2017 Southern Zone Sectionals – Austin
- July 6th-9th, 2017
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The 2017 Southern Zone Sectionals meet at Texas’ Lee & Joe Jamail Swim Center on the University of Texas campus won’t carry the same prestige as it sometimes does because of its proximity to the USA Swimming World Championship Trials, but there’s still plenty of talent in the Lone Star state to give the event some excitement.
That talent comes in many forms: local youth talent, who may or may not have made the trip to Trials or may be saving their tapers for Junior Nationals or the U.S. Open instead; American college swimmers from two of the best NCAA programs in the country the Texas men and Texas A&M women; and international swimmers from those same programs.
That last category includes Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling, who knocked off Michael Phelps in the 100 fly in Rio. Schooling hasn’t shown much this summer, but coming off the NCAA Championship meet, he’s had little motivation to do anything but train and wait for the World Championships at the end of July – he has no trials meet to worry about.
Schooling is scheduled to swim just the 100 free and 100 fly, perhaps hinting at a pared-down schedule for those World Championships. He’s the top seed in both races.
His female foil is Texas A&M swimmer Beryl Gastaldello, who is one of the fastest short course butterfliers in history. She’ll be a member of France’s delegation for the World Championships. She’s entered in the 100 back, 200 back, 100 free, and 100 fly at this weekend’s meet.
Other swimmers with name recognition at the meet include Tate Jackson, Tripp Cooper, Jonathan Roberts, and Brett Ringgold from the NCAA Champion Texas men’s team, Mexican National Teamers Ester Gonzalez and Mauro Castillo Luna from Texas A&M, and Princeton commit Regan Barney.
48.74 100 free
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If Schooling wants 2golds, watch out maybe he wants 100m free gold? :))))
Maybe in the Singapore games.
the extreme Schooling hate on this site continues.
We’ve seen it all before……..last year Chad was the whipping boy. It has something to do with beating the GOAT, and then not apologising for it.
Yes. That was what happened to poor Paul Biedermann and Chad Le Clos.
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According to straits times, Joe said that he is gunning for 2 golds. I am surprised he said that he is confident in 50 fly. Let’s see.
Maybe he can surprise us but we’ll see. I think the 50 fly is a tad unrealistic right now but if he says he can do it, I guess he can?
He won’t maybe a bronze
All medals on 50 fly will be below 22,9 maybe even below 22,8
The 100 fly is a tad unrealistic too.
Oh it’s unrealistic to win an event which you won at the Olympics and one where you own the fastest swim in textile?
Yeah, in the year you took a third of it off from training and got your butt kicked at NCAAs.
Agreed. He’s shown nothing since Rio, has trained much less, and now how the bull’s eye on his back.
To win the 50fly you should go somewhere close to the WR, if not faster than.
Yup since he said he can, maybe he can do it. He is a talented swimmer. And i can see anti-jo person coming in to comment. maybe u r at a wrong page?
I believe Joe has at least a sub 50 in him for the 100 free and 51 low for the 100 fly in this meet
Maybe at Worlds.
Are you Bigly? lol.
I was thinking the same thing! Haha
Nope. Just another guy with a rational point of view and not a man-crush on the one-hit wonder.
How exactly is Schooling a “one-hit wonder”? He was an elite recruit coming out of the same Bolles program as Murphy and Dressel, and has won multiple individual/team NCAA titles (sharing Swimmer of the Meet honors with his former HS teammates). At the international level, he’s already earned a bronze at Worlds in ’15 and followed that up with a gold in Rio last summer. All of this at the ripe “old” age of 22.
Dressel is a fantastic swimmer and the 100 m fly at Worlds could be a great race. Swim fans should be excited about the next big rivalry in the 100 fly rather than resorting to the type of ridiculous statements such as the one above.
If Schooling is one-hit then Dressel is zero-hit.
48.74 in the free. Not bad.
Wouldn’t be the worst idea to skip the 200 fly at worlds.
He doesn’t have a 1:53 in him…yet
We don’t know what he has in him, but come Worlds we dhall find out
Ever.
He doesn’t have a 1:55 in him any more. Like you said, he’s Cavic all over again.
Except Schooling doesn’t have Cavic’s 50 fly game. Just the 100.
True. Just the 100 fly. Maybe a top 4 finish at Worlds.
He did a 1.56 untapered in May, wouldn’t he be able to go faster when tapered
Untapered. That’s funny. He was 6 weeks out from NCAAs and obviously was tapered for that 1:56. Kalisz was even still swimming fast at that meet, and he was training distance. (He beat Schooling, BTW). That was off Schooling’s best time from Kazan by 0.4 sec. Untapered was the 2:00 stinkeroo he put up last month. So, he’s never done a 1:55, and never will.
He’s never done a 1:55. There’s no “any more.”
I’m guessing there will be zero taper for this meet, more of just getting in a few races before WC. I think he’ll go a 52 low 100 fly and 49 100 free.
He went a 51 high 100 fly at the Texas Senior Circuit untapered and according to the New Paper in Singapore he’s into his second week of taper so I think it’d be safe to say a 51 low or mid in the 100 fly