Swimming: Phelps, Schmitt win in final tune-up

AUSTIN: Michael Phelps, swimming his last warm-up meet before the US Olympic trials, won the 400 metre medley as club mate Allison Schmitt stole the show at the Longhorn Elite Invitational. Phelps won the medley in 4:15.88, almost a second ahead of Chase Kalisz, another of his North Baltimore Aquatics team mates. Schmitt, the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist, set a US Open and pool record with a time of 1:55.04 in the 200m free, eight-hundredths outside the American record she set in Rome in 2009. It was the second-fastest time in the world this year. “I feel like I have been on schedule this year, but there’s no way I expected to swim this fast at this meet,” said Schmitt. “I felt good coming in here, and I just gave it all I had.”

Published in The Express Tribune, June 4^th, 2012.