Swimming video edit by Coleman Hodges
MEN’S 400 Freestyle – Reported by Braden Keith
15-year old Sean Grieshop from Nitro Swimming in Austin led off the men’s 100m freestyle at an eager pace, taking the lead over seasoned swimmers such as Connor Dwyer, Michael McBroom, and Tyler Clary at the first 100m with a time of 55.99.
But McBroom, who seems poised for a big explosion in long course, said that he felt really good on his first 200 (much better than his back 200) and that showed in the 1:53.96 split he put up.
Dwyer was a body length behind McBroom at the halfway point, and couldn’t catch up to him going into the last 100, with McBroom winning in 3:50.87. That’s withing about a second of his lifetime best.
Toward the end of this race, McBroom began to pull away from Dwyer, and Dwyer seemed to lose the pop in his stroke as it was clear that he was hurting. Dwyer was able to hold off a hard-charging Clary, though, for 2nd place 3:53.85-3:54.47.
Crimson Aquatics’ Liam Egan, a Stanford commit, was 4th in 3:57.82, followed by Michael Weiss in 3:58.37. Aidan Burns rounded out the sub-four-minute group, with Grieshop fading all the way back to 7th in 4:00.26.
Matthew Hirschberger won the B-Final in 3:59.61.