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He won all three of his individual races, the sophomore clocking NCAA cuts in the 500 freestyle at 4:08.55, the 200 butterfly at 1:41.68 and 200 freestyle at 1:32.12.<\/p>\n<p>Bricker helped the Cardinal win the CSL meet. The senior won the 200 fly in 1:52.42. She also claimed the 200 free in 1:44.26 and the 200 individual medley in 1:54.089. All three are NCAA cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Sitz was the standout of a double dual meet for SMU against Incarnate Word and Oklahoma Christian. The junior scored 345.83 points to win on 1-meter and 397.35 to claim the title on 3-meter.<\/p>\n<p>Lu, a junior, helped the Blue Devils top Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/duke-cruises-to-wins-in-season-opener-at-davidson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in their opener<\/a>. She won both springboard events, scoring 319.88 on 1-meter and 352.35 on 3-meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSL MVPs Ryan Erisman, Caroline Bricker Named ACC Swimmers of the Week California\u2019s Ryan Erisman and Stanford\u2019s Caroline Bricker were named ACC Swimmers of the Week after their performances in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":649440,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[49364,176,75365,137117,137116,34127,138473,135023,132482,43068,327],"class_list":["post-654920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-acc-swimming","tag-california","tag-caroline-bricker","tag-college-swimming-league","tag-csl","tag-duke","tag-keira-lu","tag-luke-sitz","tag-ryan-erisman","tag-smu","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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