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 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.
I think Cody did an amazing job!
his funny face says it all 😃
The notion that this was “in front of a home crowd” is sort of funny.
On paper, it seems funny, and at the start of the season, I rolled my eyes as hard as you are about “home crowds” and the geographic designations for teams that had little-to-no connection to the athletes or teams.
But…I’ll be damned if it didn’t matter to the fans. In DC, the Trident got easily the biggest cheers, even as the 3rd-place team. Same for Aqua in Italy, Iron in Budapest, and I suspect the same for London this weekend.
So, if we buy that “being cheered for” gives you extra energy as an athlete…there seems to be at least some basis for it!
Good to know. Whoever thought up this whole concept knew what they were doing!
Root root for the home team
As someone from the DC area we have an enormous swim culture, and I saw many people on social media from back home at the meet. I’m betting you that almost all of them were there to see the Trident, which is why it was a terrible move to host meets in Indy and Texas a thousand miles away from any of the teams’ home cities
Honestly I really respect him for pulling this off. Skipping out on your best event to swim something you know you’re going to get destroyed in just to help your team is pretty commendable
The thumbnail… guy is literally a walking meme
The penalty for not hitting the time is minus 1…what’s penalty for leaving lane empty or false start?
-4 for a DNS. False start would be -2 just like a DQ.
Less kiddy videos & tactics, more legal breastroke.
24.0 is actually a pretty respectable time!