2024 U.S. PARA SWIMMING TRIALS
Two-time Paralympic champion Morgan Stickney crushed her personal world file within the 400-meter freestyle S7 on Friday evening, taking nearly three seconds off the usual with a profitable time of 4:51.50.
Stickney beforehand held the world file at 4:54.28 from the 2023 Para World Championships in Manchester, England, the place she broke an 11-year-old file set on the London 2012 Paralympics by almost 5 seconds (4:59.02 by Jacqueline Freney). The 27-year-old gained the Paralympic title within the 400 free S8 in 2021 and the world title in the identical occasion in 2022 earlier than reclassifying to S7 for final yr’s Worlds.
“The vitality on deck may be very totally different than in Tokyo,” Stickney mentioned. “It’s extra energetic and improbable having the group right here cheering us on. My coaching may be very totally different from what I used to be doing main as much as Tokyo, being within the hospital 9 days out of the month. I wasn’t anticipating to come back in and break the world file, it was tremendous surprising.”
Jessica Lengthy, a 29-time Paralympic medalist, continued her quest for her sixth Paralympics with a victory within the 100 free S8.
“I’m feeling so grateful for my husband and my household being right here,” Lengthy mentioned. “I’m undoubtedly going by means of the motions of how do I repeatedly search for that spark to push me ahead. I really like swimming and I’ve been part of it for thus lengthy, so it is very important remind myself of the psychological toughness that I’ve all the time had. For me this Trials is simply the stepping stone to the massive present, the Paralympic Video games in Paris this summer time.”
Christie Raleigh Crossley picked up her second win in as many nights at her first U.S. Paralympic Swimming Trials. The 37-year-old mom of three triumphed within the 100 free S9 after incomes the 100 again S9 title on Thursday evening.
“It’s fairly loopy being a solo father or mother with three youngsters right here at trials,” Raleigh Crossley mentioned. “It’s been a bit troublesome getting my children prepared earlier than racing and making certain I’m ready for my races, however nice having them right here with me. The Paralympic Motion is a second likelihood to meet my childhood desires of going to the Olympics, however greater than that’s the alternative to do this in a extra impactful and significant method.”
Anastasia Pagonis collected her first victory in Minneapolis within the 400 free S11. Her profitable time of 5:12.08 was effectively off her personal world file of 4:54.49 from Tokyo, however nonetheless six seconds forward of runner-up finisher McClain Hermes (5:18.53).
Minnesota native Summer time Schmit captured the ladies’s 400 free S8 crown after inserting seventh within the S9 occasion in Tokyo. The 20-year-old has been coaching at Minnesota’s Jean Ok. Freeman Aquatic Heart for the previous couple years, so she’s received a house area benefit of kinds this weekend.
“I’m tremendous excited for the remainder of the week,” Schmit mentioned. “I’ve the 200 [individual medley] tomorrow, and I’m now down two races. It has been very nice having one race a day because it’s been a tough couple months of coaching for me. It’s nice to have the ability to see all my onerous work come to fruition.”
Day 2 Winners
- Piper Sadowski (Ladies’s 200-meter Freestyle S14)
- Trevor Lukacsko (Males’s 200-meter Freestyle S14)
- Connor Gioffreda (Males’s 400-meter Freestyle S6)
- Morgan Stickney (Ladies’s 400-meter Freestyle S7)
- Evan Austin (Males’s 400-meter Freestyle S7)
- Jessica Lengthy (Ladies’s 400-meter Freestyle S8)
- Noah Jaffe (Males’s 400-Meter Freestyle S8)
- Summer time Schmit (Ladies’s 400-meter Freestyle S9)
- Carson Bruner (Males’s 400-meter Freestyle S9)
- Alexandra Truwit (Ladies’s 400-Freestyle S10)
- Anastasia Pagonis (Ladies’s 400-meter Freestyle S11)
- Olivia Chambers (Ladies’s 400-meter Freestyle S13)
- Leanne Smith (Ladies’s 50-meter Backstroke S3)
- Victoria Beelner (Ladies’s 50-meter Backstroke S5)
- Abbas Karimi (Males’s 50-meter Backstroke S5)
- Zack Shattuck (Males’s 100-meter Freestyle S6)
- Leanne Smith (Ladies’s 100-meter Freestyle S3)
- Morgan Stickney (Ladies’s 100-meter Freestyle S7)
- Noah Jaffe (Males’s 100 Meter Freestyle S8)
- Christie Raleigh-Crossley (Ladies’s 100-meter Freestyle S9
- Gabi Farinas (Ladies’s 100-meter Freestyle S10)
- Yaseen El-Demerdash (Males’s 100-meter Freestyle S10)
- Anastasia Pagonis (Ladies’s 100-meter Freestyle S11)
