2025 U.S. Nationals: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

2025 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Tuesday, June 3 – Saturday, June 7, 2025
• Indianapolis, Indiana
• Indiana University Natatorium
• LCM (50 meters)
• World Championship Selection Criteria
• SwimSwam Preview Index
• Meet Central
• Psych Sheets (Updated 6/02)
• Live Results
• How To Watch (USA Swimming Network)
• Prelims Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2
• Finals Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2

Day 3 Prelims Heat Sheet

Selamat Pagi, or as they also say in Singapore, Good Morning, and welcome to the Day 3 Prelims Live Recap. Yes, Swim friends, it is already the halfway point of the 2025 U.S. Nationals, and while we have seen plenty of stars already, today should be the first swims of two Paris Olympic medalists: Katharine Berkoff and Lilly King.

However, before we get to them, the morning starts with one of the more grueling events on the schedule, the 400 IM. Returning Olympic medalists Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant lead the way on the women’s side. The pair are the only two entrants with seed times under 4;38 and as they also were the US representatives in Fukuoka, on paper, they are the heavy favorites to represent the USA in Singapore. However, several swimmers have proven that entry times don’t mean much, and none more so than #8 seed Caroline Bricker, who dropped PBs left and right to win the 200 fly in shocking fashion. Bricker is not the only threat, however, as Leah Hayes, Kayla Han, and Audrey Derivaux, all teenagers, will be seeking to join her by pulling off an upset.

While the women’s side has two clear front-runners, the men’s race sees Carson Foster as the lone favorite, with the second spot up for grabs. Foster, the Paris bronze medalist in the event, has already booked his ticket to Singapore in the 200 fly, and added a relay spot in the 4×200 free relay with his 5th place finish, so he shouldn’t feel the pressure he did in this event last summer. That said, he shouldn’t be too comfortable as his training partner, Rex Maurer, has been on fire this year and last night beat Foster in the 200 free. Bobby Finke, despite some concerns about his participation, is entered in the event and, as the owner of the 2nd fastest PB in the field, could certainly pose a threat. Don’t be surprised if some lower-seeded swimmers jump up to the A-final, as Baylor Nelson, Ben Delmar, and Luka Mijatovic are all seeded with yard times.

Last night’s newly re-minted American Record holder in the 50 fly, Gretchen Walsh, returns to competition this morning, tackling the 100 fly. The event pits Walsh, the World Record holder, against the Olympic Champion, Torri Huske, as the pair top the psych sheet. The two, who are joined by Regan Smith under the 56 barrier, have a comfortable lead over the competition, but as mentioned above, it is only on paper, and Alex Shackell, Beata Nelson, and Leah Shackley will all be looking to make the most of the diminishing chances of booking a ticket to Singapore.

The men’s 100 fly is set to be a barn burner. The top two seeds, Thomas Heilman and Shaine Casas, haven’t secured their tickets yet to Singapore and will need to be on top form as several swimmers seeded below them have and are free to let things loose. Dare Rose and Michael Andrew, the top two in the 50 fly, and Luca Urlando, the winner of the 200 fly, are all looking in good form, and so too are 9th seed Gabriel Jett and 34th seed PJ Foy, who took 4th in the 50 last night.

We conclude the morning with the 50s of breaststroke and backstroke. Skyler Smith leads the way in the Women’s 50 breaststroke as the top seed, but all eyes will be on the heat before as hometown favorite Lilly King makes her 2025 US Nationals debut, likely her last first race on US soil, so expect some cheers to occur.

Don’t know who loves whom more: the crowd or Lilly King.

She gets some of the biggest cheers & always seem to reciprocate the love back. I know perpetual motion machines are hypothetically but someone should look into harnessing the energy between King and crowds#SwimTrials24

— Mark Wild (@Mark_Wild13) June 19, 2024

The American record holder, King, who sits .06 back of Smith, isn’t secure in her #2 seed as Emma Weber is .02 back and McKenzie Siroky lurks just a tenth back. NCAA champion in the 100 breast, and last night 2nd place finished in the 200 breast Alex Walsh is the fastest entrant using a 100 time, so watch out for her as well.

