recorded a total of 10,850 meters.
Comerford can go faster – and she knows it. “That’s definitely the goal,” Comerford said. “I
just want to keep working hard and having fun
with it. If you aren’t having fun, it doesn’t work.”
But Comerford isn’t satisfied with tying
Ledecky for the NCAA title. She wants more. “I mean, I was happy with the finish, but we
think maybe I took an extra stroke at the end,”
Comerford said. “It obviously worked out great,
but there are just some little things that I see
that can improve. The good news for Louisville is Comerford
still has two more years of college left. She and
fellow sophomore Lamar Jackson were recently
honored as the Adidas High Performance
Athletes of the Year.
“Steph (Juncker), she and I have worked
on stroke counts, watching and learning from
the best,” Comerford said, noting that she has
already analyzed her 200-free from the most-
recent NCAA meet, trying to get better. “I think it was an awesome race, but there are
still things that need to be better. There’s always
a next race. It wasn’t necessary a perfect race
so there are some good things to learn from it.
That is exciting.” The sophomore pair have a lot of similarities.
Most notably, each burst onto the scene in
their respective sports this past season, and
both haven’t yet peaked with their enormous
potential.
And then they all came back in the afternoon
to do it again.
Workouts like that are part of the reason
Louisville has had a NCAA champion in each
of the last six seasons.
“It wasn’t necessarily perfect, but the way I
went out with easy speed helped,” Comerford
said.
“I didn’t overdo it in the first 100, so that
allowed me to kick it in during the second 100.
That was the plan: stay as close as possible and
then let it go.”
It’s clear Comerford believes she can go faster.
“Yeah, I think so,” Comerford said.
How much faster?
“I don’t know,” she said with a smile.
Can she break 1:40?
“To be honored with that award is very cool
and to have Lamar Jackson win it, too? I mean, he
just won the Heisman Trophy,” Comerford said.
Yeah, and Mallory Comerford just won an
NCAA championship.
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