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Tennessee postgrad swimmer Sean Lehane posted the top time of the morning in the men’s 200 back heats with an easy 1:57.07. Lehane is swimming with his club team in the Academy Bullets and he leads Virginia Tech’s Robert Owen (1:57.34) and the Cal duo of Ryan Murphy (1:57.35) and Jacob Pebley (1:57.49).
Murphy and Pebley swam this event in Rio last summer as Murphy took home the gold medal and Pebley finished fifth. Both of those guys train at Cal and looked pretty easy this morning, but so did Lehane. The ladder finished fourth at Trials last summer and could play spoiler Wednesday night to the Cal swimmers.
Sarasota’s Austin Katz (1:58.71), NC State’s Hennessey Stuart (1:59.44), Stanford’s Abrahm DeVine (1:59.85) and Tennessee’s Joey Reilman (1:59.91) will swim in the A-final tonight.
Murphy will be looking for his second straight World Championship berth as the rest of the field is searching for their first.
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Naperville Central’s very own. Congrats Sean!
I am a damn good swimmer butterfly stroke mortal don’t forget.