2019 Art Adamson Invite
- Thursday, November 21 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
- Texas A&M Natatorium, College Station, Texas
- Prelims 10 AM / Finals 6 PM (U.S. Central Time)
- Prelims Long Course Meters (LCM) format
- Finals Short Course Yards (SCY) format
- Live results
Texas A&M sophomore star Shaine Casas crushed a career-best 1:58.54 in the 200 long course meter IM this morning. That would have ranked 6th among American men last season.
The Art Adamson Invite at Texas A&M is adjusting its format this year, featuring long course meters for morning prelims and short course yards for finals at night. That allows athletes to go after Olympic Trials cuts in prelims and NCAA qualifying times at night.
Last summer, Casas took his long course 200 IM best time from 2:03.0 to 1:58.8, ranking 6th among American men. This morning, he chopped another three tenths off that, going 1:58.54 to lead prelims of the Art Adamson meet by almost five seconds.
The big swim from Casas should set up for some more excitement later in the meet. Casas had a breaout freshman year at A&M in both long course and short course. He’ll get a shot at a nation-leading time in the short course yard IM tonight. Prior to this weekend’s invites, Indiana’s Mohamed Samy led the national ranks at 1:44.9, but Casas’ career-best is 1:42.2, and his new lifetime-best in long course converts to much faster than that – our Swimulator converter roughly translates it to 1:40.9.
Other big swims from day 1 prelims:
- Fellow Aggie sophomore Caroline Theil also had a huge career-best to lead the 200 IM. The 20-year-old went from 2:17.34 to 2:14.39. She was already under the U.S. Olympic Trial cut from an October swim, but just barely. Now, she’s three seconds under the cut, and should rank 4th among American women this season.
- International Swimming League star Beryl Gastaldello is competing in College Station this week. The French national is an A&M alum and still trains out of Texas A&M. She went 24.91 to lead the 50 free, which should be a new career-best for her.
- USC’s Nikola Miljenic leads the 50 free in 22.44. That’s a lifetime-best for the Croatian, and he could be in line to challenge his short course best of 19.3 in tonight’s final.
- Stanford paced both 400 frees. Katie Drabot was 4:11.43 as Stanford went 1-2-3-4 this morning.
- For the Stanford men, senior Grant Shoults went 3:51.48 to lead the men’s event. That’s a nice swim for Shoults, who is returning from shoulder injuries that cost him his college season last year. His 3:51 is his best swim in this event since 2018 Pan Pacs, when he went 3:48. Shoults was 3:52 at Worlds last summer and 3:57 at U.S. Nationals.
Forgot about Carson Foster. So actually hoping Chase gets 6th at trials behind Lochte’s first or second place and any order from Casas, Andrew, Foster, or Seli.
yep
My 2020 men’s 200 im pick em is going to be messed up. Right now I’m picking chase kalisz and Carson foster 1 and 2.
Good prelims swim. Historically, he makes most of his big drops at night. Curious what his 200 IM will look like in 7 months.
1:40.1… Guess I was right.
he will be fast & in contention for a spot , thats clear to me since nationals
Where is Carson Foster with his time from the Pro Swim Series?
Since 1/1/2019 his 1:58.93 would put him 24th, behind his own 1:58.4 from world juniors.
Since 9/1/2019 (kind of arbitrary) he is third behind Desplanches and Casas
Well for this entire year, he’s a little further behind. I was more commenting on this season which I believe SwimSwam has technically started a ‘new’ long course season since the championship meets over the summer.
Omaha will be very interesting to watch
I’m conflicted because I want Lochte to get the 2nd spot behind Kalisz next summer at trials, but at the same time, it’d be awesome for a new star like Casas to make it
Hoping Lochte and either Casas, Andrew, or Seli for the second spot. Chase getting 5th behind them would be lit. He be washed up and is now considered inconsistent. We want someone red hot representing.
You realize Chase still finished 3rd in the 2 Im at worlds last summer dispite the bad 400 im
You realize worlds was slow and Chase getting 3rd does not disprove his inconsistency?
Ok, but his time at that slow Worlds (1:56.7) is still faster than any of those other guys have ever been, aside from Lochte obviously.
Once again, one solid swim for him (his best in the last year i might add) does not disprove his inconsistency…..
Prediction- Kalisz will either decide to taper for Trials and drop a 1:55-low to take that first spot, or focus “long-game” on Tokyo and miss a 2IM berth entirely.
Either lochte is first or 4th no such thing as 2nd
#2 time this FISCAL year 😉
Multiple people faster than Samy in the 200 IM at Missouri last night
Great swim by Shoults