{"id":521001,"date":"2023-01-10T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=521001"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:41:35","slug":"cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bjorn Seeliger<\/strong> and <strong>Isabelle Stadden<\/strong> swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, <a href=\"https:\/\/pac-12.com\/article\/2023\/01\/09\/pac-12-womens-swimmer-month-december-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced on Tuesday<\/a>. Cal won all three awards announced, with <strong>Joshua Thai<\/strong> named t<a href=\"https:\/\/pac-12.com\/article\/2023\/01\/09\/pac-12-mens-swimmer-and-diver-month-december-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he men\u2019s diver of the month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seeliger won the 50 freestyle at the Minnesota Invitational with a time of 18.73 seconds, good for third-fastest in the nation. His time of 41.68 in the 100 free also earned gold in Minnesota and is third nationally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/pac-12-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pac-12 Swimming<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seeliger, a junior from Sweden, finished second in the 100 backstroke to teammate <strong>Destin Lasco<\/strong> at that meet. He also helped Cal win the 400 medley, 200 free and 200 medley relays.<\/p>\n<p>Thai, a freshman from Alhambra, Calif., won the 1-meter event in Minnesota, his score of 346.45 setting the standard. The victory was the first for a Cal Golden Bear at a major event since 2019 (<strong>Connor Callahan<\/strong>). Thai also finished second in platform with a score of 324.95 and placed fourth on 3-meter (333.00). All three scores are Zone E qualifying marks.<\/p>\n<p>Thai is just the fifth ever Cal diver recognized as Men\u2019s Diver of the Month and the first since <strong>Tom Henninger<\/strong> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Stadden, a junior, won two events in her home state of Minnesota. The Blaine native won the 100 back in 50.88 and the 200 back in 1:50.21. She was on four Cal relays that finished second at the Minnesota Invitational. That includes an A-cut 400 medley squad that went 3:30.96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden Bjorn Seeliger and Isabelle Stadden swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":500921,"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":[6],"tags":[127560,5007,176,63211,75042,56805],"class_list":["post-521001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-bjorn-seeliger","tag-cal","tag-california","tag-isabelle-stadden","tag-joshua-thai","tag-pac-12-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month Goes to Cal&#039;s Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bjorn Seeliger and Isabelle Stadden swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, announced Tuesday.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bjorn Seeliger and Isabelle Stadden swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, announced Tuesday.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdoctormd\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\"},\"headline\":\"Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bjorn Seeliger\",\"Cal\",\"California\",\"Isabelle Stadden\",\"Joshua Thai\",\"Pac-12 Swimming\"],\"articleSection\":[\"College\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/\",\"name\":\"Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month Goes to Cal's Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00\",\"description\":\"Bjorn Seeliger and Isabelle Stadden swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, announced Tuesday.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":750,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3\",\"name\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Matthew De George - Senior Writer\"},\"description\":\"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month Goes to Cal's Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden","description":"Bjorn Seeliger and Isabelle Stadden swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, announced Tuesday.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden","og_description":"Bjorn Seeliger and Isabelle Stadden swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, announced Tuesday.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":750,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sportsdoctormd","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/"},"author":{"name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3"},"headline":"Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden","datePublished":"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/"},"wordCount":248,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg","keywords":["Bjorn Seeliger","Cal","California","Isabelle Stadden","Joshua Thai","Pac-12 Swimming"],"articleSection":["College"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/","name":"Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month Goes to Cal's Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-10T18:41:35+00:00","description":"Bjorn Seeliger and Isabelle Stadden swept the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month honors for December, announced Tuesday.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg","width":1000,"height":750,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cal-sweeps-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-month-with-bjorn-seeliger-isabelle-stadden\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cal Sweeps Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month with Bjorn Seeliger, Isabelle Stadden"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/aff20a2913cc03a514d0343a4c8788f3","name":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7cfca9cef277cfa1a9f4150330ba69a2?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Matthew De George - Senior Writer"},"description":"Matthew De George is the Americas Correspondent for Swimming World Magazine. He's the author of two books on swimming, Duels in the Pool and Pooling Talent. He's also the assistant sports editor for the Delaware County Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he covers high school and college sports as well as the Philadelphia Union. His work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Athletic.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.swimmingworld.com","https:\/\/x.com\/sportsdoctormd"],"url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/mattdg\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bjorn-seeliger-2022-mncaasd-0740-Edit.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-2bxf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}