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Kevin Cordes after winning the 100 breaststroke at an international meet last December. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Kevin Cordes did it again.
The University of Arizona junior from Naperville broke his own American record in Saturday night’s 200-yard breaststroke final at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas.
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Cordes won his second straight NCAA title at the distance with a time of 1 minute, 48.66 seconds, .02 faster than the record he set at last year’s NCAA meet.
Friday, he had broken his own American record for the 100 breaststroke in both the prelims and the final while winning that NCAA title for the third straight year.