2025 Summer Championships – Day 1 Prelim Scratches & Preview: Sims Makes Flight, Weinstein Out

2025 U.S. Summer Championships

• Tuesday, August 5 – Friday, August 8, 2025
• Irvine, California
• William Woollett Aquatics Center
• Start Times
  • Prelims: 9:00 am local / 12:00 pm ET
  • Finals: 5:00 pm local / 8:00 pm ET
• LCM (50 meters)
• Meet Central
• Psych Sheets
• Live Results
• Live Stream Info (Available on USA Swimming Network App)

Day 1 Prelims Heat Sheet

It’s scheduled to be a quick session, clocking in at just over an hour, meaning that it’s going to be an action-packed day of racing.  With only one event, the men’s 50 free, having more than three heats all the swimmers will need to have their wits about them as nearly anyone could post a time to advance to the finals.

One of the big storylines entering the meet was looking to see how those pulling the double of Worlds and this meet would fare. Claire Weinstein, who won two medals in Singapore, does not appear on the heat sheet in the women’s 50 breast, nor does David Johnston, who was the top seed in the men’s 800 free.

Weinstein’s teammate Bella Sims is still entered on paper in the 200 IM, where she is the 2nd seed, and in the 50 free, where she is the 15th seed. Sims’s toughest competition in the IM comes from Australia’s Isabella Boyd, while in the 50 free, she will have to contend with the likes of Kristina Paegle and Julie Mishler.

The men’s 200 IM and 50 Free are both led by 2024 Olympians, Kieran Smith and Caeleb Dressel. Smith had an off US Nationals and will be in the hunt for a Pan-Pac relay spot this week, with Dressel, who did not swim at Nationals, likely doing the same.  Smith’s competition is mostly domestic as Trenton Julian and Grant House round out the top three seeds, while Dressel will have to contend with a strong contingent from Down Under, as Australians Jamie Jack and Thomas Nowakowski will occupy lane 4 in the other two circle-seated heats.

The women’s and men’s 200 backstroke events are similarly led by Olympians, as Rhyan White and Australia’s Se-Bom Lee lead their respective fields. The women’s 200 back has just 14 entries, so the top swimmers may take it easy this morning, but don’t expect them to hold back tonight.

The prelims session ends with the 50 breaststroke, where two foreigners lead the rankings with Australia’s Sienna Harben the top seed in the women’s event and Evgenii Somov, who is representing Cal Aquatics now but was a Neutral Athlete from Russia at the 2024 Paris Olympics, holding down the fort atop the men’s event.

The distance session slated to occur later in the afternoon sees just one heat in each event, as the top heats will swim with the finals. The women’s 1500 will have a heat of three swimmers led by Adele Sands of Purdue, while the men’s 800 heat sees 16-year-old Juan Vallmitjana as the fastest swimmer.

All Day 1 Prelims Scratches

• W 200 IM
  • None
• M 200 IM
  • #9 Joe Polyak – 2:00.60
• W 50 Free
  • #9 Caroline Famous – 25.65
• M 50 Free
  •  #7 Van Mathias – 22.25
  • #25 Luke Maurer – 28.88
• W 200 Back
  • None
• M 200 Back
  • #3 Jack Berube – 1:59.25
• W 50 Breast
  • #15 Claire Weinstein – 1:00.53 Y
• M 50 Breast
  • #7 Joe Polyak – 1:00.85
  • #9 Junhao Chan – 1:01.09
  • #12 Ben Dillard – 1:01.91
• W 1500 Free
  • None
• M 800 Free
  • #1 David Johnston – 7:49.85
  • #2 Luke Ellis – 7:52.40
  • #15 Michael Hochwalt – 8:10.05