We found out that a good friend of ours was also at Trials with his family! Lars is the young man who went back and swam the end of the 400 IM with Ryan in this post. He is now at BYU, so we hadn’t seen him for a while. As we were sitting waiting for the prelims to start, we spotted Lars! Ryan ran over and was able to talk with him for a few minutes. It was fun to see someone we knew there!
Women’s 100 free – 14 heats; Rachel Bootsma in Heat 11; Kara Lynn Joyce, Dana Vollmer, Jessica Hardy in Heat 12; Lauren Perdue, Shannon Vreeland, Natalie Coghlin, Amanda Weir, Elizabeth Pelton, Christine Magnuson in Heat 13; Missy Franklin, Allison Schmitt in Heat 14.
Men’s 200 back – 11 heats; Matt Grevers & Ryan Murphy in Heat 9; Tyler Clary & Nick Thoman in Heat 10; Ryan Lochte in Heat 11.
Matt…
Tyler…
Ryan…
Women’s 200 breast – 13 heats; Micah Lawrence& Ariana Kukors in Heat 11; Annie Chandler & Amanda Beard in Heat 12; Rebecca Soni & Caitlin Leverenz in Heat 13.
Amanda…
Rebecca…
Men’s 200 IM – 13 heats; Conor Dwyer in Heat 11; Michael Phelps in Heat 12; Ryan Lochte & Peter Vanderkaay in Heat 13.
Michael…
Ryan…
AquaZone/Hilton:
We knew that Aaron Piersol was going to be at the AquaZone, so we headed there as soon as prelims ended. Ryan was able to wear yet another gold medal, and meet the medalist! Aaron Piersol is another one of my favorite swimmers. He has now retired, but he was a silver medalist in 2000 in Sydney, gold medalist in 2004 in Athens, and a gold medalist in 2008 in Beijing.
After we saw Aaron, we decided to walk around downtown Omaha. The entire week we were there, it was over 100 degrees, and about 90% humidity! I had no idea that Omaha was so humid! Today was the “coolest” day, so we took our walk around town.
We saw Kathleen Hersey on the Marriott…
And swimmers on the sidewalks…
The Gene Leahy Pedestrian Mall is beautiful! It runs down the middle of downtown Omaha, and has several quirky benches and some HUGE slides!
As we walked by the ConAgra headquarters, they had a huge screen set up where they had been showing the Trials live. They were showing an interview with Aaron Piersol!
Ry with Chef Boyardee…
We had planned to walk along the waterfront and over the Bob Kerrey pedestrian bridge, but we were so extremely hot that we decided to do those another day. We headed back to the C-Link and Hilton to cool down.
We saw…
Elizabeth Beisel, who signed Ryan’s shirt…
Cullen Jones, who had headphones on & wasn’t acknowledging fans, so Ryan walked alongside for a good photo…
Nathan Adrian (who is ALWAYS smiling like this!) approaching Ryan for a high five…
Caitlin Leverenz…
Ricky Berens and Rebecca Soni...
Finals:
Men’s 200 breast – 1=Scott Weltz (2:09.01); 1=Clark Burckle (2:09.97); Eric Shanteau 3rd, Brendan Hansen 4th.
Women’s 100 free (semis) – Lia Neal, Allison Schmitt, Elizabeth Pelton in Heat 1; Natalie Coughlin, Amanda Weir, Dana Vollmer, Jessica Hardy, Missy Franklin in Heat 2.
Men’s 200 back (semis) – Tyler Clary & Nick Thoman in Heat 1; Ryan Lochte & Ryan Murphy in Heat 2.
Ryan Lochte…
Bob Costas’ interview tonight was with Missy Franklin. Because of her heavy security throughout the Trials, this was the closest that we ever were to her.
Men’s 200 breast medal (Scott Weltz & Clark Burckle) -
Women’s 200 fly – 1=Cammile Adams (2:06.52); 2=Kathleen Hersey (2:07.72).
Men’s 100 free – 1=Nathan Adrian (48.10); 2=Cullen Jones (48.46); Matt Grevers 3rd, Ricky Berens 4th, Jason Lezak 6th, Garrett Weber-Gale 8th).
Matt and Nathan…
Jason…
Ricky…
Nathan…
Results…
Women’s 200 breast (semis) – Breeja Larson & Micah Lawrence in Heat 1; Amanda Bears, Rebecca Soni, Caitlin Leverenz in Heat 2.
Amanda & Rebecca…
Still getting used to charging my camera on a daily basis due to thousands of sport-setting pictures taken, my camera died before the evening events were over.
Women’s 200 fly medal – Cammile Adams & Kathleen Hersey
Men’s 200 IM (semis) – 1=Ryan Lochte & Michael Phelps in Heat 1; Peter Vanderkaay & Conor Dwyer in Heat 2.
Men’s 100 free medal – Nathan Adrian & Cullen Jones
As Ryan and I drove the 30 minutes back to Rachael’s house, we talked about what an amazing day it was, and how it far surpassed our expectations. I said, “I can’t imagine that tomorrow could be any better!”
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