The Men’s 50 Breast looks to be the Michael Andrew show. It’ll be a quick turnaround from the 100 fly, should he swim it, but Andrew has looked in good form this week, taking 2nd last night in the 50 fly. Brian Benzing and Gabe Nunziata round out the top three seeds, with the latter having sliced massive amounts of time last night in the 200 breast, finishing 3rd overall. With Andrew the only entrant with a 50 time, things are very unpredictable.

The Women’s 50 backstroke, on the other hand, seems to be in comfortable hands as top seed Katharine Berkoff and Regan Smith finished 1-2 in this event at both the 2022 and 2023 Trials, as well as each medaling last summer in the 100 back. That said, last night’s 200 back champ Claire Curzan, who also has serious sprinting credentials, may feel free to let loose and attack this race and may prove to be a spoiler.

Its not a friendly schedule for Michael Andrew as he finds himself back in the pool for the 50 back as the 3rd seed, joining Shaine Casas, who also is doubling up. We won’t know until their heats occur if they will be in the event as neither scratched anything, but if they can manage the quick turnaround, the pair look to be in good form to make the A-final. Looking to join the pair are #2 seed Quintin McCarty and #4 seed Tommy Janton.

WOMEN’S 400 IM – Prelims

• World Record: 4:24.38 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2024)
• American Record: 4:31.12 – Katie Hoff (2008)
• U.S. Open Record: 4:26.98 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2025)
• 2024 Olympic Trials Winner: Katie Grimes – 4:35.00
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 4:43.06

Top 8

1. Leah Hayes (CA) – 4:39.82
2. Emma Weyant (FLOR) – 4:40.01
3. Katie Grimes (CA) – 4:41.13
4. Audrey Derivaux (JW) – 4:43.96
5. Teagan O’Dell (PLS) – 4:44.40
6. Zoe Dixon (FLOR) – 4:44.84
7. Kayla Han (RMDA) – 4:45.74
8. Emily Brown (TNAQ) – 4:46.07

Through the third of seven heats in the Women’s 400 IM the leaderboard was led by UNC’s Aislin Farris. Farris, who was entered with a yards time of 4:08.60 from her 7th place finish at ACCs this year, posted a time of 4:49.15 by using a strong backstroke to give herself the lead. The time stands as her first new personal best since 2022, when she swam a 4:51.95.

Stanford first-year Emily Thompson surpassed Farris’s time in the very next heat. 200 Fly A-Finalist Carli Cronk used her advantage in the fly leg to set up an early lead, but Thompson, the 14th place finisher at NCAAs in this event, used a strong breaststroke to take the lead and dropped a hammer of a closing 100, going 32.94/31.97 on the freestyle legs to record a time of 4:48.25, a drop of over a second from her PB.

Heat 5 was the battle of the Texas Campbells as Campbell Stoll out touched her teammate Campbell Chase 4:46.74 to 4:48.10. For Stoll, the time is a new PB by nearly two seconds and makes it the time to beat with the two circle seeded heats remaining.

If heat 5 was the Longhorn heat, heat 6 was the Gator heat. 2024 Olympic bronze medalist Emma Weyant and Zoe Dixon, a finalist from last year, established an early lead and never looked back. Dixon, who finished 7th last year in a PB of 4:42.01, led at the halfway point, 2:14.27 to 2:14.50, but Weyant used her strong back half strengths to pull into the lead and her 1:20.17 breaststroke leg and 1:05.34 freestyle leg to overtake Stoll’s top time as she stopped the clock in 4:40.01. Dixon wasn’t that far off her PB as she touched 2nd in 4:44.84, ahead of fast-charging Kayla Han, who placed 3rd in the heat in 4:45.74.

The last heat was a tight affair. 200 fly champ and the NCAA champion in this event Caroline Bricker, was out fast, opening in 1:00.85, the only sub-1:01 split. Olympic silver medalists Katie Grimes, Audrey Derivaux, and Teagan O’Dell too closed on Bricker and had passed her by the halfway point, with Grimes leading the young Derivaux 2:11.17 to 2:11.13. As they moved into the breaststroke, Leah Hayes established a two-body length lead by dropping a 1:19.87 split. Hayes was 5th at the 100, nearly three seconds back of the early leader Caroline Bricker, but by the end of the breaststroke, had reversed that deficit to a lead of over two seconds. Hayes would go on to win in 4:39.82, faster than any of her swims at the Olympic Trials. Grimes and Derivaux were tied at the 300, but Grimes’s freestyle abilities shone through, and she touched behind Hayes with a 4:41.13.

