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Those two were the only swimmers under 28 seconds in the 50 back heats.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the 50 stroke events clinches a spot on the 2019 World Championships team. DeLoof is looking to make her first Worlds while Smoliga is looking to make her second. DeLoof has to be fired up after watching her sister\u00a0<strong>Gabby DeLoof\u00a0<\/strong>finish third in the 200 free on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elise Haan\u00a0<\/strong>(28.06),\u00a0<strong>Katharine Berkoff\u00a0<\/strong>(28.27),\u00a0<strong>Keaton Blovad\u00a0<\/strong>(28.29), <strong>Isabelle Stadden\u00a0<\/strong>(28.40),\u00a0<strong>Alex Walsh\u00a0<\/strong>(28.40) and\u00a0<strong>Caroline Baldwin\u00a0<\/strong>(28.43) also placed in this morning&#8217;s top eight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_321536\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321536\" data-attachment-id=\"321536\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ali-deloof-and-olivia-smoliga-lead-50-back-prelims-at-nationals\/screen-shot-2018-07-27-at-12-00-08-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-12.00.08-PM-e1532718079290.png\" data-orig-size=\"806,478\" 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=\"50-back-women\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;50-back-women&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\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-12.00.08-PM-e1532718079290-700x478.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-12.00.08-PM-1024x640.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-321536\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-12.00.08-PM-e1532718079290-700x478.png\" alt=\"50-back-women\" width=\"700\" height=\"478\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-321536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the women&#8217;s 50 back heats, it was Michigan&#8217;s\u00a0Ali DeLoof\u00a0on top of the leaderboard with a 27.79 on Friday morning in Irvine, California at the Phillips 66 USA Swimming National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":321364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[63576,27638],"class_list":["post-321534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-2018-phillips-66-national-championships","tag-ali-deloof"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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