Shaine Casas finally makes U.S. Olympic team, Chris Guiliano’s big week continues at swim trials
Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS — Shaine Casas looked at the scoreboard, took off his cap and slapped the water furiously as if he had just won the men’s 200-meter individual medley at Friday’s U.S. Olympic Trials. And while Casas didn’t come into Indianapolis as the favorite — like he was in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a one-year postponement of the Tokyo Games — there have been plenty of surprises at this year’s trials, perhaps none more so than the emergence of Chris Guiliano, the first Notre Dame swimmer to qualify for the U.S. men’s Olympic swim team. Biondi made three U.S. Olympic teams and won 11 gold medals and when Guiliano’s feat was announced on the pool deck, Dressel goofed around with the 20-year-old emerging star. “‘Let’s go through the three months to try and go for one and then all of a sudden, that’s just kind of like the mindset I had going into the trials.” But for Casas, the qualifying swim was the most momentous in a career that took him from California to Texas and eventually Texas A&M as he rose from top prospect to short-course star and became an Olympic hopeful with a comeback that will go down as second to none.
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