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Morning Splash<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ella Eastin<\/strong> was an individual NCAA champion four-times over and an American record-holder in both IM events in short course yards. She had helped Stanford win an NCAA team championship and twice won silver at the Short Course World Championships. All that had eluded her was a long course breakout and a spot on a senior U.S. international team.<\/p>\n

At Olympic Trials in 2016, Eastin had missed the final of the 400 IM and faded badly down the stretch in the 200 IM final. Coming into Nationals one year later, Eastin still had some nerves about long course swimming, Stanford head coach Greg Meehan<\/strong> admitted.<\/p>\n

But finally, Eastin looked like she was going to get over the hump. In the women\u2019s 400 IM final at U.S. Nationals, she was second with 100 meters to go, and she was pulling away from the woman in third, three-time Olympian and 2011 World Champion Elizabeth<\/strong> Beisel<\/strong>. Her first berth at the World Championships was within her reach.<\/p>\n

Eastin touched the wall in 4:36.96. That was two seconds faster than she had ever swum and her first time under 4:40 in four years. And most importantly, she was going to Budapest\u2014or so it seemed.<\/p>\n

The winner, Leah<\/strong> Smith<\/strong>, hugged Eastin, and then Beisel swam over to Eastin\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling her, \u2018Girl, you are the future. I\u2019m handing you over that 400 IM baton. Take it,\u2019\u201d Beisel recalled that night. \u201cYou see how elated she is.\u201d<\/p>\n

All the sudden, Beisel noticed the scoreboard\u2014she was now listed as the runner-up, with Eastin disqualified. Eastin was stunned and confused. Meehan marched across the deck to speak with officials and figure out what had happened, but it would be several minutes before Eastin got answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had figured it was something less controversial because the call was made so quickly, so I was like, \u2018I must have done something so obvious that there was no question that I was disqualified,\u2019\u201d Eastin said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She was called for \u201cswimming more than one-quarter of the race in a style of backstroke,” the so-called \u201cLochte rule,\u201d<\/a> conceived two years earlier when Ryan Lochte tried dolphin kicking on his back while swimming freestyle. FINA had decided, that was not allowed in medley swimming. Eastin, specifically, had kicked several times on her back coming off the final turn of her race.<\/p>\n

Eastin was not the only swimmer to get penalized for the same violation\u2014in prelims, her fellow Stanford swimmer Abrahm DeVine<\/strong> was disqualified, as was Bethany Galat<\/strong> in the same final as Eastin. But both DeVine and Galat ended up making the World Champs team in another event. Eastin would not be so fortunate.<\/p>\n

Two days after the 400 IM, Eastin swam in the 200 IM final and could only watch from behind as Melanie Margalis<\/strong> and Madisyn Cox<\/strong> swam away from her on the last 50. Eastin, third, was crushed\u2014and the women who beat her were heartbroken for her.<\/p>\n

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Melanie Margalis & Madisyn Cox — Photo Courtesy: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

Margalis held Eastin\u2019s hand and said, \u2018I truly think you\u2019re incredible.\u2019 Cox then came over and pulled a teary Eastin into a hug over the lane line.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart goes out to Ella,\u201d Cox said two days later. \u201cI definitely love her as a friend, a competitor, all that. More than anything, I felt for her, I felt that heartbreak for her. I was happy with my race, but it definitely did hurt seeing Ella not make the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eastin summed it all up: \u201cIt was really hard for me knowing that I was in a position that I felt like I deserved to be there, and that wasn\u2019t exactly what happened. It was the first time I had qualified for the big summer meet, so that was so many years of really hard work kind of accumulating into one moment and having that taken away from me so quickly was kind of a roller coaster of emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Healing<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The day after the meet, Eastin flew home to Southern California. She had received an invitation to attend the World University Games to swim the 200 fly and 200 IM, but at that point she was unsure if she would accept.<\/p>\n

The next day, Eastin and her family attended the memorial for her grandfather, who had recently passed away. Spending quality time with those closest to her, they began making jokes about what had happened at Nationals\u2014not to make fun of what Eastin called her \u201cemotional distress\u201d but as a means of healing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very unlucky a lot of the time, so we kind of just laughed about it because of course something like that would happen to me,\u201d Eastin said. \u201cI\u2019m the most Type A, on the verge of perfectionist person in my family, and of course I put all that work in and then something like that were to happen. Everyone thought it was hilarious.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As for the remainder of Eastin\u2019s summer, she decided to continue to race. She committed to go to the World University Games in late August in Taipei, as well as the Energy for Swim charity meet in Rome earlier that month and a World Cup meet in Eindhoven in between.<\/p>\n

