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Meitz was set to swim the 800, 400 and 200 free, where she was <a href=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/results\/pdf\/2019-usa-phillips-66-national-championships-psych-sheet-usa-senior-national-2019-07-31.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seeded first<\/a> in the 400 and sixth in the 800 and 200.<\/p>\n<p>Meitz is coming off a successful summer where she won the 400 free at the World University Games in early July, swimming a 4:05.80 to win the gold medal in Naples by almost five seconds. She also led off the gold medal winning 4&#215;200 free relay for the United States in Naples with a 1:58.23, which would have won the silver medal behind <strong>Gabby DeLoof<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meitz is currently ranked third in the United States in the 400 free behind\u00a0<strong>Katie Ledecky\u00a0<\/strong>(3:59.28) and\u00a0<strong>Leah Smith\u00a0<\/strong>(4:01.29). She is also ranked seventh in the 800 and 10th in the 200 free in the nation this year. Meitz would have been a favorite to collect multiple top three podium places this week at Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Meitz&#8217;s withdrawal from the meet opens the door for\u00a0<strong>Haley Anderson<\/strong>, who was seeded second behind her already in the 400 free. Meitz was also set to swim the 800 free fastest heat on Wednesday night but <strong>Sierra Schmidt\u00a0<\/strong>will move up to the fastest heat to be swum tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 US Nationals Palo Alto, California 400 freestyle top seed\u00a0Kaersten Meitz\u00a0of Boilermaker Aquatics has pulled out of the 2019 US Nationals due to appendicitis, sources have confirmed to Swimming World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":317488,"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":[3,7],"tags":[69780,53357,44147],"class_list":["post-385361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usa","tag-2019-phillips-66-us-national-championships","tag-boilermaker-aquatics","tag-kaersten-meitz"],"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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