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Why Kate Douglass Decided to Attend Doha World Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

After two consecutive dominant seasons on the college level in which she swam the fastest short course yards times ever in four different events, Kate Douglass is not racing for the University of Virginia this season. But she still has a championship meet on which to focus in advance of this summer\u2019s Olympic Trials, with the 22-year-old from Pelham, N.Y., one of the most high-profile American swimmers<\/a> to accept a spot on the team for the Doha World Championships.<\/p>\n

Douglass will be busy next week, as she is entered in six individual events over the course of the eight-day meet. She will start by defending her world title in the 200 IM<\/a>, in a field missing top rivals Summer McIntosh<\/strong>, Kaylee<\/strong> McKeown<\/strong>, Yu Yiting<\/strong> and Virginia training partner Alex<\/strong> Walsh<\/strong>, and Douglass will be the heavy gold-medal favorite in the 200 breaststroke after she joined the sub-2:20 club with an American record last month<\/a> at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n

Douglass is also entered in the 50 and 100 freestyle, both events where she is seeded fourth and definitely among the medal threats, as well as the 100 breast and 50 butterfly. It\u2019s unclear if Douglass and fellow American star Claire Curzan<\/strong> will race women\u2019s relays given the lack of depth on the American roster, but they will surely compete with their male counterparts on the mixed 400 medley and freestyle relays.<\/p>\n

Why make the trip across the world so close to Olympic Trials? Douglass said that she\u2019s used to championship-level racing at this time of year, and she feels that the positives she could glean from Doha outweigh any drawbacks.<\/p>\n

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Kate Douglass — Photo Courtesy: Andrea Masini \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI kind of thought it just would be a good opportunity to go have a cool experience in Doha and also get a lot of racing practice in because obviously I\u2019ll be doing a lot of races, and I think that will be a good thing to kind of show myself that I can do a bunch of races,\u201d Douglass said. \u201cIt\u2019s a long meet, and I think it could be a good confidence booster. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s really going to be detrimental my training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Potentially the busiest session of racing for Douglass will come on night six in Doha<\/a>, when she could have the 100 free final, 200 breast final and 50 fly semifinal within 90 minutes. Last year, Douglass became the first swimmer since the World Championships adopted an eight-day format to race both the 100 free and 200 breast at the same meet, finishing fourth in the freestyle before a breaststroke silver.<\/p>\n

This time, she will be in a mix with Hong Kong\u2019s Siobhan<\/strong> Haughey<\/strong>, Sweden\u2019s Sarah<\/strong> Sjostrom<\/strong>, Australia\u2019s Shayna Jack<\/strong> and the Netherlands\u2019 Marrit Steenbergen<\/strong> in the 100 while the Netherlands\u2019 Tes Schouten will be the only swimmer potentially close to Douglass in the breaststroke.<\/p>\n

As for the 200 IM, without any of Douglass\u2019 main rivals in town, she could cruise to a second consecutive title. That\u2019s quite a turnaround for a swimmer who eschewed the event at a selection meet less than two years ago. Douglass had won an Olympic bronze medal one year earlier, but she simply disliked the event. Not the case anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely think I\u2019m in a good spot with the 200 IM,\u201d Douglass said. \u201cI think last summer definitely helped. It showed me that all the training I did for that race, it showed me that I was back in that race and I enjoyed training for it and racing it again. I guess I would say I\u2019m in a pretty good place in that event, and I\u2019m excited to continue training that and racing that with Alex.\u201d<\/p>\n

An elite international performer in butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle, Douglass admits that her backstroke still needs some work, and that stroke has been a target in training. \u201cI think that\u2019s why I\u2019m excited about it,\u201d she said. \u201cThe backstroke is definitely a big spot where I can make a lot of improvement, so that\u2019s definitely been a big focus in training. I\u2019m doing a lot more backstroke work and hoping we can bring down that split a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has already moved to the forefront of the global standings in the 200 breast, and now, a little bit of improvement on backstroke could yield a swim in Doha that will make Douglass tough to beat in the 200 IM at the Paris Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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