Before Joe’s post race interview he was overwhelmed with requests for autographs and selfies. Austin Sectionals is a great meet, but not the most ideal setting to swim a world best time–and he was less than a tenth off of Dressel’s swim from U.S. World Trials. Off camera Joe seemed happy with his 50.9, but he was aware of his crowded surroundings. He said he’s looking forward to racing Dressel in a World Championship atmosphere. Joe’s into less than two weeks of rest, and he wants more.
Reported by Braden Keith
Joseph Schooling swam a 50.96 in the 100 fly on Saturday in his home pool in Austin. With 3 weeks to go before he represents Singapore at the World Championships, the swim can serve of a response of sorts (be it intentional or not) to his rival Caeleb Dressel, who swam a world-leading 50.87 at the United States’ World Championship Trials a week ago.
2016-2017 LCM Men 100 Fly
DRESSELL
49.86
| 2 | Kristof MILAK | HUN | 50.62*WJR | 07/29 |
| 3 | James GUY | GBR | 50.67 | 07/28 |
| 4 | Joseph Schooling | SIN | 50.78 | 07/28 |
| 5 | Laszlo CSEH | HUN | 50.92 | 07/29 |
That time is the 3rd-best of Schooling’s career, and easily his best outside of a World Championship or Olympic Games. His previous in-season best was a 51.58 – done in early June last year in the buildup to the Olympics, where he dethroned Michael Phelps and won gold in the race.
Schooling took the race out in 23.7 and closed in 27.20. That means he split fairly similarly to what Dressel did last week, but opened a little faster. Ironically, Dressel, who is more known as a sprinter than is Schooling, had the better last 50.
| First 50m | Second 50m | Final Time | ||
| Schooling | Sectionals | 23.76 | 27.20 | 50.96 |
| Dressel | Trials | 23.87 | 27.00 | 50.87 |
Schooling and Dressel both hail from the Bolles program in Jacksonville, Florida, though Schooling attended the school and Dressel didn’t, so they were in different training groups. Both swimmers held the National High School Record in the 100 fly at different points in their parallel careers, though Dressel was more renowned for his 50 freestyle abilities. At the 2017 NCAA Championships, Dressel beat Schooling in his signature event, the 100 fly, and now the two will go toe-to-toe full bore in long course.
Why is he like this, he went 50.3 once… like ur not a god you can’t act like going sub 50 isn’t something to be proud of. When you’re Michael phelps and you’ve done it year in and year out,then you can act complacent. He’s such a pretentious little fellow.
Sub 51*
A classic Texas like comment. The Texas swimmers are great at making these types of comments. Eddie has taught them well.
50.9 while swimming alone is objectively good. We can have the argument all day long about whether clear water or competition is the bigger advantage, but this is going to be a very good race, regardless. I’m expecting Le Clos to be in the mix, as well.
Lol *zooms closer into Schooling’s face throughout the entire video*
bet loosing to dresel in the 100 fly again is gonna feel real monotonous in two weeks oooooooh snaaaaaap
You know what else is monotonous? Joe Schooling constantly finding excuses after his races don’t meet the expectations he hyped up.
Especially when Conger, who just broke his NCAA record, is sitting right next to him in an interview. Classless.
Anyone else notice the guy walking backwards towards the end of the video?
Haha hea
Joe is so fast, he warps the time-space continuum.
Caeleb will win. He has this amazing ability to pull it out of nowhere when needed.
I don’t understand the downvotes. You’re right, watching the videos of Caeleb winning US Nats and NCAA’s, he can really dig in the last 10m and just accelerates away from the field there. He has a fantastic start, stroke, turns, and closing speed. Incredible.
You don’t understand the fanboy phenomenon. As a primer, you should review the Dean Farris saga at NCAAs.
Or ASU’s swim team.
Yes that is why he won every race he entered at Nathanael’s
Nathan Adrian: Excuse me?
Uberman, you have the best all time autocorrect. Thumbs up from me.