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Notre Dame only has Missouri State as an opponent for this year’s Shamrock Invitational, but it’s not going to take it easy on the visitors. After the first day, the Irish have a 203-35 lead. Just as impressive as that lead is the fact that they set four pool records.
Jack Hoagland set two of the records with times of 4 minutes, 15.39 seconds in the 500-meter freestyle and 3:43.78 in the 400 individual medley. Charles Korndorffer finished with a 47.22 in the 100 butterfly. The final record came in the 200 medley relay compliments of Josh Bottelberghe, Topher Stensby, Cason Wilburn and Brendan Santana. That team finished its run in 1:26.23.
Coach Mike Litzinger was happy to see this beginning performance by his team in this final tuneup before championship season:
“The whole trick when you swim a championship format is not only the performance you just did, but what the future performance the next day or the next morning is going to look like. You have to prepare for that just as intensely as you’re prepared for the event that’s happening right now.
That’s just good practice for the end of the year when you swim multiple times over multiple days. You need to find a routine, and once you lock that routine in, you learn how to recover: fuel properly, use all our recovery tools that we have available to us. Then, all of a sudden, you’re ready to perform at a championship level.”