\u201cI let a little bit of time go by before talking about it, but when the time was right we mapped out her options for the remainder of the summer,\u201d Meehan said. \u201cIt all came together really well, but most importantly Ella embraced the idea and made the most of the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Eastin had no intention of racing another 400 IM during the summer, but by the time the Rome meet came around, she changed her mind. But the day she was to race the 400 IM, she felt pain in her oft-bothersome left shoulder and decided to pull out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really actually excited when the moment and opportunity came to do the 400 IM,\u201d Eastin said. \u201cAnd then I ended up being in so much pain, and I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t want Greg thinking this is just a cop-out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after, she won gold in the 200 fly at World University Games and silver in the 200 IM, and she was a team captain on the U.S. team\u2014which Eastin called \u201can honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had always viewed myself as the younger, less experienced swimmer because I feel like a lot of times when I\u2019m racing I\u2019m with some of the vets that have been around longer than I have,\u201d she said. \u201cTo be in a situation where I had been to a couple international competitions, I kind of felt like I was at a turning point in terms of where I was in my career. It definitely meant a lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming Back Stronger<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After a two-month stretch that included the most stunning disappointment of her career, injury and a tremendous honor behind her, Eastin returned to her Stanford team, gunning to defend the NCAA championship the team won in 2017 to break a 19-year title drought.<\/p>\n

Eastin won titles in the 400 IM and 200 fly at last season\u2019s NCAAs while also finishing second in the 200 IM and helping the Cardinal 4×200 free relay team set an American record. At the end of that meet, Eastin sat next to superstar teammate Katie Ledecky<\/strong> at the interview table, nearly moved to tears by the triumph.<\/p>\n

As a freshman, NCAAs had been Eastin\u2019s breakthrough meet, when she very nearly led a team awaiting Ledecky\u2019s arrival and Simone Manuel\u2019s<\/strong> return from redshirt to a title, coming up only 19 points short. The 160.5-point triumph in 2017 was the logical next step but even sweeter because of what had happened before.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first experience was doing everything in my power that I possibly could to set my team up for winning a national championship and us coming so close but not exactly reaching that height,\u201d Eastin said. \u201cI felt like everything that that first team that I was on had worked towards, the accumulation of that work, we were seeing the fruition of our work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stanford swimmers Ella Eastin, Katie Ledecky & Allie Szekely — Photo Courtesy: Chuckarelei \/ Pac-12<\/p><\/div>\n

Now, she\u2019s back in team-first mode as the Cardinal are heavily favored to repeat as national champions. Thinking from that perspective has yielded tremendous results for the 20-year-old in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to contribute to that as much as I possibly can, and that does involve me being at my personal best,\u201d Eastin said. \u201cBut I haven\u2019t thought much past that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The list of things she has not thought about includes records, both her own American marks in both IMs as well as Katinka Hosszu\u2019s<\/strong> elusive U.S. Open record of 3:56.54 in the 400 IM. That list also includes long course\u2014anything in the pool that happens after March 17.<\/p>\n

When she does get back to long course racing, Eastin thinks she will be more confident in her Olympic-sized abilities come summer. The 4:36, after all, did happen, and a few dolphin kicks on her back off a single turn were not the sole explanation for a three-second time drop. Still, Eastin knows her eventual return to the long course 400 IM could be a mental challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 400 IM carries a lot of different emotions because of how long and intense and painful it is and the different experiences I\u2019ve had with it,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that once long course season rolls around now I\u2019ll have a little bit different perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

After two years of collegiate success and the tribulations of the last two years\u2019 worth of international qualifying meets, Eastin explained that \u201cI am starting to understand that the most important thing is for me to be growing personally.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And what better way to grow than to experience a crushing setback like Eastin did and deal with it so gracefully? No, she did not get to go to Budapest, but she picked herself right back up to grow as an influential figure for both her WUGs teammates and then for her Stanford teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cElla has always been a leader in the water, but she is now really embracing the other side of leadership,\u201d Meehan said. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to see her make that transition because everyone benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the biggest disappointment of her career, Ella Eastin walked away stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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