Yeah Sullivan's a longshot now to make the team in the individual 100 with Targett and Lauterstein. We'll see what he can do in the 50. He may anchor the medley relay if he can lead off the free relay in a time better than Targett's individual 100. (Lauterstein will be swimming fly).
D'arcy will do great at trials, if and only if he is not convicted.
February 13, 2009 When I psoedthat earleir I had forgotten about Sully.
Don't count hm out....he's got five weeks to get ready and 49.63 ain't bad coming off that operation.
If Jeff Farrell can do it so can Sully.
Don't know if anyone noticed but now that Leisel Jonew isn't cimpeting this season the Aussie Old Guard in the breaststsrokers (Sarah Katsoulis and Tarnee White, both 27) are going great guns.
Katsoulis' 1:07.00 is her pr and while White's been faster, 1:07.68 a month from WCTs is very solid.
In fact, the four-fastest women 100 breaststrokers of all-time who are active these days are White (1:06.04 from lasst yer's Olympic Trils -- fstest non-Joneds performance), Russi's Yulia Efimova, USA/USC's Reebecca Soni (Olympic 100 silver medalist and gold-medalist/world record-setter in 200) and Katsoulis, with that 1:07.00.
All could be in Rome finals ad one would expect Soni to threepet @ NCAAs in 200.
As for the 100,that could be dicey. Soni's defending NCAA champ but Minnesota's Jillian Tyler, a Canadian Olympian, has season's best time (Big Ten record 58.80 from Buckeye Inviational in December).
Tyler now ranks eighth (performances) and fourth (performenrs) on the all-time list and is fastest active collegian.
Georgia's Myrhia Miller (59.18) and Tennessee's Jamiec Saffer (Vol record 59.42, fastest-ever in a dual-meet) rank third and fourth among acive collegians and second/third on the 2008-'09 season list.
Soni's 100 pr is 58.98 from last year's Pac-10s, a Trojn record and third on the all-time collegiate list (second among active swimmers).
That Soni even botheredc oming back to school this season after striking gold and setting a wr in Beijing is a testament to her dediction to college swimming and her apparent belief that despite NCAA training restrictions, one can pursue a degree while maintain one's status as a world-class swimmer too.
Too bad the '07 NCAA 100 breast champ didn't take the same path.
Lst add: UNLV's got a Hngarian import of its own, froshwomn flyer-IMer Zsuzana Jakabos, and while her times haven't been unduky impressive (1:59+/4:20+ 200 fly/400 IM) wait a couple of weeks until the Mountain West Conference meet and then see if she doesn't go great guns.
Lest I forget...British Olympian Jemma Lowe is now eligible at Florida, and all she did in her first collegite dual-meet (Jan. 30 vs. Tennessee @ Thev Swamp) was go a 1:53.65 200 fly, a Gator record and sedcond-fastest in SEC history.
Georgia's Mary DeScenz, who broke Ntalie Coughlin's American record in the 200 fly last month at Belmont Plaza in the Southern California Grand Prix, is SEC record-holder w/her 1:53.51 from the 2003 NCAAs @ uburn.
She's only woman to win NCA 200 fly four-consecutive years. Oregon State's (Oregon State?) Saori Hraguchi -- a Japanese Olympian in the 400 IM -- is defending NCAA champ.
Hagraguchi came out of left field last year to win and she has the "unfair advantge" of going to college in beautioful, downtown Corvallis, where it rains 366 days a year! What else is she gonna do do but train, train and train some more -- as the U.S. National Team Director is so fond of espousing.
Beaver coach Larry Liebowitz is a directt descendant of the natonal team director, having previously worked with him for many moons at some snall, obscure club in soutehrn Ornge County (CA.), a team whose name escpes me at present but one which produced the youngest male 400-1500 Olympic freestyle gold-medalist/world record-setter in history, if that gives you any hint.
Presumbly Liebowitz embrces the same philosophy but it brogut the Bevers' their first-ever NCAA title last season so maybe there is something to this approach.
Texas froshwoman Kathleen Hersey's 1:53.38 from the Longhorn Initational in December is fastest ntionally for 2008-'09. Herey was a 200 fly finlist @ Beijing and Pan-Am Games gold-medlsit inr Rio a year earlier.
Not a bad pedigree that.
I suggeswted in another psot concerningS the USC-UCLA dual-meet today that Trojan Ktinka Hosszu, a rookie who was a Hungarian Olympian @ Beijing, is my pick to win NCAAs (200 fly) and become first woman under 1:50.0.
No gingo back now but Lowe and Hersey will be tough indeed adn Stanford's Elaine Breeden -- with a year of sesoning under her belt plus the Olympic experience -- is in the mix too.
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February 15, 2009 Yeah those are great in-season times, especially given how cold it was out there. California has had crazy weather this winter, mostly far colder than normal, even in southern Cali, though with several weeks of record-breaking heat waves too. But it's tough to get psyched up when it's that cold out, so this bodes very well for NCAA's being a VERY fast meet this year for both teams.
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