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50/100 National Champ Matt King Has Been Swimming Singles All Summer

The rising UVA junior got under 22 for the first time in prelims with a 21.95, and improved his best time again tonight with a 21.83.

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Do You Love Swimming? See 3,787 Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our swimming family! Go here to see 3,787 Swim Jobs

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Jake Magahey on Matt Sates: “The most ridiculous swimmer I’ve ever swam against”

In Sates’ short time in Athens, Magahey says the South African did things in practice he couldn’t believe (and that also got his rear in gear)

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Justin Ress Realizing Swimming Doesn’t Have to be “We only swim fast twice a year”

In the post-race interview, Ress mentioned that he hadn’t had the “easiest month” since Worlds, including a bout of Covid.

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Kaitlyn Dobler on Experimenting with Training, Keeping Momentum Rolling

Dobler won the 100 Breast in 1:06.8, the 3rd-fastest time of her career, coming in behind a 1:06.19 from April’s US Trials and a 1:06.29 from Olympic Trials

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Rhyan White: “I wanted to be first at the 15, first at the wall, and hold on”

White, who represented the US in this event in Tokyo, had the 2nd-fastest second 50 in the field, closing in 30.40 to win in 58.91 as the only woman under 59

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Jake Magahey on 400 Free National Title: “I thought just swim it like a 500”

Magahey touched first in the men’s 400 free with a 3:46.36. That’s a new personal best for the 2021 NCAA Champion in the 500-yard free

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Josh Matheny on 59: “I felt like I was a pro at going a minute”

With 25m to go, it looked like there were several men in the race, but Matheny turned on the jets from there, powering home to a 59.44 victory.

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WATCH: Katie Ledecky 200 Fly, Leah Smith 100 Breast Time Trials

After an epic battle in the women’s 400 IM, neither Katie Ledecky nor Leah Smith raced any of Day 4’s events. However, they did each time-trials events

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Erin Gemmell Was Katie Ledecky for Halloween (Video Interview)

Erin Gemmell of NCAP posted a 1:56.14 in the 200 free, putting her 10th in the world this year, a strong swim for the 17YO who’s never broken a NAG

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Kevin Vargas: “Kieran really brings the best out of all of us by letting us know he beat us”

Vargas came into the day with a best of 4:16.54, lowered that mark to a 4:14.27 in prelims, then took nearly another two seconds off of that time tonight.

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Shields on Motivation Through 2024: “You’re starting to train your replacements”

After swimming in the B Final at the 2022 US Nationals on Thursday, 2x Olympic champion Tom Shields spoke with the media about his future in the sport.

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Leah Smith Compares “Epic” 2017 Worlds in Budapest to Captaining in 2022

After missing the Olympic team last year, Leah Smith bounced back to not only make her 2nd world champs in Budapest, but medal twice and co-captain Team USA

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Shaine Casas on 50.40 100 Fly: “I’ll take it for this season”

Shaine Casas is now the 3rd-fastest American ever in this event, behind only Caeleb Dressel and Michael Phelps (and tied with Ian Crocker)

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Katie Ledecky on 400 IM Battle with Leah Smith: “It was fun to deliver that”

Ledecky made up over a second on the first 50 of the freestyle leg alone and while Smith battled hard, Ledecky ultimately won 4:35.77 to 4:36.66

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