Split Time, July 24, 2010: Garrett McCaffrey and John Lohn Analyze Potential Winners in Women's Events at USA Swimming Nationals -- July 24, 2010
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 24. THIS week's edition of Split Time continues our preview of the USA Swimming national championships and Pac Pacific Trials on SwimmingWorld.TV with a discussion on the potential winners of the women's events in Irvine.
Host Garrett McCaffrey and Swimming World Magazine senior writer John Lohn analyze the competition in the 13 women's events to be contested in 10 days. Next week's show will focus on the winners. Keep in mind that this episode was recorded before the meet's psych sheets were released. Watch the full show in the video player below and visit Swimming World.TV for more video interviews.
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July 24, 2010 *The article and title mistakenly state men's events. Garrett and John previewed the women's events in the video*
It's also important to note that the World Championships team will be chosen based on the top performances at both Nationals and Pan Pacs just like in 2006. Nationals will only narrow the field of candidates. We won't know the full team until after Pan Pacs.
Another tip for Garrett and John if they already hadn't thought of it for the men: The selection criteria policy states that "an athlete can swim any event at the Pan Pacific championships not just the qualifying event." This has been the rule in the past and indeed swimmers have utilized it. Once you are on the Pan Pac team you can pick your events. The implications of all this are that Ryan Lochte can steer clear of the IMs at Nats to concentrate on back, freestyle, etc and still qualify for the World Championships in the IMs. This would allow him a bit more time to work himself back into training breaststroke and wait until Pan Pacs to attempt swimming one of the top two times to qualify for Shanghai next year.
Submitted by: ShortChange
July 24, 2010 John Long is a pretty straight forward guy, he sees that experience plays a huge part in center stage. Its's kind of like what Eddie says, when you see someone taper during the year to get a good time it just means they tapered and shaved to get that time. The time to shave and taper for the year is next week! That said; there is not going to very many changing of the guards as some may be led to believe. The standards are still going to be there because they play high stakes better then some of any swimmers in the world. Much different to swim a race when the best in the world is next to you!!Those swimmers are thinking about whose next to them, where as the big leaguers, are just out to win! Big difference. Submitted by: swimfan3
July 24, 2010 I'm surprised none of them have mentioned Kimberly Vandenberg in their predictions. She's been putting together a nice season in Europe so far. 2:08 already in the 200 fly. Submitted by: jjswim
July 24, 2010 women's 400 free is going to be very interesting. I'm rooting for Zielger but I see Hoff and Schmitt. Submitted by: philipmj24
July 24, 2010 Morgan Scroggy has gone 1:58.5 twice in the last few months in the 200. So she has been swimming well and will be in play for at least the relays. I think people believe that Hersey has been off this year in some part due to Texas's disappointing NCAAs. If it was just one swimmer then maybe but the whole team was off which tells me they're preparation for the meet was off. Typically Kathleen is not a fast mid season performer. Case in point, in 2008 she went 2:15 in the 200 fly exactly a month out from trials. See the results of the B final from Charlotte in June of 2008 here: http://www.charlotteultraswim.com/results08/index.htm So many thought she was not in good form heading into trials that July. She then dropped a massive amount of time and qualified for Beijing a month later. I actually her training times have been generally solid for her since NCAA's. Another UTexas swimmer to watch out for in the 100/200 free is Karlee Bispo. I think she has a solid shot at the relays.
I think Liz Pelton will be intriguing to watch. She seems to get a bit taller every time we see her. She has gone 2:08 twice in the 200 back. Once at Mare Norstrum and once earlier this year at the Ohio Grand Prix. She elected not to swim the 200 back at the other mid season meets. It's interesting that she basically even split the 200 back at Mare Norstrum. She went out in 2:04 and came home in 2:04 after going 59.9 in the 100 back at the same meet. A conservative race strategy given her speed. The interesting aspect of it is that she went basically the same time in Ohio (2:08.6) and even split her race the same way but only managed a 1:02 in the 100 back there. So is she toying around and experimenting with how she swims the race? She beat Coughlin in the 100 at Charlotte going 1:00 but did not race the 200 there. People talk about unproven swimmers posting great mid season times because they taper. Somehow I don't think Bowman is having his swimmers taper for all these meets. It's not like him. I think much like Phelps and Schmitt she is apt to improve so it will be exciting to see how she does. Her 200IM times at these same meets indicate that she is far from rested and that some good progress has been made in the back.
Submitted by: ShortChange
July 28, 2010 good and safe picks. but what i dont get was that kasey carlson wasn't mentioned once. she touched out keri hein last summer for a spot on the world champs team and she medaled in her first race. then again this year at santa clara she comes before hein again. i think she has proven herself to AT LEAST get mentioned. last year none. no one picked her. no one mentioned her. and look at what she accomplished. i wouldn't be surprised if this summer was the same. Submitted by: scubuzzzz83
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