Minneapolis Grand Prix - Nov. 11-13!!

Here's something to look forward to....the start of the Grand Prix season. First meet is the Minneapolis Grand Prix, held next weekend at the University of Minnesota. There will be a lot of Olympians at this meet, including Ryan Lochte. One big change from previous years - this meet will be long course meters. The psych sheet can be found here:

http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/2ef36ab1-14c8-4349-84ec-36d75f80896a/minnesota%20gran%20prix%20psych%20sheet.pdf

I'm going to love the Grand Prix meets during the Olympic year.

Prelims will be swum in A and B flights.

Ryan's events:

Event #2 - 200m free (Friday) - A prelims at 9:17 am CST

Is this the Minneapolis GP or last summer in Shanghai? Here is a short list of who will be swimming in this event (by seed)

Ryan Lochte

Michael Phelps

Yannick Agnel

Zhang Lin

Peter Vanderkaay

Ous Mellouli

Dominick Meichtry

Matt McLean

Conor Dwyer

...so many more

Event #6 - 100m fly (Friday) - A prelims at 10:04 am CST

Ryan is seeded 9th. Here are some others in this event:

Michael Phelps

Eugene Godsoe

Chris Brady

Ricky Berens

Event #16 - 100m back (Saturday) - A prelim at 9:58 am CST

Ryan is seeded 3rd. Here are some others, including a big surprise from Russia (at least to me):

Arkady Vyatchanin

David Plummer

Michael Phelps

Eugene Godsoe

Ben Hesen

Tyler Clary

Event #18 - 400m free (Saturday) - A prelims at 10:33 am CST

Ryan is seeded 20th. Others in this event:

Zhang Lin

Yannick Agnel

Peter Vanderkaay

Ous Mellouli

Mads Glaesner

Sebastian Rouault

Event #25 - 200m IM (Sunday) - A prelim 8:19 am CST

Ryan Lochte

Michael Phelps

Markus Rogan

Dirian Townsend

Conor Dwyer

Tyler Clary

Event #27 - 200 back (Sunday) - A prelim 8:57 am CST

Ryan Lochte

Markus Rogan

Tyler Clary

Arkady Vyatchanin

Marco Loughran