{"id":246846,"date":"2017-03-16T18:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=246846"},"modified":"2017-03-16T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T01:35:50","slug":"watch-video-interviews-with-seven-top-performers-from-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/watch-video-interviews-with-seven-top-performers-from-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Video Interviews With Night Two at Women&#8217;s NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the first full finals session of the women&#8217;s Division I NCAA championships in Indianapolis,\u00a0<em>Swimming World<\/em> spoke with several of the top performers from the session.<\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights of the interview session,\u00a0<strong>Katie Ledecky<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Leah Smith<\/strong> each spoke about their remarkable performances in the 500 free, when each swam best times by over a second and improved their standings as the two fastest performers ever in the event.<\/p>\n<p>During the interviews, each explained how they approached each other after the race when they finished more than seven seconds ahead of the field.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Katie Ledecky, Stanford\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u8G_iq2PQ8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leah Smith, Virginia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z73RlVgvpqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Watch more video interviews, including with 200 IM NCAA champion\u00a0<strong>Kathleen Baker<\/strong>, below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2017 Women&#039;s NCAA Division I Championships Day Two\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL6GDV0ydp2CAk33MFh9lLgxlbkiNLpOM_\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the first full finals session of the women&#8217;s Division I NCAA championships in Indianapolis,\u00a0Swimming World spoke with several of the top performers from the session. 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