Good Sports: Fresno State swim ranked in top 25 for first time ever

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every contention starts the aforesaid way, but not each excavation feels similar home.

Mackenzie Miller Lung graduated from Clovis East arsenic a three-time All-American, past took her talents to BYU.

"I consciousness similar successful precocious school, I ever wanted to conscionable get out," she said. "I was like, 'I request to acquisition antithetic things.'"

She ended her assemblage vocation arsenic a Cougar with a second-place decorativeness astatine the NCAA championship.

A decorativeness she ne'er dreamed of -- but 1 that near her wanting more.

"I had that feeling of like, I could bash more," she said. "I could travel backmost and I could bash different year."

The thought of coming backmost to the Valley became a reality.

"When I went to Utah, I loved it," Lung said. "I loved my acquisition there, but it was ne'er home."

Fresno State manager Jeanne Fleck tried to enlistee Mackenzie close retired of precocious school.

"She blew america disconnected and went to BYU," Fleck said jokingly.

Better precocious than never, Mackenzie dove into a caller programme and added extent to an already beardown breaststroke group.

"I person a breaststroke radical that is 1 of the champion breaststroke groups successful the country," Fleck said. "There aren't a batch of schools that person what we have."

Jenna Pulkkinen, Aliz Kalmar and present Mackenzie person the apical 3 times successful the 100-meter breaststroke successful the program's history.

"We are conscionable going upward, and I deliberation this year, we person a truly bully accidental astatine winning the conference," Kalmar said.

The Bulldogs are coming disconnected a grounds year. Aliz and Jenna made it to the NCAA title past season, present adding Mackenzie to the group.

"We could person 3 scorers, and if you person 3 scorers, you tin beryllium successful the apical 20," Fleck said.

This week, Fresno State is ranked successful the apical 25 for the archetypal clip ever. Looking up to the league tourney and hopefully the large stage, the 'Dogs aren't slowing down.

"I privation to interruption each schoolhouse grounds that we tin perchance break," Fleck said. "I privation to interruption each of our relay records."

"I decidedly privation to extremity connected a precocious enactment since I'm going to NCAA's this year, too," Kalmar said.

With momentum connected their side, the Bulldogs are closing the play connected their highest level yet.

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