2025 Solar Satan Open
Might 16-18, 2025
Mona Plummer Aquatic Middle, Tempe, Arizona
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Reside Outcomes on Meet Cellular: “2025 Solar Satan Open”
Reside Recaps: Day 1
A sub-51 second 100 fly from Canadian Ilya Kharun and an enormous time drop from Stanford’s Caroline Bricker highlighted the second day of the 2025 Solar Satan Elite Invitational.
Within the males’s 100 fly, Kharun swam 50.93 to seize the win, following a lifetime greatest of fifty.42 to win two weeks in the past on the Professional Swim in Ft. Lauderdale. Till this month, he had solely been sub-51 on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, however with a seeming shift in focus to the shorter butterflies underneath first yr Arizona State head coach Herbie Behm, Kharun has now finished so 3 times earlier than Canada’s Trials meet.
Canada will maintain their World Championship Trials June 7-12, the week after the People.
Kharun’s teammate Jonny Kulow completed 2nd in 53.28, and U.S. Olympian Michael Andrew completed third in 54.04.
Andrew’s splitting within the closing was 24.01/30.03, and the swim was .55 seconds slower than he was in prelims. Within the morning, he swam a 53.49, splitting 24.73/28.76, and an aggressive opening within the night session value him on the finish.
His second 50 in finals was second-worst within the area. Andrew’s ending tempo has been a giant subject in his first season departing from his father Peter Andrew and their USRPT coaching methodology to coach with Behm at Arizona State.
Within the girls’s 100 fly, Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske touched in 58.01 after a 56.59 on the Professional Swim two weeks in the past.
Huske is poised for a training change at Stanford after head coach Greg Meehan left to take a task because the U.S. Nationwide Staff Director; Meehan has been writing exercises for Huske and others, together with his assistants Katie Robinson and Kim Williams executing these exercises.
French swimmer Marie Wattel, now coaching at Arizona State, completed 2nd within the 100 fly in 59.35. She’s the French Document holder, and France has the final main World Championship Trials on the planet from June 14-17.
Whereas Huske had a reasonably large falloff from her final swim, teammate Caroline Bricker was locked in on Saturday.
Bricker gained the 400 IM in 4:42.38, which took greater than three seconds off her earlier private better of 4:45.68 that she swam in Ft. Lauderdale. Previous to this month, her greatest lengthy course time was a 4:46.44 finished at Junior Nationals in 2021.
Bricker has flourished at Stanford and gained the NCAA title within the 400 IM in March. She didn’t swim the 400 IM ultimately yr’s Olympic Trials, specializing in the 100 fly, 200 fly, and 200 IM.
However as a priceless information level: in her final meet earlier than final yr’s Olympic Trials, she went a greatest time within the 200 fly, after which 4 weeks later was even quicker in Indianapolis. Whereas the timing was a bit completely different, the large drops in Ft. Lauderdale and now Tempe don’t essentially point out a untimely peak.
The Arizona Wildcats are following a great first brief course yr underneath new head coach Ben Loorz with a great begin to the lengthy course season as properly.
Rising senior Eleni Gewalt gained the 100 breaststroke in her first meet because the NCAA Championships. She swam 1:09.56, which took virtually four-tenths off her greatest time from April 2024.
Her teammate and rising junior Tommy Palmer was 4th within the 100 fly in 54.06, which took half-a-second off his lifetime greatest (finished at this meet final yr).
