2025 NCSA Spring Championships: Day Two Featured New Meet Record and Top 20 All-Time Rankings

2025 NCSA Spring Swimming Championships

Day two of the NCSA Spring Championships was just as exciting as the first, with numerous top performances and athletes finding their way into the top-10 lists all time. On top of that, we also saw a new meet record in the 400 IM from Joshua Bey in his first of two event wins.

Boy’s Recap:

400 IM

The boy’s meet opened with a new meet record in the 400 IM courtesy of Joshua Bey from the Highland Hurricanes Swim Team. Bey came in at 3:42.61 to win the event by five seconds over Matthew Wolfle’s 3:47.27 in 2nd and drop almost eight seconds from his previous personal best of 3:50.09. He was also under the record by a little over half-a-second. The previous record of 3:43.28 was set back in 2023 and belonged to Toby Barnett, who currently swims at Indiana. Bey will be joining Barnett at Indiana in the fall.

16-year-old Matthew Wolfle finished 2nd overall for Nova of Virginia Aquatics in 3:47.27. This was a new personal best by almost six seconds, and moves him to 12th all-time in the 15-16 rankings. Wolfle is already committed to Virginia Tech for 2026

100 breast:

The 100 breaststroke had the same top two finishers as the  400 IM. Joshua Bey won the event in 52.70, two-hundredths off the 52.68 he went at the Winter Junior Nationals in December.

Matthew Wolfle finished 2nd overall, touching in 53.19, which was more than a second drop from his previous best of 54.38 from earlier this month. He also moved up in the 15-16 rankings in this event, currently sitting at 12th all time.

100 Back:

We saw our first new event champion of the evening in the 100 back with Zachary Oswald from the Suburban Seahawks Club in Pennsylvania. Oswald finished just three-hundredths ahead of Luke Vatev in 2nd place, touching in 46.73. This was a slight add from the 46.38 Oswald went last month in the event. He will be swimming at Notre Dame in the fall

Vatev, a 15-year-old from the Hornet Swim Club, came in at 46.76 for 2nd overall. He also added, coming in with a lifetime best of 46.52 also from last month.

800 Free Relay:

The Aquajets Swim Team won the boy’s 800 freestyle relay by almost two seconds over NCAP. Henry Webb (1:36.91), Jiarui Xue (1:37.41), Andrew Ploof (1:38.00), and Micah Davis (1:35.90) came together to swim 6:28.22 in the event.

Girl’s Recap:

200 Free:

The girl’s meet started with the 200 freestyle rather than the 400 IM. The event went to Andrea Dworak from Rockville Montgomery Swim Club in 1:46.56. This was a two tenth drop from her previous best of 1:46.72 from February of 2024. Dworak is committed to swim at Wisconsin this fall. Rebecca Rentz finished 2nd overall in 1:46.58, two hundredths back

The 3rd place finisher was 15-year-old Sadie Buckley of Nations Capital Swim Club in 1:46.72. Buckley’s previous best in the event was almost exactly a second behind at 1:47.62, and this drop moves her into 12th all-time in the 15-16 girls rankings with a whole year left in the age group.

100 breast:

Grace Rabb from Longhorn Aquatics snagged the 100 breast gold medal in 1:00.11. Rabb has been under 1:00 before, swimming 59.90 in the event at Winter Juniors, and she is committed to swim at Florida in the fall.

14-year-old Grace Koenig-Song came in 4th at 1:00.68 for Nasa Wildcat Aquatics. Her time was a little over a half-second drop and puts her in the top-10 all time in the 13-14 rankings at 7th.

200 fly:

There were no new all-time rankings in the girl’s 200 fly, but it was still exciting with a tie for first place. 17-year old Isabelle Beu from the Academy Bullets Swim Team and 16-year-old Zara Kocak from Excel Aquatics both came in at 1:58.09 for the win. Beu had never been under 2:00 before this week, coming in with a best time of 2:00.30 from January. She is committed to Georgia for the fall.

Kocak is only a sophomore, and she also went a new best time, dropping from the 1:59.20 mark she set in November of last year.

200 free relay:

The girls swam the 200 freestyle relay, and the title went to Nasa Wildcat Aquatics at 1:30.70 thanks to their team of Tierney Lenahan (22.71), Marin Shimkus (22.68), Grace Koenig-Song (22.95), and Maeve O’Donnell (22.36).

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Knowsitall
14 hours ago

How big is this NASA Wildcat Aquatics? I’ve seen them before at big meets but didn’t realize how many fast swimmers they have.