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JANUARY 20th 2015FEATURES

5 INGREDIENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL IM SWIMMERBy Diana PimerWhat are the traits that make youking or queen of the IM? Diana Pimerbreaks in down for you.

11 THINGS YOUR COACH IS TIRED OF YELLINGBy Allison PetersWe all know what it is like to have your coach yell during practice. Here’s a few things that you can improve on to reduce some of this noise.

HOUSE ON FIRE: 12-24 MONTHS TO SAVE NCAA SWIMMINGBy John LeonardNCAA Swimming is in serious trouble.John Leonard lays out a plan of actionto help save it.

US NATIONALS ROUND-UPBy Jeff CommingsAll the top headlines from US Winter Nationals in Greensboro, North Carolina.

HOW MUCH SWIM TRAINING IS RIGHT FOR ME?By Wayne GoldsmithWithout doubt the Biggest Question in Swimming today and is probably the most important question ever asked in the sport.

THE RUSSIAN DOPING SYSTEMBy Steven V. SelthofferThe secrets of the Russian doping system have been exposed. We look at the processand which athletes have confessed.

12 POOL RECORDS FALL AT UCSDBy Emily SamplA dozen Canyonview Aquatic Center pool records fell as San Diego State, Grand Canyon and Incarnate Word traveled to La Jolla for the UC San Diego quad meet.

US JUNIOR NATIONALS ROUND-UPBy Emily SamplAll the top headlines from US Winter Jr Nationals in Federal Way, Washington.

2015 MAJOR COMPETITION CALENDARBy Jason MarstellerIt’s now the year before the 2016 Rio Olympics, and the 2015 Major Swimming Competition Calendar is stacked. We take a look at some of the top events we’ll be tracking in 2015.

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ON THE COVER - MICHAEL PHELPS BY GRIFFIN SCOTT

Michael Phelps has returned to the pool after his legal problems kept out of the water for a time. Can the greatest of all time recapture his swagger in time for Rio 2016? We’ll be keeping a close eye on him to see how it goes.

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5 Ingredients for a Successful

Individual Medley SwimmerBy Diana pIMer, Swimming World College Intern

All events in swimming are challenging. each event is difficult in its own way, but the individual medley is it’s own animal.

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All four strokes are unique and usually take a unique set of people to do them and do them well. However, the one breed of swimmers often lacking in credit is the IMer, the ones who need to be sufficient in all

four strokes, be a distance freestyler and a sprinter.

It takes a determined, strong, and somewhat crazy swimmer to swim the individual medley.

If you take all the positive aspects of all four strokes and mold them together, your end product is the perfect swimmer to call an IMer. Personally, I have always wanted to be an IMer because if you take out the “P” in my last name it literally spells IMer. But, you don’t need IM in your last name to be successful in this event, just a combination of qualities that makes you stand out from the rest.

5 Ingredients for a Successful Individual Medley Swimmer

1) High Pain Tolerance - Much like a butterflyer, IMers have to have the highest of pain tolerances. Something about taking out the IM with relaxed speed always seems to bring the pain of speed, not relaxation. And, by the time breaststroke rolls around, true IMers know how to push through the pain, and not how to use the third leg as a break.

2) Ability to Focus - Unlike the other strokes, backstrokers really aren’t aware of where their competition is during a race. For some swimmers, this is better. Putting your blinders on and being able to focus is not only a quality of a backstroker, but an IMer as well. Not everyone will have the same race strategy, so IMers tend to be confident in their abilities and are able to zero in on what they need to do to swim their own race. IMers don’t let anything get in their head.

3) Flexibility - While physical flexibility is always beneficial, mental flexibility is equally important, especially for breaststrokers. IMers are typically thrown into any event a coach needs them to swim, whether they like it or not. They are dependable, reliable, and usually successful if they put their mind to it. Everyday tasks seem simple when you do them one at a time instead juggling four at once. IMers tend to be great multi-taskers as well.

4) Stay Calm Before the Storm - IMers need to be a mixture of a distance freestyler and a sprinter. Ask anyone, the last 4 laps of a 400 IM, you are relying on your distance background to get you to the wall, but it is an all-out sprint to the finish, there is no real pacing, it’s a 100 freestyle. IMers have the ability to do both of these at the end of an IM, as well as in general. IMers are typically laid back, relaxed, and generally fun to train with. But when it comes down to racing, nothing is going to stop them.

5) Being a Good Teammate - But what is that extra special something IMers have that make them stand out? The best quality of an IMer is that most are some of the best teammates. They know what it’s like to do all the strokes, all the varieties of sets, all the drylands and the lifts, and they know what it’s like to carry the weight of the team on their backs come the end of a dual meet. There is nothing more thrilling (or nerve-wracking) than when a meet comes down to the 200 IM, where really anything can happen. ←

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NCAA Scholarship Swimming is under assault, and very likely to become extinct SOON if we don’t act to save it.

THIS IS CRITICAL TO ALL OF US FOR TWO REASONS

First – for ALL of us….the USA is the only country in the world where a young man or young lady taking her/his first swimming lesson TODAY, has NO LIMITS on their future! They can choose to swim a little, swim a lot, excel, (or not) go through high school swimming, move on to the world’s most competitive program in NCAA swimming. (which attracts athletes from all over the globe, seeking what they don’t have at home) and go on to be an Olympian.

Or they can chose to do summer league swimming, swim in high school, move on to academic life, and nev-er swim again.

THE POINT IS, THEY HAVE THE CHOICE

In no other place on earth is that the case. In most of the globe, that young lady or man has almost nothing BUT limits….and most, even if they are serious youth swim-mers, have no choice but to quit swimming between 15-18 and concentrate on academics which determine their future. No option of Scholarships, no option of elite coaching…no realistic dreams of being the best they can be. Their swimming careers END between 15-18.

NCAA Scholarship Swimming KEEPS THE DREAM ALIVE! KEEPS THE OPTIONS, OPEN!

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Guest commentary by John Leonard, American Swimming Coaches Association Executive Director

One of the key roles that the American Swimming Coaches Association has played in American Swimming since 1958, is to warn of threats to our sport. Today, I am going to tell you about the biggest threat to American Swimming in the history of our sport.

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“NCAA Scholarship Swimming is under assault. And very likely to become extinct SOON if we don’t act to save it.” - John Leonard

It “DE-LIMITS EVERY AMERICAN SWIMMER!” DREAM, WORK, ACHIEVE. (if you chose to.)

Second – for all the reasons outlined above…NCAA Scholarship Swimming is the engine that drives our Olympic/International Success. Those 6,000 NCAA Scholarship Swimmers who keep swimming from 18-24 as they mature (and late maturers are the leading edge of elite athletes) are the “talent pool” which we have drawn on to lead the world in swimming for more than 100 years now. NCAA Scholarship Swimming is the EDGE that we have over the rest of the Swimming world.

IF NCAA Swimming Scholarships go away, the USA in ten years will look like a second rate swimming nation ….we’ll have similar numbers of “elite” athletes, except some of our friends live in countries where swimming re-ally COUNTS in the culture. You all know where swim-ming ranks in the USA in terms of cultural importance.

SO, WHAT DO WE DO?

You’ll hear lots of work ideas and see lots in action soon. We have about a 12-24 month window to save scholar-ship swimming and elite coaching jobs in the NCAA. Within 24 months, the path will be set….Universities will be either keeping or dropping scholarships and full time elite coaching jobs by then. All of this DRIVEN of course, by the insatiable need for dollars for football and basketball players, and 6 Million Dollar a year football coaches.

We will need YOU to rally your teams….get tons of letters and emails written to University Presidents and Athletic Directors in support of the “Real Student Ath-letes”…..swimmers. The College Swimming Coaches As-sociation of America and the ASCA are working togeth-er with USA Swimming to develop the plan, and ask you to work the plan.

I am personally so offended by the hypocrisy of the NCAA ad that goes on about “most of them will go pro in something other than sports”. Which implies that the NCAA actually has something to do with that! WHILE the finance of University sport heads inexorably towards the ELIMINATION OF OLYMPIC SPORTS in favor of the semi-pro leagues for football and basketball players.

It’s a toss-up right now whether the IOC/FINA or the NCAA is the most hypocritical organization in the world of sports today…but that’s a discussion for another day.

What is for today is simply this…if you love American Swimming, get ready to fight for it.

WE’LL NEED ALL OF US, TOGETHER, TO SAVE IT.

Let’s Go USA. We can do this. Plans coming. House on Fire. Man The Buckets.

~ All the Best, John Leonard ←


Guest commentary by John Leonard, American Swimming Coaches Association Executive Director


How Much Swimming Training is Right for Me? By Wayne Goldsmith

This is without doubt the Biggest Question in Swimming today and is probably the most important question ever asked in the sport.

No – it’s not about Michael Phelps’ comeback and his chances of Olympic Gold in 2016.

No – it’s not about the chances of Cal winning NCAAs again next year.

And No – it’s certainly not about the state of the economy (yawn).

The Biggest Question in Swimming is…

How Much Swimming Training is Right For Me?

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The War of Words on WaterOver the past few years there’s been a philosophical battlefield in swimming – a battle between the traditionalists view of train-ing – the More is Better brigade – who passionately believe that the path to success is by working harder, more often than your opposition and the Less is Better disciples who believe they’ve found a new direction – a new mantra in swimming with ultra high intensity, race pace, low volume training.

So who is right?

More is Better training methods: Pros and Cons

Less is Better training methods: Pros and Cons

Pros:

1. 100 years of coaching supports the More is Better training model. Every great swimmer produced over the past 100 years of the sport has been coached (in general) through the traditional approach to training;

2. It improves the “average”: i.e. if the average fitness of my team is higher than the average fitness of your team – then – on average we’ll beat you most of the time;

3. It works well in big teams with low numbers of coaches and where individualized training is difficult to implement;

4. It provides confidence. Confidence is knowing. If a swimmer knows they’ve trained harder, more often than their opposition and harder than they’ve ever trained in the past. then they can be reasonably confident of a great result at their next meet.

Cons:

1. Broken-egg coaching. The traditional swimming coaching meth-od has relied on what we call broken-egg coaching. If you throw 10000 eggs against a wall, chances are that one egg, laid with a naturally thicker shell might survive the impact and fall. This con-cept has been behind the traditional approach to training volume for a long time;

2. It can set up a mind-set that swimming is only about physi-cal preparation and physiology when it is also about the men-tal side of performance, skills, techniques, attitude, commitment, nutrition, recovery, self-management and various other factors.

3. There’s a relatively higher risk of overuse injury, illness and breakdown;

4. “More is better” training can be dull, boring, uninteresting and disengaging owing to the repetition required.

Pros:

1. It makes sense to train at the same speed and with the same stroke mechanics as you’ll need to perform at your best in your next race;

2. The fundamental training principle of “specificity” (i.e. you get what you train for) overwhelmingly supports the “Less is better” approach;

3. Swimming less distance means you’ll never be overly fatigued and therefore you can swim faster – more often;

4. The risk of overuse injury, illness and burnout should be reduced with a lower training volume.

Cons:

1. It demands that swimmers are highly motivated and 100% focused on skills, technique and maintaining precise race pace at all times during their training;

2. It is very difficult to implement an individualized approach to training in a typical age group swimming program with crowd-ed lanes full of swimmers of various ages, levels of experience and different levels of ability;

3. It assumes the swimmers have the background in skills, tech-nique and fitness to complete the workout to the prescribed standard;

4. It’s appropriateness to distance swimmers, triathletes and open water swimmers is questionable.

The right amount of training for you is whatever makes you swim faster

They’ll be some swimmers who will benefit greatly from the new “Less is Better” approach. They’ll be just as many who will continue to benefit from the traditional approach of high volume, high intensity workouts.

