Katie Drabot’s Impressive 200 Fly Highlights Last Morning of Indianapolis Pro Swim Series

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The final morning of the 2018 TYR Pro Swim Series meet in Indianapolis had eight events in total. Stanford and Georgia came to play with the likes of Katie DrabotChase KaliszMelanie Margalis and Ella Eastin each posting solid in-season times in the prelims. Also swimmers from Indiana (Cody Miller and Lilly King) led the way in their respective breaststroke events.

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Women’s 200 Fly

Stanford’s Katie Drabot dropped an impressive 2:08.38 from heat one in the prelims of the 200 fly from Indianapolis. Drabot is the top seed going into tonight and was the only swimmer along with Hali Flickinger (2:09.11) to break 2:10 this morning.

NCAA swimmer of the year Ella Eastin (2:10.17) and Cal commit Cassidy Bayer (2:11.15) also had solid swims this morning and will be the third and fourth seeds tonight.

Kelsi Dahlia (2:11.40), Leah Smith (2:12.57), Lauren Edelman (2:12.73) and Hannah Kukurugya (2:13.61) also placed in the top eight in the A-flight.

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Men’s 200 Fly

The Georgia duo of Chase Kalisz and Pace Clark put up the top two times in the 200 fly heats at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis. Kalisz has been one of the nation’s best in-season swimmers and also one of the most consistent the last few years. Kalisz swam a 1:58.29 and Clark swam a 1:59.58 as those two were the only ones under two minutes this morning.

Indiana’s Cory Gambardella (2:00.23) and Northern Kentucky Clippers’ Brendan Meyer (2:00.88) are right behind them. Nicolas Albiero (2:00.90), Zach Harting (2:01.05), Gunnar Bentz (2:01.12) and Jay Litherland (2:01.19) also qualified for the A-final.

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Women’s 100 Breast

Indiana rising senior Lilly Kingposted the quickest 100 breast of the morning with a 1:07.81 as the world record holder is just ahead of another Indiana commit Emily Weiss (1:08.02).

Georgia’s versatile Melanie Margalis was the third seed with a 1:08.31. Margalis is one of the most versatile swimmers in the United States that almost goes unnoticed. She has shown the ability to final in the higher level national meets in both breaststrokes as well as the 200 free and the 400 IM.

Miranda Tucker (1:09.42), Annie Lazor (1:09.55), Bethany Galat (1:09.88), Emily Escobedo (1:10.37) and Mariia Astashkina (1:10.39) also will swim tonight after placing in the top eight after the A-flight.

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Men’s 100 Breast

Cody Miller put up the top time in the morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in the 100 breast with a 1:01.37. Miller is ahead of Kevin Cordes and Reece Whitley who tied in their heat at 1:01.72. Fellow national team member Nic Fink placed fourth in the heats in Indianapolis at 1:02.35.

Dom Polling (1:02.48), Jacob Montague (1:02.62), Evgenii Somov (1:02.70) and Nick Zito (1:02.81) also placed in the top eight after the A-flight.

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Women’s 100 Back

Michigan and Club Wolverine’s Ali DeLoof leads the 100 back heats in Indianapolis with a 1:00.25 just ahead of Georgia’s Olivia Smoliga (1:00.85). The field in the United States currently in backstroke is pretty crowded with the presence of Kathleen Baker and Regan Smith. Neither of those swimmers are in Indianapolis but DeLoof and Smoliga are still putting up solid times without them.

Also in tonight’s A-final will be Taylor Ruck (1:01.25) and Simone Manuel (1:01.63) as the latter is in an off event. Ruck has been under a minute before so she could challenge DeLoof and Smoliga tonight.

Lisa Bratton (1:01.14), Kennedy Goss (1:01.57), Isabella Arcila (1:01.77) and Asia Seidt (1:02.14) also placed in the top eight this morning after the A-flight.

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Men’s 100 Back

NC State’s Justin Ress and Cal’s Jacob Pebley were the top two seeds after this morning’s 100 back as both were under 55 seconds. Ress came in with a 54.46 and Pebley was behind him with a 54.80.

Behind those two is a trio of swimmers that could be competitive tonight in Grigory Tarasevich (55.57), Matt Grevers (55.96) and Nicolas Albiero (56.45).

Drew Kibler (56.68), Alex Boratto (56.84) and Ali Khalafalla (57.01) also placed in the top eight after the A-flight.

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Women’s 200 IM

Stanford’s Ella Eastin and Georgia’s Melanie Margalis cruised to the top times in the 200 IM heats at the Indianapolis Pro Swim Series as Eastin swam a 2:12.97 ahead of Margalis’ 2:13.82. Eastin is coming off one of the best NCAA meets anyone has ever had where she set two American Records, as well as setting one earlier at the Pac-12 Championships in the 200 fly.

Eastin has yet to make a national A team as this summer could finally be her breakout year.

Eastin’s Stanford teammates Brooke Forde (2:16.00) and Allie Szekely (2:16.36) also placed in the top eight this morning after the A-flights.

Reka Gyorgy (2:15.63), Kayla Sanchez (2:16.40), Asia Seidt (2:16.71) and Bethany Galat (2:16.88) also placed in the top eight this morning.

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Men’s 200 IM

No one really took a hard stroke in the heats of the 200 IM as the Georgia trio of Jay Litherland (2:02.91), Gunnar Bentz (2:03.20) and Chase Kalisz (2:03.45) should all drop more time tonight. Litherland is actually the top seed tied with Louisville’s Daniel Sos (2:02.91).

Virginia Tech’s Norbert Szabo is the second Hungarian in the field after Sos and is the fourth seed ahead of Kalisz with a 2:03.22.

Sam Iida (2:04.08), Metin Aydin (2:04.47) and Dom Polling (2:05.47) also placed in the top eight after this morning’s A-flight.

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