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Pitt’s Safritt fails to qualify

Pitt’s Stacie Safritt didn’t make the Olympic swim team, but at least she got to swim against… Pitt’s Stacie Safritt didn’t make the Olympic swim team, but at least she got to swim against Dana Torres.

And with a story like Torres’, who is sprinting on her fifth Olympic swim team at the age of 41, it’s clear that Safritt, a Pitt senior, has time to go back and try again if she wants.

Safritt, a Pitt senior swimmer, swam two events at the recent Olympic trials – the 50-meter freestyle and the 100-meter freestyle – in a time trial in which she garnered her best time by 1.5 seconds.

“It was a whole different competition,” said Safritt, who’s set to captain Pitt this upcoming season.

“It was great getting to race on that type of level.”

With a time of 26.46 seconds, one that’s just hovering around her best time ever, she ended tied for 71st place.

In a competition of 89 swimmers, 15 made it to the semifinals and eight swam in the finals.

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