After cruising through prelims, a number of top swimmers stepped up in finals at the Tennessee Aquatics June Invite tonight.<\/p>\n
Alia Atkinson\u00a0<\/strong>topped\u00a0Molly Hannis\u00a0<\/strong>in tonight’s 100 breaststroke. Atkinson stopped the clock in 1:06.48. That time moved her to tenth in the world this year. Hannis finished in 1:07.72.\u00a0Jenny Wilson\u00a0<\/strong>completed the podium in 1:10.70.<\/p>\n After coming close this morning, Claire Donahue\u00a0<\/strong>cracked a minute tonight, touching first in 59.06.\u00a0Amanda Kendall\u00a0<\/strong>was also under the barrier this evening, finishing second in 59.94. In third was\u00a0Madeline Banic\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:00.99.<\/p>\n Elizabeth Beisel\u00a0<\/strong>beat\u00a0Megan Romano\u00a0<\/strong>for the 200 freestyle title tonight, as the two finished in times of 2:00.74 and 2:01.22.\u00a0Eric Laning\u00a0<\/strong>finished third in 2:02.16.<\/p>\n Bryce Bohman\u00a0<\/strong>was first to the wall in the men’s 100 butterfly with a 53.80.\u00a0Luis Martinez\u00a0<\/strong>touched second in 54.04. Bronze went to\u00a0Tyler Mills\u00a0<\/strong>in 54.35.<\/p>\n In the men’s 100 breaststroke,\u00a0Jorge Murillo Valdes\u00a0<\/strong>touched the wall first in 1:01.71. Second place went to\u00a0Brad Craig\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:02.80. Third went to\u00a0Michael Duderstadt\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:02.98.<\/p>\n After a relaxed prelims swim, Caeleb Dressel\u00a0<\/strong>turned his normal sprint speed into a 200 freestyle win tonight with a 1:48.39. That was \u00a0new best time.\u00a0Nicholas Sweetster\u00a0<\/strong>swam a 1:51.71 for second. In 1:52.51\u00a0Trey Freeman\u00a0<\/strong>placed third.<\/p>\n Emma Barksdale\u00a0<\/strong>was victorious in the women’s 400 IM, finishing in 4:51.17.\u00a0Hannah Kastigar\u00a0<\/strong>stopped the clock in 4:53.00 for second. Third went to\u00a0Sonia Wang\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:55.51.<\/p>\n Sebastien Rousseau\u00a0<\/strong>held onto his top prelims seed to win tonight in 4:21.94. Second went to\u00a0Sam McHugh\u00a0<\/strong>in 4:23.68.\u00a0Charlie Swanson\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three in 4:27.77.<\/p>\n Full results available on meet mobile: “2016 June Invite”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After cruising through prelims, a number of top swimmers stepped up in finals at the Tennessee Aquatics June Invite tonight. Alia Atkinson\u00a0topped\u00a0Molly Hannis\u00a0in tonight’s 100 breaststroke. Atkinson stopped the clock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":144886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[28623,26908,57774],"class_list":["post-206236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-alia-atkinson","tag-molly-hannis","tag-tennessee-aquatics-june-invitational"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n