2024 U.S. Open
With this being the primary U.S. Open in brief course yards in current historical past and with it being the primary version after the summer time Olympics and one week earlier than World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m), the anticipated entrants for the 2024 U.S. Open has been everybody’s guess. However hopefully the American Thanksgiving vacation has not saturated an excessive amount of of our urge for food because the Psych sheets have dropped, and after the quick swimming on the collegiate invitations, I’m prepared for spherical 2 of some quick quick course yards swimming,
2024 U.S. Open Psych Sheets (Pre-Scratch)
With a small however notable contingent of the US Nationwide workforce heading to Budapest to race at quick course Phrases within the second week of December, the likes of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass and Michael Andrew will be unable to defend their U.S. Open victories from 2023. Of their stead, a powerful crop of collegiate swimmers will look to show success right here into robust run at NCAAs.
Chloe Stepanek, who returned for her fifth yr at Texas A&M, finds herself as the highest seed within the 50 (22.06), 100 (47.70), and 200 (1:42.41) yard freestyles. Stepanek positioned fifteenth and sixteenth, respectively within the 100 and 200 freestyles at Olympic Trials, the place she additionally positioned thirty second within the 50 free and thirty fourth within the 100 fly, the latter of which was in a brand new greatest time. Stepanek can be entered within the 500 free, 200 again, and 100 fly.
Within the 500 free, Stepanek trails SwimSwam’s #10 ranked swimmer within the class of 2025, Kennedi Dobson. A Georgia commit, Dobson claimed gold on the Junior Pan-Pacs this previous summer time within the 400 free and enters the U.S. Open as the highest seed in each the five hundred free (4:37.33) and within the 200 backstroke (1:53.88). Dobson is entered in a whopping ten particular person occasions and certain will pair that down, however at Junior Pan Pacs, she did swim six particular person races.
Dobson and Stepanek could also be atop the psych sheet within the 200 again, however most eyes will probably be on Rhyan White. The Wolfpack Elite swimmer is entered in 5 particular person occasions and finds herself as the highest seed within the 100 again (51.93) and 100 fly (51.47). She may even deal with the 200 IM, 200 fly, and 200 again. White, who completed sixth at Olympic Trials within the 200 again, finds herself because the twenty third seed within the occasion (entered with a LCM time), as like lots of her fellow post-grad swimmers, White spent all of final yr racing in meters and solely not too long ago returned to the yards pool this month.
UNC seems to be sending a couple of swimmers to make the hour of so drive to Greensboro led by Olympic Trials semifinalist Skyler Smith. Smith tops the sphere in each the 100 breast (58.65) and within the 200 breast (2:10.84). UNC isn’t the one collegiate program sending groups as Loyola (Maryland), Purdue, Florida Atlantic and Queens populate the relay entries.
Queens, which received the D II NCAAs from 2015-2019 and now competes on the D I stage within the Atlantic Solar Convention, like UNC finds itself with swimmers atop the psych sheet. Slovak Olympian Matej Dusa, a grad pupil, is the highest seed within the males’s 50 free (19.13).
Most of the prime seeds on the lads’s facet are taken up by collegiate swimmers. Purdue’s Brady Samuels (42.40) will look to carry off UNC’s Patrick Hussey (42.72) within the 100 free, whereas Penn State’s Mariano Lazzerini is the highest seed in each of the breaststroke (51.08 & 1:52.94).
Trying to maintain off the collegiate swimmers is SwimAtlanta’s Bradley Dunham. The previous Georgia Bulldog is the highest seed in each backstroke in addition to the 200 and 500 free. Dunham, who positioned as excessive as 18th within the 200 again at Olympic Trials. He’s coming off of his greatest displaying at NCAAs, the place as a fifth yr, Dunham set the varsity file within the 200 again (1:37.58) en path to ending sixth in a time of 1:38.43.
Fellow post-grad Danny Berlitz finds himself atop the sphere in each of the IMs (1:43.94 & 3:43.02) and likewise finds himself in each the 200 breaststroke and 200 backstroke. Berlitz is coming off of a powerful displaying on the Olympic Trials. The previous West Virginia Mountaineer swam a private better of 4:15.98 to make the finals of the 400 IM, the place he would in the end end in eighth.
Like White within the 200 again, Drew Kibler, swimming beneath the New York Athletic Membership, is entered with solely lengthy course instances, belying the depth of the dash frees. Kibler is the 53rd seed within the 50 free, entered with an extended course 22.34. The identical is true for the 100, 200 and 500 free, the place his lengthy course entries have him a lot additional down the entry lists. Fellow 2024 Olympian Breno Correia, who represented Brazil on the Paris Video games, can be entered in meters instances, as is Hvoje Tomic, who would have been a freshman at Notre Dame this yr. Tomic is a Croatian nationwide who was a Junior Worlds semifinalist in 2023.
