This week on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss FINA’s announcement of the new 2022 World Champs in Budapest and how that will affect the upcoming ISL Season 4, which made some announcements of their own recently, and the USA Swimming schedule, which also just came out with their revised season schedule. We also play everyone’s favorite game, SINK or SWIM:
- Will Kate Douglass swim the 200 Breast at NCAA’s after swimming the #3 performance All-Time at a dual meet?
- Who will win the 8v8 fortnight battle between NC State and Florida?
- Will Luke Hobson keep his stellar freshman campaign rolling and win an NCAA title this year?
- Who would win in an 800m free lcm: Caeleb Dressel or Katie Ledecky?
- Will there be a college team sent to WUGs after USA Swimming announced they wouldn’t send a hand-picked team?
hmmm, I wonder if Ledecky gonna catch the same heat (too good for ISL, its beneath them, etc) as Simone and others for not swimming SCM/ISL. They have 200/400 free and 400IM in the ISL
Is the “oh I’m just focusing on long course” a real thing for most athletes? Like, Ledecky just swam that random SCY meet, and I assume is training plenty of short course.
Like I get not making SCM your main focus and not wanting to go to ISL and get beat real bad, but I’m guessing there’s another more compelling reason than just the format of the meets.
Is michael klueh swimming the mile here?
Why didn’t they Breakdown NY Breakers Twitter account? Now that would have been interesting!
What’s this about ties in ISL? I must have missed this being reported.
i missed it too. link please someone?
From the peanut gallery:
Worlds Trials and worlds- coaches and swimmers will acclimate. Not ideal. Many swimmers might chose NOT to go to Trials if they don’t a legitimate chance of making the team. How many college swimmers actually made the Olympic team? Some might have to catch up on school work or can’t afford to miss another week of school or want to get back some serious training before finals! I think a bigger question maybe is the rest of summer schedule and how are teams being picked for 2023?
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Minor nitpick – Kate was the bronze medalist. Alex Walsh was the silver medalist and almost certainly will probably swim the event at NCAA’s again (but of course your point still stands: why isn’t an Olympic medalist swimming the event?)
Plot twist – Dougie skips the 100 fly and swims both the 100 free and 2 breast and wins both because why not
Grade A fan fiction
Her 200 BR LC Pb is a 2:28.0 from 2019–before starting at UVA. She’s made huge strides since the start of college, so I would be surprised if she couldn’t go at least a 2:23.
As someone fortunate enough to lose to her for 10 straight age group years, you always gotta expect the unexpected. She spent several Zone champs going for a trials cut in the 100 breast and then got the 50 free and 200 IM out of nowhere (followed by her other cuts later of course)