The final stop of USA Swimming’s 2012-13 Arena Grand Prix Series – the May 30-June 2 Arena Grand Prix at Santa Clara – will feature a star-studded field including Olympic gold medalists Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo.) and Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), as well as a number of Northern California-based standouts, competing at the George F. Haines International Swim Center.

We’re now officially halfway finished with the Arena Grand Prix Series. There have been phenomenal races so far in this post-Olympic year, but these are some of the bigger, underlying storylines we’ve seen…