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Former WKU swimmer Donahue advances to finals at Olympic trials

Former Western Kentucky swimmer Claire Donahue kept her hopes of making the U.S. Olympic Swim Team alive by qualifying for Monday night's finals in the 100-meter butterfly Sunday at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb.

Donahue finished in a time of 58.03 seconds in the preliminaries to advances to the semifinals, where she clocked a time of 58.76 to place seventh and move on as a top-eight finisher for Monday night's finals.

Donahue swam the 100 fly at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where she set a personal-best time of 57.42, and also won gold as part of the U.