2019 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE – AMERICAN DERBY
- Saturday, November 16 – Sunday, November 17, 2019
- 2:00-4:00 PM Local Time (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Eppley Recreation Center – College Park, MD
- Short Course Meters (SCM) format
- American franchises: Cali Condors, LA Current, DC Trident, New York Breakers
- Preview
- Live Stream (ESPN3)
- Full Day 1 Results
Reported by Nick Pecoraro/Jared Anderson.
MEN’S 100 FREE
1. Caeleb Dressel – CAC – 45.69
2. Kacper Majchrzak – CAC – 46.48
3. Michael Chadwick – LAC – 47.03
4. Tom Shields – LAC – 47.12
5. Zach Apple – DCT – 47.23
6. Markus Thormeyer – NYB – 47.32
7. Robert Howard – DCT – 47.82
8. Marcelo Chierighini – NYB – 47.95
Condors Caeleb Dressel and Kacper Majchrzak sealed the deal in the 100 free with a huge 1-2 finish, separating themselves from the rest of the field. Meahwhile, Michael Chadwick and Tom Shields secured a 3-4 finish for LA, keeping out DC and NY from the top 4.
A big run for the Cali Condors, with a 1-2 punch led by Dressel’s U.S. Open record. It’s also the fastest time in the ISL this season, breaking what was previously a tie with Kyle Chalmers. That event gives Cali a narrow lead over LA, though the Current went 3-4 with solid swims to keep things close. The Trident and Breakers struggled a little here, as the top two teams hogged the top four spots.
MEN’S 50 FLY
1. Caeleb Dressel – CAC – 22.21
2. Tom Shields – LAC – 22.72
3. Michael Andrew – NYB – 22.74
4. Jack Conger – LAC – 23.11
5. Giles Smith – DCT – 23.32
6. Jan Switkowski – CAC – 23.61
7. Ryan Coetzee – NYB – 23.62
8. Cody Miller – DCT – 24.09
Caeleb Dressel, who swapped in this event instead of the 200 IM, paid off as he won the 50 fly in American record-breaking fashion. Taking second place was LA’s Tom Shields, who held off Breaker Michael Andrew for the 7-point position.
Dressel goes 22.21 for the second-best time in the ISL this season. Iron’s Szabo was 22.20 in Budapest. It’s another key win for Dressel, and justifies Cali’s decision to leave him out of the 200 IM one event earlier. LA goes 2-4 for a solid finish. Tom Shields has been very reliable this year. DC had to enter breaststroker Cody Miller, and he was 8th, just barely missing the benchmark time.
On, a semi-side note here… yes you do Caeleb, yes you do (need to figure out SCM). Only because you need to demolish and destroy as many records as possible. There are some clowns out there saying Phelps is the best swimmer ever… yet I have never seen him swim a 17 50 free, or a a 50 point 100 breast… then there is the LCM game where you have him beat easily in the 50,100 and 100Fly. and if you tried could probably take his 2IM time down (even though I know the WR is Lochte’s)…You are a better swimmer than Phelps…. get this SCM game down and you can easily be the best ever without argument. But those… Read more »
Lol. Funny.
One day neither will hold records…
which means one day someone else will be the best ever. I measure by the clock, not medal count. If Mike Trout played ball back when Babe Ruth did, don’t tell me that Trout would not have been the better player. We have the advantage in our sport to have a real measure that is the same and has always been the same… last time I checked a second was the same now as it was 100 years ago. So I ask again… how many WR does Phelps hold? Or should I ask in how many events is he the fastest ever in?
This is an ignorant argument and you should be embarassed.
Yes but how many individual Olympic gold medals does he have? He’s not gonna win a fraction of the golds Phelps did given he had 9 golds by Dressel’s age. Dressel might win 3 next year but he’ll still be a long way behind.
3?!? are you high??? He will win 50, 100 free, 100 Fly, then with relays probably 5 more for 8 total next summer.
Individual golds … I even said as much. He can’t possibly be as great when so many more of his medals will be relays.
Is the ISL selling merch? I want some Cali Condor gear
Condors Merch:
https://www.swimoutlet.com/calicondors/
Thanks. Was ready to buy a sweatshirt but they are sold out in my size. They could do better with the hat.
What??!? No regular men’s tshirt? Just a cotton t-shirt not the tech or quick dry stuff? Only Youth and Womens for that… bring on the men’s version of a plain shirt please.
Not sure how I fell about when the guy who’s been breaking all the records says he’s gotta “figure it out”…
I mean, off course you wanna get better, everybody does, just don’t become a diva now…
The reason he breaks records is that he will never rest on his accomplishments, no race or prep will ever be perfect. His outlook on life will always ensure he’s both ahead of the competition and successful at everything he does. That’s why we say his name
I don’t disagree with you, my point wasn’t against that.
This guy is literally the fastest ever in scy and lcm in the free and fly. There is a long way to go for him to get his times down to comparable levels as his yards and lcm times.
Swimswam converter says his 39.90 100 free = 44.2 in SCM so he should theoretically have some room to drop from the 45.6
If he ever fully rests for a SCM meet he will hit the WR times.
What’s the podcasts name?
the ben and caeleb show
I don’t understand, didn’t these guys swim SCM in summer when they were younger, or is that only a thing in cold weather states?
Short course yards in the winter. LCM in the summer
he’s talking about summer league. In the DC area it’s all SCM.
Tough to have summer league when it’s summer year-round in Florida.
Yeah. I guess it’s only in cold weather states. In the several Midwest states I’ve lived all the summer pools built in the mid 90s and early 200s are SCM. Outdoor LCM pools are very old and usually replaced with SCM.
My age group swimming was in NC and TX 30 years ago, and we never swam SCM. Yards in the winter LCM in the summer.
I think he means like the neighborhood pool thing/league. That’s not really a big thing with elite swimmers where I am from, and my summer league had pools that were both scy and scm… .kids never really understood why they went so slow one week and faster the next… It was too hard to explain the difference in pools to the younger kids, and even more so to the parents sadly. They never understood why a meter was longer than a yard or that they were 2 different measurements. Kind of sad really.
Sorry. How did they not understand ?
Even Australians would understand and we don’t use yards for anything.
There is a video of Seliskar when he was a senior in HS (or thereabouts) doing an insane 100 IM in a summer league meet. He like never surfaced.
DQ?
He’s got it figured out better than the rest of us