{"id":340149,"date":"2018-11-30T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=340149"},"modified":"2018-12-03T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:51:44","slug":"kylie-masse-pulls-away-to-win-100-back-at-u-s-winter-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kylie-masse-pulls-away-to-win-100-back-at-u-s-winter-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Masse Pulls Away to Win 100 Back at U.S. Winter Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada’s\u00a0Kylie Masse\u00a0<\/strong>made an appearance at U.S. Winter Nationals in Greensboro and was the class of the field in her signature event, the 100 back. The World Champion and former world record-holder touched in 59.27, less than a second off her season best of 58.29.<\/p>\n

Nation’s Capital’s\u00a0Phoebe Bacon\u00a0<\/strong>almost got under 1:00 as she chased Masse down the stretch. Bacon, who was fourth at this summer’s Nationals at 59.12, finished this time in 1:00.02.\u00a0Ali DeLoof\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 1:00.53.<\/p>\n

Kentucky’s\u00a0Bridgette Alexander<\/strong> took fourth in 1:01.51, and then there was a big gap back to the rest of the field. That included\u00a0Caroline Bentz\u00a0<\/strong>(1:02.07), Nebraska’s\u00a0Autumn Haebig\u00a0<\/strong>(1:02.18), Kentucky’s\u00a0Ali Galyer\u00a0<\/strong>(1:02.27) and Drexel’s\u00a0Alexa Kutch\u00a0<\/strong>(1:02.76).<\/p>\n