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Glenbrook South’s Sam Iida won the 500-yard freestyle during the state finals on Feb. 28 at New Trier. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Glenview Titan Aquatic Club swimmer Sam Iida qualified for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 400-meter individual medley by touching the wall in 4 minutes, 26.31 seconds at the USA Futures Championships in West Lafayette, Ind.
Iida earned the qualifying mark in the preliminaries on Friday, July 31.
The Olympic Trials time standard is 4:27.49.
As a sophomore at Glenbrook South, Iida won the 500-yard freestyle (4:31.13) at the 2015 boys swimming and diving state meet and finished second in the 200-yard IM (1:50.91). He also took third in the 4×100-yard freestyle relay with the Titans.
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