Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Duel in the Pool 2009 - European Team Announced and US Short Course Nationals

Duel in the Pool 2009

The European team for Duel in the Pool, which takes place on December 18-19 in Manchester, England has been announced. Laszlo Cseh is not on the list, which is truly a shame. According to swimnews.com, the following swimmers are on the European men's team:

Britain:
  • David Davies - Loughborough
  • James Goddard - Stockport
  • Thomas Haffield - City of Cardiff
  • Michael Rock - Stockport
  • Liam Tancock - Loughborough
  • Christopher Walker-Hebborn - Bath
  • Robbie Renwick - City of Glasgow

Italy:

  • Federico Colbertaldo - GS Fiamme Azzurre / Montebelluna Nuoto
  • Christian Galenda - Fiamme Gialle / Canottieri Aniene
  • Edoardo Giorgetti - Canottieri Aniene
  • Filippo Magnini - Larus Nuoto
  • Luca Marin - Ispra Nuoto
  • Joseph Davide Natullo - Can Napoli
  • Fabio Scozzoli - Imolanuotoromagna - GS Esercito

Germany

  • Steffen Deibler - TG Biberach
  • Hendrik Feldwehr - SG Essen
  • Marco Koch - DSW 12 Darmstadt
  • Benjamin Starke - SG Neukölln
http://www.swimnews.com/News/view/7331

Even though Laszlo Cseh is not participating, the European team has quite a few swimmers that will be great in Ryan's usual events. Some of the European swimmers were familiar to me: James Goddard is one of the world's best IMers as are Luca Marin and Thomas Haffield. Liam Tancock and Christoper Walker-Hebborn are excellent backstrokers, and Steffen Deibler and Filippo Magnini are among the best freestyle sprinters in the world.

Other members of the team were new to me. I researched their names and learned that Michael Rock and Joseph Davide Natullo swim 100 & 200 butterfly and Robbie Renwick swims 200 free. Christian Galenda is a freestyle sprinter. Edoardo Giorgetti, Marco Koch, Hendrik Feldwehr and Fabio Scozzoli swim breaststroke. Benjamin Starke swims freestyle and butterfly.

I haven't heard if Ryan's knee has healed or if he has been swimming. Hopefully he will have enough time to get ready for this meet. It's only 3 weeks away.

US Short Course Nationals

The U.S. SC nationals will take place next weekend in Federal Way, Washington. The psych sheet has already been released and can be found here:

http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/Documents/23ccd32f-163f-4e73-baf7-f7c880408a5f/Psych%20Sheet_SCYNats.pdf

Ryan is not entered in any events, but neither is anyone from UF. It will be fun to see how well Tyler Clary can do. I've missed watching him swim.





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