MEN’S 400 IM – Prelims

• World Record: 4:02.50 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2023)
• American Record: 4:03.84 – Michael Phelps (2008)
• U.S. Open Record: 4:05.25 – Michael Phelps (2008)
• 2024 Olympic Trials Winner: Carson Foster – 4:07.64
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 4:17.48

Top 8

1. Carson Foster (UN) – 4:12.19
2. Bobby Finke (SPA) – 4:12.76
3. Rex Maurer (TXLA) – 4:13.47
4. Mason Laur (FLOR) – 4:15.03
5. Baylor Nelson (TXLA) – 4:15.70
6. Tommy Bried (UOFL) – 4:15.72
7. Mitchell Schott (PRIN) – 4:15.80
8. Luka Mijatovic (PLS) – 4:16.18

Heat 2, as advertised, saw some fireworks as it contained the fastest yards entrants. Luka Mijatovic, who broke the NAG record in the 200 free yesterday, took the race out in 57.02, sitting just .14 ahead of Baylor Nelson, who recently transferred from Texas A&M to Texas. Nelson did not swim this event last summer but owns a PB of 4:15.87 from his 5th place finish at the 2023 US nationals. Nelson took over the lead in the breaststroke by using a 1:12.39 breaststroke split, as compared to Mijatovic’s 1:14.35. The pair, along with Tony Laurito, who had snuck past Mijatovic into 2nd, all went to their legs on the freestyle, but it was Nelson who touched first in a new PB of 4:15.70. Mijatovic, who was 1.5 seconds back at the 300 just ran out of room as his late charge, splitting 57.99 brought to the wall with a time of 4:16.18, an eight-second new PB.

Heat 5, the first of two circled seeded heats, saw the #2 seed Rex Maurer jump out to the lead opening in 56.18 but being closely trailed by Louisville’s Tommy Bried, who was just .30 back at 56.48. Maurer, the fastest American in the 500 free, built his lead over the next 100, hitting the transition from the back to breaststroke in 1:59.89, the only sub-2:00 time so far. Tommy Bried, however, fought back, closing what had been a deficit of 3.73 to having a lead of .33 after the breaststroke. The lead did not last long, as Maurer’s freestyle abilities easily reeled him in, with the Longhorn taking the win and overtaking the top time with his 4:13.47. Bried held on to place 2nd in the heat with a 4:15.72, holding off the Princeton-based Mitchell Schott, whose 58.27 last 100 brought him within .08 of Bried. Texas’s David Johnston made move through the race and was challenging for a top finish but was disqualified for a dolphin kick in the breaststroke leg.

Florida’s Mason Laur jumped out to an early lead over Carson Foster and Bobby Finke as he opened the first quarter of the race in 55.99 with Foster .28 and Finke .62 back. Foster and Finke the only entrants in the event with PBs under 4:10 passed Laur on the backstroke leg, with the Gator eeking out a lead of just .02 at the halfway point, 1:59.84 to 1:59.86. Foster, an all around strong swimmer, pulled himself into a lead of over a second after the breaststroke and never looked back as he cruised his way to the finish, posting the overall fastest time of 4:12.19, with Finke not far behind at 4:12.76. Laur, despite dropping back after the fly, never faded too far and dropped a new PB of 4:15.03 to finish 3rd in the heat and 4th overall.

Michael Hochwalt, the 8th seed, was DQed in the final heat for a nonsimultaneous butterfly kick. Per in-house reports, both Johnston’s and Hochwalt’s disqualifications are under review and may impact the A-final line-up.