However, regardless of the approach you believe is right for you, More is Better or Less is Better, ultimately your swimming success has very little to do with WHAT you do in training…..it’s all HOW you train that makes all the difference.

Don’t count the laps…make every lap count ←


LA JOLLA – A dozen Canyonview Aquatic Center pool re-cords fell Saturday afternoon as San Diego State, Grand

Canyon and Incarnate Word traveled to La Jolla for the UC San Diego quad meet. Grand Canyon accounted for five of the new records, while San Diego State (three), Grand Canyon (two) and Incarnate Word (two) also got in on the record-breaking action.

The Grand Canyon men and San Diego State women each swept their two dual meets, while Incarnate Word and UC San Diego each picked up one victory on the women’s side.

San Diego State Press ReleaseSan Diego State set three pool records and placed first in 12 of 16 events in a double dual meet against Grand Canyon and Incarnate Word at the Canyonview Aquatic Center on the campus of UC San Diego Saturday afternoon.

The Aztecs ended the day with victories over both GCU (180-106) and UIW (184-107) to improve to 14-0. UCSD also com-peted at the meet, but did not score against SDSU as the teams had met in a dual meet earlier in the week.The Aztecs began the afternoon by setting a facility record in the 400 medley relay as the quartet of Anika Apostalon, Laura Day, Summer Harrison and Chelsea Bailey turned in a time of 3:47.60 to break the previous pool record by 2.5 seconds.

SDSU ended the day with another facility record as the 200 freestyle relay team of Apostalon, Natilee Ruiz, Taylor John-son and Savannah Miller went 1:34.14.

TWELVE POOL RECORDS FALL IN UC SAN DIEGO QUAD MEET

In between, Apostalon established a Canyonview Aquatic Center record with a mark of 50.05 in the 100 freestyle. The sophomore from Albuquerque, N.M, bettered the previous pool best of 50.26 that she set a year ago. She also picked up her fourth win of the afternoon by capturing the 100 back-stroke in 55.19.

San Diego State swept the top three places in four events over the course of the meet. Following Apostalon in the 100 free were Bailey (51.50) and Maddy Dalcamo (52.40).

Laura Day placed first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:04.67 with Emilie Campbell finishing second (1:05.44) and Lydia Per-everzina third (1:05.85). Cori Casper won the 500 freestyle (5:09.35) and was followed by Alex Wolf in second (5:11.41) with Cayla Jetter third (5:17.03).

SDSU’s other sweep came in the 200 freestyle with Ruiz winning in a time of 1:51.44. Whitney Weisz placed second (1:51.75) with Casper in third (1:55.68).

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The Aztecs’ other two first-place finishes in the individual swimming events included Bailey in the 50 freestyle (23.44) and Loreen Whitfield in the 100 butterfly (56.13).

Incarnate Word Press ReleaseUIW freshman Alona Kyselova (Kiev, Ukraine/Tarasa Shevchenko) set a pair of Canyonview Pool records en route to winning three events. She opened the meet with a pool re-cord time of 17:03.32 in the 1650-yard freestyle. She won the 200-yard breaststroke midway through the meet in a time of 2:18.74. Finally, she closed out her day by winning the 400-yard individual medley in a pool record time of 4:21.19.

Senior Kali Lents (San Antonio/Reagan HS) continued her strong season in the diving events. She finished second in both the 1-meter and 3-meter events. She earned 277.50 points at 3-meters and 297.80 at1-meter.

Senior Lana Nguyen (Kiev, Ukraine/NPD) and sophomore Daria Makieieva (Mariupol, Ukraine/Olimpic Reserve of Sergey Bubka) both had solid days in the pool for the Cardi-nals. Nguyen finished second in the 50 freestyle in 23.75 and she was fourth in the 100 freestyle in 52.45. Makieieva was fourth in both breaststroke events.

Grand Canyon Press ReleaseThe Grand Canyon University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams kicked off the New Year with a strong show-ing Saturday at the Canyonview Aquatic Complex in La Jolla, Calf. The meet was hosted by UC San Diego and featured four schools on the women’s side and three on the men’s.

Iegor Lytvenok had a strong showing Saturday, collecting a trio of first-place finishes. Lytvenok won the 200-free (1:37.82), 200-back (1:47.87) and 400-IM (4:04.09). John Feely took sec-ond in the 200-back after finishing in a time of 1:53.30. Lytve-nok’s times in the 200-free and 200-back are new pool records.

Stanislav Saiko took first in the 200-fly (1:51.78) and 500-free (4:37.22). Nathon Burwick (1:54.27) finished third in the 200-fly and Trent Godfrey was third in the 500-free (4:43.59). Bur-wick was second in the 100-fly (50.96 seconds).

Illya Glazunov set a pair of pool records Saturday on his way to winning the 50-free (20.17 seconds) and 100-free (44.91 sec-onds). Tanner Brotherton and Jacob Lambros tied for fourth after they finished with a time of 21.27 seconds in the 50-free. Lambros (46.32 seconds) took second and Mazen Elkamash (47.14 seconds) fifth in the 100-free.

Feely won the 100-back after finishing in a time of 51.73 sec-

onds. Trent Trump came in third (52.77 seconds) and Fedir Bolychev took fifth (53.50 seconds). Mantas Auruskevicius took first in the 200-breast (2:06.71), while placing third was Aslan Burbayev (2:08.79) and fifth Youssef Elkamash (2:11.88).

Burbayev and Youssef El Kamash tied for the top spot in the 100-breast after touching the wall in a time of 57.55 seconds. Auruskevicius (57.87 seconds) and Tom Wahlers (59.83 sec-onds) placed fourth and fifth, respectively.

Hannah Kastigar notched a pool record time and first-place finish in the 200-fly after posting a time of 2:02.63. The soph-omore took second in the 1650-free after clocking a time of 17:06.79 and second in the 400-IM (4:22.39).

Iryna Glavnyk secured a first-place finish in the 200-back af-ter clocking a time of 2:00.78. Glavnyk also turned in a sec-ond-place finish in the 100-back, finishing in 56.32 seconds. Rebecca Coan garnered a third-place finish in the 100-fly, ac-cumulating a time of 59.63 seconds.

UC San Diego Press ReleaseThe UC San Diego women’s swimming and diving team edged Grand Canyon University, 150-141, while the Triton men fell to the visiting Antelopes, 202.5-95.5, in dual meets at the Can-yonview Aquatic Center on Saturday.

With the results, the UCSD women, ranked No. 4 nation-ally in Division II, improved to 4-2 on the season. The sev-enth-ranked men are now 2-3. The Aztec women remained undefeated at 14-0 with wins over GCU (180-106) and UIW (184-107). The GCU men (5-1) easily got past UIW (1-5) as well, 213-85. The Grand Canyon women (5-4) were nipped by UIW (3-8), 151-146.

The women’s meet with the ‘Lopes was a back and forth affair late. GCU held a relatively comfortable 112-90 advantage after 11 of 16 events. Through 13 events, UCSD had taken its first lead of the afternoon, at 121-119, after Naomi Thomas (58.36) and Jaclyn Amog (59.32) went 1-2 in the 100-yard butterfly, with freshman Jayna Wittenbrink grabbing two more points for her side in 59.69.

The Tritons went 1-2-3 in the men’s mile (1650 free) early on behind sophomores Sasha Mitrushina (16:18.43) and Chan-dler Pourvahidi (16:24.70), and junior Kyle Nadler (16:25.64). Junior Cole Heale (20.99) and senior co-captain Jack Galvan (21.18) were 2-3 in the 50 free. Galvan added a third-place finish in the 100 (46.63). ←


2015 Major Competition Calendar

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PHOENIX – It’s now the year before the 2016 Rio Olympics, and the 2015 Major Swimming Competition Calendar is stacked. Take a look below for a list of some of the top events we’ll be tracking in 2015.

2015 Major Swimming Competition Calendar

JanuaryCeraVe Invitational – Jan 9-11Arena Grand Prix, Austin – Jan 15-17BHP Super Series – Jan. 30-31

FebruaryGeorgia HS State Championships – Feb. 5-7Arena Grand Prix, Orlando – Feb. 12-14North Carolina HS State Championships – Feb. 12-14Utah HS State Championships – Feb. 12-14Colorado Girls HS State Championships – Feb 13-14Indiana Girls HS State Championships – Feb. 13-14Montana HS State Championships – Feb 13-14Maine HS State Championships – Feb. 16-18Virginia HS State Championships – Feb. 19-21Hawaii HS State Championships – Feb 20-21Kansas Boys HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Missouri Girls HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21

New Mexico HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Oklahoma HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Oregon HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Texas HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Washington Boys HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Wisconsin Boys HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Maryland HS State Championships – Feb. 20-21Michigan HG State Championships – Feb. 20-21New Jersey HS State Championships – Feb. 21-22New Mexico HS State Championships – Feb. 21-22Ohio State HS State Championships – Feb. 25-28Nebraska HS State Championships – Feb. 26-27Wyoming Boys HS State Championships – Feb. 26-28Illinois Boys HS State Championships – Feb. 27-28Indiana Boys HS State Championships – Feb. 27-28New York Boys HS State Championships – Feb. 27-28Arkansas HS State Championships – Feb. 28Kentucky HS State Championships – Feb. 28

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MarchMinnesota Boys HS State Championships – March 5-7North Dakota Boys HS State Championships – March 6-7NCAA Division II Championships, Indianapolis – March 10-14Pennsylvania HS State Championships – March 11-14Connecticut Boys HS State Championships – March 17-18NCSA Junior Nationals, Orlando – March 17-21NCAA Division III Championships, Shenandoah – March 18-21NCAA Division I Women’s Championships, Greensboro – March 19-21NCAA Division I Men’s Championships, Iowa City – March 26-28French Nationals – March 31-April 6

AprilAustralian Nationals – April 3-10Maria Lenk Trophy – April 6British Nationals - April 14-18Arena Grand Prix, Mesa – April 15-18

MayArena Grand Prix, Charlotte – May 14-17Colorado Boys HS State Championships – May 15-16California HS Championships – Throughout MayKansas Girls HS Championships – May 22-23

JuneArena Grand Prix, Santa Clara – June 18-21

JulyWorld University Games, Gwangju – July 4-11Pan American Games, Toronto – July 14-18FINA World Championships, Kazan – July 24 – August 9

AugustFINA World Masters Championships, Kazan – August 5-16

2015 FINA World Cup schedule

FINA officially announced the eight cities which will host meets in this fall’s World Cup circuit, including the addition of Chartres, France, as a new host.

France is returning to hosting the World Cup after a couple of decades away. Paris was a host in the 1990s during an earlier version of the World Cup that ran through the winter months.

The Chartres meet will be the second in the series. Moscow will host the first competition August 11-12, which is two days after the conclusion of worlds. Last year, the first stop of the World Cup was held three days after worlds, and brought a few gold medalists to the Netherlands.

The series will continue in six cities familiar with the World Cup series: Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo, Doha and Qatar.

