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Smith drove shortly down the road to Mesa as she won the 800 free final on Friday night at the TYR Pro Swim Series with an 8:31.79.<\/p>\n<p>Smith won by almost ten full seconds over another swimmer who made post grad training changes\u00a0<strong>Ashley Neidigh<\/strong>, who moved from Auburn to IU over the summer. Neidigh was second at 8:41.23. Yet another swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/after-leaving-wisconsin-cierra-runge-officially-heading-to-arizona-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who changed locations<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Cierra Runge<\/strong>, was third at 8:48.65.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivia Anderson\u00a0<\/strong>(8:50.46),\u00a0<strong>Sophie Cattermole\u00a0<\/strong>(8:51.54),\u00a0<strong>Amanda Nunan\u00a0<\/strong>(8:54.06),\u00a0<strong>Emma Sundstedt\u00a0<\/strong>(8:58.77) and\u00a0<strong>Juli Arzave\u00a0<\/strong>(9:04.60) also placed in the top eight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_305874\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305874\" data-attachment-id=\"305874\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/leah-smith-easily-wins-800-free-in-mesa\/screen-shot-2018-04-13-at-7-57-22-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-7.57.22-PM-e1523663880960.png\" data-orig-size=\"720,534\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 7.57.22 PM\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 7.57.22 PM&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-7.57.22-PM-e1523663880960-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-7.57.22-PM-1024x640.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305874\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-13-at-7.57.22-PM-e1523663880960-700x500.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-13 at 7.57.22 PM\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-305874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leah Smith\u00a0is swimming her first meet as an\u00a0Arizona post grad swimmer\u00a0as she moved to Tucson in October. 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