Nine years later, Ryan Murphy still remembers that moment from the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials for the London Games.
After his junior year in high school, Murphy made both backstroke finals and finished a promising fourth and sixth as the youngest man in each field. The top two per event made the team for London, but Murphy, already a prep star, seemed destined for a future Games.
After one of those races in Omaha, Matt Grevers, who a month later would become the fifth straight American man to win the 100m back gold medal, came up to the young Murphy.