2 New Meet Records For Heilman On 2025 YMCA Nationals Day 4

2025 YMCA Short Course Nationals

• March 31 – April 5, 2025
• Greensboro Aquatic Center, NC
• Meet Central
• Psych Sheet
• Live Results: “2025 YMCA Short Course Nationals” on Meet Mobile

Night Four of 2025 YMCA concluded with Olympian Thomas Heilman downing two more meet records.

Individually, the 17-year-old took the 200 IM meet record by clocking a 1:44.34. The record previously belonged to Daniel Diehl from 2023 at 1:44.51. Heilman already holds the YMCA national overall record at 1:41.26. This is Heilman’s second meet record individually this week in addition to the 100 fly on day 2.

Heilman also swam a key leg on Cavalier Aquatics’ record-breaking 400 medley relay. The team posted a 3:12.42, undercutting the 3:13.14 record that Schroeder established last year. Will Charlton led the boys off with a 51.07 on backstroke, handing it off to Jack Hathaway, who split 54.15. Heilman hit the water next, putting up a 44.37 100 fly effort before turning it over to Will Browne who brought the group home in 42.83.

The Schroeder girls narrowly missed getting a meet record for themselves in the same event. Schroeder, who remains undefeated in girl’s relays this week, threw down a 3:38.02 to just miss the 3:37.81 national and meet record that Middle Tyger has held since 2015. It was still an impressive swim by the squad, which consisted of Maggie Dickinson (52.66), Alana Berlin (1:01.40), Ari Zhao (53.31) and Anne Dickinson (50.65) in medley relay order. They cleared the rest of the field by at least five seconds.

Berlin, primarily a butterfly/backstroke swimmer, put her versatility on display tonight between the 1:01 breaststroke split and her 1:58.83 victory in the 200 IM. The 17-year-old Stanford commit was the only girl to break two minutes in the event. Her best time remains a 1:57.54 from 2024 Winter Juniors – West.

Maggie Dickinson also notched an individual win for herself, blasting a 22.75 50 free to be the only sub-23 in the field. At 15 years of age, Dickinson is showing a great improvement curve in this event, dropping over half a second from the 23.38 best time she posted at Wisconsin Senior Champs a month ago.

In the boy’s 50 free, 18-year-old Preston Kessler took his first win of the meet. Representing Indiana County, Kessler broke the important sub-20 barrier, going 19.83. His previous best stood at 20.14 from this meet last year. Jonathan Hoole also got under 20, getting tantalizingly close to his 19.93 best with a 19.94 runner-up effort.

After winning the 1000 the first night of competition, 15-year-old Meghan Ayres of Cavalier Aquatics came back for seconds in the 500. Ayres shattered the 4:50 barrier, going 4:46.90 to decisively win and go a best time by five seconds. Ethan Schutten of Schoeder took the boy’s event, going 4:21.40 to improve upon the 4:22.79 he posted at Wisconsin High School States.

Team wise, Schroeder continues to lead Cavalier in the overall race, though not by much. In the individual gender races, Cavalier has a comfortable lead over the other boys’ teams, and Schroeder on the girls’ teams.

Team Score

Overall

1. Schroeder 614
2. Cavalier Aquatics 589
3. Spartanburg 443.5

Boys

1. Cavalier Aquatics 345
2. Spartanburg 298.5
3. Schroeder 229

Girls

1. Schroeder 385
2. Upper Main Line 257
3. York 250