2021 TAC TITANS LONG COURSE PREMIER MEET
- Thursday, April 8 – Sunday, April 11, 2021
- Triangle Aquatic Center, Cary, North Carolina
- Long Course Meters (50 meters), Prelims/Finals
- Meet Central
- Live Stream
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
In the final of the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the TAC Titans Premier Invitational, 18-year-old Torri Huske took a huge bite out of the 17-18 National Age Group Record in the same race that 16-year-old Claire Curzan lowered the 15-16 mark.
Swimming side-by-side in lanes 4 and 5, Curzan and Huske were both out in 26.21 and came to the wall in 56.20 and 56.69, respectively, to become the #2 and #4 American performers in the event in history.
| Smith, March 2020 | Huske, March 2021 |
| 27.04 | 26.21 |
| 30.30 | 30.48 |
| 57.34 | 56.69 |
Huske’s previous best time, which she swam in November at U.S. Open Richmond, was 57.36. At the time, she was .02 off Regan Smith’s 17-18 record of 57.34 from 2020 Pro Swim Series Des Moines. Huske’s first foray into sub-57 territory took a huge .65 bite out the previous mark.
Huske moved past Swedes Louise Hansson and Sarah Sjostrom to the #4 spot in the world for the current LCM season, behind only Zhang Yufei, Curzan, and Emma McKeon.
2020-2021 LCM Women 100 Fly
MacNeil
55.59
| 2 | Zhang Yufei | CHN | 55.62 | 09/29 |
| 3 | Torri Huske | USA | 55.66 | 06/14 |
| 4 | Emma McKeon | AUS | 55.72 | 07/25 |
| 5 | Marie Wattel | FRA | 56.16 | 07/24 |
With two months left before U.S. Olympic Trials, Curzan and Huske rank #1 and #2 on the prospective list for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team in the 100 fly.
ALL-TIME TOP U.S. PERFORMERS
- Dana Vollmer, PC CAL: 55.98 – 2012 Olympic Games 7/27/2012 London
- Claire Curzan, NC TAC: 56.20 – 2021 TAC Titans Invitational 4/10/2021
- Kelsi Dahlia (Worrell), KY UN: 56.37 – 2017 World Championships 7/22/2017 Budapest
- Torri Huske, PV AAC: 56.59 – 2021 TAC Titans Invitational 4/10/2021
- Christine Magnuson, US TENN: 57.08 – 2008 Olympic Games 8/8/2008 Beijing
Today Huske could be under 2:10 in 200 IM.
If she really wasn’t tapered as someone said, it’s hard to bet against Curzan and Huske going 1-2 at Trials with both going under 56 mid. Crazy to think a few months ago, we considered this race a race for 2nd behind Dahlia. Dahlia will need an unlikely best case scenario to make the team now. Walsh, Smith and Douglass could surprise as well – all three look capable of a 56. How many 56s will we see?
Douglass a 57.4 last November. Certainly capable of a 56.x.
Don’t forget, Huske had a tough 100 free-200 fly double the day before, too.
She’s young, they recover quickly.
And completely unrested and tapered.
Holy 💩! Very likely the two that will make the team in this event. Curzan is only .22 off vollmers AR (and WR at the time)
Sjostrom has the WR at something like 55.4
What is huske ranked all time worldwide
I think tied for 15th with Veldhius from the Netherlands.
Kelsi may want to pick up a new hobby….
At this rate she will have to be best time to make the team
and even then probably not make the team
Or pull a Madi Wilson and drop the stroke to concentrate on getting onto the free relays.
Bye Dahlia!
Welcome the new kids on the block,
Could she be even faster at Trials on the back half with a full taper? This 100 fly is going to be bonkers