SwimSwam sat down with World Champs medalist Leah Hayes after her superb weekend of racing at the 2023 Chicagoland Championships, highlighted by her 4:03.05 400 IM. Hayes said she was hoping for a drop in that event and even wrote her target splits out for the race, which had added up to a 4:04. Hayes also discusses training with her world champ teammates at the upcoming National Team Training Camp in March as well as the prospect of racing fellow 200 IM international medalists and future Virginia teammates Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh.
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She broke Michael Phelps’s record!?!?
it will end up being a dog fight with her in the mix in the LC pool and NCAA’s.
Douglass has already said this is her last year swimming NCAA, so the two will never race each other in that format. A. Walsh will have to take a 5th year to overlap with Hayes. Would be interesting, but may never materialize.
Awesome interview with an even awesome-r person!