tedbear said:
Ugh, Isabelle misses on the Gold by .09 secs.
Sorry, not around much to update Bears related results in a timely fashion, but here's a noteworthy one below!
Several Bears past present & future making a mark @
2019 Pam Ams the past couple of days - hopefully someone will post something on all of that...but in a nutshell:
Shields,
Adrian,
Kennedy,
Long (MEX),
Song (MEX),
Carr,
Josa, and of course
Stadden (see writeups below on Belle) - did I miss anyone?
Really luvly to bear witness to Long, Shields & Josa racing right next to each other in the A final of the
100m Fly last night...a familiar sight during practice @ Spieker & Legends, I reckon...capped off with Tom taking the gold in a redemption-esque sort of moment
Also Carr owning the
200m Back A final, and Song dominating the B final - dare we hope for a repeat of these results @ this evening's
100m Back finals? :p
Go Backstroke U! Go Bears!-------
STADDEN'S 59.69 100 BACK MIXED MEDLEY LEAD-OFF NOW 8TH FASTEST EVER FOR 17-18On the heels of her impressive 200m back swim yesterday while competing at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, 17-year-old
Isabelle Stadden fired off a new lifetime best in the women's 100m back today as relay lead-off.
Stadden first clocked a morning
200m back time yesterday of 2:09.15, which the Cal commit lowered to 2:08.39 for silver behind teammate Alex Walsh in the individual final. But today, Stadden led-off the mixed medley relay in a 100m back split of 59.69. That sliced .02 off of the now-17-year-old's previous lifetime best of 59.71 logged just this past June at the Pro Swim Series in Clovis.
Today in Lima, Peru, Stadden's sub-minute outing was composed of 29.11/30.58 to give the Aquajet swimmer her new best time and also check her in as the 8th fastest American female ever in the 17-18 age group for the 100m back.
Top American Women's 100m Backstrokers Ever, Aged 17-1857.57 | REGAN SMITH | MN | UN | 18TH FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 | 7/28/2019 | GWANGJU
58.33 |
Missy Franklin | US | STAR | | 7/28/2012 | London
59.10 |
Rachel Bootsma | PC | AQJT | 2012 USA Olympic Team Trials | 6/25/2012 | Omaha
59.29 | Katharine Berkoff | MT | MAC | | 7/4/2019 | Napoli
59.37 |
Amy Bilquist | AZ | CAL | 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Swimming | 6/28/2016 | Omaha
59.58 | Claire Adams | IN | CSC | 2015 U.S. National Champs | 8/7/2015 | San Antonia
59.63 |
Kathleen Baker | NC | UN | 2015 World Champs | 8/3/2015 | Kazan
59.69 | Isabelle Stadden | | | 2019 Pan American Games | 8/8/2019 | Lima, Peru-------
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THE CONGESTION IN U.S. WOMEN'S BACKSTROKE HEADING INTO 2020ALL-TIME 200m Backstroker PERFORMERS, WOMEN'S 17-18 AGE GROUP (U.S.)Regan Smith, 2:03.35
Missy Franklin, 2:04.06
Elizabeth Beisel, 2:07.82
Elizabeth Pelton, 2:08.06
Amy Bilquist / Alex Walsh, 2:08.30
Isabelle Stadden, 2:08.39
Bonnie Brandon, 2:09.03
Kylie Stewart /
Alex Sumner, 2:09.04
SWIMMER | LIFETIME BEST | 2019 SEASON-BEST | 2019 WORLD RANKRegan Smith | 2:03.35 | 2:03.35 | 1
Lisa Bratton | 2:07.91 | 2:07.91 | 8
Kathleen Baker | 2:06.14 | 2:08.08 | 9
Alex Walsh | 2:08.30 | 2:08.30 | 10
Hali Flickinger | 2:08.36 | 2:08.36 | 11
Isabelle Stadden | 2:08.24 | 2:08.39 | 12
Asia Seidt | 2:08.56 | 2:08.56 | 15
Phoebe Bacon | 2:09.11 | 2:09.11 | 18
Rye Ulett | 2:09.70 | 2:09.70 | 23
Claire Curzan | 2:10.16 | 2:10.16 | 29
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