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Thursday, February 25
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Pac-12 Women's Swimming Championships - Day 2
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Chloe Larson Makes History, Wins 50 Free Pac-12 Championship
February 25, 2021 | Swimming
HOUSTON (Feb. 25, 2021) – Senior Chloe Larson made history Thursday, giving Washington State its first Pac-12 Conference individual champion in program history with a win in the 50 freestyle at the conference championships in Houston.
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Larson, who set the school record in the 50 free preliminaries earlier in the day, won the final by touching the wall in 22.18, six-hundredths of a second ahead of the three swimmers from UCLA, CAL and USC who all tied for second.
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In the morning preliminaries, Larson recorded a school-record time of 22.16 in the same event, breaking former Cougar legend and Lithuanian Olympian Rugile Mileisyte's previous mark of 22.45 set in 2009. Larson's time was the third-fastest of the prelims, six-hundredths of a second behind the leader.
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The conference championships continue Friday.
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