2024 Southern California Invitational
- May 15-18, 2024
- Irvine, California
- Long course meter (50m) qualifying/final
- Meet Mobile Results: 2024 CA Southern California Invitational
The Irvine Novaquatics are one of many clubs across the country hosting major competitions this weekend in a largely informal regional system making final preparations ahead of next month's Olympic Trials.
The rendition featured just a few swimmers in Wednesday's timed 1,500 free final, but Stanford Jr. was particularly noteworthy. aurora log hair.
She made a big splash in the short course during her collegiate season and carried that into the long course pool, running the 1500 free in 16 minutes, 19.79 seconds. This swim beat her previous record at last summer's U.S. National Championships by 18.93 seconds.
This time ranks her as the eighth-best American athlete in this event into the 2023-2024 season.
US rankings, women's 1500m free, 2023-2024 season
- Katie Ledecky – 15:38.81
- Katie Grimes – 15:57.31
- Kate Hurst – 16:09.37
- Paige Madden – 16:09.93
- Rachel Stage – 16:13.59
- Leah Smith – 16:15.45
- Kayla Han – 16:19.07
- Aurora Loghair – 16:19.79
The 1500 free will be a difficult event to break at this summer's Olympic trials, which will feature defending Olympic champions. katie ledecky 18 year old still ahead of the world in this event katie grimes On his last outing in April, he ran a best-in-class snipe distance program in 15 minutes, 57 seconds.
The 1,500-yard drop follows a season-long 20.4-second reduction in the 1,650-yard freestyle, which earned him second place at the NCAA Championships in March.
Loghair did not swim this race at the San Antonio Pro Swim Series, his only long-course appearance of the season, but he did so in that meet with a 200 free (1:59.04) and an 800 free (8:35.42). ) and set the best time. ) He throws himself into the finals and into discussions to earn a spot on the national team at the Olympic Trials.
14 years old chloe tiger In the women's race, she came in second place with a time of 17:06.67, about 13 seconds short of her personal best.
Another Stanford junior won the men's race. Gabe Machado. He swam in 15:50.11, about 10 seconds shy of his personal best from the USA Swimming Professional Championships last July.
When the game gets into full swing on Thursday morning, the following big names will be in attendance. Abby Weitzeil, Amy Tan, Tori Husk, Andy Mures, Kayla Sanchez, jack alexie, Destin Lasko, Justin Less, brooks curry, henry mcfadyen, caitlin dobler, michael andrew, Daniel Roy, Ron Polonsky, Rachel Klinker, Gabe Jett, trenton julian, Dare Roseand sean glee shop expected to join the fray.
Although the fields for most events are fairly small, those fields are fairly full, especially with athletes participating in the University of California and Stanford University varsity programs.
