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Olympic Trials Qualifier Danny Thomson to Swim Monday in Omaha
The recently graduated Red Devil will compete in the 400-meter freestyle prelims Monday and the 1,500-meter freestyle prelims Sunday.
Danny Thomson, who recently graduated from after a record-setting IHSA State Meet in February, swims Monday in the 400-meter freestyle preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Omaha.
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Thomson, who will swim next year at Stanford, enters the trials seeded 46th out of 136 400-free competitors with a qualifying time of 3:56.44.
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The 18-year-old is scheduled to compete in the 1,500-meter freestyle prelims on Sunday. He is the No. 20 in that 96-swimmer event and his qualifying time for the 1,500-free was 15:28.65.
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Thomson at the IHSA State Meet. His time was 4:18.86. Thomson recently talked with Burr Ridge Patch about his influences as a swimmer and .
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