COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Short-course yards national titles will be on the line in Atlanta this week at USA Swimming’s 2016 AT&T Winter National Championships, slated to open Wednesday at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center.
Highlighting the 400-plus swimmers expected to compete are five members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team, who will return to the site of their final training camp ahead of last summer’s Olympic Games:
· Kevin Cordes (Naperville, Ill./Fox Valley Swim Team)
· Caeleb Dressel (Green Cove Springs, Fla./University of Florida)
· Melanie Margalis (Clearwater, Fla./St. Petersburg Aquatics)
· Tom Shields (Huntington Beach, Calif./California Aquatics)
· Amanda Weir (Lawrenceville, Ga./SwimAtlanta)
Dressel, Margalis, Shields and Weir all earned medals in Rio. Weir, an Atlanta-area native, is a three-time Olympian, while Margalis competed collegiately at the University of Georgia.
The meet opens Wednesday with a relay-only session at 6 p.m. ET, followed by daily prelims and finals Thursday through Saturday. Prelims will begin at 9 a.m. daily, followed by finals at 5 p.m. Saturday finals will begin at 4:50 p.m. Tickets will be available for sale onsite beginning Tuesday at 1 p.m. Ticket questions may be directed to 404-385-7529.
NBC Sports will provide extensive television coverage from Atlanta with five broadcasts slated for later this week:
Day, Time
Thursday, 7-8:30 p.m. ET NBCSN Same day delay
Friday, 5-7:30 p.m. ET Universal HD Live
Saturday, Midnight-2:30 a.m. ET NBCSN Replay of Universal HD broadcast
Saturday, 5:30-7 p.m. ET NBCSN Live
Sunday, 5-6 p.m. ET NBC Full event recap
In addition, a live webcast of the entire meet will be available online at usaswimming.org.
Locally, Weir will lead a group from SwimAtlanta into the meet, while Dynamo Swim Club and Georgia Tech will also have athletes slated to swim this week. On the collegiate front, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota and North Carolina will have sizable contingents in Atlanta.
Complete entries for the meet can be found online at usaswimming.org.
About USA Swimming
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Watch our for Delaware’s Cory Camp. I heard he went 4:28 in the 5 from a push last week in practice. Should see a big drop.
David heron with that 9:02.12 1650 seed time watch out guys
Cordes earned a medal swimming in the prelims for the medley relay.
Dressel in record mode? He will have no competition in the 50 and 100 free. Clear water, no pressure, great shape, fast pool. Everything looks good for very fast swims from his part.
Can’t wait to watch that live. With finals at 11 PM for me. Not late.
In the U.S., the college season is far more important than this meet, which is why hardly any of the top college swimmers (and Olympians) are attending. He’ll be gearing for NCAAs, training through this, and probably won’t be much faster (which was plenty fast) than he was a few weeks ago.
Can’t wait for some fast swims across the board!
I may be mistaken, but I am pretty sure they will be swimming across a pool……
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