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2024 Winter Juniors- West: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

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2024 Winter Junior Championships – West

Day 3 Finals Heat Sheet

Welcome to the Day 3 finals session of the West Winter Juniors meet here in Austin, Texas. Tonight’s session will include the finals for the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back, and ending with the 4×50 freestyle relay.

Highlighting the night are three double event top seeds. On the girl’s side, Madi Mintenko leads the way in the 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle finals after winning the 500 last night. She has some tight competition for the wins in both of them, including 400 IM top seed Kayla Han.

On the boy’s side, Campbell McKean is the top seed in the 400 IM and the 100 breaststroke, coming off an event win in the 200 IM at last night’s finals. We also have NAG record holder Maximus Williamson leading the way in the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke, trying to set his first record of the meet.

The last event of the session will be the 4×50 freestyle relays for both men and women.

GIRLS’ 400 IM – Finals

  • West Record: 3:57.02, Katie Grimes – 2022
  • Meet Record: 3:57.02, Katie Grimes – 2022
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 4:06.95, Kayla Han – 2022
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 3:57.02, Katie Grimes – 2022
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 3:56.59, Bella Sims – 2022

Top 8 Finishers:

  1. Kayla Han (RMDA)- 4:04.44
  2. Sydney Schoeck (CSP)- 4:09.17
  3. Grace Rabb (TXLA)- 4:11.55
  4. Alexa McDevitt (BC)- 4:14.38
  5. Avery Collins (LAC)- 4:14.54
  6. Kaitlyn Nguyen (NOVA)- 4:14.66
  7. Taylor Johannsen (TOPS)- 4:15.92
  8. Amber Janky (FAST)- 4:16.61

Kayla Han won the girl’s 400 IM by a decisive five seconds. Her 4:04.44 was a new best time, dropping from the 4:05.51 she went in November of this year. It also moves her up to 6th in the all-time 15-16 rankings. Just like this morning, Han split her fly and her free very similarly, only separated by six-one-hundredths.

  • Han’s Splits- 55.99/1:01.28/1:11.12/56.05

Sydney Schoeck took 2nd in a huge best time, dropping another two-and-a-half seconds from her 3 second drop in prelims to go 4:09.17. Her lifetime best coming into the meet was 4:15.89, which she went in October. She was battling with Han for the lead throughout the first 200, splitting 55.87/1:01.16 on the fly and back, but she was not able to match Han’s back end speed, splitting 1:14.22 on the breast and 57.92 on the fly.

3rd place Rabb also went a new best time, despite adding in the prelims. Her final time of 4:11.55 bested her the 4:13.23 mark she set just a few weeks ago.

7th place finisher Taylor Johannsen dropped almost 8 seconds over the course of the day, coming into the met at 4:23.24 from last December, and finishing the evening at 4:15.92.

BOYS’ 400 IM – Finals

  • West Record: 3:39.83, Maximus Williamson – 2022
  • Meet Record: 3:38.65, Carson Foster – 2019
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 3:47.91, Luka Mijatovic – 2024
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 3:39.83, Maximus Williamson – 2022
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 3:35.27, Carson Foster – 2020

Top 8 Finishers:

  1. Luke Ellis (SAND)- 3:42.94
  2. Tyler Bardak (FOX)- 3:45.47
  3. Jake McCoy (COUG)- 3:47.43
  4. Connor Jones (Katy)- 3:49.97
  5. Abe Astle (OA)- 3:50.05
  6. Jiaru Xue (AQJT)- 3:50.35
  7. AJ Robinson (AGS)- 3:50.44
  8. Reid Magner (DSA)- 3:50.89

Luke Ellis wins the boy’s 400 IM by two-and-a-half seconds, going 3:42.94. Ellis split faster across the board than he did this morning, to drop 4.39 seconds from his prelims swim. He also went a new best time by just over 2 seconds, surpassing the 3:45.21 he went last December. His freestyle leg was faster than his fly leg by a second-and-a-half, helping him stay in the lead over Bardak who was around half-a-second back after the 300 mark

  • Ellis’ Splits: 51.74/55.16/1:05.88/50.16

Tyler Bardak was took 2nd, by a little under two seconds, also going a new personal best time. Bardak came into the meet with a personal best of 3:51.92 from November 2023, and finished the night at 3:45.47, over six seconds faster.

3rd went to Jake McCoy in 3:47.43, which was just three-one-hundredths faster than his prelims swim, but still two seconds faster than he came into the meet.

GIRLS’ 100 FLY – Finals

  • West Record: 51.58, Annika Parkhe – 2023
  • Meet Record: 49.49, Alex Shackell – 2023
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 50.64, Claire Curzan – 2019
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 49.51, Claire Curzan – 2021
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 49.24, Claire Curzan – 2022

Top 8 Finishers:

 

BOYS’ 100 FLY – Finals

  • West Record: 45.46, Ryan Hoffer, – 2015
  • Meet Record: 44.55, Thomas Heilman – 2024
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 45.81, Thomas Heilman – 2021
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 44.67, Thomas Heilman – 2022
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 44.55, Thomas Heilman– 2024

Top 8 Finishers:

  1. Rowan Cox (TXLA)- 45.74
  2. Alejandro Michelena (UN)- 46.42
  3. Shareef Elaydi (SCSC)- 46.78
  4. Riccardo Osio (LAC)- 47.13
  5. Yofang Yu (NWAA)- 47.26
  6. Henry Guo (HSC)- 47.47
  7. Ethan Reniewicki (SAC)- 47.48
  8. Liam Mulroy (MVN)- 47.96

GIRLS’ 200 FREE – Finals

  • West Record: 1:40.78, Bella Sims –  2022
  • Meet Record: 1:40.63, Summer McIntosh – 2022
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 1:44.55, Missy Franklin – 2010
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 1:42.03, Katie Ledecky – 2013
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 1:40.31, Missy Franklin – 2014

BOYS’ 200 FREE –Finals

GIRLS’ 100 BREAST – Finals

  • West Record: 57.76, Lydia Jacoby – 2022
  • Meet Record: 57.76, Lydia Jacoby – 2022
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 1:00.02, Alexis Wenger – 2015
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 58.19, Alex Walsh – 2017
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 57.29, Lydia Jacoby – 2023

BOYS’ 100 BREAST –Finals

  • West Record: 52.21, Michael Andrew – 2015
  • Meet Record: 52.21, Michael Andrew – 2015
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 53.06, Reece Whitley – 2014
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 51.75, Michael Andrew – 2015
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 51.16, Reece Whitley – 2018

GIRLS’ 100 BACK –Finals

  • West Record: 50.53, Bella Sims – 2022
  • Meet Record: 49.46, Charlotte Crush – 2024
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 50.44, Charlotte Crush – 2023
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 49.46, Charlotte Crush – 2024
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 49.46, Claire Curzan – 2023

BOYS’ 100 BACK –Finals

  • West Record: 45.58, Ryan Hoffer – 2015
  • Meet Record: 45.01, Will Modglin – 2022
  • 13-14 NAG Record: 47.44, Daniel Diehl – 2020
  • 15-16 NAG Record: 45.60, Anthony Grimm – 2019
  • 17-18 NAG Record: 44.63, Ryan Murphy – 2014

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cow from china
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Mczkean went 51!!

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