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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – For the United States’ top swimmers, including decorated Olympic champions Nathan Adrian (Bremerton, Wash./California Aquatics), Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md./Nation’s Capital Swim Club/Alto Swim Club) and Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas/Alto Swim Club/First Colony Swim Team), the road to the 2020 Olympic Games begins later this month at USA Swimming’s Winter National Championships, set for Nov. 28-Dec. 1 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.
Fellow individual Olympic medalists also expected to swim in Greensboro include the likes of Chase Kalisz (Bel Air, Md./Athens Bulldog Swim Club), Cody Miller (Las Vegas, Nev./Sandpipers of Nevada) and Dana Vollmer (Granbury, Texas/California Aquatics). Tickets for the world-class event, which also will feature area collegiate and age-group standouts, are on sale now via ticketmaster.com.
Winter Nationals marks the opening of the qualification period for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, the sole qualifier for American swimmers for the pool competition at the Olympic Games. Following timed finals of the 800-meter freestyle on Nov. 28, the next three days of long-course competition feature morning prelims at 9 a.m. ET and finals at 5 p.m. ET. 2020 Olympic Trials time standards can be found online here.
NBC Sports and USA Swimming will feature daily coverage from Greensboro, including live finals broadcasts on the Olympic Channel on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30. A live stream of daily prelims and Dec. 1 finals will air on usaswimming.org. Following a taped Dec. 2 broadcast on NBC Sports Network, a one-hour package from Winter Nationals will air on NBC on Dec. 16 at 3 p.m. ET.
At a Senior Nationals there should be a lot of swimmers who make their cuts in the prelims, while not making it to the finals.
Seems so far out from Olympic Trials to switch winter nationals to LC. Pretty much eliminates college swimmers who would not want to waste a taper on LC this season. I guess though there are a lot of mid season invitationals, Texas has theirs that same weekend, so college swimmers would be in limited attendance anyway.
I believe this is the first opportunity for swimmers to earn their trials cuts, which is why they made it long course
Certainly, USASwimming made this the first meet for trails cuts, it’s their meet. Why not wait till late spring or even Nationals this summer. How many are going to get cuts here that won’t have many more meets thru early summer of 2020? But like I said not sure how many college swimmers would have gone anyway.
Some college invitationals have Sunday as a long course meet to qualify for trials. But I believe that is usually one year out.
I just kind of skimmed the article, so don’t roast me, but will be Meet be long course for prelims and finals or just finals
Long course for both. Timed finals for 800 and 1500, otherwise prelim/finals with A, B and C finals
You raise an interesting issue. Have never heard of switching lengths (SC to LC or vice versa) between prelims & finals, has anyone else? That would be interesting or even kinda strange.
@coachmike they do that for some meets in florida like nasa champs and NCSA..
Thanks, was not aware. Much appreciated.
NCSA Jr. Nationals does this in the two years before Olympic years so swimmers can get their Trials cuts at night
They aren’t doing it this year though, just next.
Thank you.
It actually becomes quite common as Olympic Trials becomes closer and closer. I know many of the Sectionals meets around the country follow this format.
Agree with you all. There is an additional nuance as well until recently in Virginia and North Carolina that we have been very limited with 50 Meter Pool Venues historically and the elites were traveling far to get in the big water. Training in the Long Course dimension used to be virtually non-existent. Virginia Swimming used to be so limited that we were having our LSC State Championships in Cary, North Carolina!
However, swimming has had somewhat of a renaissance in the region in the last 15 years with the construction of:
– University of Maryland Aquatic Center
– George Mason University- Fairfax and Manassass Aquatic Centers, yes, x2
– Quantico – QDD Swim Club
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And the Jeff Rouse facility in Stafford, too.
Yes… they have done that at national level meets in Canada and even the university champs this year will be like that.
I think it’s just goofy
They do this at our local championship meets in the spring.
That is the chance for Katie Ledecky to get back #1 position in 200. Hope this is the reason for her to compete in this meet.
Guessing Franklin isn’t training seriously anymore and not going to any meets in 2019. Does she think she has a shot for 2020 still??
She hasn’t made any “announcements” so she’s may be still swimming.
She has a sports management team that handles her, so you’ll hear about it if she retires.
Not with the talent coming up. It’s been 5 years since she was a serious contender. Time to let it go
She was on podium in Kazan three years ago. She was 1:55 in 200 free at OT two years ago. I agree it is not enough now when high school girls swim 1:54 but it is still a respected time.
When I saw Ye Shiwen earning some money at World Cup I though about Missy Franklin. Both girls being 16 and 17 years old respectively made phenomenal world records in London and then couldn’t make finals in Rio. But Shiwen is still earning some money by swimming and Missy looks like has chosen other way of making living.
I agree with you both. I think it’s time for her to let it go, according to her social media she’s always traveling/with her fiancé and with family.
She is done….you won’t see her racing anymore.
Well she bought a house in Athens, Georgia…sounds committed.