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WOMEN’S 50 Freestyle – Reported by Jared Anderson
SwimMAC’s Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace jumped to the head of the sprinting field to win the splash and dash. After narrowly taking the second seed out of prelims, the Bahamas Olympian roared to the wall at finals, cutting three tenths off her prelims time to go 25.55. That was enough to top the 1-seed, Amanda Kendall, who is making a career comeback with T2 Aquatics at just 23 years old. Kendall took second place, .04 ahead of Canadian Sandrine Mainville, who wound up third.
Mainville’s teammate Victoria Poon took fourth, just .02 behind. Melissa Gates of Cats Aquatic Team was fifth in 25.80 before U.S. National Teamer Megan Romano came in at 25.87. The rest of the A final was 15-year-old Fernando Delgado (7th) and SwimMAC breaststroker Katie Meili (8th).
Canada’s Hannah Riordan dipped under 26 to win the B final, going 25.97.