"Francis Crippen" was an American Long-distance swimming/long-distance Swimming (sport)/swimmer. After being a pool swimmer for most of his career, Crippen made the transition to open water swimming in 2006. In international competitions, Crippen won seven medals, five of which were in the open water and two in the pool. Crippen died during an open water swimming race in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 at the age of 26.

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I think it's going to be a really good meet. They have strengthened their team, and this is the best team we have seen them have since I've been here. We're going to have a lot of really tight races, so it's going to be exciting.

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I'm just not trying to think about it as my last meet as a Virginia swimmer. After it's all over, I'll think of that. All the hard work we've done, I'm just going to go and have fun and swim fast.

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Personally, as the leader, I think that if you can get your team one good swim, more [good] swims are going to follow. It's not to say that we couldn't have turned it around, but I think I got the ball moving in the wrong direction.

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We think we're a top-10 team so we're shooting to be in and around there, and we think there [are] some teams ahead of us that we can surprise.

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There's just no better feeling. Being the senior captain on a team that's won eight straight [ACC] titles -- it just doesn't get any better than this.

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I think I could be top-eight in all my events, which would be fantastic. I'm on a relay that can be top-eight. I think we can contend.

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