Thursday, February 4, 2010

2010 Missouri Grand Prix

The first long course Grand Prix of 2010 is fast approaching, the Missouri Grand Prix. Only in its fourth year, the meet has featured three world records in the past and two American records. (Most of them were set the week the Speedo LZR was introduced.) Another hugely talented roster is traveling to Columbia in one weeks time, which includes five Olympic Gold Medalists! In fact, of the 13 men's individual Olympic events, the Beijing gold medalist in NINE of them is swimming in Missouri! Look for all of the swimmers in Missouri to make a huge impact on the fairly weak world rankings. The meet begins Friday, February 12 and runs through Monday, Feb. 15

The psych sheet for the meet is available here.

The meet is still a week away, but here are my predictions:

Friday, February 12:
Women's 200 Free
1 - Elizabeth Pelton, North Baltimore
2 - Erika Erndl, Swim Florida
3 - Heather McLean, Canada

Men's 200 Free
1 - Michael Phelps, North Baltimore
2 - Ous Mellouli, Trojan
3 - Ryan Lochte, Daytona Beach

Women's 100 Breast
1 - Annamay Pierse, UCB Dolphins
2 - Keri Hehn, Trojan
3 - Haylee Johnson, UCB Dolphins

Men's 100 Breast
1 - Kosuke Kitajima, Coca-Cola
2 - Eric Shanteau, Longhorn
3 - Matt Lowe, Longhorn

Women's 100 Fly
1 - Felicia Lee, North Baltimore
2 - Whitney Myers, FAST
3 - Elizabeth Pelton, North Baltimore

Men's 100 Fly
1 - Michael Phelps, North Baltimore
2 - Vitas Janusaitis, Lithuania
3 - Ryan Lochte, Daytona Beach

Women's 400 IM
1 - Tanya Hunks, UBC Dolphins
2 - Stephanie Proud, Gator Swim Club
3 - Shannon Vreeland, Kansas City Blazers

Men's 400 IM
1 - Ous Mellouli, Trojan
2 - Brian Johns, UBC Dolphins
3 - Rexford Tullius, Gator Swim Club

Saturday, February 13:
Women's 200 IM
1 - Elizabeth Pelton, North Baltimore
2 - Whitney Myers, FAST
3 - Erika Erndl, Swim Florida

Men's 200 IM
1 - Michael Phelps, North Baltimore
2 - Eric Shanteau, Longhorn
3 - Thiago Pereira, Trojan

Women's 50 Free
1 - Amanda Weir, Swim Atlanta
2 - Erika Erndl, Swim Florida
3 - Arlene Semeco, Coral Springs

Men's 50 Free
1 - Brent Hayden, UBC Dolphins
2 - Will Copeland, California Aquatics
3 - Bennett Clark, California Aquatics

Women's 200 Breast
1 - Annamay Pierse, UCB Dolphins
2 - Keri Hehn, Trojan
3 - Haylee Johnson, UCB Dolphins

Men's 100 Breast
1 - Kosuke Kitajima, Coca-Cola
2 - Eric Shanteau, Longhorn
3 - Neil Versfeld, Athens Bulldogs

Women's 100 Back
1 - Elizabeth Pelton, North Baltimore
2 - Whitney Myers, FAST
3 - Aubrey Peacock, BSS

Men's 100 Back
1 - Michael Phelps, North Baltimore
2 - Nick Thoman, SwimMAC Carolina
3 - Ryan Lochte, Daytona Beach

Women's 400 Free
1 - Chloe Sutton, Mission Viejo
2 - Melanie Klaren, Unattached
3 - Tanya Hunks, UBC Dolphins

Men's 400 Free
1 - Ous Mellouli, Trojan
2 - Ricardo Monasterio, DANA
3 - Deni Cullom, Mission Viejo

Sunday, February 14:
Women's 800 Free
1 - Chloe Sutton, Mission Viejo
2 - Savannah King, UBC Dolphins
3 - Camryne Morris, North Baltimore

Men's 1,500 Free
1 - Ous Mellouli, Trojan
2 - Ricardo Monasterio, DANA
3 - Jan Daniec, Mission Viejo

Women's 200 Back
1 - Elizabeth Pelton, North Baltimore
2 - Stephanie Proud, Gator Swim Club
3 - Aubrey Peacock, BSS

Men's 200 Back
1 - Michael Phelps, North Baltimore
2 - Markus Rogan, Trojan
3 - Nick Thoman, SwimMAC Carolina

Women's 100 Free
1 - Amanda Weir, Swim Atlanta
2 - Erika Erndl, Swim Florida
3 - Heather McLean, Canada

Men's 100 Free
1 - Brent Hayden, UBC Dolphins
2 - Michael Phelps, North Baltimore
3 - Will Copeland, California Aquatics

Women's 200 Fly
1 - Felicia Lee, North Baltimore
2 - Tanya Hunks, UCB Dolphins
3 - Shannon Vreeland, Kansas City Blazers

Men's 200 Fly
1 - Todd Patrick, North Baltimore
2 - Brian Johns, UBC Dolphins
3 - Masayuki Kishida, Tucson Ford

Monday, February 15:
Women's 1,500 Free
1 - Chloe Sutton, Mission Viejo
2 - Taylor O'Brien, PAAC
3 - Courtney Beidler, THY

Men's 800 Free
1 - Ricardo Monasterio, DANA
2 - Deni Cullom, Mission Viejo
3 - Jan Daniec, Mission Viejo

*Note that these predictions could change when the psych sheet is updated.

6 comments:

  1. I'm amused at how heavily biased your predictions are toward NBAC swimmers, but I don't think it will actually happen that way. Especially in the backstoke events....I don't see MP getting first finishes in either of them. We'll see! :-)

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  2. I'm not sure I can see any of the other guys (Thoman, Rogan, Lochte in the 100) getting by Phelps at this point in the season. Admittedly, Phelps hasn't swam a 200 back in almost two years, but I think if he's fresh (which he will be) he will be fine. I think the other NBAC swimmers (Lee, Pelton, Patrick) will be able to do what I predicted, as they usually do.

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  3. Well, disregard all predictions in which North Baltimore is mentioned. They're not going because of the excessive snow in Baltimore. I'll wait to completely redo the blog until I see who else (if anyone) gets stuck in the snow.

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  4. @ David...for what it's worth they should've foreseen this since the weather reports have been saying this for quite some time! Just my opinion, but I'm disappointed!

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  5. Way to go Mellouli!

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  6. I guess the meet management or even any of the coaches or swimmers (including Bob Bowman) didn't realize this would be an issue until a couple of days ago. By then, too late to reschedule the meet based on pool commitments and swimmers' plans. So far, the only major group who is affected is NBAC. Lochte, Sutton, Kitajima, Mellouli, Shanteau, Weber-Gale, Copeland, etc. should be fine. As long as you're not on the mid/north East Coast!

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