2019 ST TXLA SPEEDO SOUTHERN SECTIONALS
- July 11-14th
- Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center, Austin, TX
- Hosted by Longhorn Aquatics
- Long Course Meters
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
The 2nd day of racing in Austin featured the 200 breast, 200 free, and 400 IM. The highlight of the day was WIll Licon’s monster 2:08.88 200 breast, which broke Eric Shanteau‘s pool record. Madisyn Cox won the women’s 200 breast, roaring to a 2:26.36. The time was a season best for Cox, and her fastest time since 2017, when she went her lifetime best of 2:25.62.
16-year-old Rylie Lopez of Austin Swim Club won the women’s 200 free, clocking a 2:01.66. The time was a big drop for Lopez, whose personal best coming into this weekend was 2:03.65. Drew Kibler had another big swim on night 2 of the meet. Kibler threw down a 1:47.16 to win the men’s 200 free, beating out runner-up Maxime Rooney by 2.05 seconds. Kibler’s time was a personal best for him, half a second faster than his previous best of 1:47.65 from 2018 Jr Pan Pacs. Kibler and Rooney were neck-and-neck at the 150 mark, 1:19.75 and 1:19.91 respectively. Kibler kept up the pace, splitting 27.41 coming home, while Rooney faded, coming home in 29.30.
Aggie Monika Gonzlaez won the women’s 400 IM, swimming a 4:49.60 to be the only swimmer in the field under 4:50. Benjamin Walker won the men’s IM, clocking a 4:26.24.
TEAM SCORES (THROUGH DAY 2)
MEN
1. Longhorn Aquatics 281 2. Aggie Swim Club 161 3. Unattached South Texas 136 4. Austin Swim Club 114 5. Crawfish Aquatics 82 6. Nitro Swimming 68.5 7. Lakeside Aquatic Club 53 8. North Texas Nadadores 48 9. Rockwall Aquatic Center of Exc 46.5 10. Houston Bridge Bats 42 11. Streamline Aquatics 41 12. Alamo Area Aquatic Association 37 13. City of Richardson Swim Team 35 14. Swim Streamline at Northampton 29 15. Texas Christian University 25 16. Waterloo Swimming 23 16. Premier Aquatics Club of Klein 23 18. Unattached Florida 17 18. Texas Ford Aquatics 17 20. Nations Capital 16 20. Mansfield Aquatic Club 16 22. South Shore Sails 15 23. Spring Swim Team 13 24. Eagle Swimming Association 12 25. Dallas Mustangs 11 26. Aquastar 6 27. Dads Club Swim Team 5 28. Magnolia Aquatic Club 4 28. Navy Swimming 4 30. Unattached North Texas 3
WOMEN
1. Aggie Swim Club 313 2. Longhorn Aquatics 191.5 3. Austin Swim Club 124 4. Lakeside Aquatic Club 111.5 5. Rockwall Aquatic Center of Exc 108 6. Magnolia Aquatic Club 71 7. Nitro Swimming 69 8. Unattached Gulf 65 9. Mansfield Aquatic Club 56 10. Unattached South Texas 32 11. Texas Ford Aquatics 31 12. Tulane Aquatics 30 12. Rice Aquatics 30 14. Tiger Aquatics 20 15. Dallas Mustangs 18 15. Crawfish Aquatics 18 15. Swim Streamline at Northampton 18 18. Austin Trinity Aquatic Club 13 19. YMCA of NW LA - Red River Aqua 12 20. Dads Club Swim Team 11 21. Lakeside Swim Team 9 21. Southern Methodist University 9 23. Western Hills Athletic Club 6 24. Hays Swim Club 5 25. City of Richardson Swim Team 4 25. Alamo Area Aquatic Association 4 25. Aquastar 4 28. Power For Life 3 28. Streamline Aquatics 3 28. Unattached North Texas 3 31. Texas Christian University 2 32. Lost Creek Aquatics 1
Kibler just went 3.52.75 in the 400.
Hook em!
Trials is going to be very fast. It’s going to come down to the swimmer who produces the fastest aggregate 50 splits and then proceeds to put their hand on the wall ahead of the competition
Well put.
if they can beat everyone else then they”ll win the race
The winner will probably be the fastest swimmer that night.
Profound comments
The swimmer with the fastest time usually wins the race.
Men’s 200 free at trials is going to be deep. Prelims is going to be very fast.
US could field 3 squads that make the Olympic final but still not win it.
It took a 1:48.6 to make semis in 2016. There’s already been 25 US swimmers under 1:48 since then. It’s gonna be nuts.
Wow, might be looking at sub 1:48 to make top 16, and 1:47.low to final maybe…
Agreed. The distance and IM guys who are thinking about adding the 200 free for a chance at a relay spot may have to rethink their approach. There’s going to be at least 12 guys under 148 in prelims and it will likely take 147 low to make top 8 if not faster. Good luck rest of the world in the 800 free relay.
As I noted in Tier 2, the problem for the US is not a lack of #3-4 quality swimmers, it’s finding that #2 between townley’s 143-144 and everyone else’s 145 mid to highs.
We will see how they have progressed very soon.
Texas swimmers swim fast in Texas
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And it wasn’t a hand timed practice swim.
Kibler has entered the 2020 200-free discussion
For a relay
Honestly I don’t think anyone is guaranteed one of those two individual spots. It could come down to who gets their hand on the wall first
It always does…
We will certainly have a clearer picture after everyone has their tapered swims this summer. But if you work off the assumption that Haas is a near lock for one of the spots since his lifetime best is a full half second faster than anyone else not named Conor Dwyer, who is the second American? There’s a whole mess of guys with times in the 1:45.5 to 1:47 range. I wouldn’t count any one of them out.
I wouldn’t even assume Haas is one of the top 2. This event is wide open
As far as a guaranteed spot goes, I’m always a little worried that the presumed top 2 individuals (say Haas and Seliskar for argument sake in 2Free) will not do a full taper for OT’s and a 2nd tier individual/s will fully taper and beat the ‘better’ swimmer and not be able to replicate the same time at the Games
I wouldn’t assume anyone is a lock if I were betting.
Speaking of betting….is there Vegas betting for OT’s?
I think that’s a risk for events where someone fancies a medal and misjudged it, but I would be surprised if anyone thought of trying that other than Townley (and he’s such a rest swimmer he’ll probably have to fully taper anyway).
*Drew Kibler has entered the chat*
that’s solid