Cluster 1Moscow (RUS) August 11-12 Chartres-Paris (FRA) August 15-16

Cluster 2Hong Kong (HKG) September 25-26 Beijing (CHN) September 29-30 Singapore (SIN) October 3-4

Cluster 3Tokyo (JPN) October 28-29 Doha (QAT) November 2-3 Dubai (UAE) November 6-7


WE ALL KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE YOUR COACH

YELLING AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS DURING PRACTICE,

TRYING TO GET OUR ATTENTION. HERE’S A FEW THINGS THAT

YOU CAN IMPROVE ON TO REDUCE SOME OF THIS NOISE.

By Allison Peters, Swimming World College Intern

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Don’t breathe in and out of your turnsLet’s just face it, even the most dedicated athletes can have a lazy moment. Being a distance swimmer myself, I have grown accustomed to breathing just about whenever I feel like it. Just know that breathing in and out of your turns not only adds time to your race, but actually slows you down after you propel off each wall.

Dolphin kick past the flagsObviously there are some exceptions to this. For example, don’t dolphin kick past the flags if you’re swimming the 100 breaststroke. Other than that, always use it to your advantage. The dolphin kick is Michael Phelps’ signature move each race. It’s practically his secret weapon that helped him take down his opponents in Beijing, London, Sydney, and Athens. If you strive for perfection like Phelps, listen to your coach and do the kick all professional swimmers have down pat.

You don’t need 10 breaths in a 50 free For the top sprinters on my team, I’m always hearing my coach tell them to not take any more than three breaths in a 50 freestyle. Taking a breath during your sprint takes away the momentum you built from your start and turn. As all sprinters know, it only takes one breath for you to be in or out of a final night swim.

Finish the ENTIRE cool-downIt’s the end of practice and you’ve had enough of swimming, you just want to get out and go eat everything in your refrig-erator. So, you cut that 400 warm down into a 50, along with some dolphin dives and blowing bubbling rings up from the bottom of the pool. It might seem fun, but the point of cool-down is to flush out the lactic acid you built up in your system so you’re not tight and sore the next day for practice or a race.

Don’t breathe into your finishNo matter if you’re a distance swimmer or sprinter, there is never a need to breathe into a finish. Don’t believe me? Go watch Michael Phelps’ 100 butterfly final swim in Beijing. Keeping his head down and winning that gold medal is what made him the most decorated Olympian in history.

Don’t break strokeIt can be hard to swim butterfly in a lane with a bunch of other swimmers, but sometimes it just has to be done. Don’t try and take the easy way out and break stroke unless you really feel like you’re going to hit and seriously injure another swimmer.

Breathing at the flags doesn’t count as doing the whole lap underwaterMy club coach was always yelling this at my team in high school. If you have an underwater set and you come up at the flags, you’re cheating yourself about five yards each lap. That’s only going to hurt you in the end.

Complaining about the set will not change itNo matter how much you pout, cry or yell, the set is going to stay the way the coach wrote it. It’s meant to be challenging and hard. If it’s not, you’re not getting anything out of it and you won’t go any faster at championships than you did the year before.

Don’t circle swim in your racesDoing this when you race actually adds to the yardage you have to swim. Would you rather race 50 yards or 53 yards?

Do the breathing pattern correctlyIf your coach says breathe 5, 7, 9 by 25, then don’t breathe every 3. These types of sets are coaches’ favorite to reset if they see their team doing it incorrectly, so you might as well do it right the first time.

KICK!I’m guilty of this too. Pretty much every meet I turn to breath and I see my coach making the signal for me to kick more. Getting into a good kicking rhythm in your race is important for every swimmer – don’t let your arms do all the work!

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January 2015 - 17


Kelsi Worrell Sweeps Butterfly Events At USANationals

GREENSBORO – It looked like it hurt at the end of the race, but Louisville’s Kelsi Worrell hung on to win the 200 butterfly at the USA Swimming short course nation-als with a 1:54.29 to give the Cardinals a second-straight win. It’s also an NCAA automatic qualifying time but just off her lifetime best of 1:53.63.

After swimming in the 100 free final (where she placed sixth with a 49.03), Worrell took command of the 200 fly from UCLA’s Noelle Tarazona after 50 yards and never let it go. Schroeder YMCA’s Hannah Saiz took over sec-ond from Tarazona with a lifetime best 1:55.46 to Tara-zona’s 1:55.50.

Lauren Case of Chattahoochee Gold (1:56.31), UC-LA’s Anna Quinn (1:57.25), Fort Collins’ Bailey Nero (1:57.56) and Indiana’s Bailey Pressey finished out the top seven. UCLA’s Katie Grover was disqualified.

Indiana’s Gia Dalesandro won the B final with a 1:56.33, while Caitlin Casazza took second in the heat with a 1:57.30 over the 1:57.82 by Devon Bibault.

In the C final, Katie Kinnear of UCLA won with a 1:58.62. ←

Louisville Goes 1-2-3 In Men’s 200 Breast At USA Nationals

GREENSBORO – Louisville’s past, present and future was on display in the championship final of the men’s 200 breaststroke, which was won by senior Thomas Dahlia in 1:53.83.

Dahlia broke away at the 100-yard mark and withstood a challenge from 2012 NCAA champion Carlos Almeida, who posted a 1:54.32. Dahlia, a French national, was 13th in last March’s NCAA championships with a 1:53.72, so he was just off his best time tonight. The time is also just a couple of tenths short of the automatic qualifying time but is second-fastest among college swimmers behind Sam Tierney’s 1:52.67.

Placing third and rounding out the Louisville podium sweep was Venezuelan freshman Carlos Claverie with a 1:54.96 to be fifth in the collegiate standings. Another Cardinal was in the final, as senior Addison Bray was seventh with a 1:56.36.

Also swimming in the championship final were: Purdue’s Marat Amaltidinov (1:55.17), Yucaipa’s Trevor Hoyt (1:55.82), Michigan’s Richard Funk (1:56.28) and New York Athletic Club’s Mike Alexandrov (1:56.58). ←

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Micah Lawrence Wins 200 Breast at USA Nationals

GREENSBORO – Molly Hannis made a bid to get her second breaststroke win at the USA Swimming nation-als, but SwimMAC Carolina’s Micah Lawrence withstood the challenge to win her specialty with a 2:06.59.

Lawrence doesn’t put in a full rest often in the short course, as indicated by the fact that her previous best of 2:08.23 was done in November 2012. But the star long course swimmer needed a big swim to beat Tennessee’s Hannis, who was charging to the lead in the final 75 yards. Hannis’ runner-up time of 2:06.98 gets her auto-matically qualified for the NCAA championships in this event, giving her A cuts in both breaststroke events and a lifetime best by two tenths.

Initially, Miranda Tucker of Livonia Community Swim Club touched the wall third, but was later disqualified. That moved Katie Meili’s 2:09.23 up to third for her sec-ond podium appearance of the night after winning the 100 free. That was .05 ahead of the Newburgh Sea Crea-tures’ Lily King, who was fourth with a 2:09.28.

Rounding out the top seven were: Badger’s Bronwyn Pasloski (2:10.21), Clovis’ Danielle Herrmann (2:10.27) and Amanda Rutqvist (2:10.47).

Taking the win in the B final was Michigan’s Emily Kopas with a 2:09.70. She beat out the 2:09.97 by Andee Cottrell and the 2:10.52 by Kathryn Johnstone. ←

Nathan Adrian Nearly Captures 100 Free American Record At USA Nationals

GREENSBORO – Nathan Adrian certainly didn’t want to be left out of the fun being had Saturday night at the USA Swimming short course nationals. After two Amer-ican records in the 1650 freestyle by Connor Jaeger and Katie Ledecky, Adrian almost made it record number three in the 100 free.

The Olympic champion certainly put himself in reach of the record, splitting a 19.49 at the 50-yard mark. But he couldn’t seal the deal, as his American record of 41.08 lives another day. Adrian won by a second with a 41.31, which stands as the 11th-fastest performance in history.

Indiana’s Anze Tavcar continued his superb season with a second-place time of 43.03. As fast as that time is, it’s still a half second slower than the NCAA automatic qual-ifying time but good enough to be top five in the colle-giate ranks. Ohio State’s Josh Fleagle lowered his lifetime best by one tenth of a second to finish third with a 43.09. Daniel Kanorr of Counsilman Center Swim Team was fourth with a 43.14, another big lifetime best.

Junya Koga of Club Wolverine (43.28), Mark Weber of SwimMAC Carolina (43.39), Joe Bonk of YMCA of the Triangle Area (43.48) and Sidni Hoxa of Monarch Aquatics (43.55) also competed in the swift final.

Matthias Lindenbauer of Louisville beat out Scotland’s Robbie Renwick and Ohio State’s Michael Disalle to win the B final with a 43.53 to Renwick’s 43.57 and Disalle’s 43.64. Also in the thick of it was Bruno Ortiz of Michi-gan with a 43.66 for fourth. ←

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GREENSBORO – Katie Ledecky will have nothing but fond memories of 2014 in the pool, and she capped off one of the most impressive calendar years any swimmer in history has seen with an American and U.S. Open re-cord time of 15:13.30 in the 1650-yard freestyle at the USA Swimming short course nationals.

In the early stages, Ledecky didn’t appear to have the re-cord in her sights, falling as much as two seconds off af-ter 400 yards. But similar to her mind-blowing swim in the metric version of this event at the Pan Pacific cham-pionships, Ledecky found another gear somewhere deep inside her, and began to post 50-yard splits that finally got her under record pace at the 1000-yard mark with a 9:13.99. Incidentally, she was three seconds off Katie Hoff ’s American record of 9:10.77 in the 1000, but that can wait for another day.

Ledecky got as much as 1.8 seconds under record pace through the final two thirds of the swim, posting a 26.18 in the final 50 yards. Her kick appeared to have failed her at a couple of points in the final 150 yards, but she ral-lied to stay ahead of the ghost of herself from last year’s nationals.

Gillian Ryan had the good fortune of swimming in an earlier heat of the time-final event, and her 15:54.31 held up to place second overall. That’s just two seconds off the lifetime best for the Michigan freshman and North Balti-more Aquatic Club product, and she should have that as a target next spring at the NCAA championships, which she automatically qualified for with that swim. Danielle Valley of Sarasota YMCA, sitting out the collegiate sea-son after transferring from the University of Florida, was in the lane next to Ledecky and placed third overall with a 15:54.57, missing her best by six tenths. ←

Katie Ledecky Shatters American Record in 1650 Freestyle

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GREEENSBORO – Perhaps Katie Ledecky’s American record in the 1650 free gave Connor Jaeger a bit of a boost, or perhaps he felt it was going to happen when he woke up this morning. But no matter the reason, Jae-ger now owns an American record with an astonishing 14:23.52.

The 1650 freestyle men’s American record has been viewed as the Mount Everest of swimming. Since Chris Thompson’s 14:26.62 in 2001, it’s been the lofty goal of every elite swimmer. Many got within reach, and until 2012, no one was able to match Thompson’s powerful fi-nal 50 yards. At the 2012 NCAAs, German-born Martin Grodzki posted a 14:24.08 for a U.S. Open record, with Chad La Tourette right behind at 14:24.35 for an Amer-ican record. In that epic race was Jaeger, then a sopho-more at Michigan on the verge of a breakthrough.

That breakthrough came later when he made the Olym-pic team in the 1500 free, and has continued to increase to tonight, where he applied the same race strategy as Ledecky: build on the race and sneak up on the record pace at the 1000-yard mark. For about 200 yards, Jaeger couldn’t get within a second of La Tourette’s pace, but then something happened at the 1400-yard mark. Where others slowed down to prepare to attack the final 50, Jae-ger kept his pace strong. He got under La Tourette’s pace and never lost it.

