2024 PRO SWIM SERIES – KNOXVILLE
- January 10-13, 2024
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- LCM (50 meters)
- Start Times
- All Prelims: 9am (EST)
- Thurs-Sat Finals: 6pm (EST)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
Jack Alexy asserted himself on the sprinting stage this summer, winning silver medals in the 50 and 100 free at the 2023 World Championships. Moving into the Olympic year, Alexy is trying to take confidence from his performances in Fukuoka while still staying hungry for more, knowing the Olympic Trials can be a pressure cooker to perform at.
Jack Alexy reminds me of Nathan Adrian.
If he wins 100 free in Paris, it would equal the upset Adrian caused in London.
2 1/2 years ago Alexy began a charge of young American male sprinters that is just now beginning to crest.
Alexy set the NAG 17-18 LCM 100 free record at the last OT(6-15-21) with the :48.69 you noted in the article. He did that time in prelims, making the semifinals where he finished 10th at :48.82.
Alexy’s current PBs are: flat start :47.31 and rolling start :47,00 (both Fukuoka).
Dressel was the previous record holder at :48.87 from 8-8-15, holding the mark for a hair less than 6 years. Alexy’s mark lasted just over 2 years before being surpassed at :48.47 (6-26-23) by Jonny Kulow of Lander, Wyoming, after his freshman year at Arizona State.
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Even though they are over 20 Destin and Matt King are very young as well great list
Even though I don’t like Phelps when will we get an young American swimmer who can win us gold medals at young age? I believe Phelps had 8? World champ medals by the age of 18. Meanwhile the international young men…. Are leading
Hate to be the one to break this to you but we’ll never get another Phelps in our lifetime
The next great Cal sprinter has arrived and he’s only gonna get a lot better.
Andrew punching the air rn. How dare a Cal swimmer do well!
Great interview, so poised & love the gratitude. Watching this also highlights that Jack, and so many swimmers, were bravely resilient throughout the Pandemic and all of its impediments to training for many swimmers globally.
What a focused, poised, and grounded gentleman! So nice to hear an interview where “like” is not ever third word. Best of luck Jack as your achieve your goals one step at a time!
Almost all untrained speakers use fillers when speaking extemporaneously—“like” has become the default; Jack’s filler is “you know”.
Looking forward to, you know, cheering him on this year! 🙂
Kate Douglass does this with “yeah I mean.” In every single one of her interviews she says it at least once. It’s like clockwork. Its so funny
He just substitutes “like” for “um” and “you know”
Thank you Benny Safdie
Here is the thing.. Dressel goes out as being USA top sprinter and then we have no one else? So a mid 48 will blow our minds. 47 high now wont even be close to medaling at a championship meet. Our relays are smoked too
We have Carson foster swimming in the A final of the 100 free? He is a 400 im and 500 free guy Common now
Damn Foster catching a stray. He’s still a top 4 200 freestyler in the country so it wouldn’t be too surprising for him to make an A final in the 100 at a Pro swim series. With your logic it would be even more concerning that Lily King made a 400 IM A final
In my experience as a pure sprinter, the distance guys were always semi-competitive in the 100 throughout the season until taper kicked in and then we left them in the dust.
I always noticed this too, they just had a ceiling of very slightly faster than the first 100 of their 200s
Exactly. Then our fast twitch kicked in on taper and theirs very much did not.
Alexy went 47.3 this summer… and 3 of the 4 guys who got a bronze medal on the relay were rookies. I’d say USA is fine
And that was before sub-20 year-olds like Kulow, Sammon, Williamson, Winkler, Branzell, and McFadden, among others, are even folded into the discussion.
Dude Santo is back in the states we’re gonna be fiiiiine 👌
Uh…the guy in the video medaled at worlds…
When is the last time the US was the clear favorite in the 4 x 100?
For men, I’d actually say just a year and a half ago. Going into 2022 Worlds, the team looked pretty dominant (having won in Tokyo, Gwangju, and Budapest in years prior), which they were, winning by nearly 1.5 seconds
Being the favorite and winning the gold are two different things. Which would you prefer?