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Sean Grieshop Breaks Down 400 IM Victory, Cal NCAA Season

Jarod Arroyo pulled up on Grieshop after the breaststroke leg, but Grieshop closed the door on free, going 4:16.14, dropping two seconds from prelims

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Kelsi Dahlia Is Happy With her Longer Butterfly Training in Louisville

Kelsi Dahlia had a brutally long finish, but she still put up virtually the same time as she did in prelims (58.10) to win it (58.11)

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Melanie Margalis Likes Morning Finals for Swimming the 400 IM

Melanie Margalis opened up a huge lead through the breaststroke leg, and she put down the hammer with a 4:35.18, ranking second in the world this year

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Caeleb Dressel on Breakthrough 200 Free Win: “I always baby it”

Caeleb Dressel of Gator Swim Club threw down a 27.1 third 50, though, and he finished with a 27.6 to take the win at 1:47.57

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Katie Ledecky on 200 Free US Open Record: “I like to be 1:54 in-season”

Ledecky blazed to a 1:54.40, taking down her own 2016 PSS record of 1:54.43 from five years ago and tying Allison Schmitt’s US Open record

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Jordan Wilimovsky on Doing 5k’s for Time in Practice

The top three men all broke eight minutes, with KSWIM’s Jordan Wilimovsky touching almost three seconds ahead of the next-best competitor at 7:54.44

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Leah Smith Went Double-Coffee to Prepare for AM Finals in Mission Viejo

Smith would go on to win this at 8:24.46, a new season-best by over a second to jump from sixth to fifth in the world rankings.

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BetMGM COO Ryan Spoon on How to Draw a Bigger Audience into Swimming

Ryan is the current COO of BetMGM as well as the former Senior VP of Digital and Social for ESPN. If that didn’t sell you, he’s also a Duke Swimming alumnus

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Camden Murphy Almost Quit Swimming Before his Senior Year at Georgia

Ultimately, Murphy did come back to complete his 4th year on the team and ultimately go personal bests in both the 100 and 200 fly.

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Olympian Andi Murez on Balancing Pro Swimming and Medical School

Murez takes us through her swim journey, most recently recapping the 6-week ISL Budapest bubble as a member of the LA Current

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Breaststroke Coaching Legend Jozsef Nagy Says 200 Breast WR Should be 2:02

Nagy brings up that the 100 breast world record has taken leaps and bounds in the last 20 years, while he thinks the 200 hasn’t quite matched up

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Arsenio Bustos on Going from 50.5 to 49.2 100 LCM Free Next to Caeleb Dressel

Arsenio swam a troth of PBs this week, including 1:43.94 200 IM, 53.57/1:02.95 100 Breast, 19.96/23.02 50 free, 46.51 100 fly, and 43.27/49.25 100 free

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