Ryan Feeley of Badger, one of Jaeger’s training partners in Ann Arbor, got second with a 14:44.75. That’s a life-time best for the 23-year-old open water specialist. True Sweetser, the 17-year-old who swam in lane four in the 500 free final, capped off a great meet with a third-place time of 14:49.43 from an earlier heat. Another 17-year-old, Townley Haas of NOVA of Virginia, was fourth with a 14:49.49. ←

American, US Open Record For Connor Jaeger In 1650 Free At USA Swimming Nationals

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Close Battles In 400 Freestyle Relays Close Out USA Nationals

GREENSBORO – The women’s 400 freestyle relay put a perfect cap on an exciting night of racing at the USA Swimming short course nationals, as three teams were in the hunt for the win.

At the halfway point, Michigan and Louisville were the two teams in the hunt, but SwimMAC Carolina and Indiana joined the race after that. Louisville couldn’t hold on to the lead pack, and it was Michigan who eked out the win with a 3:17.13 to get the gold medal over a tie for second between SwimMAC and Indiana. Both teams will share second with a 3:17.38.

Michigan splits: Clara Smiddy: 49.52, Zoe Mattingly: 49.71, Ali Deloof: 48.93, Gillian Ryan: 48.97

Louisville (3:18.67), UCLA (3:18.80), Nation’s Capital (3:21.36), Villanova (3:25.44), Queens University of Charlotte (3:25.52) and Air Force (3:25.91) rounded out the top eight in the timed final event.

Louisville and Ohio State had just as close of a battle in the men’s 400 free relay. Swim-ming in lane one, Ohio State tried to take the win in the outside lane, but Louisville wasn’t to be denied as the two teams split virtually even for most of the race. The Buckeyes posted an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 2:53.04. Louisville tied the automatic qualifying time with a 2:53.11 to mark the second- and third-fastest college relays of the season.

Ohio State splits: Josh Fleagle: 43.62, Michael Disalle: 42.78, Matt McHugh: 43.47, Steffen Hillmer: 43.17

Louisville splits: Thomas Dahlia: 43.83, Matthias Lindenbauer: 42.95, Aaron Young: 43.49, Trevor Carroll: 42.84

The postgrad team from Club Wolverine raced in the slower timed final heat, and nearly topped Ohio State’s swim from the fastest heat. But the that Geoffrey Cheah (42.90), Junya Koga (43.21), Hassaan Abdel Khalik (43.45) and Zach Hayden (43.55) could do was tie Louisville with a 2:53.11 to give us another silver medal tie. ←


Ledecky’s splits, by 100 yards:

53.7656.19 (1:49.95)56.05 (2:46.00)55.64 (4:36.88)55.21 (5:32.09)55.47 (6:27.56)55.68 (7:23.24)55.63 (8:18.87)55.12 (9:13.99)55.20 (10:09.19)55.10 (11:04.29)55.41 (11:59.70)55.63 (12:55.33)56.12 (13:51.45)55.67 (14:47.12)15:13.30

Jaeger’s splits, by 100 yards:

50.6252.95 (1:43.57)53.18 (2:36.75)52.14 (3:28.89)52.33 (4:21.22)52.64 (5:13.86)52.52 (6:06.38)52.80 (6:59.18)52.87 (7:52.05)52.89 (8:44.94)52.86 (9:37.80)52.99 (10:30.79)52.74 (11:23.53)52.36 (12:15.89)51.97 (13:07.86)51.54 (13:59.40)14:23.52


GREENSBORO – Brooklyn Snodgrass had perhaps the most impressive credentials of the championship final field in the 200 backstroke at the USA Swimming na-tionals, and perhaps that helped her hold on to win with a 1:51.22.

The reigning NCAA champion likely felt the pressure from Carmel Swim Club’s Claire Adams, who was second with a lifetime best 1:51.87, dropping almost three sec-onds off her best time. Another high schooler, 16-year-old Erin Voss of Greater Holyoke, got third with a 1:51.95 to also beat her lifetime best by about three seconds.

Clara Smiddy of Michigan, the top seed going into the race, faded to fourth with a 1:52.24. Indiana’s Kennedy Goss (1:52.41), Michigan’s Hannah Moore (1:54.50), Waves of Bloomington’s Grace Ariola (1:54.60) and In-diana’s Cynthia Pammett (1:55.34) rounded out the top eight.

UCLA’s Madison White won the B final with a 1:53.68, just missing her lifetime best by two tenths. Nadine Lae-mmler was second in the heat with a 1:54.80 while Asia Seidt took third with a 1:55.14.

Sydney Sell of Lakeside enjoyed a win in the C final with a 1:55.22, while Zulal Zeren’s 1:56.27 got her second in the heat. Emma Seiberlich of Phoenixville YMCA was third with a 1:56.69. ←

Brooklynn Snodgrass Holds Off Talented Field To Win 200 Back At USA Nationals

GREENSBORO – Two days after winning the 200 IM on the strength of a strong breaststroke leg, SwimMAC Car-olina’s Katie Meili showed off her freestyle powers with a 48.18 to win the 100 free at the USA Swimming short course nationals.

Formerly a standout at Columbia University, the 23-year-old dropped seven tenths off her best time to hold off a very talented field. Faith Johnson, the 50 free champion, snuck in for second with a 48.53, and a 24.79 on the final 50 yards helped Katie Ledecky get third about 80 min-utes after her American record in the 1650 free with a 48.60. Johnson was just a tenth off her best time, while Ledecky scored another lifetimes best tonight by half a second.

Linnea Mack was also in the hunt, but couldn’t get on the podium, placing fourth with a 48.66. Michigan’s Ali De-loof (48.85), Louisville’s Kelsi Worrell (49.03), Carmel’s Veronica Burchill (49.13) and Phoenixville’s Rhi Jeffrey (49.16) also swam in the championship heat.

Lake Erie’s Kaitlyn Johnson won the B final with a 49.20, beating out the 49.50 from Grace Vertigans and the 49.58 from Indiana’s Kennedy Goss, who had just swum in the 200 back final. Becca Postoll of SwimMAC Carolina took the C final with a 49.51, while Alexia Zevnik was second with a 49.90. Melissa Gates took third with a 50.02. ←

Katie Meili Gets Second National Title With 100 Free Win At USA Nationals

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Köln, GER—German broadcaster ARD aired a 60 minute documentary “Secret Doping Dossier:

How Russia produces it’s Winners,” by Hajo Seppelt on Wednesday in a revealing and hard-hitting exposé on the Russian doping system and how Russian sport execu-tives, anti-doping labs, officials and athletes are involved in the doping process. The documentary reveals athletes making secret payoffs, how they avoid testing and re-main undetected due to a large international system of sport executives, lab staff and sport officials cooperating in the doping knowledge and supply chain taking advan-tage of the lack of independent oversight in international athletics and anti-doping.

Part of the Russian doping system documentary is cen-tered around Russian Athletics Federation President and IAAF treasurer Valentin Balakhnichev among others. These revelations are particularly explosive and dramatic against the backdrop of Russia invading Ukraine at pres-ent with Sergey Bubka, Ukraine as UKR National Olym-pic Committee President and as IAAF President.

The front line of the Russian-Ukraine war has now moved to the board rooms of athletics in Lausanne and the IOC.

Part of the video includes accusations made by 800m runner, Julia Stepanova and her husband Vitali Stepan-ov who worked for RUSADA, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. RUSADA was in charge of the doping results for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics with the IOC who shared joint responsibility.

RUSADA and the IOC have avoided answering ques-tions by Swimming World regarding irregularities in doping controls in Sochi. For over 10 months, since the first week of the Sochi Winter Olympics, RUSADA and the IOC have also not answered questions regarding the doping vials, athlete selection, frequency of testing, and other related questions concerning suspicions of an-ti-doping irregularities in Sochi.

RUSSIAN DOPING SYSTEM

Supply Chain RevealedIn the documentary one male athlete lamented on the state of Russian sports, “You cannot achieve your goals unless you dope,” stated Vitali Stepanov. He also names Russian coach Alexei Melnikov as a functionary in the doping supply chain who offered her anabolic steroids.

Team mate and discus thrower Yevgeniya Pecherina, RUS stated, “Most athletes dope; around 99 percent. If you do it, they (the federation) give you everything. The least detectable the drug, the more expensive it is.”

In another interview with another athlete, Lilyia Sho-bukhova said that she handed over $550,000 USD to be able to compete in the 2012 Olympics. Shobukhova is currently banned for doping offenses.

Shobukhova stated that she had to hand over the money to Melnikov because he demanded it to ensure that all other officials will allow her to compete.

She also stated that she has documentation that IAAF Treasurer Balakhnichev knew about the entire situation.

Revelations of an extensive, systemWhat was most shocking in the documentary was the

RUSSIAN DOPING SYSTEM Program Revealed And Athletes Confess


By Steven V. Selthoffer, Chief European Columnist – Swimming World Magazine

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case that was made for the systematic doping, how exten-sively and perfectly the whole system fits together. From the guarantees by Russian state government officials controlling the political side, down through the Russian government agencies that control RUSADA, WADA’s approved lab, all interwoven in the sophisticated dop-ing supply chain network, combined also with high level coordination between the Russian sport executives, an-ti-doping officials, sport federation officials and coaches.

The Russian doping system in some ways mirrors the GDR doping of the 60’s-90’s. Russian coach Oleg Popov stated, “The athlete has no choice. Either you agree and use the illegal substances, or if you don’t you’re out of sport (in Russia).”

“This is an impressive example of how systematic doping is and how extensive it is in Russian sports,” was the anal-ysis shared by the award-winning business newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung after viewing the video.

“The allegations will trigger an earthquake.”

WADA respondsWADA founding President, Dick Pound stated, “This is an extremely alarming case.” (ARD).

Last night WADA issued the following press release re-garding the revelations, “WADA has seen the German television documentary alleging systematic doping in Russia, and other breaches of the World Anti-Doping Code. WADA will ensure that all matters raised are fully investigated.

WADA has in fact already received some information and evidence of the type exposed in the documentary. All of that information has been passed to the appro-priate independent body within the international, the IAAF. We will await the outcome of that independent body’s deliberations. Insofar as the particular allegations against Russian authorities and others are concerned, these will all be carefully scrutinized and if action is war-ranted, WADA will take any necessary and appropriate steps under the Code.”

It doesn’t look good for FINAA scandal of this size will play out over a period of months and years. More revelations will be coming. Russian ath-letes have already fled the country seeking asylum.

It makes it all the worse for Dr. Julio Maglione, President, FINA that he had already awarded Russian President Vladimir Putin the FINA Order, FINA’s highest hon-or, who now is not only hosting the FINA 2015 World Championships but, is also simultaneously hosting and supporting the largest systematic, government-spon-sored doping scandal in the international sport world.

“I am certain that FINA will now rescind its highest award given to Comrade Putin recently, while he simul-taneously presides over the largest doping scandal cen-trally orchestrated since the GDR days, AND the FINA World Championships in 2015. I mean, look what they did to the convicted doping doctor Lothar Kipke from the GDR….oh, my mistake, FINA still honors him as well. How embarrassing. The International Federation that we all belong to honors Dopers for LIfe. How Amaz-ing.” – John Leonard, Executive Director, American Swimming Coaches Association and World Swimming Coaches Association. ←

By Steven V. Selthoffer, Chief European Columnist – Swimming World Magazine

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FEDERAL WAY – The first night of finals at the Speedo Winter Junior Nationals featured a meet record, a 15-16 U.S. National Age Group mark and a sizzling anchor by Canyons’ Abbey Weitzeil.

