Coming off of a strong showing at last weekend’s Dual in the Pool in Indianapolis, Indiana, Katie Meili continued to turn heads on day two of the 2015 Pro-Am Classic in Lewisville, Texas. Meili posted a time of 58.20 to win the 100-yard breaststroke by over four seconds.
The first event of the night was the 200-yard freestyle. Karlee Bispo won the women’s event by under two-tenths of a second with a time of 1:45.32. Mission Viejo Nadadors’ Grant Shoults took the men’s crown with a time of 1:34.72.
After Meili’s dominant showing in the women’s 100-yard breaststroke, the men’s race was much closer. Brendan McHugh barely beat Roland Schoeman with a time of 51.62. Shoeman touched in 52.17.
In the women’s 100-yard butterfly, Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace brought home first place in 52.13. Tim Phillips won the men’s event in 46.48, a half second over Eugene Godsoe.
Mason Viejo’s Jessica Epps took first place in the women’s 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:17.15. Logan Redondo, also from Mason Viejo, won the men’s event in 3:53.21.
Mission Viejo continued to roll in the women’s 400-yard freestyle relay. The Nadadores team of Epps, Andrea Felix, Stephanie Peacock and Samantha Shelton won with a time of 3:23.95. Lakeside Aquatic Club finished second with a time of 3:25.10. The team consisted of Kara Eisenmann, Lauren Pitzer, Samantha Porter and Lauren Savoy.
The Nadadores also won the men’s relay. The winning team of Daniel Kim, Shoults, Logan Redondo and Marc Morizono posted a time of 3:02.07. Lakeside Aquatic Club’s team of Brendan Feehery, Alvin Jiang, Alexander Zettle and Ethan Kramer took second with a time of 3:05.74.
Day three preliminaries begin at 8:30 a.m. Swimmers will compete in the 200-yard individual medley, 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 100-yard backstroke and 500-yard freestyle. Finals begin at 5 p.m. and also include the men’s and women’s 400-yard medley relay.
After a strong day two, Meili is seeded first going into tomorrow’s 200-yard breaststroke.
On the way fine breaststroke
Career-best for Meii in 100 breast. Old pr: 58,64 from this meet to years ago. She’s now 10th-fastest performer and has 20t-best performance all-time in event.
Mission Viejo’s Grant Shoults, Swimming World’s prep Swimmer of the Year this past season wholl be a freshman @. Stanford for Coah Ted Knapp’s Cardinal next September, swam a pr 8:48.03 to win the 1000 free, second all-time on the 1718 NAG list to Michigan’s P.J. Ransford’s 8:46.40 @. this year’s NCAAs. That time in turn was a split off his NAG record in the “mil” (14:34.36)
Shoults’ teammate, Stephanie Peacock (former NCAA 1650 free
record-holde while @. North Carolina for Coach Rich De Selm’s “Wolfpack” (!!!) won her 1000 in a career-best 9:23.50.
Career-best 100 breast for McHugh (51.62), making him 10th-fastest performer all-time. His old pr was a 51.68 here last year. He’s another “Ivy Leaguer” w/Big O’s aspirations I’d dare say. (He’s a graduate of the University off Pennsylvania.)