By Peter Baugh, Swimming World College Intern
Will Licon, a junior at Texas, qualified for the U.S. National Team in both the 200-meter breaststroke and the 200-meter individual medley. As a sophomore, Licon won three events at the NCAA National Championships. This is Licon’s first year on the national team.Â
He recently took the time to catch up with Swimming World…
So Nationals started off really, really rough for me. I had two events the first day and swam absolutely terrible in both of those events for myself. It was kind of a bummer for me because, going into the meet, I felt pretty prepared. I had some setbacks in the summer but (I) felt like I was on track to have a good meet regardless. To start it off so terrible off the bat was a little frustrating. I had two days off after that, thank goodness, to regroup, get my mindset back together. The next event I had after that was the 200 IM. I ended up talking to Eddie (Reese) and Kris (Kubik) and just wanted to go after it in the morning … and (I) ended up having a pretty good morning swim, went a best time by a good amount for me and then in the evening ended up pretty much repeating the same time … I was thrilled with it. It was really cool in the evening getting to swim next to Michael (Phelps) for the first time at a big stage event and just seeing the crowd go crazy for him and being next to a guy who is under world record pace for three-quarters of the race. That was a really cool experience for me. Following that up the next day (was) the 200 breast … I’m happy with the time, not satisfied, but for now it’ll do. Still, being able to put me on the national team for another event, I’ll take it any day.
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