Abbey Weitzeil, fresh off a strong meet at the FINA World Short Course Championships last week, threw down an epic anchor to deliver the junior national title to Canyons Aquatics tonight.

The foursome of Mik Ranslem (26.83), Nikol Popov (27.86), Tamara Santoyo (24.37) and Weitzeil (21.19) won the finale in 1:40.25.

Palo Alto Stanford’s Chloe Isleta (25.39), Grace Zhao (28.10), Heidi Katter (23.93) and Jennifer Campbell (22.92) took second in 1:40.34.

Y-Spartaquatics’ Ali Galyer (25.80), Savanna Faulcon-er (28.97), Jessi Snover (24.92) and Katrina Konopka (21.79) wound up third overall in 1:41.48.

The Bolles foursome of Dakota Mahaffey (22.73), James Daugherty (25.69), Ariel Spektor (22.26) and Tyler Rice (20.61) raced to a 15-16 U.S. National Age Group record in 1:31.29 out of heat 1 to take sixth overall.

Mahaffey, as pictured above, swims for Clay High School

during the high school season. This is the path Caeleb Dressel took as he prepped at Clay and swam club with Bolles.

That swim beat the previous record of 1:31.90 set by Aquazots’ Daniel Tran, Tyler Sin, Justin Hanson and Thomas Smith earlier this year.

This particular NAG has seen some tremendous pro-gression this year, considering the Crow Canyon Sharks’ 2011 1:33.41 was the mark heading into 2014.

Meanwhile, Palo Alto Stanford’s Ben Ho (22.96), Joe Kmak (24.81), Joe Molinari (21.90) and Albert Gwo (19.71) won the overall title in 1:29.38.

Bolles’ A squad of Andy Song An (22.87), Andrea Ver-gani (24.99), Javier Barrena (22.04) and Jabari Baptiste (20.09) took second in 1:29.99.King Aquatic’s Thomas Anderson (22.17), Mitch Hov-is (25.93), Mathias Oh (21.32) and Kevin Dang (20.61) raced to third in 1:30.03.

Patriot Aquatic Club’s Erin Falconer (1:47.09), Erica King (1:52.29), Haley Nelson (1:49.69) and Reilly Lan-igan (1:47.78) raced their way to the junior title in the distance free relay with a 7:16.85.

That just missed Patriot’s meet record of 7:16.71 from a year ago.

Y-Spartaquatics’ Katrina Konopka (1:48.17), Sydney Baker (1:51.02), Meredith Whisenhunt (1:50.56) and Ali Galyer (1:47.25) claimed second overall in 7:17.10.

Palo Alto Stanford’s Jennifer Campbell (1:47.35), Chloe Isleta (1:49.95), Isabelle Henig (1:48.64) and Alex Grimes (1:52.01) checked in with a third-place time of 7:17.95.

The Santa Clara Swim Club’s squad of Aidan Burns (1:36.89), Cooper Burrill (1:38.10), Michael Messner (1:38.20) and David Farr (1:39.83) threw down a meet record in heat 1 with a 6:33.02.

That performance downed the previous meet record of 6:34.98 set by Dynamo Swim Club a year ago. That was the fun foursome of the Litherland triplets and Gunnar Bentz.

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That’s a personal best for Burns, who was just featured in Swimming World Magazine along with head coach John Bitter. Coming into today, Burns’ top time in the 200-yard free was a 1:37.15 from May.

Nitro Swimming’s Sean Grieshop (1:36.87), Mason Tier-ney (1:39.58), Taylor Abbott (1:39.86) and Tate Jackson (1:37.33) turned in the second-place time with a 6:33.64.

That’s a PB for Grieshop as well, blasting his previous top 200-yard free time of 1:37.70 from Speedo Sectionals back in February.

Bolles’ Jabari Baptiste (1:40.21), Scott Bole (1:37.62), An-drea Vergani (1:37.87) and Grady Heath (1:39.98) pow-ered their way to third in 6:35.64.

Day 2 Finals Recap

Finals were so fast tonight at the Speedo Winter Junior Nationals that the lights literally went out. No, really. A storm in Seattle blew out the power at the Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Center during the medley relays.

Women’s 500 free

After posting a 4:46.29 lifetime best this morning, Scott-sdale’s Taylor Ruck, 14, unleashed during finals with a blistering time of 4:41.38 for the win. That’s nearly six seconds off her 4:47.10 previous best coming into the day.

The Canadian still has time at juniors to take down Am-ber McDermott’s meet record of 4:38.89 in the future.

Lakeside’s Lauren Pitzer threw down a 4:42.80 to beat her personal best of 4:45.81 from this morning for second, while Santa Clara’s Sandra Soe raced to third in 4:45.18.

Karling Hemstreet (4:45.35), Katie Duggan (4:45.71),

Ern Eddy (4:45.79), Haley Yelle (4:47.73) and Vicky Na-varro (4:48.67) rounded out the championship field.

La Mirada’s Taylor Ault dropped a huge chunk of time off her lifetime best with a 4:44.99 to win the B final. That’s well under the 4:47.14 she clocked at the NASA Junior Nationals in March.

Sandpipers’ Erin Emery had the lead for most of the swim but couldn’t hold off Ault as she wound up with second in 4:45.06. Erin Earley took home third in the consolation with a 4:46.62.

Morgan Tankersley (4:49.36), Hanna Huston (4:49.49), Brittany Kampfer (4:49.87), Abbey Erwin (4:51.29) and Ruby Martin (4:51.64) also swam in the B final.

Men’s 500 free

Nitro’s Sean Grieshop dropped the hammer in the men’s 500-yard free at the Speedo Winter Junior Nationals as he finished the night with a meet record and the 15-16 U.S. National Age Group mark.

Grieshop scorched finals in 4:16.59 for the win. That time lowered the 4:17.45 set by NOVA’s Townley Haas last year as the meet record. That time also stood as the 15-16 U.S. National Age Group mark.

Grieshop has had a tremendous year so far, taking part in the Junior Pan Pacifics Championships, as he continues his quick rise up the distance freestyle ranks in the U.S.

Santa Clara’s Aidan Burns finished second overall in 4:21.17, while Tennessee’s Walker Higgins wound up third in 4:23.13.

Michael Messner (4:23.40), Jeff Newkirk (4:24.08), Lo-gan Houck (4:24.43), Jerad Kaskawal (4:29.34) and Rog-er Kriegl (4:31.58) also participated in the championship field.

Scottsdale’s Thomas Ottman turned in a lifetime best effort of 4:23.28 in the B final. That swim blasted the 4:26.91 he set this morning during prelims.

Nitro’s Taylor Abbott posted a second-place time of 4:24.18 in the consolation, while Parks Jones claimed third in 4:25.07.

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Jack Thorne (4:28.60), Aaron Apel (4:29.79), Christo-pher Miller (4:29.90), Joseph Lastelic (4:30.37) and Sam Kline (4:30.85) raced to the rest of the B final finishes.

Parkland’s Sam Magnan clipped his personal best in the 500 free with a 4:25.03 to win the C final. That’s just un-der his 4:25.05 from high school states back in March.

Chris Yeager of First Colony put up a time of 4:26.24 to take second overall in the bonus, while John Thomas Larson finished third in 4:28.36.

Max Miranda (4:28.56), Lucca Martins (4:29.79), Hayden Burns (4:30.86), Brooks Fail (4:32.07) and Riley Hick-man (4:35.69) grabbed the rest of the bonus field finishes.

Women’s 200 IM

SOCAL’s Ella Eastin powered her way to the women’s 200-yard IM title with a time of 1:56.55. That’s just off her meet record of 1:56.02 set last year as she defended her title this time around.

JCC’s Lauren Barber turned in a second-place time of 1:57.98, while Bellevue’s Kim Williams claimed third in 1:59.58.

Loveland’s Brooke Hansen (2:00.15), PASA’s Chloe Isle-ta (2:00.25) and SWAT’s Emma Schanz (2:00.35) placed fourth through sixth.

Sonia Wang and Abby Richter both drew disqualifica-tions in the championship final.

Nitro’s Regan Barney broke the 2:00 barrier for the first time with a 1:59.87 to win the B final. She came close this morning with a 2:00.51, but finally pulled off the feat tonight.

Riley Scott (2:00.21) and Alex Walsh (2:00.22) finished second and third in the consolation.

Kay Sargent (2:00.46), Mackenzie Rumrill (2:00.57), Lindsey Horejsi (2:00.93), Isabella Goldsmith (2:01.21) and Carly Cummings (2:02.21) also competed in the B final.

Hershey’s Vivian Tafuto and San Clemente’s Karli Thuen originally tied for the C final win with 2:00.61s. But, lat-

er, Thuen’s time was switched to a disqualification in the results.

Royal’s Amy Okada hit the wall third in the bonus heat with a 2:02.47.

Nikol Popov (2:02.51), Courtney Mykkanen (2:02.78) and Sophie Krivokapic-Zhou (2:03.07) also finished le-gal swims in the C final. Ruby Martin joined Thuen on the DQ list in the bonus finale.

Men’s 200 IM

Upper Dublin’s Michael Thomas used an incredible fi-nal wall to hunt down 15-year-old pro swimmer Michael Andrew in the men’s 200-yard IM A final.

Thomas won 1:45.54 to 1:45.75 after trailing Andrew for much of the race. That performance is a personal best, lowering his 1:46.18 from high school states in March.

Andrew, on the other hand, faded off beating his person-al best of 1:45.29 from the NASA Junior Nationals back in March.

Santa Clara’s Aidan Burns won bronze in 1:47.04 with Brennan Balogh taking fourth in 1:47.61.

Patrick Mulcare (1:47.78), Rio Kurihara (1:47.84), Abrahm DeVine (1:47.90) and Sean Grieshop (1:50.74) were the rest of the competitors in the finale.

Alex Lebed picked up the B final win in 1:47.05, while Thomas Brewer placed second in 1:47.11

Lakewood’s Dan McArthur provided some outside smoke in the C final with a 1:48.25 to win from lane 8.


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Bolles’ Javier Barrena claimed second in 1:48.93 with Greater Miami’s Mark Andrew placing third in 1:49.22

Kevin Dai (1:49.66), Patrick Cusick (1:50.41), Jessie Kim (1:50.56), Matthew Grauslys (1:50.75) and Mateo Gon-zalez (1:51.21) also put up times in the bonus consola-tion heat.

Women’s 50 free

Roadrunner’s Stanzi Moseley took advantage of Abbey Weitzeil not being entered in the event with a 22.11 for the 50 free victory.

That’s another lifetime best progression as her 22.40 from prelims was her best for a few hours.

Y-Sparta’s Katrina Konopka placed second in 22.43 with Bolles’ Kasey Schmidt finishing third in 22.55.

Marta Ciesla (22.56), Ashley Sutherland (22.62), An-nie Ochitwa (22.64), Grace Zhao (22.75) and Samantha Fazio (22.93) claimed the rest of the times in the cham-pionship heat.

Lakeside’s Lauren Pitzer cleared 23 seconds to win the B final in 22.77.

Rachel Brown (23.00) and Eva Merrell (23.03) battled for second in the consolation, while Maddie Murphy took fourth in 23.14.

Brooke Stenstrom (23.23), Shayne Gregson (23.41), Jor-dan Wheeler (23.49) and Isabelle Henig (23.57) placed fifth through eighth.

