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So is this: Less than a minute after Huske and the other seven women in her semifinal dove into the Olympic trials pool, she touched the wall in a new U.S. “She just wanted to get up there and race,” he said. Her longtime coach, Evan Stiles of the Arlington Aquatic Club, was watching in the stands as his star pupil tore up to the starting blocks, foreshadowing what was to come when she actually hit the water. Olympic trials, she was in a very different kind of hurry. Minutes before Huske - the only child of a Chinese-American immigrant mother and an American father - was about to introduce herself to the sports world in the biggest way possible, by setting her initial American record on the first night of her first U.S. NEVER MISS A MEDAL: Follow our Olympics newsletter swimming team at the Tokyo Olympic Games. It’s actually part game plan, part hope - the machinations of the imaginative mind of an 18-year-old who just graduated from high school and is headed to Stanford, one of 11 teenagers who will burst into prominence on the U.S. “Fly and die,” she calls her strategy, meaning she goes all out in the first 50 meters, and hopes she has enough left for the last 50. Olympic team, a biracial athlete in a predominantly white sport, so fast that she didn’t break the American record in the 100-meter butterfly just once at last month’s swimming trials, she did it twice. It makes sense she is a swimmer, one of the bright young stars of the U.S.
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Torri Huske is a young woman in a hurry.