2017 ARENA PRO SWIM SERIES – SANTA CLARA
- Thursday, June 1st-Sunday, June 4th
- 50-Meter Course
- Prelims 9 am/Finals 5 pm (PST)
- Santa Clara, California
- Psych Sheet
- Live Stream
- Live Results
The 2017 Arena Pro Swim Series stop in Santa Clara is now in the books, as competition concluded on Sunday night at the George F. Haines Aquatic Center in Santa Clara, California. The 2nd night of competition brought one of the standout races of the meet: The men’s 100 fly final.
Several stars lined up to compete in the final, including U.S. Olympians Tom Shields, Jack Conger, and Caeleb Dressel. As usual, Cal’s Shields took the early lead, but Texas’ Conger was coming in hot just a nail behind him. Lurking just a few tenths back at the turn was Florida’s Dressel.
Shields faded a bit on the back half, while Conger and Dressel began to surge ahead. Dressel tried to run down Conger, putting up the fastest closing split of the field with a 27.17, but Conger did just enough to hold him off. At the finish, Conger touched 1st for gold in 52.24, while Dressel took 2nd in 52.29. Shields held on for a close 3rd in 52.58.
Check out the video below, courtesy of USA Swimming’s YouTube channel. For a full recap of Friday night’s events, click here.
Did anyone else notice how incredibly quiet it was during & after the race? Just thought it was a bit interesting for such a high level meet.
Maybe they will be in the finals of FINA Worlds but unsure if they can medal.
1. Eruption by VH for walkout music, +1,000,000 for that. 2. Is Shields sponsored by Nintendo, cause that would be sick. 3. Great race.
Those 2 are gonna do great things ……soon enough .
I’d argue they have already done great things…..given in SCY…..but their LCM accomplishments will come soon enough.
I meant in L Course of course …since the short course season is done . Its seems obvious to me …..
They do both have Olympic gold medals already 😛
yes true but no individual victories yet ….so there is space to improve up on ….
Dressel’s finish is incredible, looks like he has a lot left
He was out slow to be fair…
Anyone know why Caleb is having his tattoo removed?
Kristaps Porzingas told him to.
He’s not getting it removed. He is getting it colored in
exactly ,
You must be referring to the wrong tattoo. He used to have a massive eagle tattoo on his left shoulder with one wing coming onto his chest and one onto his back (plus a flag beneath it). That tattoo is definitely disappearing. He now how a very colorful gator on his forearm.
“For the past couple of months, however, he’s been slowly working on changing things up by removing part of the tattoo to add a Gator, an orange tree and orange blossoms to recognize and celebrate his life in the Sunshine state.
“I’ve lived in Florida my whole life, and I wanted to do something to honor my time as a Florida Gator as well as share the many memories I have of growing up with an orange tree in my backyard and how my brothers and sisters and I would have orange fights with them; those are great memories,” he said.
“The orange blossom is the state flower, so it completes the Florida state theme. I’m very proud to be… Read more »