{"id":263794,"date":"2017-06-30T07:42:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=263794"},"modified":"2017-06-30T07:42:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:42:04","slug":"clark-smith-leads-tight-400-free-field-at-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/clark-smith-leads-tight-400-free-field-at-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark Smith Leads Tight 400 Free Field at Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clark Smith<\/strong> of Longhorn Aquatics paced a good 400 free to be the only swimmer under 3:50 in the prelims at the 2017 Phillips 66 USA Swimming Nationals on Friday morning. Smith leads a very, very tight field that includes seven swimmers at 3:50. Smith leads Texas teammate\u00a0<strong>Townley Haas\u00a0<\/strong>(3:50.01) and Stanford&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Grant Shoults\u00a0<\/strong>(3:50.19).<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Haas are already on the World Championship team as Haas won the 200 free a couple nights ago and Smith finished in the top six to grab a relay spot. Smith has the chance to book his first individual event ticket at a major international meet.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the field is very close with <strong>Kevin Litherland<\/strong> (3:50.24), <strong>Andrew Abruzzo<\/strong> (3:50.69),<strong> Mitch D&#8217;Arrigo<\/strong> (3:50.70), <strong>Zane Grothe<\/strong> (3:50.76) and <strong>Trey Freeman<\/strong> (3:50.91) in the A-final. Smith and Haas seem to have a lot left as they have both been under 3:46. 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