{"id":30928,"date":"2012-06-25T13:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T18:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2012\/06\/u-s-olympic-trials-connor-jaeger-leads-michigan-domination-of-400-free\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:11:24","slug":"u-s-olympic-trials-connor-jaeger-leads-michigan-domination-of-400-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-olympic-trials-connor-jaeger-leads-michigan-domination-of-400-free\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Olympic Trials: Connor Jaeger Leads Michigan Domination of 400 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Full wall-to-wall coverage, including photo galleries, athlete interviews, recaps and columns are available at the <b><a href=http:\/\/tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/events\/2012-united-states-olympic-trials target=_blank>Event Landing Page<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>OMAHA, Nebraska, June 25. MICHIGAN&#039;s Connor Jaeger blasted more than two seconds from his personal best to win the first of the men&#039;s 400 free circle seeded heats in 3:48.06 at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.  The top-seeded time led a Michigan Wolverine onslaught in finals qualifying in the middle distance event.<\/p>\n<p>Jaeger&#039;s swim crushed his lifetime leading time of 3:50.87 heading into what is his first Trials experience.  As a freshman at Michigan this year, he earned third in the 1650-yard freestyle and fifth in the 500-yard freestyle in what had been his highest profile meet to this point.  Last summer, at U.S. Nationals, he took 10th in the 400-meter freestyle event. <\/p>\n<p>Lake Forest&#039;s Conor Dwyer also obliterated his lifetime best with a 3:48.37 in heat 10 of 12. That swim undercut his previous best of 3:51.40.  Dwyer, who was all everything his junior year at Florida with a win in the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard freestyle events, switched his focus to long course his senior year, concluding with a summer-ending gold medal in the men&#039;s 800 free relay at Worlds in 2011. The focus on an Olympic berth as a post-grad looks to have paid off. <\/p>\n<p>The first of the circle seeded heats proved to be the most competitive, fielding the top four seeds into finals.  Michigan grad Charlie Houchin earned third in 3:48.48 and is guaranteed to finish much higher than his 43rd place in the event back in 2008 here in Omaha. Club Wolverine&#039;s Matt Patton finished fourth with a 3:48.79, and now has a chance to improve on his seventh-place effort in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>OLY&#039;s Peter Vanderkaay, another Michigan-linked swimmer, qualified fifth in 3:49.16 after making the team in the event with a 3:43.73 in 2008 behind Larsen Jensen&#039;s Trials-record time of 3:43.53. Vanderkaay is the biggest name in the finale with two Olympic golds and a bronze on his resume.  He finished just off the Olympic podium in the event in Beijing with a fourth-place performance. <\/p>\n<p>Michigan&#039;s Ryan Feeley (3:49.21), FAST&#039;s Michael Klueh (3:49.43) and The Woodlands&#039; Michael McBroom (3:49.89) rounded out the Olympic finale. And, in a notable scratch, Ryan Lochte decided not to swim one of the 11 events he was scheduled to swim.<\/p>\n<p>The Finalists<br \/>\nConnor Jaeger &#8212; 3:48.06 (lifetime best)<br \/>\nConor Dwyer &#8212; 3:48.37 (lifetime best)<br \/>\nCharlie Houchin &#8212; 3:48.48<br \/>\nMatt Patton &#8212; 3:48.79<br \/>\nPeter Vanderkaay &#8212; 3:49.16<br \/>\nRyan Feeley &#8212; 3:49.21 (lifetime best)<br \/>\nMichael Klueh &#8212; 3:49.43<br \/>\nMichael McBroom &#8212; 3:49.89 (lifetime best)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full wall-to-wall coverage, including photo galleries, athlete interviews, recaps and columns are available at the Event Landing Page OMAHA, Nebraska, June 25. 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