Men’s 50 free

Scottsdale’s Ryan Hoffer lowered his 15-16 national age group record yet again in the 50-yard free at the Speedo Winter Junior Nationals.

Hoffer scorched the pool with a sterling time of 19.38. That time eclipsed his morning NAG of 19.45 that had pushed his record down from a 19.53 at the Arizona State High School Championships a month ago.

Hoffer, 16, is starting to near Caeleb Dressel territory. Dressel owns the meet record and 17-18 national age group record with an 18.94 from last year. Hoffer is pro-gressing quickly towards that type of top-end speed.

Nitro’s Tate Jackson took second in 20.09 with PASA’s Al-bert Gwo placing third in 20.11.

Thomas Anderson (20.19), Mark McGlaughlin (20.20), Michael Jensen (20.20), Cole Cogswell (20.29) and An-dre Vergani (20.48) placed fourth through eighth in the championship finale.

Scottsdale’s Jack Blake claimed the B final crown in 20.18 with 15-year-old pro Michael Andrew touching second in 20.27.

Tampa Bay’s Cooper Hoffman and Metro’s Dean Farris tied for third with matching 20.61s.

Tabahn Afrik (20.62), Adam Koster (20.67), Kyle De-coursey (20.74) and Will Hofstadter (20.75) rounded out the B final.

Colorado Springs’ Hunter Doerr grabbed the C final title in 20.41, while Daniel Krueger placed second in 20.45.

Blair Bish (20.49), Ty Powers (20.54), Jabari Baptiste (20.72), Noah Hensley (20.78), Kyle Grissom (20.92) and Cody Cline (21.21) also competed in the bonus heat.

Women’s 400 medley relay

Abbey Weitzeil delivered another blistering anchor as Canyons set the meet record in the women’s 400-yard medley relay.

The quartet of Mik Ranslem (56.52), Nikol Popov (1:00.83), Tamara Santoyo (54.20) and Weitzeil (45.82) clocked a top time of 3:37.37.

That swim eclipsed the previous meet record of 3:38.17 set by SwimMAC a year ago.



Y-Sparta’s Ali Galyer (54.42), Savanna Faulconer (1:02.48), Jessi Snover (54.36) and Katrina Konopka (48.36) placed second overall in 3:39.62.

Aquazot’s Sonia Wang (54.10), Catherine Lowengrub (1:02.79), Alexis Margett (54.16) and Eva Merrell (49.82) wound up third in 3:40.87.

Men’s 400 medley relay

PASA’s Ben Ho (49.01), Joe Kmak (53.85), Joe Molinari (47.51) and Albert Gwo (44.43) topped the men’s 400 medley relay with a meet record.

PASA’s time of 3:14.80 clipped the 3:14.92 set by a load-ed Bolles squad in 2011 that included Ryan Murphy, Joe Schooling and Caeleb Dressel.

Bolles B team of Dakota Mahaffey (49.19), James Daugh-erty (54.05), Ariel Spektor (48.82) and Tyler Rice (44.12) placed second in 3:16.18.

That performance crushed the 15-16 U.S. National Age Group record of 3:18.91 set by Aquazots’ Daniel Tran, Tyler Lin, Justin Hanson and Thomas Smith earlier this year.

Bolles’ A team of Andy Song An (49.45), Andrea Ver-gani (54.85), Javier Barrena (47.80) and Jabari Baptiste (44.23) placed third in 3:16.33.

Day 3 Finals Recap

SOCAL’s Ella Eastin wasn’t able to replicate her meet-re-cord speed from a year ago, but she still defended her 400-yard IM title tonight.

Eastin raced her way to a time of 4:08.71 for the win, well

off her meet mark of 4:05.25. But, that time still managed to put her ahead of the pack by more than a second.

Nitro’s Regan Barney finished second overall in 4:10.99, while Gator’s Hannah Burns touched third in 4:13.14.

Iowa Flyers’ Ruby Martin (4:13.70), Brea’s Kenisha Liu (4:15.27), Y-Sparta’s Savannah Faulconer (4:15.49), Con-dors’ Carly Cummings (4:15.61) and Sierra Marlins’ Jor-dan Anderson (4:16.64) closed out the rest of the cham-pionship heat.

Scottsdale’s Taylor Ruck had an amazing day in the 400 IM. Heading into this morning, her personal best stood at 4:28.22 from last February.

This morning, she roughed up that mark with a 4:16.75 prelim swim before winning the B final tonight in 4:13.96. That’s a huge drop for the Canadian.

Reno’s Madi Hurst placed second in the consolation with a time of 4:15.17, while Megan Brown snared third in 4:16.09.

Kay Sargent (4:16.54), Sammie Burchill (4:16.97), Kar-li Thuen (4:17.86), Lauren Pitzer (4:18.17) and Destiny Nelson (4:18.31) also competed in the B final.

Men’s 400 IM

Nitro’s Sean Grieshop continued his strong meet, this time taking the 400 IM after winning the 500 free last night.

Grieshop just missed the meet record with a 3:44.52. Curtis Ogren’s meet mark of 3:44.26 from last year sur-vived another meet.

Grieshop had a big drop in his lifetime best today, having had a 3:51.19 from sectionals in February as his previous best entering today.

Alex Lebed hit the wall second in 3:47.36, while Lincoln Select’s Brennan Balogh picked up third in 3:49.36.

Santa Clara’s Michael Messner (3:50.22), Cascade’s Abrahm DeVine (3:50.29), PASA’s Joe Molinari (3:52.34), Jeffco’s Keegan Foulke (3:52.40) and Nitro’s Mason Ten-ney (3:53.17) placed fourth through eighth in the cham-

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pionship heat.

Kyle Ewoldt of Mesa Aquatics tracked down Phoenix’s Brian Popon, 3:53.82 to 3:53.84, for the B final win.

Daniel Tran (3:53.98), Mark Andrew (3:55.24), Sean Lee (3:55.80), Patrick Cusick (3:56.44), Tristan Furna-ry (3:57.09 and Jarrett Jones (3:59.17) also put up times in the consolation heat. Andrew, however, wound up drawing a disqualification.

In a closely-contested C final, Boulder City’s Michael Velazquez won the bonus with a time of 3:55.59 with five swimmers all in the mix for the win.

Bryar Long (3:55.70), Sam Stewart (3:55.85) and Mi-chael Zarian (3:55.85) rounded out the top four with Gus Whiteman taking fifth in 3:56.29.

John Thomas Larson (3:56.49), Timmy Hanson (3:58.59) and Will Drexler (4:01.21) also competed in the bonus heat.

Women’s 100 fly

In one of the more heart-breaking DQs in recent memo-ry at Juniors, Quest’s Maddie Banic won the A final with a 52.65 before drawing a disqualification.

That moved Mid-Valley’s Mackenzie Rumrill to first with a time of 52.77, while Aquazot 14-year-old Eva Merrell set the 13-14 U.S. National Age Group record with a sec-ond-place time of 53.19.

That swim eclipsed the 53.30 set by Cassidy Bayer earlier this year.

Longhorn’s Victoria Edwards took third overall in 53.43 with PASA’s Heidi Katter taking fourth in 53.60.

Y-Sparta’s Katrina Konopka (53.72), Walnut Creek’s Brit-tany Usinger (53.94) and Lake Country’s Megan Doty (54.49) placed fifth through seventh.

Taylor Garcia of Byron Center cleared her lifetime best with a winning time of 53.44 in the B final.

That swim undercut her 53.69 from last winters junior nationals.

Maddie Murphy gave Garcia a chase, but wound up sec-ond in 53.77. Tamara Santoyo took third in 53.89.

Alexis Margett (53.92), Sonia Wang (54.27), Chloe Is-leta (54.33), Tevyn Waddell (54.67) and Paige Maynard (54.89) turned in the rest of the B final swims.

Denver’s Annie Ochitwa cruised to victory in the C final of the event with a 53.82. Her best time entering today had been a 54.10 from the Minneapolis Grand Prix.

Amy Okada took second in 53.98 with Taylor Pike earn-ing third in 54.47.

Gabby Vieira (54.53), Jessi Snover (54.60), Mei Lynn Colby (54.81) and Dakota Luther (54.88) also completed legal swims in the bonus heat. Shelby Koontz drew a disqualification.

Men’s 100 Fly

Scottsdale’s Ryan Hoffer had enough speed to take down his second 15-16 U.S. National Age Group record of the meet as he powered to victory in the 100 fly at the Speedo Winter Junior Nationals.

Hoffer smoked the field in the 100 fly with a time of 46.42 (21.70, 24.72) en route to not only setting a meet record but also the NAG.

That time beat Joseph Schooling’s meet record of 46.70 set for Bolles in 2012. It also surpassed the 46.99 set by Alex Valente earlier this year as the 15-16 NAG.

Yesterday, Hoffer lowered the 50 free NAG twice.

Michael Andrew, the 15-year-old pro, took second in 47.38, while Upper Dublin’s Michael Jensen rounded out the podium with a third-place 47.45.

Upper Dublin’s Michael Thomas (47.70), Nitro’s Mason Tenney (47.97), Azura Florida’s Mateo Gonzalez (48.07), KING’s Mathias Oh (48.07) and College Area’s Micah Ornelas (48.70) also vied for the junior national title.

Bolles’ Javier Barrena touched out Matthew Grauslys, 48.20 to 48.23, in the B final for the win.


Anthony Kim (48.64), Liam McCloskey (48.77), Michael Taylor (48.93), Thomas Anderson (48.99), Rio Kurihara (49.17) and Erik Juliusson (49.95) rounded out the con-solation field.

Women’s 200 free

Roadrunner’s Stanzi Moseley followed up her 50 free win from last night with a meet record in the 200 free tonight.

Moseley raced her way to a 1:44.55, which cleared Lind-sey McKnight’s 2011 mark of 1:45.37 set for Saint An-drew’s.

Lakeside’s Lauren Pitzer nearly undercut the record as well with a second-place 1:45.68, while Scottsdale’s Tay-lor Ruck took third overall in 1:45.81.

Nitro’s Karling Hemstreet (1:47.19), Carmel’s Emma Nordin (1:47.23), Loveland’s Eryn Eddy (1:47.81) and Patriot’s Erin Falconer (1:47.91) finished fourth through eighth.

PASA’s Jenni Campbell took home the B final with a time of 1:47.56, while Blackline’s Abbie Dolan placed second in 1:48.10.

Vicky Navarro (1:48.27), Claire Pinson (1:48.53), Lau-ren Heller (1:48.68), Reilly Lanigan (1:48.81), Sarah Shi-momura (1:49.09) and Caitlin Clements (1:50.20) also swam in the consolation heat.

Haley Yelle managed to get her hand to the wall first in the C final with a 1:48.46, while Alex Hubel took second in 1:49.17.

Taylor Ault (1:49.26), Sandra Soe (1:49.34), Shelly Droz-da (1:49.54), Ali Galyer (1:49.77), Lexie Lupton (1:49.93) and Skylar Fore (1:50.23) placed third through eighth.

Men’s 200 free

Upper Dublin’s Michael Jensen smoked the men’s 200 free with a winning time of 1:35.40. That was nearly a full second ahead of the rest of the pack.

Santa Clara’s Aidan Burns touched second in 1:36.50 with Dynamo’s Knox Auerbach a close third in 1:36.82.