Update: both DQs will stand

Women’s 100 Butterfly – Prelims

• World Record: 54.60 – Gretchen Walsh, United States (2025)
• American Record: 54.60 – Gretchen Walsh (2025)
• U.S. Open Record: 54.60 – Gretchen Walsh (2025)
• 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Gretchen Walsh – 55.31
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 58.33

Top 8

1. Gretchen Walsh (NYAC) – 55.29
2. Torri Huske (AAC) – 57.80
3. Alex Shackell (CSC) – 58.09
4. Charlotte Crush (LAK) – 58.23
5. Beata Nelson (WISC) – 58.37
6. Leah Shackley (WOLF) – 59.18
7. Ella Welch (UOFL) – 59.20
8. Tess Howley (LIAC) – 59.32

Carly Novelline produced the first sub-60 time in the Women’s 100 fly from just heat 2. The UVA swimmer, who was entered with a yard time, touched the wall in 59.60, just .07 off her PB from May of 2024. Heat 3’s Molly Sweeney, who swims for Carmel Swim Club, joined her under 60 seconds as she touched in 59.60, but it wasn’t until heat 4 when Novelline was replaced at the top of the leaderboard as Tennessee’s Sara Stotler posted a time of 59.53.

The first of the circle-seeded heats saw two high-profile No-Shows as both Simone Manuel and Regan Smith, the 3rd fastest American ever, did not take to the blocks. Taking advantage of their absence were Leah Shackley and Tess Howley, the pair were close at the finish, but the touch went the way of Shackley as she stopped the clock in 59.18, with Howley .14 back at 59.32.

The next heat jumped the the 58 second mark as Torri Huske overtook the top time with her of 57.80. Last night’s 3rd place finisher in the 200 free, Huske the Olympic champion in the event was out in 26.65 and closed in 31.15 to win the heat by nearly half a second. Taking second behind her was Charlotte Crush, who was just .04 off her seed time as she touched in 58.23 just ahead of Beata Nelson‘s 58.37.

The last heat went as expected as a battle between Gretchen Walsh and the clock. Like the previous heat, heat 7 skipped the 56-second mark entirely as Walsh cruised to a smooth and controlled 55.29, her 4th fastest performance ever. Out in 25.74 and back in 29.55, the time makes her the owner of the six fastest times of all time. Alex Shackell finished 2nd behind Walsh, albeit 2.8 seconds back with a time of 58.09.

MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – Prelims

• World Record: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel, US (2021)
• American Record: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel (2021)
• U.S. Open Record: 49.76 – Caeleb Dressel (2021)
• 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Winner: Caeleb Dressel – 50.19
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 51.77

Top 8

1. Thomas Heilman (CA) – 50.78
2. Dare Rose (CAL) – 51.15
3. Shaine Casas (TXLA) – 51.46
4. Luca Urlando (DART) – 51.51
5. Trenton Julian (MVN) – 51.60
6. Kamal Muhammad (SPAC) – 51.92
7. Matthew Klinge (OSU) – 52.11
8. Jack Dahlgren (AQJT) – 52.15

A 52.11 put up by Matthew Klinge was the time to beat as the men’s 100 fly entered the circle seeded heats. Winner of the 50 fly last night, Dare Rose took the race out fast, not unexpectedly, as he was 23.80 as the first 50. Coming home in 27.35, Rose recorded a time of 51.15, to win the heat by nearly half a second over Trenton Julian’s 51.60. In making a return to competition after a long layoff, Arsenio Bustos finished 4th in the heat in 52.77.

Heat 6 was a slower affair as Shaine Casas took the heat win 51.46, ahead of Kummal Muhammad’s 51.92. The pair were out quick with Casas opening up in 23.63 and Muhammad not far back in 23.84, but each couldn’t keep the pace up and match the back end speed that Rose showed in the heat before.

It has been a less-than-stellar week for Thomas Heilman, and while he still has to swim tonight, his performance this morning certainly turned things around. The winner of the Olympic silver medal for his relay contributions, Heilman opened the race closed slower than both Rose and Casas, hitting the turn in 23.90, but the 3rd place finisher in the 200 fly exploded on the backhalf using a 26.88 last 50 to stop the clock in 50.78. The result not only stands as a new PB by .02 but also rewrites his NAG record and moves him into a tie for 22nd as the fastest performer ever.

Urlando, the winner of the 200 fly, was .10 back of Heilman at the turn, hitting the wall in 24.00 even, but couldn’t match Heilman’s speed as he came home in 27.51 to stop the clock in 51.51.

