{"id":392905,"date":"2019-09-06T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=392905"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:07:40","slug":"grant-house-to-take-olympic-redshirt-at-arizona-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/grant-house-to-take-olympic-redshirt-at-arizona-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant House to Take Olympic Redshirt at Arizona State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona State junior\u00a0Grant House\u00a0<\/strong>is taking no chances this year to try and qualify for the 2020 Olympic team. House told\u00a0Swimming World\u00a0<\/em>he was going to sit out competing for the Sun Devils this upcoming school year and take an Olympic redshirt to ensure he is 100% prepared at the 2020 Olympic Trials in June.<\/p>\n

An Olympic redshirt is different than an academic redshirt in that House will not be taking any classes this school year, and will be a full-time athlete in preparation for next summer. House had the option to take a regular academic redshirt and still get scholarship money, but wanted to avoid the stressors of school and be able to mentally readjust himself moving forward.<\/p>\n

House had the seventh fastest 200 free time in the United States in 2018. Even though he qualified 16th out of prelims last summer, House said that had he replicated that in an Olympic Trials format, then he would have been able to put himself in contention for a top six spot.<\/p>\n

“I was nervous about how the team would react but they have been nothing but supportive,” House<\/a> said. Without him, the team will have a chance to grow and be even stronger when he returns in the fall of 2020.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now he will have a swimming focus leading into Trials, which will be a nice reset after the hectic summer he had in 2019.<\/p>\n
Grant House’s 2019 Summer:<\/h3>\n
To start things off, House and the rest of the Arizona State swimmers could not train at their on-campus pool in Tempe due to summer renovations, so they spent the majority of the summer training abroad at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. After a five-week camp in Colorado, the team went to the Mission Viejo invite in California in June, and then after that it was time for House’s first international team trip (on the senior level) to the World University Games in Naples, Italy.<\/p>\n
And that was when things got interesting.<\/p>\n
The entire swim team was supposed to meet up in Newark to get on a direct flight to Italy, with House and fellow American team member\u00a0Katharine Berkoff\u00a0<\/strong>getting to the gate early.<\/p>\n
“We got to about 45 minutes before the flight was supposed to board and there still weren’t a lot of people on the team at the gate,” House said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Delays all around the country caused planes to not be able to fly into Newark, and roughly 15 people were able to make the Newark flight out of the 56 on the total roster. It took roughly two days for the entire team to congregate in Naples, with some people getting to the meet the day before it started.<\/p>\n
“We really just had to laugh through it all since there was nothing we could do,” House<\/a> said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Despite the travel issues, House and the rest of the United States team had a successful meet, raking in 40 medals, with House contributing to a gold medal in the 4×200 free relay with a 1:47.89 split. His best last summer was a 1:46.9 from the B-Final at US Nationals which got him on the team for World University Games.<\/p>\n
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