SwimMAC Carolina’s Kathleen Baker has replaced Texas senior Sarah Denninghoff on the American roster for the 2013 Duel in the Pool.
The meet will take place on December 20th and 21st in Glasgow, Scotland, and will feature a lineup of the all-star Americans versus all-star Europeans.
Baker, like Denninghoff, is a very good backstroker; she’s been 52.52/1:54.30 in yards, plus 1:00.6 and 2:10.2 in long course. She should be very good in SCM, even though she’s never raced it officially.
The backstroke group should be a very good one for the Americans, even without the Cal girls. It includes Baker, Olivia Smoliga, perhaps Megan Romano, and Kendyl Stewart. They’ll need to be good, though, when they match up against Daryna Zevina, one of the world’s top SCM backstrokers, and the young Brit Lauren Quigley.
Denninghoff has not raced yet this year during the college season for the Texas Longhorns, but had a spectacular summer.
EUROPEAN ALLSTARS
| Roberto Pavoni (GBR) | Sophie Allen (GBR) |
| Craig McNally (GBR) | Jazmin Carlin (GBR) |
| Robbie Renwick (GBR) | Hannah Miley (GBR) |
| Michael Jamieson (GBR) | Lauren Quigley (GBR) |
| James Guy (GBR) | Francesca Halsall (GBR) |
| Andrew Willis (GBR) | Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED) |
| Chris Walker-Hebborn (GBR) | Daryna Zevina (UKR) |
| Florent Manaudou (FRA) | Lotte Friis (DEN) |
| Frederick Bousquet (FRA) | Melanie Costa (ESP) |
| Fabien Gilot (FRA) | Jeanette Ottesen-Gray (DEN) |
| Jeremy Stravius (FRA) | Camille Muffat (FRA) |
| Yannick Agnel (FRA) | Charlotte Bonnet (FRA) |
| Pal Joensen (FAR) | Femke Heemskerk (NED) |
| Yannick Lebherz (GER) | Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP) |
| Bence Biczo (HUN) | Michelle Coleman (SWE) |
| Konrad Czerniak (POL) | Fiona Doyle (IRL) |
| Radoslaw Kawecki (POL) | Simona Baumrtova (CZE) |
| Damir Dugonjic (SLO) | |
| Velimir Stjepanovic (SRB) |
USA TEAM
| Conor Dwyer | Katie Ledecky |
| Ryan Lochte | Shannon Vreeland |
| Kevin Cordes | Cammile Adams |
| Tom Luchsinger | Simone Manuel |
| Chase Kalisz | Jessica Hardy |
| Anthony Ervin | Caitlin Leverenz |
| Jimmy Feigen | Micah Lawrence |
| Michael McBroom | Claire Donahue |
| Matt McLean | Chloe Sutton |
| Eugene Godsoe | Megan Romano |
| Nic Fink | Kathleen Baker* |
| Shane Ryan | Sarah Henry |
| Cullen Jones | Meghan Hawthorne |
| Tyler Clary | Breeja Larson |
| Michael Klueh | Olivia Smoliga |
| Cody Miller | Gillian Ryan |
| Kendyl Stewart |
Woohoo go Kathleen!!!!
Romano is currently ranked 12th in the world (LCM) according to Fina which is ahead of Bootsma and only .10 behind Denninghoff….sounds like a backstroker to me.
Of course without the Cal girls, the women’s US backstroke is much weaker but there’s still Miss Smoliga, the reigning SCM 100 back world champion.
Miss Romano is a freestyler!
Miss Stewart is a butterflyer!
Great for Miss Baker to swim there!
It will be a great experience for the youngster.
Congrats to Kathleen Baker. Great experience for this young superstar. Hope all is ok with Sarah Denninghoff.
same!
Any offical word on her status???