Women’s 50 Breaststroke – Prelims

• World Record: 29.16 – Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania (2023)
• American Record: 29.40 – Lilly King (2017)
• U.S. Open Record: 29.62 – Lilly King. USA (2018)
• 2023 U.S. Nationals Champion: Lilly King – 29.77
• 2025 World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 30.75

Top 8

1. Lilly King (ISC) – 30.15
2. McKenzie Siroky (TNAQ) – 30.27
3. Piper Enge (TXLA) – 30.65
4. Emma Weber (CA) – 30.66
5. Lucy Thomas (ALTO) – 30.84
6. Alex Walsh (NYAC) – 30.86
7. Skyler Smith (NCAC) – 31.06
8. Rachel McAlpin (MMST) – 31.15

The first of the circle-seeded heats saw the 3rd seed, Emma Weber, power her way to the win. The 2024 Olympic Gold Medalist touched in 30.66, just .09 off her PB. Weber never looked in doubt as she pulled away from the field and won the heat nearly by a full second as Hannah Bach was the next closest finisher at 31.51.

Heat 6 was a faster and louder affair as it saw two swimmers go under the 31-second barrier. Swimming out of lane 4, the #2 seed, American Record holder, and home favorite Lilly King took to the block in her last first swim at a US Nationals meet, and she did not disappoint. The Indiana swimmer look explosive off the blocks. King surged into the wall hitting it in 30.15, her fastest time since the Fukuoka Worlds and faster than her prelims time from the 2023 Nationals (30.26).

200 breaststroke runner-up Alex Walsh wasn’t too far back as she stopped the clock in 30.86. The NCAA champion in the 100 breast, who as of late has been emphasizing this stroke, appears to have recorded a new PB as she was entered with a 100 time , and her best time was a 30.90 from her 4th place finish in Fort Lauderdale.

While not as fast as King’s time, the last heat, heat 7, saw four swimmers advance into the final. Lead by top seed McKenzie Siroky, Piper Enge, Lucy Thomas, and Skyler Smith all posted timed fastest enough to A-Final. Siroky, who trains out of Tennessee, won the heat in 30.27, a drop of nearly half a second off her old PB of 30.68.

High School Junior and Arkansas commit Rachel McAlpin snuck into the A-final from heat 3 after smashing her old PB of 32.19 by a full second as she recorded a mark of 31.15.

Men’s 50 Breaststroke – Prelims

• World Record: 25.95 – Adam Peaty, Great Britain (2017)
• American Record: 26.45 – Nic Fink (2022)
• U.S. Open Record: 26.52 – Michael Andrew, USA (2022)
• 2023 U.S. Nationals Champion: Nick Fink – 26.74
• 2025 World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 27.33

Top 8

1. Michel Andrew (SUN)/Campbell McKean (BEND) – 27.14
3. Nate Germonprez (TXLA) – 27.53
4. Jake Wang (BULL) – 27.64
5. Brian Benzing (ISC) – 27.65
6. Travis Gulledge (TFA) – 27.72
7. Benjamin Cono (TOC) – 27.79
8. Alexei Avakov (ISC) – 27.87

The men’s 50 breaststroke saw multiple DQs as the use of video review caught many stroke infractions, which delayed the event often. That said, the competition in the pool was fierce as the final heat saw a tie between Michael Andrew and Campbell McKean as each hit the wall in 27.14. For Andrew, the only swimmer to enter using a 50 time, the result was .13 off his season best of 27.01 from his 2nd place finish at the Fort Lauderdale PSS. For McKean, however, the result stands as new PB. The future Texas Longhorn entered the meet with a PB of 27.40 and, now tied for the top spot, has put himself into a good position to make his first Worlds team.

It’ll be a tight field tonight. While Andrew and McKean are .39 ahead of 3rd placed Nate Germonprez, only .34 separates 3rd from 8th. Germonprez, who swim for Texas seems to be in best position to challenge for a top two spot, but Yale’s Jake Wang drop from a PB of 28.10 to 27.64 can’t be ignored. Nor can Brian Benzing, Indiana’s breaststroke on their NCAA relay, who also dropped a new PB of 27.65.

