Ryan entered in Speedo Southern Zone Championships March 19-22, 2009 and Megan Jendrick news

Ryan is not at the USA National Team training camp in California. Rather, he will be competing in the Speedo Southern Zone Championship this weekend. This is a long course event in Fort Lauderdale.

Several Olympic and U.S. National Team athletes will competing at this meet, including Fred Bousquet, Sebastien Rouault, Vlad Polyakov, Elizabeth Beisel, Caroline Burckle and J.P. Arnold.

Event results will be available at http://www.flaswim.com/

Ryan is entered in 9 events (psych sheet can be found at http://www.flaswim.com/pdf/meets/2009-03-19%20SCS/2009-03-19%20Psych%20Sheet.pdf)

Event 8 - 200m Free (Friday 3/20)
Seeded 1st

Event 10 - 100m Breast (Friday 3/20)
Seeded 2nd (Vlad Polyakov is seeded 1st)

Event 12 - 100m Fly (Friday 3/20)
Seeded 1st

Event 18 - 100m Back (Saturday 3/21)
Seeded 1st

Event 20 - 200m IM (Saturday 3/21)
Seeded 1st

Event 24 - 400m Free (Saturday 3/21)
Seeded 2nd (Sebastien Rouault is seeded 1st and J.P. Arnold is seeded 3rd)

Event 28 - 200m Fly (Sunday 3/22)
Seeded 49th (Fred Castro is seeded 1st)
Ryan doesn't have a LC meters time so his entry seed is based on a SCY time

Event 30 - 100m Free (Sunday 3/22)
Seeded 2nd (Fred Bousquet is seeded 1st)

Event 34 - 200m Back (Sunday 3/22)
Seeded 1st


Megan Jendrick News
In other swimming news, Megan Jendrick broke her leg at the U.S. national training camp in Chula Vista. The swimmers were training with the Navy Seals, and Megan slipped and fell on the obstacle course fracturing her fibula. This is definitely an unfortunate setback for her, but she has a positive attitude and plans to continue training for Worlds while she her leg is healing.
http://megan-jendrick.com/?p=76

Ryan to race in 2009 Florida Spring Senior Championships this weekend?

I just read on Daily Reezy, the best source of all information on Ryan Lochte, that Ryan may be competing in a meet in Orlando this coming weekend. The 2009 Florida Spring Senior Championships will take place from Feb. 27-Mar. 1 in Orlando, and I'm wondering if that is the meet in question.

As soon as more information is available, I will post it. Here's the meet web address:

http://www.floridaswimming.org/FLSR.htm

U.S. Shortcourse Nationals

Ryan entered 6 events in last week's U.S. Shortcourse Nationals. His results were great, given that he only trained 10 times in the four months after the Olympics. His events, times and (best times) are listed below:

200y IM 1:40.89 (1:40.08 on 11/29/07) - 1st place
50y free 19.39 (19.22 on 11/29/07) - 7th place
100y back 45.37 (44.60 on 3/23/06) - 1st place
200y free 1:32.40 (best time) - 1st place
200y back 1:38.49 (1:36.81 on 12/1/07) - 1st place
100y free 41.99 (best time) - 4th place

Ryan swam best times in 200 and 100 free and close to best times in 200IM and 50 free. Ryan's backstroke events were not as close to his best times, but he raced hard and won both.

At this point I'm thinking Ryan will not try to qualify for Worlds in the 50 and 100 free. There's just too much competition, and Michael Phelps may starting swimming the 100 free as an individual event, which adds yet another swimmer to the mix with a better personal best time. At this point I can see Ryan trying to qualify in the 100 and 200 back, 200 free and 200IM. The 400IM is another possibility.

Thanks to swimnetwork.com for the comprehensive coverage of the Shortcourse Nationals. All of the finals were streamed live on the website, complete with announcers! I was able to watch live on Thursday and part of Saturday and was really impressed. The announcers provided information about all of the swimmers and the events. Comprehensive information about the meet (including results, photos and videos) can be found here http://www.swimnetwork.com/event/detail/20081203/2008_usa_short_course_national_championships-2296.html