2015 AT&T Winter USA National Championships Day 1 Finals Live Recap

Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr

The 2015 AT&T Winter USA National Championships are under way. The meet will take place from Dec. 3 through Dec. 5 in Federal Way, Washington. Big names highlight the heat sheets, which should lead to some great races over the course of the weekend.

Women’s 400 free
North Baltimore’s Allison Schmitt stole the show in the women’s 400 free A final. She had the lead from the first to last 50 and completely dominated the field. Her time of 4:06.88 is her best this year, bumping her into the top 20 of the world rankings.

Trojan Swim Club’s Haley Anderson had an impressive swim placing second in 4:08.38, followed closely by Sarah Henry in 4:08.86. The race for second through sixth was close right through the 350 meter mark. Henry out-split the field including Schmitt on the final fifty, but Anderson had enough to hang on for the silver.

Cierra Runge (4:08.93), Lindsay Vrooman (4:09.00), Elizabeth Beisel (4:10.21), Gillian Ryan (4:13.81) and Kennedy Goss (4:16.47) rounded out the A final. Andreina Pinto of Venezuela raced home to win the B final in 4:11.07, holding off Hannah Moore who swam a 4:11.78. Emily Overholt took complete control of the C final winning in 4:12.10.

Men’s 400 free
All three finals of the men’s 400 free seemed to won in dominant fashion. Rising swim-star Maxime Rooney started off the men’s competition by claiming the C final in 3:51.88, almost three full seconds ahead of his closest competitor.

Similarly, Matias Koski took the B final in 3:49.37, finishing four seconds ahead of second-place Pj Ransford. This swim would have gotten Koski the silver medal had he made the A final after his morning swim.

Conor Dwyer finished out the event by winning the title in 3:48.11. His last 150 set him apart from the rest of the field; silver medalist Ryan Cochrane was within half a second of Dwyer through the 250. Michael McBroom was not far behind in 3:50.50 to get the bronze.

Takeshi Matsuda (3:51.86), Jordan Harrison (3:51.99), True sweetser (3:52.76), Anton Oerskov Ipsen (3:52.85) and Ryan Feeley (3:56.96) placed fourth through eighth in the B final.

Women’s 200 IM

Stanford’s Maya DiRado out-split the field in the fly, back, and free legs in tonight’s final. It’s always a battle between DiRado and Caitlin Leverenz, but Dirado was able to fight off Leverenz’s swift breaststroke split this time around. Leverenz finished second in 2:11.79 followed by Cal teammate Kathleen Baker in 2:12.13. None of these swims propel these women to the top of the world rankings, but all were incredible swims for this point in the season.

Sarah Henry was back in the pool to take the fourth spot in 2:13.05, followed by Siobhan Haughey (2:13.20), Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson (2:13.28), Stina Gardell (2:13.53) and Celina Li (2:15.31).

Ella Eastin fought off Elizabeth Beisel in the B final of this event winning in 2:13.79. Beisel finished strong in 2:14.26. Kelly Naze dropped more time from her morning swim to claim victory in the C final in 2:15.28.

Men’s 200 IM
While it may not have been the time from Summer Nationals, Michael Phelps was still able to race to victory in the men’s 200 IM. After going out hard, he was able to hold off teammate Chase Kalisz who is strong back-half Imer. Eduardo Solaeche narrowly held off David Nolan for bronze getting the edge 2:00.14 to 2:00.15.

Michael Weiss (2:00.19), Patrick Mulcare (2:00.48), Uvis Kalnins (2:00.56) and Dan Wallace (2:01.25) rounded out the A final.

Michigan went 1-2-3 in the B final: Evan White (2:01.79), Dylan Bosch (2:01.98), and Kyle Whitaker (2:01.98) took the top spots. Carlos Claverie took the C final in 2:03.24.

Women’s 50 free
Simone Manuel came out on top of a tight 50 freestyle battle with the winning time of 24.83. Abbey Weitzeil was not far behind in 24.86. This time bumps up Abbey Weitzeil to 24th in the world, an improvement on her previous best time and morning swim.

Cal’s Farida Osman was also in the mix in 25.22, with Ivy Martin not far behind for fourth in 25.26. Natalie Coughlin had a great start but fell to fifth in 25.27, while Margo Geer (25.35), Liz Li (25.43) and Amanda Weir (25.61).

Other veterans found themselves in first place, as Lia Neal won the B final in 25.25, preceded by Missy Franklin claiming the C final in 25.60.

Men’s 50 free
Nathan Adrian got to the wall first in the men’s 50 free final. He out-touched Brad Tandy, whose swim puts him 11th in the world this year. Santo Condorelli got the slight edge over Josh Schneider(22.05) to get bronze in 22.04.

Paul Powers (22.27), Matt Grevers (22.30), Cullen Jones (22.33) and Geoff Cheah (22.39) rounded out the A final. Trojan Swim Club’s Vladimir Morozov won the B final in 21.86, while Karl Krug took the C final in 22.77.

Scheduled events:
Women’s 400 free
Men’s 400 free
Women’s 200 IM
Men’s 200 IM
Women’s 50 free
Men’s 50 free

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8 years ago

No times given for top two places in M/W 200 IM and top two finishers M 50 FR. Please edit and update results. Thanks.