USA Swimming Long Course Nationals: Day Four Prelims

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PALO ALTO, California, August 5. WITH jetlag knocking out many of the World Championship teamers, the door is beginning to swing wide open for many swimmers looking to make names for themselves at the USA Swimming Long Course Nationals.

Ryan Lochte has already called it a season, and Jessica Hardy and Elizabeth Beisel are both on record about the difficulty in competing at Nationals just a week after the FINA World Long Course Championships.

The fourth day of preliminary action begins the backhalf of long course nationals. What storylines will be set up for this evening?

Men's 100 free
Longhorn's Garrett Weber-Gale cleared 49 seconds with a top-seeded time of 48.91, while New South's Scot Robison (49.25) qualified second. Longhorn's Jimmy Feigen (49.35), Trojan's Ricky Berens (49.54) and SwimMAC's Davis Tarwater (49.54) qualified the rest of the top five.

SwimMAC's Nick Brunelli (49.64), California's William Copeland (49.65), Club Wolverine's Bobby Savulich (49.75), NBAC's Chris Brady (49.75) and Tucson Ford's Matt Grevers (49.76) rounded out the championship heat.

Longhorn's Dax Hill (49.79), California's Tom Shields (49.84), Trojan's Dave Walters (49.87), Stanford's Alex Coville (49.88), Auburn's Kohlton Norys (50.04), Wildcat's Tyler Reed (50.05), SwimMAC's Tim Phillips (50.21), Tucson Ford's Adam Ritter (50.24), Tucson Ford's Giles Smith (50.24) and SwimMAC's Eugene Godsoe (50.30) made up the consolation heat.

Some heavy hitters, including SwimMAC's Cullen Jones, Nathan Adrian, Tyler McGill and David Nolan scratched from the event.

Women's 200 fly
Longhorn's Kathleen Hersey, who is ranked 10th in the world with a season best 2:06.89 from June, paced prelims with a 2:09.07. Germantown's Teresa Crippen qualified second in 2:09.53, while Trojan's Lyndsay De Paul earned third in 2:09.67.

Tucson Ford's Alyssa Anderson (2:11.08), Stanford's Elaine Breeden (2:11.18), Tennessee's Kelsey Floyd (2:11.34), New York's Kim Vandenberg (2:11.34), NOVA's Alison Haulsee (2:11.71), Stanford's Andi Taylor (2:11.77) and SwimMAC's Katherine Mills (2:11.84) earned the rest of the championship finale spots.

Aggie's Natalie Adams (2:11.95), North Coast's Tanya Krisman (2:12.29), Nittany Lion's Kelly Nelson (2:12.75), Palo Alto's Jasmine Tosky (2:12.79), Bluefish's Elizabeth Beisel (2:12.82), Kingfish's Madison Wright (2:13.57), NOVA's Rachel Naurath (2:13.60), Western Kentucky's Claire Donahue (2:13.60), Trojan's Haley Anderson (2:13.84) and Ohio State's Shannon Draves (2:13.97) rounded out the top 20.

Beisel continues her gauntlet of swims this week after competing at the World Championships last week. Beisel has swum in and returned for second swims in at least two events each day this week.

Men's 200 IM
Lake Forest's Conor Dwyer moved to 16th in the world rankings with a time of 1:59.34, while Tucson Ford's Cory Chitwood (2:00.46) and Clark Burckle (2:00.94) cleared 2:01 with second and third-seeded efforts.

FAST's Robert Margalis, the 400 IM victor this week, qualified fourth in 2:01.50, while Trojan's William Harris finished fifth in 2:01.78. Longhorn's Austin Surhoff (2:01.79) and NBAC's Todd Patrick (2:01.85) placed sixth and seventh, while Hershey's David Nolan, Swimming World's Male National High School Swimmer of the Year, qualified eighth in 2:01.91. Palo Alto's Ben Hinshaw took ninth in 2:01.99, while NASA Wildcat's Sean Mathews and Club Wolverine's Kyle Whitaker set up a swimoff with a 10th-place tie with matching 2:02.38s. Whitaker won the swimoff in 2:02.91 with Mathews drawing a disqualification.

Tucson Ford's Austen Thompson (2:02.40), Marin Pirates' Scott Weltz (2:02.71), Missouri's Jack Brown (2:02.83), Athens Bulldog Bill Cregar (2:03.08), Peddie's Connor Signorin (2:03.18), NBAC's Chase Kalisz (2:03.45), Stanford's Curtis Lovelace (2:03.50), Wisconsin's Michael Weiss (2:03.55) and Tucson Ford's Adam Ritter (2:03.58) also made their way into the consolation heat.

Women's 200 back
NBAC's Elizabeth Pelton posted an easy 2:11.60 for the top seed in the distance dorsal. Pelton has already been 2:09.07 this year in June, and could be looking to better that time this evening. Mission Aurora's Bonnie Brandon qualified second in 2:12.78, while FAST's Katie Hoff took third in 2:12.85.

Bluefish's Elizabeth Beisel, continuing her excruciating schedule, qualified fourth with a 2:13.47, while Athens Bulldog took fifth in 2:13.47. Dynamo's Kylie Stewart (2:13.92), Athens Bulldog Morgan Scroggy (2:14.02), Crow Canyon's Madison White (2:14.18), Indiana's Ashley Jones (2:14.33) and North Coast's Kendyl Stewart (2:14.59) rounded out the top 10.

Tucson Ford's Lauren Smart (2:14.71), North Carolina's Carly Smith (2:14.84), Nitro's Megan Latone (2:14.91), Verona's Sierra Kuhn (2:14.97), Stanford's Julia Smit (2:15.04), Athens Bulldog Kelsey Gaid (2:15.49), Ohio State's Emily Creran (2:15.51), Tucson Ford's Sarah Denninghoff (2:15.53) and Blue Tide's Jillian Vitarius (2:15.55) made their way into the consolation heat. UC San Diego's Alex Henley and Minnesota's Tess Behrens set up a swimoff with matching 2:15.75s.

Women's 800 free
Minnesota's Ashley Steenvoorden continued a strong meet with an 8:32.36 for the top seed in the distance event. She already won the 400 free earlier in the week. Gillian Ryan took second in 8:33.61, while Haley Anderson qualified third in 8:33.85.

Rachel Zilinskas (8:34.07), Ashley Twichell (8:35.10), Emily Brunemann (8:37.13), Amber McDermott (8:37.68), Camryne Morris (8:38.73), Megan Rankin (8:40.03) and Rachel Naurath (8:41.07) also made the championship heat.

Chloe Sutton, the fifth-ranked swimmer in the world this year with an 8:24.05 from Worlds, finished 13th with an 8:42.93. She cited a complete body breakdown via Twitter as the cause for her performance.

Men's 1500 free
Michael McBroom led the way in the men's distance qualifying with a 15:06.96, while Sean Ryan finished second in 15:08.25. Michael Klueh touched third in 15:08.28, while Andrew Gemmell chipped in with a fourth with a 15:14.80.

Joseph Arnold (15:18.01), Evan Pinion (15:20.34), Ryan Feeley (15:22.13), Alejandro Gomez (15:24.29), Chip Peterson (15:24.32) and Arthur Frayler (15:24.66) rounded out the top 10 in the preliminary qualifying heats.

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