{"id":338430,"date":"2018-11-17T19:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=338430"},"modified":"2018-11-17T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T03:07:48","slug":"top-eight-times-from-final-night-of-mid-season-invitationals-asia-seidt-anna-hopkin-post-a-cut-swims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/top-eight-times-from-final-night-of-mid-season-invitationals-asia-seidt-anna-hopkin-post-a-cut-swims\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Eight Times from Final Night of Mid-Season Invitationals: Asia Seidt, Anna Hopkin Post A Cut Swims"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been a lot of fast swimming going on this weekend in the November Invitationals.\u00a0Swimming World\u00a0<\/em>has compiled a list of the eight fastest times in the nation this weekend to give you a better chance to understand what all is going on right now.<\/p>\n

There were six notable invitationals this weekend in Division I with Texas A&M, Indiana, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Missouri and Iowa all hosting meets with some of the best swimmers in the nation competing.<\/p>\n

Of note, there was only one A cut achieved in an individual event on the men’s side with Georgia Tech’s\u00a0Caio Pumputis\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 breast (1:52.38). Georgia Tech has had a very impressive home invitational with Pumputis and\u00a0Christian Ferraro\u00a0<\/strong>putting up the nation’s top times of the weekend in the 200 breast and 200 fly respectively.\u00a0Rodrigo Correia\u00a0<\/strong>also put up the sixth fastest 200 back of the weekend in his home pool.<\/p>\n

The Stanford women also put together a solid last session with\u00a0Ella Eastin\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Katie Drabot\u00a0<\/strong>posting A Cuts in the 200 fly at the Ohio State Invite. The Cardinal also got a solid anchor leg from\u00a0Taylor Ruck\u00a0<\/strong>in the 400 free relay as the Canadian freshman\u00a0split a 46.21<\/a>.\u00a0Megan Byrnes<\/strong>,\u00a0Leah Stevens<\/strong>,\u00a0Zoe Bartel\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Erin Voss\u00a0<\/strong>also put up top eight times nationally this weekend.<\/p>\n

There were ten A cuts achieved in individual events on the women’s side with Hawaii’s\u00a0Phoebe Hines\u00a0<\/strong>in the 1650, Kentucky’s\u00a0Asia Seidt\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 back, Louisville’s\u00a0Mallory Comerford<\/strong>\u00a0and Arkansas’s\u00a0Anna Hopkin\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 free, Indiana’s\u00a0Lilly King\u00a0<\/strong>and Texas A&M’s\u00a0Sydney Pickrem\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Anna Belousova\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 breast, and Louisville’s Grace Oglesby\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Stanford’s\u00a0Ella Eastin\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Katie Drabot\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 fly.<\/p>\n