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Defending NCAA Title Bittersweet as Brendan Burns Reckons with End of Swimming Career

2024 MEN’S NCAA SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

For the 3rd year in a row (and 2nd in the 100 back), Brendan Burns captured an individual NCAA title in a highly contested race. As a 5th year, Burns said this was a challenging year, with the conclusion of his swimming career in the back of his mind. Burns has had to manage the highs of winning with his team along with the sobering fact that it will all be over after this weekend.

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Old Swim Coach
7 months ago

It’s been a privilege, sir.

Jeah
7 months ago

Stole the Harbaugh thing “who’s got it better than us!?”

DSam
7 months ago

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

Supafly23
7 months ago

Swimming careers don’t end, they just extend their tapers.

BOBFROMTHEISLAND
7 months ago

NCAA Legend! Master of the dirty double and one of the toughest competitors I’ve ever seen in the sport. Always ready to bleed for his team.

Last edited 7 months ago by BOBFROMTHEISLAND
Breezeway
7 months ago

He can get work as that new Capt America stunt double

Weinstein-Smith-Ledecky-Sims
7 months ago

There’s the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

Unknown Swammer
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7 months ago

Masters Nationals in Indy same week as Olympic Trials…let’s see if he can pull a dirty quad and final in all four!

Phil Espinosa
7 months ago

I “watched” this guy come up over the years first as a Y swimmer at UMLY then in PA high school. Great college swimmer but as he said he won’t be in Paris, who cares he’ll get 2 degrees out of swimming and likely very little debt to start out with, that is a very fair trade. Plus, how many men or women in NCAA history have done the “dirty double” let alone have finialed in both? That’s nuts.

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