July 2, 2012

OMAHA, Neb.-- Stanford's Chad La Tourette finished third in the final event of the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, five second short of an Olympic bid.

La Tourette, who was sixth in the Sunday prelims, finished with a time of 14:57.53, five seconds short of Andrew Gemmell (14:52.19) and Connor Jaeger (14:52.51).  Gemmell and Jaeger caught and passed La Tourette over the final 250 meters.

La Tourette had a four second advantage over the first 400 meters and maintained that lead over the next 400 meters. Gemmell began to close over the final 700 meters, as La Tourette still led by two seconds at 1100 meters and was one second ahead with 300 meters to go.

Jaeger was the first to catch La Tourette, at 1250 meters, as Gemmell followed  over the next 50 meters. The duo then pushed their leads to five seconds over the final 1200 meters.

Over the Olympic Trials, Stanford swimmers reached eight finals, while La Tourette (1500 free) and Bobby Bollier (200 fly) were each third. Maya DiRado was twice fourth in the 200 and 400 individual medleys. Eugene Godsoe reached two finals, in the 100 back and fly.

(Stanford top-40, *-Cardinal in the finals)
Full Results: http://www.omegatiming.com/Competition?id=00010C0102FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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Finals Finishes
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Men's 1500 Free Prelims (6. La Tourette, 15:10.38)
*Men's 1500 Free Finals (3. La Tourette, 14:57.53)

Men's 100 Fly Prelims (7. Godsoe, 52.58, 9. Bollier, 52.92, 33. Staab, 54.48, 40. Peske, 54.38)
Men's 100 Fly Semis (6. Godsoe, 52.47, 10. Bollier, 52.80)
*Men's 100 Fly Finals (7. Godsoe, 52.58)

Men's 200 Breast Prelims (10. Johnson, 2:13.02, 23. Criste, 2:15.11, 25. Lovelace, 2:15.79)
Men's 200 Breast Semis (7. Johnson, 2:11.48)
*Men's 200 Breast Finals (6. Johnson, 2:11.47)

Men's 200 Fly Prelims (1. Bollier, 1:56.69, 9. Mosko, 1:58.88)
Men's 200 Fly Semis (1. Bollier, 1:56.06, 11. Mosko, 1:58.85)
*Men's 200 Fly Finals (3. Bollier, 1:55.79)

Women's 200 IM Prelims (5. DiRado, 2:14.19, 27. Lee, 2:17.31)
Women's 200 IM Semis (5. DiRado, 2:12.62)
*Women's 200 IM Finals (4. DiRado, 2:12.26)

Women's 400 IM Prelims (7. DiRado, 4:43.07)
*Women's 400 IM Finals (4. DiRado, 4:38.67)

Women's 100 Fly Prelims (3. Breeden, 58.38, 38. Lee, 1:00.58, 40. Woodward, 1:00.70)
Women's 100 Fly Semis (2. Breeden, 58.18)
*Women's 100 Fly Finals (5. Breeden, 58.43)

Men's 100 Back Prelims (6. Godsoe, 54.26, 12. Bal, 55.12, 19. Nolan, 55.58)
Men's 100 Back Semis (6. Godsoe, 53.88, 9. Bal, 54.53)
*Men's 100 Back Finals (5. Godsoe, 53.61)

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Semifinals Finishes
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Women's 50 Free Prelims (7. Woodward, 25.20, 12. Webb, 25.40, 14. Dwelley, 25.44, 18. Schaefer, 25.60)
Women's 50 free Semis (9. Dwelley, 25.28, 12. Woodward, 25.52, 15. Webb, 25.67)

Men's 50 Free Prelims (5. Coville, 22.19, 28. Wayne, 22.86, 31. Allen, 22.91)
Men's 50 Free Semis (9. Coville, 22.34)

Men's 200 Back Prelims (17. Thompson, 2:01.79, 23. Cosgarea, 2:02.20)
Men's 200 Back Semis (16. Thompson, 2:02.39)

Men's 100 Breast Prelims (1. Criste, 1:00.29, 16. Johnson, 1:01.80, 25. Lovelace, 1:02.26)
Men's 100 Breast Semis (12. Criste, 1:01.27, 13. Johnson, 1:01.41)

Men's 100 Free Prelims (16. Coville, 49.76, 23. Wayne, 49.97, 25. Godsoe, 50.01)
Men's 100 Free Semis (11. Coville, 49.39)

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Preliminaries Only
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Women's 200 Back Prelims (27. DiRado, 2:16.02)
Women's 100 Free Prelims (19. Dwelley, 55.52, 20. Schaefer, 55.57, 33. Woodward, 56.18, 35. Lee, 56.28, 36. Murez, 56.29)
Women's 200 Breast Prelims (34. Olsen, 2:32.97)
Men's 200 IM Prelims (40. Nolan, 2:04.91)
Women's 200 Fly Prelims (17. Breeden, 2:12.85)
Women's 200 Free Prelims (25. Dwelley, 2:00.89)
Men's 400 IM Prelims (24. Offutt, 4:24.64, 25. Bollier, 4:24.96)
Men's 400 Free Prelims (16. Mosko, 3:53.18, 32. Cosgarea, 3:56.76)
Women's 100 Back Prelims (29. Webb, 1:02.87)
Men's 200 Free Prelims (18. Nolan, 1:49.95, 26. Bollier, 1:50.43, 28. Stephens, 1:50.47)
Women's 100 Breast Prelims (32. Olsen, 1:10.52)