SWIMMING NATIONAL MEET : Zedlitz Flies to Surprising Win in 100
Trip Zedlitz won the 100-meter butterfly 30 minutes after finishing second in the 100-meter backstroke at the Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships on Thursday.
In the 100-meter breaststroke, Mike Barrowman lost to Seth Van Neerden by .01. Barrowman had lowered his world record in the 200 breaststroke Tuesday night.
Zedlitz, who will be a sophomore at Stanford, was the last qualifier for the 100 butterfly and didn’t expect to do much.
“I’m in shock,” Zedlitz said. “I’ve never swum the ‘fly at Nationals before. I honestly had no idea when I touched that I had won.”
Van Neerden’s time of 1:02.11 was off his seasonal best of 1:01.67, but it was enough to hold off a fast-closing Barrowman.
In women’s events, Julie Kole of Baltimore and Paige Wilson of Athens, Ga., won their second titles of the meet. Kole, who won the 200 butterfly, took the 400 freestyle in 4:15.54 and Wilson, the winner in the 200 backstroke, won the 100 butterfly in 1:01.03.
Derek Weatherford of Ft. Myers, Fla., and B.J. Bedford of Etna, N.H., were the winners of the 100-meter backstroke. Olympian Lars Jorgensen of San Diego took the men’s 400 freestyle.
Emily Short, the 1990 U.S. Olympic Festival champion in the 100 breaststroke, won her first national title in that event in 1:10.79.
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