talked about their practice times. They post the Eddie Reese Invitational, but there’s no other public talk about what they do in practice. He’s trolling in response to Dressel’s NCAA troll that he was leading off the 800 free relay (he wasn’t). Gullibility knows no bounds.
He wasn’t the one who mentioned it first
Let me guess. It was “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”
He’s joking about that 50.7. Chances are nobody has done a 50.7 in practice without a super suit or fins and especially not on a partial taper.
You haven’t heard about Joe Schooling then. Apparently, he’s the new GOAT.
I smell a 47 coming to worlds
in 100 fly
For Dressel.
With that logic everyone on USA’s 4×100 should be a 47
The medley relay. 🙂