Coach Mark Bottrill's blog:
Vanessa Hanbury 200 IM: swam to 2:30.68. finished 8th in her heat. Needed to be far better to make a race of it. 800 Free: 9:15.54 which is a best time. No second swim.
Drew Christensen 100 Free: 1:07.69. Puts him in the final tonight but will need to shake off the effects of the previous evenings efforts and excitement to get going.
Kathy Qu 200 Fly: Best time in a very fast heat from lane 1. 2:22.41 for 27th overall and under the LC national time for the first time. Good race as she was out in 1:06 which was also under her previous best 100 time. 100% BT for Kathy so far.
Mike Cai: did a 200 IM Dive quality effort after heats to get ready for the 200 IM in two days time. We are still getting him used to his hand and he needs to be able to do some of the things he did before he broke his hand. With his precarious position on this Youth team the 200 IM final is going to have to be a reality for him to stay on. He went a best time of 2:11.19 which is good in the circumstances but he will need to still be better in the 2:08 area to be at least a B final.