SwimSwam caught up with Joseph Schooling at the 2017 Austin Sectionals. He dropped a 50.9 100m fly at the meet, the 2nd fastest time this year, but, according to Joe, he swam a 50.7 100m fly in practice the day after Dressel’s 50.8 at the U.S. World Trials. It makes sense. Joe’s dropped a lot of fast swims in practice (see Texas Relays), and he’s a competitive monster. Dressel, his old Bolles School teammate, is swimming in the fly -lane. Joe had to test his speed and send a message. Watch the entire interview. Joe talks about where he’s at in the taper-process and what he’s thinking going into World Championships ranked #2–not #1 in his beloved event.
Reported by Braden Keith
Joseph Schooling swam a 50.96 in the 100 fly on Saturday in his home pool in Austin. With 3 weeks to go before he represents Singapore at the World Championships, the swim can serve of a response of sorts (be it intentional or not) to his rival Caeleb Dressel, who swam a world-leading 50.87 at the United States’ World Championship Trials a week ago.
2016-2017 LCM Men 100 Fly
DRESSELL
49.86
| 2 | Kristof MILAK | HUN | 50.62*WJR | 07/29 |
| 3 | James GUY | GBR | 50.67 | 07/28 |
| 4 | Joseph Schooling | SIN | 50.78 | 07/28 |
| 5 | Laszlo CSEH | HUN | 50.92 | 07/29 |
That time is the 3rd-best of Schooling’s career, and easily his best outside of a World Championship or Olympic Games. His previous in-season best was a 51.58 – done in early June last year in the buildup to the Olympics, where he dethroned Michael Phelps and won gold in the race.
Schooling took the race out in 23.7 and closed in 27.20. That means he split fairly similarly to what Dressel did last week, but opened a little faster. Ironically, Dressel, who is more known as a sprinter than is Schooling, had the better last 50.
| First 50m | Second 50m | Final Time | ||
| Schooling | Sectionals | 23.76 | 27.20 | 50.96 |
| Dressel | Trials | 23.87 | 27.00 | 50.87 |
Schooling and Dressel both hail from the Bolles program in Jacksonville, Florida, though Schooling attended the school and Dressel didn’t, so they were in different training groups. Both swimmers held the National High School Record in the 100 fly at different points in their parallel careers, though Dressel was more renowned for his 50 freestyle abilities. At the 2017 NCAA Championships, Dressel beat Schooling in his signature event, the 100 fly, and now the two will go toe-to-toe full bore in long course.
If only yall would know how overused this joke would be literally 3 years later.
So excited for worlds! Can’t wait to see schooling and dreasell race each other. Their friendly rivalry makes this sport so much better
89 comments in and and not a single link to the Alan Iverson “we talkin’ about practice” video?
Hey guys, this morning in practice I went a 50.68 for a 100 fly LCM.
See, anyone can do it.
I have a fun suggestion for SwimSwam related to the “no video, no proof” debate going on here that I am sure many die hard swim fans would enjoy. Consider making a section of the site dedicated to “Practice World Records”. A video must be included with any submission and could also feature non-standard events (ex. 800im, 100 kick w/ board, 500 back, etc.) in addition to the normal ones. I am sure the Texas guys would buy into it and it would be fun to see some out of competition throw-downs across the country/world. Maybe have some starting time standards that a swim must be under to be considered and then have an internal verification of 3 watches with… Read more »
I like this idea….let me see what we can do.
But what about Tripp Cooper???
You heard it here first. Schooling will go 50.5 in Budapest
Dressel 50.2
Chad le Clos 50.1
In warm-up? With a drag suit on? When no one else was watching or looking?
I could see him winning in Budapest is he works on his 2nd 50. He’ll need to be back under 27 if he wants to be able to take a Charging Dressel on the last 25
Why do people keep forgetting this is the person that went 23.6 26.7 in Rio
Yes, everyone seems to forget he is the one with the fastest back 50 in rio.?