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By Cathleen Pruden, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

Long course Speedo Sectional swimming began in Buffalo this evening with timed finals of the women’s 800 freestyle and the men’s 1500 freestyle.\u00a0One swimmer has already punched her ticket to Olympic Trials in Omaha through the first night of action!<\/p>\n

Matea Samardzic\u00a0<\/strong>of Scarlet Aquatics won the 800 freestyle in a time of 8:49.13. The 21 year old dropped seven seconds to just clear the Olympic Trials cut of 8:49.99. Second place went to\u00a0Natalie Ward\u00a0<\/strong>of Berkeley Aquatics in a time of 8:55.01, a two second drop for the 17 year old. Victor Swim Club’s\u00a0Makayla Sargent\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three in an 8:55.19. She dropped 12 seconds in that swim. Samardzic and Sargent were both out quickly, in times of 4:21.64 and 4:21.13. Samardzic swam a stronger back half, including a pair of 1:06s in the final two one hundreds to close out the swim, and propel her to the Trials cut.<\/p>\n

Wilton YMCA Wahoo’s\u00a0Robert Giller\u00a0<\/strong>was first to the wall in the 1500 freestyle. The 16 year old stopped the clock at 16:04.88, well ahead of the field.\u00a0Aaron Glas\u00a0<\/strong>of Asphalt Green finished second in 16:16.12.\u00a0Kristian Hansen\u00a0<\/strong>of Upper Valley Aquatics was just behind, touching in 16:17.03 seconds.<\/p>\n

Swimming continues tomorrow morning at 9 AM with prelims of the 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 butterfly, 400 IM, and 800 freestyle relay. Finals will start at 6 PM.<\/p>\n

Full results available on Meet Mobile: “2016 EZ Northern Region Speedo Sectional Meet”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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