Michigan Lakeshore’s Tabahn Afrik (1:37.00), Quest’s Jeff Newkirk (1:37.01), Canyons’ Cole Cogswell (1:37.28), Bolles’ Tyler Rice (1:37.79) and Nitro’s Sean Grieshop (1:38.67) placed fourth through eighth in the finale.

Tennessee’s Walker Higgins clinched the B final in 1:37.90, while Andrea Vergani placed second in 1:38.28.

Sam Coffman (1:38.54), Aidan Keen (1:38.71), Scott Bole (1:39.13), Parks Jones (1:39.49), Ben Ho (1:39.52) and Brian Lovasik (1:39.56) also swam in the B final.

Bryce Mefford raced his way to the C final win in the 200 free with a time of 1:38.51, while Jack Blake took second in 1:39.15.

Riley Hickman (1:39.56), Samuel Kline (1:39.61), Forrest White (1:39.87), Zach Apple (1:39.94), Michael Thibert (1:40.95) and Liam McCloskey (1:41.41) comprised the rest of the bonus heat.

Women’s 100 breast

Mantas’ Lindsey Horejsi wasn’t able to challenge the meet record with a sub-1:00 time tonight, but she still managed to claim the 100 breast crown.

Horejsi put up a 1:00.24 as she went out fast with a 28.13 and never looked back with a 32.11 en route to the vic-tory.

Canyons’ Nikol Popov couldn’t replicate her morning speed of 1:00.67 as she took second in 1:00.86.

Hershey’s Vivian Tafuto finished third in 1:01.08.

JCC’s Lauren Barber (1:01.21), Marin Pirates’ Riley Scott (1:01.34), YMCA of Western’s Alyssa Arwood (1:01.72), Loveland’s Morgan Friesen (1:01.95) and Royal’s Amy Okada (1:02.78) put up the rest of the times in the finale.


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PASA’s Grace Zhao touched out NAC’s Alex Walsh, 1:01.81 to 1:01.95, for the B final victory.

Piper Brockley (1:02.08), Allie Raab (1:02.32), Meagan Popp (1:02.68), Catherine Lowengrub (1;02.72), Nora Deleske (1:02.79) and MC Schillinger (1:03.19) finished third through eighth in the consolation field.

Vanessa Pearl picked up the C final win tonight in 1:02.03 with Olivia Calegan taking second in 1:02.77.

Lindsey Swartz (1:03.05), Kaya Philapil (1:03.06), Kaylee Wheeler (1:03.15), Emma Barksdale (1:03.20), Mallory Korenwinder (1:03.25) and Alexa Skorus-Neely (1:03.53) also competed in the bonus heat.

Men’s 100 breast

Arkansas Dolphin’s Blair Bish lowered his own meet re-cord in the 100 breast during finals.

Bish raced his way to a 53.42, while PASA’s Jeremy Babi-net took second in 53.70. Both times were clear of Bish’s preliminary meet record of 53.79.

East Bay’s Carson Sand rounded out the top three with a time of 54.09.

Indie’s Michael Andrew (54.55), Georgia Coastal’s Bren-nan Pastorek (54.91), Bolles’ James Daugherty (54.98), Current’s Thomas Brewer (55.00) and Avon’s Chandler Bray (55.37) placed fourth through eighth.

PASA’s Joe Kmak touched out JCC’s Will Hofstadter for the B final, 55.55 to 55.67.

Rio Kurihara (55.69) and Marco Guarente (55.86) also were withing striking distance of the win.

Austin Sellers (55.90), Sam Petrini (56.00), Adam Zim-mer (56.23) and Andrea Vergani (56.46) comprised the rest of the consolation heat.

Walnut Creek’s Hank Poppe put up the top time in the C final with a 55.84, while Wyatt Amdor snared second in 55.90. Alec Hsing wound up third in 56.23.

Sean Kim (56.29), Arnold Luk Luk (56.72), Chris Wills (56.89) and Ty Powers (57.38) also posted legal swims in

the bonus heat, while Safa Anya drew a disqualification.

Women’s 100 back

Scottsdale’s Taylor Ruck, 14, smoked the finale in the 100 back to take the title.

Ruck, a Canadian training in Arizona, uncorked a time of 52.95 for the win. It was still more than a second back of Clara Smiddy’s meet record of 51.75, but put her amongst the fastest 14 year olds ever.

Kathleen Baker set the 13-14 U.S. National Age Group record with a 52.87 back in 2012, and Ruck is nearing that time even though she isn’t eligible to break it.

Quest’s Maddie Banic bounced back from a tough DQ loss early in the night with a 53.04 for second. Missoula’s Hanni Leach placed third in 53.08.

Emma Schanz (53.55), Ashlyn Schoof (53.57), Taylor Garcia (53.66), Rhyan White (54.29) and Mickayla Hin-kle (55.42) also competed for the title.

BCH’s Abby Richter topped the B final in a time of 53.70 with Denver’s Annie Ochitwa closed behind with a sec-ond-place 53.90.

Longhorn’s Victoria Edwards finished third in the heat with a 54.08.

Katrina Konopka (54.45), Chloe Isleta (54.68), Katie Kel-soe (54.78), Erin Earley (55.12) and Jacquelyn Du (55.35) also put up times in the consolation heat.

Men’s 100 back

In a heavyweight matchup, Scottsdale’s Ryan Hoffer won his second title of the night and third of the meet with a victory against Upper Dublin’s Michael Thomas in the 100 back.

Hoffer held off a hard-charging Thomas, 47.19 to 47.34 for the win. That’s another lifetime best for Hoffer, under the 48.22 he had in prelims.

It was short of Thomas’ 15-16 National Age Group re-cord of 46.65, however, as neither could challenge that type of speed.

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Dynamo’s Michael Taylor wound up third in 47.92 with Cypress Fairbank’s Braxton Flowers tying Canyons’ Jes-sie Kim for fourth with 48.21s.

Lakewood’s Daniel McArthur (48.68), Aquazot’s Dan-iel Tran (48.78) and KING’s Thomas Anderson (49.38) rounded out the championship heat.

Lincoln Select’s Brenna Balogh topped the B final in 48.37 with Seroja Pereverzin touching second in 48.82. Josh Artmann placed third just behind in 48.83.

Bryce Mefford (48.94), Jordan Ross (48.97), Zachary Poti (49.24), Jabari Baptiste (49.38) and Ben Ho (49.44) fin-ished fourth through eighth in the B final.

Loveland’s Jack Thorne picked up the C final win in 48.41, while Makoa Alvarez placed second in 48.87.

Michael Andrew (49.12), Dean Farris (49.66), Patrick Cusick (49.77), Dakota Mahaffey (49.84), CJ Patterson (50.13) and Micah Ornelas (50.76) also competed in the bonus swim.

Women’s 200 free relay

Abbey Weitzeil continued her remarkable relay-only meet for Canyons with a meet and 17-18 National Age Group record in the 50 free.

Weitzeil blitzed the leadoff for Canyons with a stunning time of 21.49. That’s a 17-18 National Age Group record, beating the 21.59 set by Simone Manuel at the Art Ad-amson Invitational last month.

The time also makes her the fifth-fastest swimmer all time in the event.

Canyons’ wound up with a 1:31.14 from Weitzeil (21.49), Tamara Santoyo (22.88), Nikol Popov (23.55) and Mik Ranslem (23.22).

PASA’s Grace Zhao (22.80), Chloe Isleta (22.89), Jennifer Campbell (23.20) and Isabelle Henig (23.09) had the sec-ond-fastest time with a 1:31.98.

Scottsdale’s Samantha Fazio (22.67), Taylor Ruck (22.65), Hannah Holman (23.37) and Victoria Toris (23.34) held third with a 1:32.02.

Men’s 200 free relay

Scottsdale had the top time in the men’s 200-yard free relay.

The foursome of Jack Blake (20.20), Ryan Hoffer (19.11), DJ Brown (20.67) and Thomas Ottman (20.88) threw down a 1:20.86.

Meanwhile, Bolles’ Andrea Vergani (20.19), Jabari Bap-tiste (19.98), Tyler Rice (20.56) and Joey Carbone (21.13) took second in 1:21.86.

PASA’s Albert Gwo (20.13), Joe Molinari (20.86), Corey Gutierrez (20.72) and Ben Ho (20.24) placed third in 1:21.95.

Day Four Finals Recap

Canyons Aquatic Club’s Abbey Weitzeil set an American record in the 100 free while leading off her team’s 4×100 free relay to close out another record-breaking night of action at the Speedo Winter Junior National Champion-ships. Weitzeil took the race out in 22.29 and came back in 24.00 for a final time of 46.29, good for a 17-18 nation-al age group record and American record in the event. Simone Manuel set the previous record of 46.62 at the Art Adamson Invitational last month. Nitro Swimming’s Sean Grieshop also set a 15-16 national age group record in the men’s 1650 free, while Scottsdale Aquatic Club’s Ryan Hoffer lowered his own 15-16 NAG record in the 100 free as the meet concluded in Federal Way.

Women’s 1650 Free

Gabrielle Kopenski, 14, of Texas Ford Aquatics, made a huge statement in the night’s opening event, crushing the field and racing to a time of 15:56.39 in the women’s 1650 free. She demolished the meet record of 16:02.79, set by Salmon Bay’s Amber McDermott in 2008, and crushed her seed time of 16:13.72. Kopenski also challenged the 13-14 national age group record of 15:54.46 held by Bec-ca Mann. Hopkins Mariner’s Erin Earley swam a 16:08.20 in the earlier heats to finish second, while Haley Rowley of the DU Hilltoppers posted a 16:11.17 earlier in the day to take third.

Erin Emery of Sandpipers (16:12.21), Joy Field of Mag-nolia Aquatic Club (16:17.08), Sandra Soe of Santa Clara


(16:22.98), Karling Hemstreet of Nitro (16:23.26) and Lau-ren Pitzer of Lakeside (16:23.99) rounded out the top eight.

Men’s 1650 Free

Nitro Swimming’s Sean Grieshop raced to an impres-sive win in the men’s 1650 free, building a huge lead and finishing in a time of 14:45.40 to obliterate Mat-thew Hirschberger’s 15-16 national age group record of 14:51.81. Grieshop also cut 10 seconds off the meet re-cord of 14:55.32, set by Dynamo’s Matias Koski in 2011. Grieshop’s teammate at Nitro, Taylor Abbott, clocked a 15:01.46 to finish second, while Parkland Aquatic Club’s Sam Magnan rounded out the top three in 15:05.26.

Loveland’s Liam Gately had the fastest time from the af-ternoon heats and wound up fourth overall in 15:10.26, two seconds ahead of Conejo Simi’s Roger Kriegl (15:12.58). Santa Clara’s Michael Messner (15:13.65), FAST’s Jerad Kaskawal (15:15.08) and Scarlet Aquatics’ Eric Ng (15:15.28) made up the rest of the top eight fin-ishers.

Women’s 200 Back

Scottsdale’s Taylor Ruck continued her awesome meet with a win in the women’s 200 back. Ruck pulled away on the final 50 to win in 1:53.13, comfortably ahead of Hopkins Mariner’s Erin Earley, who earned another po-dium finish with her 1:54.61. Boulder City Henderson’s Abby Richter, the top seed after prelims, took third in 1:54.88. Missoula’s Hanni Leach (1:55.52), Schroeder YMCA’s Ashlyn Schoof (1:56.20), DU Hilltoppers’ Haley Rowley (1:57.00) and Nitro’s Regan Barney (1:57.03) and Karling Hemstreet (1:59.66) also swam in the champion-ship final.

