US Winter Nationals

Happy December to all! I am now getting ready for my races tomorrow at the US Winter Nationals in Atlanta. We are competing at the Georgia Tech Natatorium, which is the same pool used for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. I have swam in this pool two other times. Once, in 1998, when I was 11, at my first ‘Zone Championships’ for Gulf Swimming in Texas which was a really awesome experience as a youngster swimming in the Olympic Pool just two years earlier and supplanting that Olympic dream at an early age. Then competing at this renovated pool in the spring of 2006 at the NCAA Championships as a freshmen for Stanford University where I set the fastest time ever swam by an 18 and under male in North America for the 200 yd Breast in a 1:54.41 coming in third just half a second from first!

So I have had some good experiences in this pool and plan to continue them tomorrow in the 100 lcm breaststroke. Check back here for updates after each session or use the results link below for live results. There is also a webcast for each session with links on the USAswimming website (link below).

Schedule: December 1-3

Friday – 100 Breast – 1:04.19

Saturday – 200 Breast – 2:20.64

Results: click here

Main Landing Page and live webcast: US Nationals