2024 Scarlet Memorial Day Invitational
- Could 24-26, 2024
- Sonny Werblin Recreation Heart
- Outcomes on MeetMobile: “2024 Scarlet Memorial Day”
With the U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying window closing subsequent week, a number of swimmers used final weekend’s Scarlet Memorial Day Invitational at Rutgers College as a possibility to realize some last-minute berths.
Latest College of Pennsylvania graduate Anna Kalandadze collected her first two Trials cuts within the girls’s 800-meter freestyle (8:43.20) and 1500 free (16:43.36). The Cal switch dropped a whopping 18 seconds within the 800 free off her previous-best 9:01.71 from 2018 whereas additionally knocking 12 seconds off her previous-best 1500 free time of 16:55.94 from final July.
Kennedi Dobson, a 17-year-old Georgia commit (’25), additionally loved an enormous weekend. She started the meet with a win in Saturday’s 200 free (personal-best 1:59.54), an occasion during which she already owned a Trials lower. Then she barely missed the qualifying commonplace within the 400 IM (4:49.89) with a profitable time of 4:50.00 later within the session.
Dobson went off on Sunday to the tune of three 1st-place finishes, together with a Trials lower within the 200 IM (personal-best 2:16.05) proper after triumphing within the 100 again (personal-best 1:03.06). She dropped greater than three seconds off her greatest 200 IM time from final month and virtually a second off her greatest 100 again time from January. Dobson capped her weekend with a 100 free victory in 56.83, simply off her personal-best 56.57 from earlier in Could.
Olympic hopeful Matt Fallon was additionally in motion final weekend for his ultimate tune-up a couple of weeks earlier than Trials in Indianapolis. The rising Penn senior dominated the 100 breast in 1:01.33 and the 200 breast in 2:09.83, not far off his greatest occasions (59.92/2:07.71). A bronze medalist on the 2023 World Championships, Fallon is the quickest American within the 200 breast this season at 2:08.18 from April, which ranks ninth globally. He additionally ranks fifth amongst Individuals within the 100 breast this calendar yr along with his 1:00.62 from April.
There have been additionally a couple of near-misses of Trials cuts that deserve point out. Maybe most heartbreaking was Seton Corridor senior Allie Waggoner, who got here inside two tenths of the ladies’s 1500 free commonplace (16:45.69) throughout her runner-up end in 16:45.86. She dropped virtually 9 seconds off her previous-best 16:54.48 from March.
Luke Brennan, a 17-year-old Minnesota commit (’24), cruised to victory within the males’s 800 free with a personal-best 8:10.58. He reached the wall inside a second of the Trials lower (8:09.69), dropping half a second off his previous-best 8:11.06 from December.
Shawmut Aquatic Membership 16-year-old Quinn White took the ladies’s 200 again in 2:13.81, slicing greater than two seconds off her previous-best 2:16.05 from final August. Nonetheless, she nonetheless ended up only a couple tenths shy of the Trials lower (2:13.59).
Rising Penn junior James Curreri gained the lads’s 200 again in 2:02.15, inside half a second of the Trials lower (2:01.69). He shaved virtually two tenths off his previous-best 2:02.31 from final November.
Suburban Seahawks 18-year-old Jake Wang touched first within the 200 IM at 2:04.41, inside a second of the Trials lower (2:03.49). The Yale commit (’24) has been as quick as 2:03.78 in April.
Scarlet Aquatics 18-year-old Kate Hurst threw down a 400 free victory in 4:13.40, effectively below the Trials lower of 4:15.49. However the Texas commit (’24) had already dipped below the usual together with her personal-best 4:11.71 from final August.
