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Editorial content for the 2015 Arena Pro Swim Series Mesa is sponsored by Arena<\/a>. For full Swimming World coverage, check out our coverage page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Commentary by Jeff Commings<\/i><\/p>\n

Looking at the times from the past two days of the Arena Pro Swim Series in Mesa, Ariz., it\u2019s understandable if you worry that USA Swimming’s world championship squad won\u2019t be competitive when the rolls around in a little more than three months.<\/p>\n

Tyler Clary\u2019s 4:19.59 to win the 400 IM isn\u2019t even in the top 25 globally. The same goes for Breeja Larson\u2019s 2:27.82 in the 200 breast. Kelsi Worrell\u2019s 58.24 in the 100 fly and Cammile Adams\u2019 2:08.80 are in the top 20, but the times aren\u2019t likely to make their competition very nervous.<\/p>\n

The reason is simple: The United States has already picked the world championship squad, and the 47 members of the team are in the throes of hard training. In order to qualify for their respective countries\u2019 teams, most of the non-Americans who are likely to contend for medals at worlds had to put in a full taper and shave these past few weeks. Japan\u2019s team had some very tough standards to beat in order to make the team, which explains the quick swims from the likes of Kosuke Hagino and Kanako Watanabe. The same goes for Australia, Germany, Great Britain and France, just to name a few.<\/p>\n

If the United States had held its world team selection meet this month, we\u2019d see a lot more Americans than Katie Ledecky at the top of the world list. Missy Franklin would be at or near the top in backstroke. Matt Grevers might be the world No. 1 in the 100 back. Elizabeth Beisel would likely be the best 400 IMer in the world at this point in 2015.<\/p>\n

But Beisel didn\u2019t make the championship final of the 400 IM here in Mesa. Tom Shields placed 10th overall in the 200 fly tonight. And right now, that\u2019s OK. Most of the athletes here shrugged off their times as pretty standard fare, even if they were in some cases almost 10 seconds slower than their end-of-season goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to keep your head down and what we do,\u201d Clary said about the times the global competition is putting up this spring. He noted that he doesn\u2019t pay too much attention to the times posted around the world, even the ones that are as fast as his goal time of 4:08-plus for worlds. \u201cIt\u2019s not out of the ordinary for them to be going that fast right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most who attend meets on the Arena Pro Swim Series circuit know that elite athletes go through periods of hard training and will only approach their best times at the end of the season. Others might see Ledecky under her 400 free world record pace for part of the swim and wonder if something\u2019s wrong with Team USA.<\/p>\n

Nothing\u2019s wrong. The Americans will be the dominant force they\u2019ve always been at the world championships. The world is closing in, which is why many on the national team spent more than three weeks training at altitude before arriving in Mesa. It\u2019s a perk the national team members enjoy more than once a year, and all of them know it will pay off when world championships begin in Kazan in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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