Women’s 50 Backstroke – Prelims

• World Record: 26.86 – Kaylee McKeown, Australia (2023)
• American Record: 27.10 – Regan Smith (2023)
• U.S. Open Record: 27.12 – Katharine Berkoff, USA (2022)
• 2023 U.S. National Champion: Katharine Berkoff – 27.13
• 2025 World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 28.22

Top 8

1. Katharine Berkoff (WOLF) – 27.15
2. Claire Curzan (TAC) – 27.45
3. Leah Shackey (WOLF) – 27.60
4. Kaitlyn Owens (TAMU) – 27.69
5. Regan Smith (TXLA) – 27.74
6. Isabelle Stadden (CAL) – 27.85
7. Kennedy Noble (WOLF) – 27.92
8. Rhyan White (WOLF) – 27.99

The Women’s 50 back seemed to be an easy feeding ground for the NC State Wolfpack as they placed four swimmers into the A-final tonight. It’s not the first time this week that a college program has dominated a field, as the Texas men put four swimmers in the 200 free A-final and the UVA women ranked 1st through 5th in the 200 breast, but this morning it was their ACC rival NC State to take the accolade.

Katharine Berkoff nearly scared both the US Open and American records this morning as her 27.15 from this morning, her 3rd fastest performance of her career, was just .05 of the American record and .03 of her own US Open record from 2022. Berkoff, the 2022 silver medalist in this event, had previously scratched out of the 200 back and 100 free earlier in the week, and the decision seems to have paid off as she now moves into a tie for 4th in the World rankings.

Fellow Wolfpack Elite swimmer Leah Shackley made her 2nd A-final of the morning after having finished 6th in the 100 fly. Swimming next to the American Record holder, Regan Smith, Shackley’s turnover was a little too much for Smith, who did show the 100 fly to run down as the pair finished in 27.60 and 27.74, respectively.

The other two NC state swimmers, Kennedy Noble, and Rhyan White, will occupy lanes 1 and 8 tonight but will have a tough time breaking into the top 2 as Claire Curzan, a North Carolina native who now swims for UVA, took second this morning, with a time of 27.45. The winner of the 200 back last night, Curzan’s time is just .02 off her PB from the Doha World Champ,s where she swept all of the backstroke events.

Men’s 50 Backstroke – Prelims

• World Record: 23.55 – Kliment Kolesnikov, Russia (2023)
• American Record: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong (2022)
• U.S. Open Record: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong, USA (2022)
• 2023 U.S. National Champion: Justin Ress – 24.10
• World Aquatics ‘A’ Cut: 25.11

Top 8

1. Shaine Casas (TXLA) – 24.65
2. Quintin McCarty (WOLF) – 24.67
3. Will Modglin (TXLA) – 24.80
4. Grant Bochenski (UMIZ) – 24.81
5. Jack Aikins (SA) – 24.92
6. Jack Wilkening (MICH) – 24.93
7. Joe Hayburn (LOYO) – 25.02
8. Jack Dolan (SUN) – 25.15

With numerous doubles and having previously already made the A-finals, Michael Andrew and Jack Dahlgren both No-Showed this event, but Shaine Casas opted to remain. After qualifying 3rd into the finals of the 100 fly, Casas came back four events later and posted the fastest time of the morning, stopping the clock in 24.65. Casas, who owns a PB of 24.00 has been as fast as 24.23 this season, going that time at the Pro Swim Series in Westmont. Casas, the top seed entering this meet is just .02 ahead of NC State’s Quintin McCarty. Like Casas, the time is a little of his PB, which he set at 24.45 at the Fort Lauderdale PSS last month. McCarty has serious sprinting credentials as he did post the fastest 50 split at the most recent NCAAs.

The pair may be the top two from this morning, but Casas’s teammate Will Modglin dipped under 25.00 for the first time and should put them on notice as he was the 2nd fastest at NCAAs.

200 Back winner Jack Aikins showed off his sprint chops this morning to safely qualify into tonight’s A-final as the 5th seed. The fastest entrant to use a 100-meter time, Aikins holds a PB of 24.81.

Of the eight finalists, the lowest-seeded swimmer to make the final was Joe Hayburn. A Loyola of Maryland swimmer, Hayburn, who did not swim at NCAA, dropped .37 off his PB to finish 7th into tonight’s final with a time of 25.02