BATON ROUGE, La. – Four LSU swimmers set lifetime bests in the first day of events at the ConocoPhillips US National Championship staged at Stanford University in Palo, Alto California.
Junior Amanda Kendall beat her previous 100-meter butterfly lifetime best in the preliminaries (1:00.60) en route to clinching a spot in the ‘C’ Final. Kendall went on to finish 23rd out of 184 competitors by besting her preliminary time in the ‘C’ Final with an impressive 1:00.00.
Kendall still has three events left, and will compete in the women’s 200m freestyle today, 50m free on Thursday and the 100m free on Saturday.
Kendall, LSU’s record holder in the 100yd free and the 200yd free, qualified for US Nationals in the 50m free and the 100m free with her sprint double performance earlier in July at the Texas Senior Circuit #4. She posted a time of 25.84 in the 50m free as well as a time of 55.78 in the 100m free.
Fellow junior and 100m fly swimmer, Sara Haley, also swam a lifetime best with a time of 1:02.38. She will be competing in the 200m fly on Friday after qualifying with a time of 2:15.71 at the Texas Senior Circuit #4.
Edinburgh, Scotland native junior Craig Hamilton finished 50th out of 118 in the 400m free with a lifetime best 3:59.59. He will continue competition in the 1500m free on Friday.
Junior Sally Wood also swam a lifetime best in the 200m individual medley (2:19.20) and placed 54th out of 165 athletes. She will be competing in the 400m IM on Thursday.
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Schedule of events: *LSU athlete participating
August 3
W 100m Backstroke*
M 200m Freestyle
M 100m Backstroke*
W 200m Freestyle*
M 200m Butterfly
W 4x100m Free Relay
August 4
W 100m Breaststroke*
M 100m Butterfly
W 50m Freestyle*
M 50m Freestyle
W 400m Individual Medley*
W 4x200m Free Relay
August 5
M 100m Freestyle
W 200m Butterfly*
M 200m Individual Medley
W 200m Backstroke*
W 800m Free/ M 1500m Free (heats)*
M 4X200m Free Relay
August 6
W 800m Free (Final)
W 100m Freestyle*
M 200m Backstroke*
W 200m Breaststroke*
M 200m Breaststroke
M 1500m Free (Final)*
M/W 4x100m Medley Relays*