Rhyan White of Wasatch picked up the victory in the B final, touching in 1:55.28 to drop almost two seconds from prelims. Y-Spartaquatics’ Ali Galyer claimed sec-

ond in 1:56.51, just under half a second in front of Palo Alto Stanford’s Chloe Isleta (1:56.89). Carmel’s Sammie Burchill out-raced Byron Center’s Taylor Gar-cia for fourth, 1:57.00 to 1:57.18. Irvine Novaquatics’ Courtney Mykkanen (1:58.39), Longhorn’s Victoria Edwards (1:59.89) and Santa Clara’s Sophie Krivoka-pic-Zhou (2:00.86) also swam in the B final.

Men’s 200 Back

Dynamo’s Michael Taylor cruised to a win in the men’s 200 back, dropping half a second from his prelim time to win in 1:42.61. Cypress Fairbanks’ Braxton Flow-ers, the top seed from this morning, took second in the final in 1:44.24, only .05 in front of Lincoln Select’s Brennan Balogh (1:44.29). Canyons Aquatic’s Jes-sie Kim also broke 1:45, touching in 1:44.75 to finish fourth overall. SwimAtlanta’s Jordan Ross (1:45.05), Lakewood Aquatics’ Daniel McArthur (1:45.79), Aquazot’s Daniel Tran (1:45.92) and Austin Swim Club’s Josh Artmann (1:50.61) made up the rest of the championship final.

Santa Clara’s Aidan Burns had a huge final 50 to pass Palo Alto Stanford’s Benjamin Ho for the B final win, 1:46.06 to 1:46.15. Dynamo’s Patrick Cusick came in third with a 1:47.12, about half a second in front of Phoenix Swimming’s Joe Turk (1:47.60) and Bolles’ Andy Song An (1:47.79). Columbia’s Alexander Gliese (1:48.18), Dynamo’s Colt Williamson (1:48.74) and Loveland’s Jack Thorne (1:50.48) finished sixth through eighth in the B final.

Women’s 100 Free

Stanzi Moseley of Roadrunner Aquatics wrapped up her meet with a win in the 100 free, as she held off a hard-charging Taylor Ruck of Scottsdale for the win, 48.44 to 48.54. Katrina Konopka of Y-Spartaquatics dropped a chunk from prelims to finish third in 48.86, two tenths in front of Lakeside’s Lauren Pitzer (49.06). Pine Crest’s Marta Ciesla took fifth in 49.29, followed by KING’s Ashley Sutherland (49.54). Denver Swim Academy teammates Annie Ochitwa (49.65) and Brooke Stenstrom (49.77) rounded out the top eight.

Aquazot’s Eva Merrell, 14, got to the wall first in the B final, out-touching Blackline Aquatics’ Abbie Dolan,


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49.40 to 49.49. Scottsdale’s Samantha Fazio also broke 50, finishing in 49.69 to take third in the consolation final. Crow Canyon’s Maddie Murphy got to the wall fourth in 50.33, followed by Quest’s Maddie Banic (50.40) and Lake Erie’s Lauren Heller (50.44). Southwest Stars’ Ka-tie Schorr (50.50) and Magnolia Aquatic Club’s Shayne Gregson (50.66) rounded out the top 16.

Men’s 100 Free

Scottsdale Aquatic Club’s Ryan Hoffer took down his fifth 15-16 national age group record of the meet to win the 100 free, dropping .38 from his morning swim of 43.05 with a 42.67. He went out in 20.62 and came home in 22.05 to finish more than a second ahead of Michi-gan Lakeshore’s Tabahn Afrik (43.88), who touched out Bolles’ Andrea Vergani (43.91), Upper Dublin’s Michael Jensen (43.95) and Nitro’s Tate Jackson (43.96) for sec-ond. Iowa Flyers’ Mark McGlaughlin (44.10), Bolles’ Ty-ler Rice (44.50) and Dynamo’s Knox Auerbach (44.80) rounded out the top eight.

McFarland’s Daniel Krueger ran away with the consola-tion final victory in 44.47, with Bolles’ Jabari Baptiste in second at 44.72. Palo Alto Stanford’s Albert Gwo held off several other swimmers to take third in 44.80, with Zi-onsville’s Kyle Decoursey (44.82) and Canyons Aquatic’s Kevin Dai (44.84) right on his heels. Mansfield Aquatic Club’s Michael Thibert (44.95), Lone Star’s Ross Sulli-van (45.28) and UCD’s Colten Montgomery (45.28) also competed in the consolation final.

Scottsdale’s Jack Blake got to the wall first in the C fi-nal, posting a time of 45.07 to top Tsunami’s Noah Reid (45.22) and North Hills’ Brian Lovasik (45.26) for the win. Greater Miami’s Mark Andrew (45.37), Metro At-lanta’s Dean Farris (45.44), North Texas Nadadores’ Ja-son Head (45.57), Greenwood Tiger Sharks’ Sam Coff-

man (45.57) and Central Area’s Tommy Thach (45.97) made up the rest of the C final.

Women’s 200 Breast

Emma Schanz of the Spokane Waves overtook Lauren Barber of JCC for the women’s 200 breast title by just .04, 2:10.85 to 2:10.89. Metroplex Aquatics’ Vanessa Pearl dropped about a second from her prelim time to finish third in 2:12.37, just in front of Marin Pirates’ Riley Scott (2:12.64), SOCAL’s Ella Eastin (2:12.68) and Golden West’s Nora Deleske (2:12.72). Palo Alto Stanford’s Grace Zhao (2:13.22) and Hershey Aquatic Club’s Allie Raab (2:15.33) rounded out the top eight finishers.

Annie Kyriakidis of Bolles cut almost two seconds off her prelim time to win the B final in 2:13.52, comfortably ahead of Y-Spartaquatics’ Savanna Faulconer (2:14.53). Reno’s Madi Hurst (2:15.06), Loveland’s Morgan Friesen (2:15.09), Texas Ford’s Destiny Nelson (2:15.65), Irvine Novaquatics’ Meagan Popp (2:15.71), Walnut Creek’s MC Schillinger (2:16.10) and Pine Crest’s Lindsey Swartz (2:16.22) also competed in the consolation final.

Men’s 200 Breast

After top finisher Jeremy Babinet of Palo Alto Stanford drew a disqualification in the men’s 200 breast final, Current Swimming’s Thomas Brewer was crowned ju-nior national champion with a time of 1:57.04. East Bay Aquatics’ Carson Sand tracked down second in 1:58.09, followed by Palo Alto Stanford’s Joe Kmak in 1:58.58. Georgia Coastal’s Brennan Pastorek (1:59.40), Arkansas Dolphins’ Blair Bish (1:59.67), Bolles’ James Daugherty (2:01.00) and SOCAL’s Billy Monjay (2:01.54) rounded out the top eight.

Michael Andrew of Indie Swimming actually had the fastest time of the meet, dominating the B final from lane eight with a 1:56.57. That chopped five seconds off his prelim time and would’ve won the A final by half a second. Bolles’ Rio Kurihara finished second in 1:59.34, followed by Academy Aquatics’ Austin Sellers (2:00.07)



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Women’s 200 Fly

SOCAL Aquatics’ Ella Eastin powered home on the final 50 of the women’s 200 fly to lower the meet record with a 1:54.37. That erased Megan Kingsley’s 1:55.26 from 2013 from the books. Fourteen-year-old Ruby Martin of the Iowa Flyers got to the wall second in 1:56.68, a hair ahead of Aquazot’s Sonia Wang (1:56.82). Taylor Pike of the Aquahawgs posted a 1:57.59 to finish in fourth, while Davis Arden’s Paige Maynard picked up fifth in 1:58.02. Longhorn’s Victoria Edwards (1:58.13) and Da-kota Luther (1:58.68) and Royal Swim Team’s Amy Oka-da (1:59.46) rounded out the top eight.

Walnut Creek’s Brittany Usinger cruised to victory in the B final, cutting two seconds off her morning time to win in 1:57.64. Aquazot’s Alexis Margett finished second in 1:58.72, just ahead of Greenwood’s Megan Brown (1:58.83). Irvine Novaquatics’ Carly Perri fin-ished fourth in 1:59.17, while Brea Aquatics’ Kenisha Liu also broke 2:00 with a 1:59.40. Bellevue Club’s Kim Wil-liams (2:00.24), Pine Crest’s Jessica Nava (2:00.49) and Pearland’s Jaden Bellina (2:01.44) also swam in the con-solation final.

Men’s 200 Fly

Upper Dublin’s Michael Thomas had a great kick-out on the final 25 to pull away and win the men’s 200 fly final in 1:44.33. Executive Swim Club’s Matthew Graus-lys claimed second place honors in 1:45.14, while Bolles’ Javier Barrena touched third in 1:46.01. Huntsville’s Zach Harting hit the wall fourth in 1:46.30, followed by Nitro’s Mason Tenney in 1:46.56. Bluefish’s Maxwell Miranda (1:46.87), Palo Alto Stanford’s Lucca Martins (1:47.39) and Bolles’ Joey Carbone (1:49.18) also raced for tonight’s junior national title.

Mesa Aquatics’ Kyle Ewoldt and Walnut Creek’s Eric Van-brocklin shared the victory in the B final as both swim-mers finished the race in 1:48.00. Aggie Swim Club’s Har-rison Jones posted a 1:48.16 to take third in the heat, .05 in front of Conejo Simi’s Roger Kriegl (1:48.21). Abrahm DeVine of Cascade Swim Club swam a 1:48.47 to finish fifth, while Palo Alto Stanford’s Alex Liang claimed sixth in 1:48.50. Dynamo’s Derek Cox (1:49.64) and The Fish’s Ian Russiello (1:51.67) also competed in the B final.

Women’s 4×100 Free Relay

Canyons Aquatic Club captured the women’s 4×100 free relay title in 3:18.51, thanks to an American record lead-off split by Abbey Weitzeil, who competed only in relays in the meet. Weitzeil took the race out in 22.29 and came back in 24.00 for a final time of 46.29, good for a 17-18 national age group record and American record in the event. Simone Manuel set the previous record of 46.62 at the Art Adamson Invitational last month. Tamara Santoyo (50.69), Mik Ranslem (51.20) and Alexa Sko-rus-Neely (50.33) also swam on the relay. Y-Spartaquat-ics’ Ali Galyer, Sydney Baker, Jessi Snover and Katrina Konopka finished second in 3:20.75, followed by Scott-sdale’s Victoria Toris, Hannah Holman, Samantha Fazio and Taylor Ruck in 3:20.91.

Men’s 4×100 Free Relay

The Bolles School Sharks swam away with the men’s 4×100 free relay title as Tyler Rice, Jabari Baptiste, Grady Heath and Andrea Vergani posted a 2:57.76 for the win. Palo Alto Stanford’s Benjamin Ho, Joe Molinari, Jere-my Babinet and Albert Gwo finished second in 2:59.55, followed by Scottsdale’s Ryan Hoffer, Thomas Ottman, Ethan Klein and Jack Blake in 2:59.73.

Bolles won the combined team title with 591 points, ahead of Palo Alto Stanford (530) and Scottsdale (477). Bolles also picked up the men’s title with 426 points, while Palo Alto Stanford (307) and Nitro (300) were sec-ond and third. Scottsdale and Y-Spartaquatics tied for the women’s team title with 235 points apiece, while Palo Alto Stanford finished third with 223 points. ←


Parting Shot

Pictured > THe LIU Post Pioneers [Long Island University] Womentake a moment to say “Hi” in an underwater group selfie.

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