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Kate Douglass Powers Into Olympic Year As a Cornerstone for Team USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leading by example, as she did in Virginia\u2019s evolution to an NCAA powerhouse, Kate Douglass<\/strong> has followed the same script internationally as in the NCAA pool. Quietly, unassumingly, with sensational range, she\u2019s become not just a regular on the international stage, but one of the U.S. women\u2019s team\u2019s leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n

The premise of the question caught Kate Douglass<\/strong> a little bit by surprise in the mixed zone in Fukuoka. By the end of the World Aquatics Championships, though, it seemed truer than at the start.<\/p>\n

All of 21 years old, Douglass was not just one of the veterans on Team USA in terms of stature, but in the steadiness of her performances. Team USA turned to her as an anchor again and again to get relays with obvious flaws onto the podium, proving her mettle as a racer on the international stage.<\/p>\n

Her standing isn\u2019t just about the 200 IM bronze medal she garnered from her last meet in Japan two years ago at the Tokyo Olympics. It\u2019s not about the short-course medals aplenty she has collected since or the absolute carnage she has brought upon her NCAA opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of weird to hear I\u2019m one of the veterans because I feel like I\u2019m pretty young,\u201d Douglass said. \u201cBut it\u2019s true because I\u2019ve definitely been on more meets than a lot of the younger girls here. It\u2019s definitely exciting to take on that role and just kind of show the younger girls that they deserve to be here and they belong here because I know that I didn\u2019t feel that way when I was a newbie. It\u2019s just been a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we make the turn toward the Olympic year, it is almost easier to list the events in which Douglass isn\u2019t<\/em> the American standard bearer. Such is the variety of her brilliance\u2014versatility that once may have been easy to dismiss as a product of the short college pool, but which she has replicated internationally far too often to be an accident.<\/p>\n

Douglass\u2019 return of six medals from this summer\u2019s World Championships isn\u2019t just a historic haul. It may prove a tentpole around which an American program that left Fukuoka\u2019s Marine Messe Hall with more questions than answers can orient itself in the final push for Paris.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>A KATE OF ALL TRADES<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Try to square these next four facts into anything approximating the framework of specialty in modern swimming:<\/p>\n

Kate Douglass may be the best American female sprinter right now<\/em><\/strong>. Douglass won the 100 free at Phillips 66 Nationals in 52.57 seconds, a half-second quicker than longtime sprint mainstay Abbey Weitzeil<\/strong> and within 3-hundredths of Simone Manuel\u2019s<\/strong> U.S. Open record from 2018. She then finished fourth at Worlds in 52.81, a tenth of a second off the podium.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Kate Douglass is maybe the top 200 IMer in the world<\/em><\/strong>. Apply whatever caveats you\u2019d like: Kaylee McKeown\u2019s<\/strong> semifinal disqualification or the absence of Summer McIntosh<\/strong> and her 2:06.89 world junior record from the event. Alex Walsh<\/strong> (silver in Tokyo, gold at Worlds in 2022, silver in Fukuoka) and Douglass will challenge for gold against anyone.<\/p>\n

Kate Douglass is America\u2019s top 200 breaststroker at the moment<\/em><\/strong>. She sealed that with silver in Fukuoka, trailing only reigning Olympic champion Tatjana Schoenmaker<\/strong> of South Africa. Lilly King<\/strong>, the five-time Olympic medalist, finished fourth and openly (if half-jokingly) cast doubt on which distance is most comfortable for her at the moment.<\/p>\n

Kate Douglass is Team USA\u2019s most reliable relay swimmer<\/em><\/strong>. While it\u2019s not time to anoint her a latter-day Jason Lezak<\/strong> yet, she was the team\u2019s steadiest hand at Worlds. She anchored the women\u2019s 400 free relay to silver (with the third-fastest leg among non-Australians), the mixed 400 free to silver, the mixed 400 medley to bronze and the women\u2019s medley relay to gold. In the mixed medley, she uncorked a split of 51.79. In the women\u2019s medley relay, she held off the charge of the world record holder, Mollie O\u2019Callaghan<\/strong>, for gold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been interesting being the anchor on all the relays this week,\u201d Douglass said in Japan. \u201cBut it\u2019s been a lot of fun. I think being the anchor definitely motivates me, and I\u2019ve had some really great splits so far this week. It\u2019s been fun having Team USA rely on me for that spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Add it up, and you get six medals: two gold, three silver and one bronze. You also get the swimmer who, outside of Katie Ledecky<\/strong>, looks at this distance from Paris to be the U.S. women\u2019s best chance to collect gold medals at the next Olympics.<\/p>\n

GETTING THERE IS HALF THE BATTLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like many Americans, getting to Paris may be the hardest part for Douglass. The last two summers, the native of Pelham, N.Y., has been fairly judicious in picking her program.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

The 200 breast seems a lock for her Olympic Trials lineup in Indianapolis. The 200 IM would seem to be as well until you realize that she skipped out on it at International Team Trials in 2022 (the runner-up there, Leah Hayes, went and won a bronze medal at Worlds in Budapest). It\u2019s an event where she has relentlessly improved: She went 2:09.04 at the Olympics, then 2:07.17 in Fukuoka. The piecemeal improvement plan on each stroke in her training with Todd DeSorbo<\/strong> in Charlottsville seems uniquely positioned to generate time drops in the IM.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve gotten more confident in that race, especially this year,\u201d Douglass said. \u201cMy backstroke leg has gotten a lot better, and my freestyle leg at the end has also really improved.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 100 free, with its relay possibilities, is also a cornerstone, even more so now that she\u2019s grown from relay regular to medal contender.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this meet gave me a lot of confidence in my 100 free,\u201d Douglass said. \u201cIt gave me a lot of excitement going forward. I want to take on that role in the future. I think that is motivation for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

From there, Douglass has some freedom. She\u2019s continued to take aim at the 100 butterfly, as difficult a task though that may be. With Torri Huske<\/strong> having a down Worlds by her standards and Claire Curzan<\/strong> missing out at Trials due to illness, the pathway might seem more open. The possibility of ripping a 50 free remains on her program, and the goal of an all-UVA pairing in both of those events with Gretchen Walsh<\/strong> \u00e0 la Douglass and Alex Walsh<\/strong> in the 200 IM probably provides a little extra motivation.<\/p>\n

No one is immune to the rigors of doubles. But Douglass\u2014and her 14 NCAA titles in the last two years\u2014seems about as close to it as one can be. And she\u2019s reached a status internationally where it seems unwise to doubt her.<\/p>\n

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