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Among those swimmers will be Olympian and rising Cal sophomore\u00a0<strong>Abbey Weitzeil<\/strong>, who is the top seed in the 50 free on Friday. She will be joined by Cal teammate\u00a0<strong>Farida Osman<\/strong>, who is coming off her senior NCAA season, as well as teammates\u00a0<strong>Amy Bilquist\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Maddie Murphy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other names to watch from Cal will be rising junior\u00a0<span class=\"redactor-invisible-space\" data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-tag=\"span\" data-redactor-class=\"redactor-invisible-space\"><strong data-redactor-tag=\"strong\" data-verified=\"redactor\">Katie<\/strong> <strong>McLaughlin<\/strong>, who is back after spending much of last year rebounding from injury, and men&#8217;s team members\u00a0<strong data-redactor-tag=\"strong\" data-verified=\"redactor\">Andrew Seliskar<\/strong><span data-redactor-tag=\"strong\" data-verified=\"redactor\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><strong data-redactor-tag=\"strong\" data-verified=\"redactor\">Connor Hoppe<\/strong>. Other notable swimmers to watch will be\u00a0<strong>Dylan Carter<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Cristian Quintero<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Kendyl Stewart<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Haley Anderson<\/strong>, who is fresh off a win in the 5k at Open Water Nationals that secured her spot on the U.S. Worlds Team for Budapest this summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/results\/pdf\/2017-speedo-grand-challenge-psych-sheet-usa-senior-national-2017-05-26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The full psych sheet can be found here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friday prelims pysch sheets were released for the 2017 Novaquatics Speedo Grand Challenge this week, which start this Friday, May 26th in Irvine and runs through Sunday, May 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