2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
Properly, Pals, they’re right here. The pre-scratch psych sheets for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials have dropped.
Pre-Scratch Psych Sheet
This text can be up to date as we comb by way of the sheets for notable athletes or attention-grabbing entries.
On the ladies’s facet, Kate Douglass has a busy occasion line-up. The previous UVA standout is contesting 5 particular person occasions. She is entered within the 100 breast, 100 free, 200 IM, 200 breast, and 50 free (she is the American Document holder within the latter two occasions). Douglass will keep away from any preliminary session doubles however can have a possible few within the night. Significantly of word, the 50 freestyle semifinal is scheduled proper earlier than the 200 IM Last.
Douglass’s Trials Schedule
- Sat. June fifteenth
- Solar. June sixteenth
- AM: 100 Breast Prelims
- PM: 100 Breast Semis
- Mon. June seventeenth
- Tues. June 18th
- AM: 100 Free Prelims
- PM: 100 Free Semis
- Wed. June nineteenth
- AM: 200 Breast Prelims
- PM: 100 Free Finals, 200 Breast Semis
- Thurs. June twentieth
- Fri. June twenty first
- AM: 200 IM Prelims
- PM: 200 IM Semis
- Sat. June twenty second
- AM: 50 Free Prelims
- PM: 50 Free Semis, 200 IM Finals
- Solar. June twenty third
Additionally dealing with the prospect of a back-to-back swim within the night is Torri Huske. Huske, who had an enormous breakout in 2021, can be entered within the 200 IM and 50 free double. She ranks because the third seed within the 200 IM (2:08.47) behind solely Douglass and Alex Walsh and is the 4th seed within the 50 (24.31) behind Douglass, Abbey Weitzeil, and Gretchen Walsh. She’ll sq. off with that trio within the 100 freestyle, the place her 53.08 entry time slots her into the #3 seed. Huske begins her Olympic Trials schedule with the primary occasion, the 100 fly, the place, because the primary seed, she’s going to look to chase her personal American file of 55.64. She has already been as quick as 55.68 this season, so anticipate fireworks within the first occasion.
Unsurprisingly, Katie Ledecky is the highest seed within the 200/400/800/1500 free. With the modified occasion order from 2021, the 200 and 1500 now not overlap on the identical night so she received’t must cope with doubled occasions. Whereas Ledecky focuses solely on the freestyle occasions, Claire Curzan has appeared to drop them utterly. The transfer is just not completely as stunning as Curzan has shifted extra into the backstroke occasions. She is entered within the 100 fly (#4 – 56.61), the 100 again (#3 -58.29), and the 200 again (T-#2 – 2:05.77).
Kaitlyn Dobler, who positioned third within the 100 breast final summer time at Nationals, seems to be absent from each the 100 and 200 breast, occasions the place, based mostly on final 12 months’s efficiency, she was anticipated to be a contender. SwimSwam has reached out to Dobler to see if this was a clerical error.
On the boys’s facet, a lot focus has been positioned on Caeleb Dressel and if he can return to the shape that noticed him win 5 gold medals in Tokyo. The Florida Gators and up to date father is entered in his three major occasions: the 50 free, 100 free, and 100 fly. He’s seeded tenth within the 100 free with a time of 48.30.
Jack Alexy, the 2023 Fukuoka silver medalist, leads the pack together with his 47.31. Within the 50 free, Dressel is ranked fifth (21.84) behind fellow veteran and 2016 Olympic gold medalist Ryan Held (21.50). The 100 fly, on paper, seems to be his greatest likelihood of qualifying for Paris, because the World Document Holder is entered with a time of fifty.84, behind solely Dare Rose (50.46) and Shaine Casas (50.80).
Another notable entries on the boys’s facet embrace Michael Andrew and Carson Foster. Andrew, the American file holder, is entered in his major three occasions: 100 breast (#5 – 59.52), 50 free (#3 – 21.64), and the 100 fly (#9 – 51.66). Nonetheless, sandwiched in between the 50 free and 100 fly, Andrew is entered within the 200 IM. Earlier than scratches, he’s the #25 seeded, coming into in with a 2:01.00. Andrew appeared to have dropped the 200 IM from his schedule, solely swimming it as soon as this season on the Berlin leg of the World Cup. Andrew Has a private better of 1:55.26 and received the 2021 Trials in 1:55.44.
Foster finds himself pre-scratches with a heavy schedule of seven occasions. He’s entered within the 400 free (#8 – 3:47.64), 200 free (#3 – 1:45.64), 400 IM (#1 – 4:06.56), 200 fly (#2 – 1:53.85), 100 free (#33 – 49.35), 200 again (#9 – 1:56.97) and 200 IM (#2 – 1:56.19). It appears extremely unlikely that he’ll swim all the occasions because the 200 free and 400 IM are again to again on the morning of day 2 and have solely the 100 fly separating them within the night, and the finals of the 200 fly are additionally scheduled for a similar night because the semifinals of the 200 again.
Buried within the Pysch Sheets however very a lot a risk to get a second (or third) swim in all his occasions is Luca Urlando. Urlando, who’s taking a redshirt season from Georgia and is on the mend from shoulder surgical procedure, is entered in 4 occasions. He’s the thirteenth seed within the 400 Free (3:49.26), 14th within the 200 free (1:46.98), tenth within the 200 fly (1:56.25) and thirty eighth within the 100 fly (53.18). On the 2021 Trials, Urlando completed third in each the 100 and 200 fly and was simply .10 away from qualifying within the latter.
NOTABLE ENTRIES
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