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WOMEN’S 50 FREE
SwimMAC’s Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace cruised to a dominating 50 free win, smashing the field by over half a second. Her 24.85 topped second place by .6, and is just a half-second off of her lifetime-best, done at the Commonwealth Games over the summer.
Canada’s Victoria Poon was 25.48 for second, beating Seminole Aquatics’ Svetlana Khakhlova (25.66).
Vanderpool-Wallace’s SwimMAC training partner Katie Meili took fourth. Meili is mostly known as a breaststroker and IMer, but tends to turn up some big sprint free races at these Pro Swim Series events. She went 25.72, within half a second of her best.
Caroline Lapierre-Lemire (25.85) and Amanda Weir (25.91) also got under 26 seconds, and Hannah Riordan nearly joined them, going 26.00. Former college standout Lara Jackson, on the comeback trail this year, took 8th in 26.39.