{"id":582948,"date":"2024-03-30T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=582948"},"modified":"2024-03-30T19:51:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T02:51:05","slug":"ncaa-mens-championships-zalan-sarkany-delivers-authoritative-1650-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-zalan-sarkany-delivers-authoritative-1650-win\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Men’s Championships: Pick-Me-Up from Past Helps Zalan Sarkany Dominate 1,650"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA Men’s Championships: Pick-Me-Up from Past Helps Zalan Sarkany Dominate 1,650<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leadership takes a lot of forms. For Cam Peel<\/strong> Saturday, it was a text to an old friend.<\/p>\n

Arizona State distance swimmer Zalan Sarkany<\/strong> was down on himself after a rough start to NCAAs. He finished 12th in the 500 free, then 17th in the 400 individual medley. With Sarkany having a swim in the 1,650 freestyle ahead as the top seed, Peel a transfer from the University of Michigan, called in a favor from someone he knew from his Wolverine days: Felix Aubock,<\/strong> the 2019 champion in the mile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got him to send me a personal message with a video,\u201d Sarkany said. \u201cI was feeling a little bit down after the 400 IM and 500 of course, I wasn\u2019t feeling too good. But that definitely cheered me up. It was definitely a motivational video I got for him. I guess he had the same situation with that, because the 500 and the 200 free didn\u2019t go well for him, but eventually he was able to win the mile.\u201d<\/p>\n