USC Trojans vs. Hawaii Rainbow Warriors/Wahine
- October 11-12, 2024
- Uytengsu Aquatic Middle, Los Angeles, California (USC)
- Quick Course Yards (25 yards)
- Full Meet Outcomes
- Crew Scores
- Ladies: #9 USC 226 – Hawaii 81
- Males: #17 USC 220.5 – Hawaii 85.5
The USC Trojans deviated from their regular season-opener on the SMU Basic final weekend, and as a substitute hosted the three session USC Swim Invite, which was in impact a swimming-only twin meet with Hawaii.
The meet had the total NCAA Championship lineup aside from no 800 free relay.
The meet was the primary intercollegiate underneath this system’s new head coach Steve Allnutt.
Males’s Recap
Meet Highlights:
- Twin brothers Krzystof and Michal Chmielewski, contemporary off the Olympics, mixed for 9 wins, together with relays.
- USC freshman Junhao Chan upended a deep Trojan breaststroke group to win the 100 and the 200.
- Karol Ostrowski led Hawaii with a person win within the 100 free and a quick anchor break up for the Rainbow Warriors’ profitable 400 free relay.
Twin brothers Krzysztof Chmielewski and Michal Chmielewski paved the way into their sophomore seasons for the Trojans after each making Olympic appearances for Poland over the summer season.
Krzysztof, who was 4th on the Olympics within the 200 fly, received the yards model of the occasion this weekend in 1:43.88. That’s slower than he was to open final season by a few seconds, however he’s in a really totally different spot popping out of the Olympic Video games. He additionally received the five hundred free in 4:17.88, which is sort of as quick as he was in that race at NCAAs final 12 months – a meet the place he was well-shy of his private greatest.
The 2 brothers each give attention to the 200 fly in lengthy course, however within the opener this 12 months they averted one another on the schedule. Michal received the 100 again (48.64) by a tenth over his teammate Griffin O’Leary; the 100 fly in 47.65; and the 1650 free in 15:17.32.
The gap freestyles have been a little bit of a mid-season revelation for each Krysztof and Michal final season, and it looks like early on on this season, the Trojans are going to guide into that and see the place it takes him. That was Michal’s first-ever official time within the 1650 free.
Junhao Chan, a freshman from Singapore, was one of many huge prizes of an excellent males’s recruiting class for USC that ranked thirteenth within the nation, and he backed that up in his USC debut. A 1:00 lengthy course breaststroker, his first try in yards got here out at 52.76.
USC returns two NCAA breaststroke qualifiers on the lads’s facet, Ben Dillard and Chris O’Grady, however Chan beat them each final weekend within the 100. O’Grady was 2nd in 53.23 and Dillard was third in 54.61.
Chan additionally received the 200 breaststroke in 1:55.48; this time, O’Grady was 2nd in 1:58.09 and Dillard was third in 2:00.19.
Different newcomers who excelled of their debut included Danish freshman Oliver Sogaard-Andersen. A extra sprint-oriented swimmer for many of his younger profession, his vary was stretched in his first meet for USC. He positioned 2nd within the 500 free (4:30.82), received the 200 free by a hundredth over Krzysztof Chmielewski (1:36.58), and was 2nd within the 100 free (44.37).
The swimmer who beat him in that 100 free was Karol Ostrowski, a former NCAA Division II Champion who’s in his second season at Hawaii. He received the 100 free in 43.45. Final season, he joined the Hawaii varsity mid-season (after coaching there all through the autumn semester), and just-missed qualifying for NCAAs.
He additionally anchored USC’s profitable 400 free relay that completed in 2:56.26. Ostrowski break up 43.29 and mixed with Victor Dagenais (44.67), Jordan Meacham (43.64), and Milan Bukovics (43.29). That relay beat out USC by greater than a second (2:57.51) utilizing 4 swimmers from 4 totally different nations: none of that are the US.
USC’s relay additionally had 4 swimmers from 4 totally different nations, together with American and Stanford switch Luke Maurer, who break up 44.15. He’s the daughter of Stanford head coach Lea Maurer.
These have been the one two wins of the day for Hawaii, with USC in any other case sweeping the day.
Ladies’s Recap
The USC ladies have been with out their star Kaitlyn Dobler, who’s on the Trojans’ roster for her fifth season of eligibility, on the meet. She completed third within the 100 breaststroke ultimately 12 months’s NCAA Championships.
Even with out her, although, USC received all-but-one race on the weekend. That included a hand in seven wins every for freestylers Caroline Well-known and Minna Abraham, who managed to keep away from one another head-to-head on the meet.
Well-known break up 52.30 on the leadoff leg of the 400 medley relay to open the meet, main a dominating 3:37.05 win for USC.
Notice: Minna Abraham‘s anchor break up on that relay recorded as 46.82. On condition that Genevieve Sasseville’s fly break up recorded as 56.12, and she or he was 54.7 within the particular person occasion, it looks like there’s a timing error on the again finish of that relay.
Well-known then shaved a number of hundredths off with a 52.24 within the particular person 100 again, utilizing a monster front-half break up of 25.34 (and nonetheless closing in 26.90) to win the race comfortably.
Well-known later received the 50 free in 22.48 and the 100 fly in 53.38.
Well-known, who began quick final season, has had an enormous development at USC, progressing from a 54-mid backstroker out of highschool to the most effective backstrokers within the NCAA heading into her fifth 12 months. Her 100 again time now ranks her 4th within the NCAA early within the season.
Abraham, in the meantime, received the 200 IM in 1:59.76, utilizing a quick ultimate 50 break up to out-touch her teammate Ashley McMillan (1:59.99); the 400 IM in 4:09.36 (by an enormous margin); and the 200 again in 1:56.92. She didn’t swim her greatest occasion, the 200 free, at this meet.
She had quite a lot of swims, including exhibition performances within the 100 fly and 100 again as she appears to be exploring her full vary outdoors of her specialty within the center distance freestyles.
That was a little bit of a theme for the USC ladies on the meet. Macky Hodges, a center distance freestyler and backstroker, kicked off her sophomore season with a win within the 200 free in 1:45.93, which ranks her seventh within the NCAA to date this season. That’s the most effective twin meet time of her profession, quicker than the 1:46.08 she went at NCAAs final 12 months, and inside a second of her lifetime better of 1:45.06.
However she additionally swam greatest occasions within the 1650 free (16:37.72) to win and within the 100 breast (1:04.12) in an exhibition race.
Hawaii bought their lone win of the ladies’s meet from Duke switch Catherine Belyakov within the 100 breast, the occasion the place Dobler would usually occupy. She swam 1:02.17 to win that race – she additionally swam 4:17.97 for a brand new private greatest and 2nd place within the 400 IM.
USC has a really sluggish begin to their season, with solely two twin meets earlier than their mid-season invite. They’ll race subsequent towards their former Pac-12 foes Arizona on November eighth. USC will race once more in two weeks in a two-day twin towards Grand Canyon at dwelling.
