The women's team is in Austin this weekend for the Grand Prix meet. Live stream of prelims and finals will be on the USA Swimming site. Austin Grand Prix Live Stream

Sarah Henry in the A final of 200 breast. Weird. Maybe Henry is working to strengthen her weakest stroke for the 400 IM. Henry has at least one bad knee so that is an impressive swim. Breeja and McGregor also in that heat.

Henry was an excellent 200 breaststroker before her knee injury. 2:10.79/2:30.35 were her lifetime bests. Obviously at A&M there was no need to stick her back into that area. Says to me that we are about to see the best of a full strength Sarah Henry in the next 2 months.

Henry is an iron woman at this meet.

Today (friday) back to back events beginning with the 400 IM, then 200 free. If she swims both in finals tonight she will not have much time to recover after the 400 IM. Ouch.

Aggie women swimming well except Ibanez.

Breeja beaten by Micah in the 200 breast again. They'll probably finish in different order in the 100. I'm glad to see Breeja racing.

Halco - I was wrong about Henry's weakest stroke. Thanks for correcting that. Looking at the 400IM splits it is clear her weakest leg is backstroke. She lost 2 secs per 50.

Aggie women are still swimming well. I am not at the meet but I bet they are hearing "representing Texas A&M" a lot on the loudspeakers.

I think Lisa Bratton is showing she is world class in the 200 back. She is dialed in right now on LCM.

Lots of Olympic trials times for the Aggies.

Henry does so many things that it's hard to pick a weak spot, but backstroke is the place she can gain ground. She's a solid backstroker (2:03 2back at the Alabama dual) but her other strokes are stronger.

Great job so far by the ladies, some strong events still on tap today. Gig 'Em!

Ibanez seems to be generally slow at this meet - but she popped a good 50. Her 200 free was awful - far behind everyone including the A&M breaststrokers. I think she has historically been all over the place in her swims - maybe her heart hasn't been in her other swims this weekend.

I'm looking for a good 100 breast from Breeja today.

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Ibanez seems to be generally slow at this meet - but she popped a good 50. Her 200 free was awful - far behind everyone including the A&M breaststrokers. I think she has historically been all over the place in her swims - maybe her heart hasn't been in her other swims this weekend.

I'm looking for a good 100 breast from Breeja today.

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Ibanez wasn't good last week either.

Breeja on the other hand, was gold in the 100 breaststroke. Nice swim.

Aggie women swam very well for a LCM mid-season. Henry must have backed off for some reason in the 800. She was way off her seed time and about 30 secs behind Ledecky (near world record time).

Probably more just a case of that being her 11th race of a LC mid-season meet, with none of the swims being less than a 200. On Friday alone she swam three 200 frees and two 400 IMs, so the gas tank was probably a little empty.

A lot of good times all around. One more dual meet to honor the seniors on Sunday the 24th against LSU, then it's all about SEC's for the swimmers. The divers still have the Air Force Diving Invite on the schedule the last weekend in January.