USA Swimming has updated its 2020-2021 national events calendar, adding a second Pro Swim Series stop in November and announcing night prelims and morning finals for half of the Pro Swim Series.
2020-2021 Pro Swim Series – Irvine Addition
USA Swimming has announced a sixth stop on its 2020-2021 Pro Swim Series. Irvine, California will host the meet, which comes just one week after the series opener in Richmond. Here’s a look at the new, updated Pro Swim Series schedule for the 2020-2021 season:
- Nov 5-8, 2020: Pro Swim Series at Richmond (Richmond, VA)
- Nov 12-16, 2020: Pro Swim Series at Irvine (Irvine, CA)
- Jan. 13-16, 2021: Pro Swim Series at Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
- March 3-6, 2021: Pro Swim Series at San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)
- April 8-11, 2021: Pro Swim Series at Mission Viejo (Mission Viejo, CA)
- May 12-15, 2021: Pro Swim Series at Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN)
The two November meets happen on opposite ends of the country, which could allow athletes to limit travel distance during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Pro Swim Series – Morning Finals For Olympic Prep
The Pro Swim Series will officially flip-flop the traditional prelims/finals model at three of its six stops, holding heats in the evening and finals the following morning. USA Swimming says that decision is meant to mimic the schedule for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, giving top U.S. athletes experience in that format before the Olympics in the summer of 2021. The Olympics will also host evening heats and morning finals to align with television schedules.
Three of the six stops will feature the morning finals schedule:
Evening vs Morning Finals
- Richmond: morning finals
- Irvine: morning finals
- Knoxville: evening finals
- San Antonio: evening finals
- Mission Viejo: morning finals
- Indianapolis: evening finals
There’s no official schedule or start times yet. USA Swimming says those will be announced at a later date.
USA Swimming still notes that its event schedule “will be subject to local, state and federal health guidelines.”
You can see the full USA Swimming national events calendar here.
Confused, here we adding TYR pro swim competition at a state (CA) where most swimmers can’t even go to practice at this point! Than college coaches coming up with ideas to save the NCAA by moving into the spring season which will clearly impact long course practice for any trial or Olympic athletes. US Swimming and NCAA should sit on one table and make a strategy to safe this sport and look out what is best for athletes and teams! Full stop!
I think that there’s a strong possibility that they’re viewing these as time trials for national team types, and will view any other participation as a bonus.
It would be cool if the pro series returned to Minneapolis.
They will build a GF Memorial pool for AA only Ppl like Real Corn Pop can wear hair pommade & not have to suffer white lifeguards .threatening them with iron bars . The ubiquitous US Pool High Chair will have a Social Worker , entry & swim instruction will be free. I’m sure I could write a nice non threatening letter for major sponsorship .
It seems like California needs border controls including setting up internal zones. Go independent, let’s see if this vaunted 6th largest economy in the world can sustain itself .
No better time than now .
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Looks like we reopened too fast and faced the consequences (especially in some places). If we can learn the lesson this time around, take quarantining more seriously (if we have to again) and wait till cases drop even lower before reopening, things will get better. We just have to learn to be more patient and make wiser decisions. Because cases are on the rise again, we might have to do it all again. I have no idea how long it will take, but if we can fix this up quick enough it might just happen. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if everyone will realize this, so I don’t think the meet will happen. Note: everything is just my opinion.
“ to align with television schedules “. Lol. In one country only. Not in the host country or Europe or the rest of Australiasia.
“USA Swimming says that decision is meant to mimic the schedule for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, giving top U.S. athletes experience in that format before the Olympics in the summer of 2021”
Did you miss the sentence before that? Aligning with the event and television schedules of the Tokyo Olympics…..
The Olympics will host evening heats and morning finals, to align with television schedules………….. Did you miss that sentence ?
The state just went into another near total shutdown. I don’t see November having gatherings of 400+ people, even outside, being a thing
Odds this gets cancelled?
holding a swim meet just seems so unrealistic right now
At least it’s outdoors? I still think odds are good it will get cancelled.
Based on the news I see coming out of the US…low
Things need to clear up by Oct 1 for this to happen and then the state has be allowing gatherings up to 500 people. Kids are returning to school in the fall seems like a recipe for covid to still be spreading. I’d give it a 1/4 to 1/3 chance of happening so probably not gonna happen.