2024 ST TXLA UT Invite Professional Athlete Time Trials
- November 20, 2024
- SCY (25 yards)
- Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Heart, Austin, TX
- Full outcomes below “ST TXLA UT Invite Professional Ath” on Swimcloud
In the identical meet the place Carson Foster briefly broke the American document within the 500 free, different execs coaching on the College of Texas additionally threw down quick course yards instances on the ST TXLA UT Invite, which occurred this previous weekend whereas the adjoining Texas Corridor of Fame Invitational was happening for NCAA athletes.
One of many extra notable showings got here from Shaine Casas, who has been coaching as a professional at Texas since 2021. Casas clocked a time of 1:39.44 within the 200 IM, a 1:31.27 within the 200 free and a 44.18 within the 100 again. His performances in all three occasions had been his quickest because the 2020-21 NCAA season, the final season the place he was a collegiate swimmer competing for Texas A&M. Within the 100 again and 200 IM he posted his second quickest performances of all-time, behind the 43.87 and 1:38.95 that he swam respectively on the Artwork Adamson Invitational. His 200 free was additionally his no. 2 efficiency ever, behind the 1:30.59 he clocked on the 2021 NCAA Championships.
Notably, Casas’ 100 again and 200 IM instances had been quicker than what he put as much as win each occasions at 2021 NCAAs.
Other than his 500 free, Foster additionally swam different races. One in every of them was the 200 breast, the place he went a finest time of 1:52.93 — enhancing from his earlier PB of 1:53.77 set in February 2023. Breaststroke has traditionally been Foster’s worst stroke, and but he nonetheless swam a time that might have simply missed the ‘B’ finals of the 200 breast at 2024 NCAAs by 0.22 seconds.
Foster additionally went a time of three:34.50 within the 400 IM, which is his second-fastest efficiency ever and round a second off his private finest of three:33.79 from 2022 NCAAs.
Chase Kalisz was one other notable professional competing, firing off a 1:43.38 200 fly, 1:45.34 200 IM and 53.57 100 breast. So was Misha Lyubavskiy, a Russian swimmer who final competed for George Washington College through the 2023-24 NCAA season. He swam instances of 4:21.20 within the 500 free and three:47.77 within the 400 IM, along with his 500 free time being an enchancment from his earlier better of 4:21.63.
The one lady who raced at this invite was 2024 Texas graduate Anna Elendt, who swam a formidable time of 57.94 within the 100 breast. This time is lower than a second off the time of 57.04 that she swam to position fourth within the occasion at 2024 NCAAs.
