2017 U.S. NATIONALS & WORLD TRIALS
- June 27 – July 1, 2017
- Indianapolis, IN
- IU Natatorium (on IUPUI campus)
- LCM
- World Championship Selection Criteria
- 2017 U.S. Nationals Psych Sheet
The psych sheet for next week’s 2017 U.S. National Championships and World Championship Trials just dropped this morning, and Katie Ledecky is set to swim the 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1500 freestyles.
Despite speculation that she may choose to swim the 400 IM (she held the SCY American record for a month this winter), Ledecky’s schedule sticks to her assertion that that the 400 IM is an event that she swims “mostly for training purposes.”
Ledecky has the 400, 800, and 1500 wins all-but-locked-down. Meanwhile, she is the swimmer to beat in the 200 free, coming off an incredible tie for first with Mallory Comerford at NCAAs this spring. She will fight for a relay spot against a packed field in the 100 free, including Stanford all-star teammates Simone Manuel and Lia Neal, sprint Olympians Abbey Weitzeil and Amanda Weir, and world-class up-and-comer Comerford.
Below, you can see Ledecky’s schedule and seed times for the upcoming week:
Day 1 – Tuesday, June 27
100 Freestyle – 6th seed, 53.99
800 Freestyle- 1st seed, 8:04.79 (WR)
Day 2 – Wednesday, June 28
200 Freestyle – 1st seed, 1:53.73
Day 3 – Thursday, June 29
No events.
Day 4- Friday, June 30
400 Freestyle – 1st, 3:56.46 (WR)
Day 5 – Saturday, July 1
Women’s 1500 Freestyle – 15:35.65 (seeds are scrambled here; some swimmers are entered with their 800 times)
Prelims only swim on day 1 for the 100. 800 finals. 200/400 prelims and finals with an off day between. No 1500 since she qualifies by winning 800. She’s in and out of town barely breaking a sweat. Basically an easy week of training.
needs to be tapered to make to 6 in the 100 free
Doesn’t need to be top 6. Just needs to be competitive and coaches can use her at Worlds. Of course honestly it’s a moot point, 400 free at Worlds is right before 4×100 finals. Probably wont even swim relay.
Doubt that’ll be a problem. Thorpe use to do the 400 before the 400 free relay and he was 6’5 230. I think he even ran down Gary hall jr in 2000. she’s significantly smaller than he is and should to be able to recover quicker
idk. she looks pretty yolked lately
Yolked???
Old body builder term from when they downed raw eggs 6 at a time . Having tasted a 21st C fat free peanut butter powder I think the raw eggs sounds good .
whats that ?
Means to have absolutely massive muscles
Yolked? I bet she’s 165, relatively small
165….? No way a 6′ woman her size is that light
I stand corrected. Google says she is 154…. pretty hard to believe, but I guess she isn’t that yolked after all
How would google know?
I think the term you’re looking for is “yoked” –slang for “well-built”; after oxen yoked together to pull a heavy load