More than a dozen new meet records were set over the five day Western Sectionals that concluded tonight in Federal Way, Washington, in the pool that hosted the 1998 Goodwill Games.
Starting off the final session was the women’s 200 IM, which was won by 2007 World Championships team member Ariana Kukors.

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Future University of Texas swimmer Kathleen Hersey showed why she’s one of the best 200 butterfly swimmers in the world tonight in Austin with the fastest time in the world this year.  Other highlights include the Weber-Gale vs Grevers dual in the 100 free, and Eric Shanteau showing Brendan Hanson that he can swim the […]

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The third night of action in Washington State had only three events, but carried plenty of firepower for the crowd assembled.
The 200 freestyle events started off the evening, with KING Aquatic Clubs Andie Taylor picking up the win on the ladies’ half in 2:01.11, ending a fantastic race between herself and Whitney Lopus, who was […]

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The first full night of action got underway in Federal Way, Washington with the 100-meter freestyles. Megan Jendrick, of host team KING Aquatics, won the ladies’ half in 56.49, beating out Traycie Swartz (56.54) and KING teammate and Olympic hopeful for Russia, Svet Karpeeva (56.93).
Morgon Henderson-Kunz dominated the men’s side of the event, finishing in […]

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Garrett Weber-Gale capped off an evening of ridiculously fast swimming in Austin tonight with a new Texas Swim Center and University of Texas team record of 21.93 in the 50 meter freestyle that moves the former NCAA champion and world record holder to number 2 in the world in that event.

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These girls just keep getting faster.  With so many premiere teams and swimmers in one league the chemistry is usually just right for ridiculously fast swimming.  UW’s Ariana Kukors and USC’s Rebecca Soni certainly don’t appear to object.

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We said that Indiana and Minnesota would have to be close to perfect from here on in if they were to challenge Michigan for tops in the Big 10.  In line with that, despite a strong push by Indiana tonight it appears that Michigan’s depth will be too much to overcome.

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The response was so warm last night that I almost went Costanza on you and quit when I was ahead.  Maybe next time.  But for now I’ve got the spell check on (thanks Mel), the laptop powered up and my fingers popped.  Let’s do this thing.

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It’s hard to hide your fitness level in the 800 free so it was encouraging for many to see that Manaudou finally took on the challenge of the 800 this weekend at the domestic French Cup Circuit stop in Lyon.  Also in action were Alain Bernard, Markus Rogan, Fabien Gilot (a giant slayer on the […]

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The #1 Georgia Bulldogs look to have finished the season in that position as they wrapped up their duel meet season with convincing victories over both Alabama and South Carolina. Georgia might be looking over their shoulders though, as a very talented and young Stanford team continued to post unbelievable times.  As for meet of […]

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Watch out for Petra Dallmann.  A member of the German World Record 400 and 800 free relay is swimming very well and added another meet record to her cap today at the Luxembourg Euro Meet.   The Germans looked good in general, although backstroke ace Helge Meeuw had to deal with some stiff competition.

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5-time Olympic Medalist Yana Klochkova, potential backstroke medalist Helge Meeuw and sprinter Petra Dallman led the way at the second day of the Luxembourg Euro-Meet.  All broke meet records and posted some solid in-season times. 

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Erikd Vendt’s 1650 wasn’t the fastest of all-time…it was the third.  The surprise of the night went to Amanda Beard’s 100 breast but really, this night needs absolutely no hype as the best swimmers in America were in action and swimming unbelievably fast.  I would suggest checking it out.

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Would tonight be the night Michael Phelps broke an American Record?  The Long Beach Grand Prix seems ripe for another, after Erik Vendt broke the 1000 free record the first day.  Phelps wouldn’t be the only one with a good shot at lowering standards either.

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It’s tough to say that any double (or triple) that Michael Phelps swims is more impressive than the other, but this is one that at least Americans can appreciate: the 100 free/500 free combo.  If being within a second of the American Record in the 100 wasn’t enough, he was also just two off the 500 Record as well.  But […]

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