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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

The American team needed an answer in the men\u2019s 1500 free. Connor Jaeger<\/strong> was retired and Jordan Wilimovsky<\/strong> focusing on open water, and in their stead, no one entered in the event at this year\u2019s U.S. Nationals had ever previously broken the 15:00 in the event.<\/p>\n

That meant trouble, since it will almost certainly take a sub-15:00 performance to make the 1500 free final at the World Championships next month.\u00a0And it got no better when the Nationals field set a sluggish pace from the start, almost taking the prospect of a sub-15-minute swim out of the question.<\/p>\n

Robert Finke<\/strong>\u00a0was the leader through much of the middle portion of the race, while top seed True Sweetser\u00a0<\/strong>was holding steady about\u00a0three seconds behind. But for Sweetser, all was going according to plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that going into the final, a lot of guys get excited, and they like to go out fast. I wanted to make sure I went out as controlled as I could and make sure that I had a really strong back half, which is my strength,\u201d Sweetser said. \u201cI had a lot of confidence in the training that I put in to make sure that I was going to close the race really strong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> Robert Finke — Photo Courtesy: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

At the 1200 mark, Sweetser was in fourth place and four seconds behind\u00a0the leader, Finke.\u00a0But then, Sweetser started throwing down splits under 30 seconds per 50.<\/p>\n

By the 1300, he had moved into second place. On the 27th of 30 laps, he went by Finke, and then he was off to the races.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a couple miles where I closed really hard at the end, and I came up a little short. I wanted to make sure that I was making my move completely and not looking back,\u201d Sweetser said. \u201cMy whole body was ringing. My ears were ringing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 28.65 split on the next lap put Sweetser in position where maybe, if he could nail the last 100, he could get under 15:00.<\/p>\n

The 15-minute mark was one he had been shooting for since he was 16 years old. He was so anxious to get down that low that after he swam the event at the Short Course World Championships in December, he plugged his time of 14:34.05 (short course meters) into several time converters. He was thrilled to find out that it translated (roughly) to a sub-15-minute performance.<\/p>\n

Finally, Tuesday night in Indianapolis, Sweetser went under for real, finishing in 14:59.73. Oh, and he won his first national championship in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s probably one of the hardest barriers in the sport to race,\u201d Sweetser said. \u201cMy coach, Jeff Kostoff\u2014a Stanford distance swimming legend\u2014he said to me afterwards, \u2018My biggest goal in the sport was to be able to sneak under 15 minutes, and you did it right there.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/span> Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Sweetser had been the third-fastest American in the mile in 2016, and he swam in the final of the event at Short Course Worlds, but it hadn\u2019t been a smooth 2017 so far as he wrapped up his freshman year at Stanford. He arrived at the NCAA championships seeded fifth in the 1650 free, but he added five seconds to his entry time and ended up 12th.<\/p>\n

The bounce-back was stunning and dramatic\u2014just as Sweetser had intended.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made up my mind after the NCAA meet that I wanted to have the best turnaround from NCAAs to this meet of anyone,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to go from a pretty low point, one of my worst meets, to have one of my best ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweetser wanted to know that going into his mile at Nationals that he had done absolutely everything he could to prepare for that swim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a great quote from (three-time Olympic gold medalist) Grant<\/strong> Hackett<\/strong>. He wanted to make sure that when he went behind the blocks for a race, he knew that he had put in more work than anyone else in that heat,\u201d Sweetser said. \u201cI was confident that\u2014I don\u2019t know exactly what other people do\u2014but that I had put in as much work as I could going into that race, and I was ready to rock out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the aftermath, Sweetser was giddy about the opportunity he had earned\u2014a ticket to Budapest and the World Championships\u2014and he couldn\u2019t help but reflect on the people he considered paramount to his success. As he listed them, it was clear his affection and appreciation was genuine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t thank my teammates enough, even the ones I trained with at Gator Swim Club, guys I trained with since I was 15 like Ben Lawless<\/strong> and Blake Manganiello<\/strong> and now at Stanford, Liam Egan<\/strong> and James Murphy<\/strong>,\u201d Sweetser said. \u201cThose guys, some of them weren\u2019t here tonight, but being with them every day is just as rewarding as swimming tonight.<\/p>\n

After a moment, Sweetser added a word of thanks for the man he considered most responsible for his winning the national title.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to thank Jordan Wilimovsky for not showing up\u2014really appreciate that, very grateful for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not get ahead of ourselves here\u2014Sweetser won\u2019t be contenting for any medals of Budapest, and he\u2019ll probably have to drop another chunk of time to even make the final in the 1500 free.<\/p>\n

But remember, he\u2019s only 19 years old. With the trajectory he\u2019s on\u2014not to mention his workhorse mentality and an ability to not take himself too seriously\u2014it\u2019s not unreasonable to project Sweetser as the long-term answer for the American men in the longest event in the pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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