Ryan Lochte Swimming: Ryan Lochte - A look back 2005/06 (Part IV)

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Ryan Lochte - A look back 2005/06 (Part IV)

A while ago (May 2010) I wrote some blogs on Ryan's past swimming seasons, starting with his first year of college and leading up through the 2004 Olympics and 2005 World Championships. Here are links for the past installments:

A look back 2002/03 (Part I) - http://ryanlochteswimming.blogspot.com/2010/05/look-back-20022003.html

A look back 2003/04 (Part II) - http://ryanlochteswimming.blogspot.com/2010/05/look-back-part-ii.html

A look back 2004/05 (Part III) http://ryanlochteswimming.blogspot.com/2010/05/look-back-part-iii-200405.html

Here's 2006/06 (Part IV):

This season was Ryan's senior year of college and his final appearance at the NCAA Championships. It also represented his transition to professional swimming and an appearance at the 2006 Short Course World Championships in Shanghai and the 2006 Pan Pacs in Canada. This is also the season where Ryan set his first World Records in individual events: three of them in Shanghai.

It's interesting to look back because it shows that Ryan has been swimming very successfully for a long time, but he has also improved tremendously each year.

The season started with the 2005 U.S. Open Championships in Auburn, Alabama, Dec 3-5, 2005. Ryan showed his versatility by winning 4 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze (plus swimming in two additional "A" finals) - a total of 8 events over 3 days!

100m free - 8th

100m back - 1st

100m fly - 5th

200m back - 1st

200m IM - 1st

4 x 100m medley relay - 3rd (back)

4 x 200m free relay - 1st

4 x 100n free relay - 2nd

Interesting note: Pieter Van Den Hoogenbrand of Holland swam in this meet.

The only video I could find was the 100m free, which was won by Nick Brunelli who beat Van Den Hoogenbrand, the WR holder at the time. Ryan placed 8th.