Six World Records at a Trials Meet Outside Chicago. The Bar TV Was on Football.
Kate Douglass went 49.64 in the short-course 100 free. Five names, six records.
Diddja catch Westmont, Illinois? Neither did the bar. The U.S. Short Course World Championships Trials ran Oct. 28-31 out there and produced six world records, per World Aquatics. The names: Kate Douglass, Jack Alexy, Claire Curzan, Katharine Berkoff and Van Mathias.
Douglass went 49.64 in the women's 100 free, short course. Per the Kid's notes, the old mark was 49.93 from 2025. Short course means a 25-meter pool, so more walls and more turns. Baseline, my read: sprint records usually fall by hundredths, and this one fell by almost three-tenths.
Kid's math: six records, five names, so at least one of them did it twice. My notes don't say who. Worth remembering this was a trials meet, swimmers going fast just to make the team. No position here. I don't have the championship dates or fields in my notes, and I'm not logging a swimming call off one press release. Watch this space.