2024 TST Southern Pccific Closed Invite
- November 23-25, 2024
- Lake Forest, California
- Brief Course Yards (25 yards), Prelims/Finals
- Full Meet Outcomes
47-year outdated Gabby Rose, who captured the hearts and imaginations of Masters swimmers in all places over the summer season, broke 1 minute within the 100 yard breaststroke for the primary time in her faculty profession a month in the past swimming 59.88 on the TST Southern Pacific Invite.
That annihilated her personal USMS Nationwide File of 1:01.63 executed in April 2023, and was in truth sooner than the USMS Data within the 40-44 and 35-39 age teams as effectively.
Rose, a Brazilian American, was a two-time Olympian: on the 1996 Video games representing Brazil and on the 2000 Video games representing america.
She was a butterflier, freestyler, and IM’er in her teenagers and 20s, successful three silver medals on the 2002 World Brief Course Championships, one other on the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships, and two relay golds on the 2003 lengthy course World Championships.
Rose says that the quickest 100 yard breaststroke time she may discover for herself in faculty is 1:03.79 – nearly 4 seconds slower than what she’s going 25 years later.
After 20 years away from the elite model of the game, she re-emerged in 2022 at a meet in Irvine in late 2022 with a protracted course 1:12.93 within the 100 breaststroke. She has since risen to be a cult hero of kinds, ending tenth within the 100 breaststroke semifinals (1:08.32) and sixteenth within the 200 breaststroke semifinals (2:30.44) on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.
After Trials, she went on to put first in prelims of the 100 breaststroke on the US Nationwide Championships earlier than scratching and scooting to Sacramento to race on the Futures Championships, the place she gained the 100 breaststroke and the 200 breaststroke.
Rose was already knocking in opposition to the door of the one-minute barrier when she gained the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:00.10 on the Kevin Perry meet in early November, a meet the place Southern California highschool swimmers typically obtain quick instances.
She additionally swam 2:12.03 within the 200 yard breaststroke and 55.60 within the 100 yard fly on the Southern Pacific Invite.
Whereas Masters Swimming doesn’t have a drug-testing program, Rose’s standing as an open-age elite implies that she was examined by USADA in each 2023 and 2024.
Different Southern Pacific Invite Highlights
- Yeziel Morales, a Puerto Rican worldwide who trains with the Mission Viejo Nadadores, swam 1:44.85 within the 200 yard again as his closing tuneup earlier than the Brief Course World Championships. Whereas he was off his greatest instances in his greatest occasions the backstrokes in Budapest, he did break the Puerto Rican File within the 200 fly in 1:55.40 for twenty third place.
- 14-year-old Eli Siniak dropped greater than 9 seconds within the 200 breaststroke to the touch in 2:05.08. That leaves him simply outdoors of the highest 100 all-time within the age group, however is an enormous enchancment in his versatility per week after transferring into the top-10 within the 100 breaststroke two weeks earlier at Kevin Perry.
- 15-year-old Lucas Cha from Irvine Novaquatics hit new private bests and Futures cuts within the 100 fly (49.74) and 200 fly (1:52.26).
- The highest-finishing under-18 within the 100 breaststroke was Bianca Nwaizu, a highschool sophomore, in 1:01.87. She added a greatest time later within the meet within the 100 fly in 56.44.
