Claire Curzan

And so, and we can get into that now of, you know, we thought we'd see at least two NCAA records at this CSL final and what we found.

And I thought for sure, Claire Curzan and the 200 back was like a, a pretty sure bet.

Yeah.

But what we ended up seeing is that many teams overall swam slower at the CSL final than they were there in October, you know, at the CSL matches.

It was a great atmosphere and it was loud and you could hear it through the broadcast.

I couldn't hear much of the crowd at all through the broadcast.

It's like, oh, somebody, Claire Curzan gets close to the 200 back record.

come on that's a great swim we want to see that or you know virginia going down to the 200 free relay for the first time since 2021 why is it

She also got to the wall first in the 50-meter free, the 200-meter breaststroke, and the 200-meter individual medley.

Claire Curzan also had a great meet, breaking the first individual world record of her career by swimming the 100-meter backstroke in 53.92 seconds.

Katherine Berkoff had a record-breaking weekend as well, clocking 25.21 in the 50-meter backstroke.

Team USA now heads to the World Short Course Championships in Beijing, with the competition running from December 1st to 6th.

But surprising, I could name three.

Like Curzan in the 100 back, Matthias in the 100 breast a little bit.

I know that we've seen him explode, but I did not expect this.

No.

And he crushed it.

That is what was crazy to me.

The reason that I throw Curzan in that list of surprising is the same thing we talked about last week.

The depth of the U.S. women's backstroke.

Look a little further down the psych sheets.

Phoebe Bacon, Claire Curzan, Riley Erisman's in there too.

No Regan Smith.

Bit of a surprise, but it seems like she's just leaning at that point.

favorite event.

Women's 100 backstroke.

Reagan Smith, Catherine Burkoff, Isabel Stodden, Phoebe Bacon, Claire Curzan.

Holy moly.

And those are the four events she swam.

Got outperformed by Claire Curzan.

I mean, yeah, I didn't I didn't look I didn't look too far into that because I don't know where Reagan Smith is at in her training.

And I'm like, clickers and we've seen it during the CSL.

You know, maybe that's relative to the competition that she's up against.

We saw Regan Smith just, and Claire Curzan drop some really fast times in Virginia over the weekend.

You know, there's certainly areas for room for improvement for Marrit, you know, in terms of her reaction time off the start.

She's long onto a couple of turns, always long onto her finish as well.

Mm-hmm

... or see Claire Curzan do that in 100 back, and just not have to see too much craziness going on outside of that.

Um, o- overall, I think the CSL, for their first year, we saw it with the ISL.

There were things that people didn't really like.