Reported by Lauren Neidigh.
2017 SMU WOMEN’S CLASSIC
- Friday, October 13 – Saturday, October 14
- Westside Aquatic Center
- Lewisville, Texas
- Meet Info
- Live Results
The 24th annual SMU Women’s Classic kicked off tonight in Lewisville, Texas. Several nation-leading swims came on night 1 of the 2-day event. One of those top times came from Louisville’s NCAA champion Mallory Comerford. In her signature 200 free, Comerford went up against Michigan All-American Siobhan Haughey. They were narrowly separated at the 100, with Comerford flipping ahead in 50.48 to Haughey’s 50.66. She took off on the back half, extending her lead for the win in 1:41.70 to Haughey’s 1:42.44.
Trojan All-American Louise Hansson contributed to USC’s win total with a 51.56 in the 100 fly, finishing over a second ahead of Louisville’s Grace Oglesby (52.66).
TEAM SCORES THROUGH DAY 1:
- USC- 168
- Louisville- 163.5
- Michigan- 161
- UCLA- 129.5
- Miami- 109
- SMU- 106
Comerford is a reckoned force and I also think she’ll swim well under 1.40 come March2018 (favorite for Ncaa title in my opinion), but also Siobhan Haughey deserves some words.
Finalist at Worlds (nice PB in the 200 LCM) and then swimming and winning at Wugs in late August, great start of the season for her.
I’m holding out for Siobhan to sneak into a top 3 spot in the 200 free at NCAAs. Based on last summer and how she’s been swimming this year she has a real shot to go under 1:41 in the 200 free and possibly upset Manuel or Ledecky depending on how they swim. The talent at the top of the 200 free is insane.
Hansson isn’t catching much water up top either on her back 50. If that cleans up for NC’s she could be deadly
Agreed- beautiful body position but it looks like she’s losing a bit on the catch. I think she’ll have the potential for a sub-50 swim come March.
Why are these women wearing technical suits (leg suits) in October?! Seems crazy early!
Texas men did it a few weeks ago. Some coaches just like to remind their swimmers what speed is like.
SMU classic has always involved each participating teams’ top 9 girls suited up.
It used to take place at SMU’s indoor facility which was a much more exciting venue.
Swimmers at this level have way more access to technical suits than the average swimmer. I really don’t see anything wrong with suiting up at big college meets/invites when you’re not tapered
Something to consider – Comerford just qualified for NCAAs. Sure, she’s likely to do it again, but by suiting up at this meet in October, she’s earned the freedom to do whatever she wants for the next 5 months in terms of training and taper cycles without worrying about getting sick at ACCs or anything like that. Seems like a great reason to suit up to me.
Wow! Maybe Comerford really is the favorite this year in the 200 Free!
she wants 2020…multiple ind. events+relays.
Great early season swim! Looks like Mallory is carrying her terrific summer form in to the SC season.
Interesting that, swimming tired, her late spring/early summer form was terrible (considering what she eventually did), but she nailed Trials and Worlds. If this is her tired swimming, she’s going to do something special at NCAAs. She’s almost two seconds ahead of what she did last year at this meet.