Kelsi Worrell Breaks 51 Seconds With 100 Fly Win At USA Swimming Nationals

Knoxville, TN - December 7, 2013: Kelsi Worrell Wins the Women's 200 Butterfly during the 2013 AT&T Swimming Winter National Championships on December 7, 2013 in Knoxville, Tennessee at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center. Photo By Matthew DeMaria/Tennessee Athletics

Photo Courtesy: Matthew DeMaria/Tennessee Athletics

GREENSBORO – A delay of about five minutes before the final of the women’s 100 butterfly at the USA Swimming nationals didn’t seem to have much of an effect on Kelsi Worrell, as she comfortably won with a 50.91.

That’s a personal best of four hundredths of a second for the Louisville senior, who has designs on an NCAA title in the event after finishing second to the graduated Felicia Lee last season. Out in 23.67 at the 50-yard mark, she kept her speed and held on her underwater kicking in the final 25.

Katelyne Herrington, now a postgrad at UNLV, snuck in for second with a 52.29 over UCLA’s Linnea Mack, who posted a 52.54. Herrington was well off her lifetime best, and Mack was just a few hundredths shy of hers, a 54.48 that she swum in prelims.

Gold’s Lauren Case (52.96) got ahead of a couple of UCLA Bruins for fourth place. Katie Grover (52.96) and Noelle Tarazona (53.01) took fifth and sixth while SwimMAC Carolina’s Caitlin Casazza (53.32) and Hannah Saiz of Schroeder (53.40) rounded out the field.

Carmel Swim Club’s Veronica Burchill posted the sole swim under 53 seconds in the B final, winning the heat with a 52.95. Miranda Tucker stole second place from Katie Kinnear, 53.42 to 53.49.

Gia Dalesandro scored the win in the C final with a 53.45, just touching out Asia Seidt and her 53.72. Leah Goldman was third with a 54.10.

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