2020 Olympic champion Lydia Jacoby raced at her first Big 12 Conference Championships, and she was nervous before her race. While that might seem odd for an athlete with Olympic hardware, it does make sense. She’s a freshman at the University of Texas, still young, and college swimming is a completely different stress-level.
In this interview Jacoby breaks down her swims and how she’s managing the stress of heading into her first NCAA DI Championships.
Lydia Jacoby 2023 NCAA DI Championship Predictions!
100 Breast? I see Jacoby swimming a 56.7 for the win. And, I think three women will go sub-57, Jacoby, Texas teammate Anna Elendt, and defending champ Kaitlyn Dobler of USC.
200 Breast? Jacoby rips a 2:03.5 touching second behind Kate Douglass.
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I think everyone sees Dobler as the favourite and. I think there’s a shot Jacoby pulls off the upset in the 100 I think it’s a 50/50 but this isn’t like Tokyo and I feel she needs to be less than a half a second behind the leader to have a chance to win.
In the 200 not yet. I see her getting 2nd and dropping a 2:02.5 but not beat Douglass now. I see Douglass breaking 2:01 but I think Jacoby gets 2nd.
I still want to know whether Jacoby or Elendt will swim in the medley relays!!
haha are you expecting an announcement? i assume elendt for the 200 MR and then 400 will be whoever goes faster in individual
haha no of course not, just curious what Texas strategy will be! I also assume Elendt in 200.
I can see Lydia back halfing her way to a win in the 100, a la Tokyo. Next year or three for the 200
The way she swims her 100 breast (particularly in LC) shows a true 200 breaststroker. She comes off the pace tremendously on the last 15M. It’ll take some time, but i do see her potentially challenging Kate Douglass in the near future in the LC 200 BR
Agreed. Her stroke is very like Leisel Jones’s and I think lends itself more to the 200. It’s going to be interesting to see whether she can step it up to 200 long course.
She’s already made huge strides in the 200 in the past year or two. I’m excited to see what she will do after having trained some long course with Texas. Correct me if I’m wrong but she had very little to no LC training opportunities in Alaska
Jacoby goes 56.73, Dobler 56.79, and Elendt 56.92 in the 100. In the 200, Douglass pops a 2:00.67, Jacoby takes second at 2:03.44, and Elendt is third 2:03.96
How many times does KD have to have big swims in big meets to get credibility. Olympics, NCAA’s, World Championships and she keeps getting better regardless of the course, why would that change for this meet. She broke an Am Record in 3 person time trial with no one around her. Barring an illness, she’ll easily be 7 for 7 next week with shockingly low times. It’s not new, she’s done it already.
She isnt swimming the 1 breast. But youre right about everything.
She could easily win the 100 fly or get 4th.
She isn’t swimming this event and has never swum it at any of the meets you mentioned lol
Don’t understand the sentiment here. Until Marchand in the last 2 weeks, KD has probably been the most celebrated, lauded and talked about swimmer on this site and in the comments.
I think she gets 2nd place in both but best times 56 high and 203
She or Dobler will.