2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open
- Wednesday, April 29 – Saturday, May 2, 2026
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- All the Links
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results: “Fort Lauderdale Open” on Meet Mobile
- Recaps
Day 3 Prelims Heat Sheet
Similar to yesterday, a large number of NC State players have scratched out of their events, with Daniel Diehl, the highest-ranked among them. Diehl, who just finished up his junior year season at NCAAs, was the 3rd seed in the 200 back as well as the 6th seed in the 200 free. He’s not the lone 3rd seed to drop an event, as his teammate Leah Shackley has dropped the 50 fly. The NC State product also dropped the 200 back, where she was seeded 5th. Joining her in dropping the 200 back are her training partners Rhyan White and Kennedy Noble. The pair were seeded 4th and 6th in the event, respectively.
The number of highly seeded scratches is not unexpected, as the Fort Lauderdale Open coincides with the final exams at many colleges and universities. Like yesterday, UVA’s Thomas Heilman and Max Williamson have scratched their events.
Not everyone, however, has scratched their events due to school. Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant have both dropped the 200 free in favor of the 400 IM, where they are the top two seeds. Carson Foster, too, has done something similar, pulling out of the 200 back in favor of the 400 IM, where he is the 2nd seed. Foster was the 5th seed in the 200 back, an event that saw both the 3rd seed Diehl, as well as the 4th seed David King, withdraw. Harvard first-year William Mulgrew, the winner of the 1500 on day 1 and last night’s runner-up in the 400, has taken a day off. The Shawmut Aquatic Club swimmer was the 43rd seed in the 200 free and 12th seed in the 400 IM.
Top 30 Day 3 Scratches
- W. 200 Free
- #9 Katie Grimes (Cavalier Aquatics) – 1:57.19
- #11 Julie Brousseau (Florida) – 1:57.60
- #15 Emma Weyant (Gator Swim Club) – 1:58.36
- #16 Jillian Cox (Longhorn Aquatic) – 1:58.47
- #23 Kate Hurst (Longhorn Aquatic) – 2:00.32
- #28 Daisy Collins (North Carolina) – 2:01.63
- M. 200 Free
- #6 Daniel Diehl (NC State) – 1:46.70
- #8 Maximus Williamson (Lakeside Aquatic) – 1:47.11
- #10 Daniel Krichevsky (Auburn) – 1:47.82
- #12 David King (Unattached-09) – 1:49.03
- #13 Thomas Heilman (Cavalier Aquatic) – 1:49.13
- #17 Warner Russ (Auburn) – 1:50.49
- #24 Abdalla Youssef (Auburn) – 1:51.63
- #25 Gavin Keogh (NC State) – 1:51.70
- W. 50 Breast
- #9 Lily Christianson (NC State) – 1:10.44
- #13 Olivia Dinehart (Auburn) – 1:11.55
- #16 Annika Finzen (Auburn) – 1:11.84
- #18 Lilla Wilbur (Nation’s Capital) – 1:11.87
- #22 Audrey Crawford (Auburn) – 1:12.13
- #23 Macey Larson (West Virginia) – 1:12.37
- #28 Isabel Wolk (North Carolina) – 1:12.79
- M. 50 Breast
- #7 Diego Resto (Puerto Rico) – 1:02.78
- #12 Maston Ballew (Auburn) – 1:03.60
- #13 Erik Petruzzi (West Virginia) – 1:03.79
- #24 Will Von Doussa (Metro Area Life) – 1:05.46
- W. 50 Fly
- #3 Leah Shackley (NC State) – 57.92
- #6 Lily Christianson (NC State) – 59.54
- #8 Lora Komoroczy (Auburn) – 59.65
- #20 Charlotte Wilson (Cavalier Aquatic) – 1:00.67
- #21 Morgan Carteaux (Auburn) – 1:00.77
- #26 Sofia Jorge (Gulliver) – 1:02.02
- #28 Sydney Hardy (Sarasota Sharks) – 1:02.04
- #29 Emma Liebler (Unattached-17) – 1:02.07
- M. 50 Fly
- #5 Thomas Heilman (Cavalier Aquatic) – 50.70
- #6 Aiden Hayes (NC State) – 51.24
- #8 Abdalla Youssef (Auburn) – 52.36
- #10 Sohib Khaled (Auburn) – 52.79
- #12 Bradford Johnson (Auburn) – 53.20
- #13 Charles Howard (Jupiter Dragons) – 53.31
- #16 Alexander Santiago (Puerto Rico) – 53.82
- #18 Daniel Krichevsky (Auburn) – 53.92
- #19 Devin Dilger (Univ of Florida) – 54.03
- #20 Luke Bedsole (Auburn) – 54.13
- #21 Quintin McCarty (NC State) – 54.13
- #24 Dragos Ghile (West Virginia) – 54.83
- #26 Tyler Phillips (Nation’s Capital) – 55.33
- W. 200 Back
- #4 Rhyan White (Wolfpack Elite) – 2:05.13
- #5 Leah Shackley (NC State) – 2:05.99
- #6 Kennedy Noble (NC State) – 2:06.54
- #18 Kristen Romano (Puerto Rico) – 2:12.56
- #19 Charlotte Wilson (Cavalier Aquatic) – 2:12.58
- #22 Maggie McGuire (Auburn) – 2:14.63
- #28 Chloe Kim (Princeton) – 2:17.40
- M. 200 Back
- #3 Daniel Diehl (NC State) – 1:55.08
- #4 David King (Unattached-09) – 1:55.64
- #5 Carson Foster (NY Athletic Club) – 1:55.86
- #9 Gavin Keogh (NC State) – 1:57.88
- #10 Jonny Marshall (Univ of Florida) – 1:58.11
- #11 Maximus Williamson (Lakeside Aquatic) – 1:58.75
- #13 Ivan Tarasov (Auburn) – 1:59.11
- #14 Jay Baxter (South Florida Aq) – 1:59.65
- #17 Simon Bermudez (NC State) – 2:03.11
- #18 Grant Sanders (Saint Petersburg) – 2:04.34
- #23 Szymon Mieczkowski (West Virginia) – 2:04.77
- #24 Michael Zhou (Nation’s Capital) – 2:04.84
- #25 Patrick Curran (Aquajets) – 2:06.06
- #27 Joey Stebbins (West Virginia) – 2:06.68
- W. 400 IM
- #8 Julie Brousseau (Univ of Florida) – 4:43.79
- #9 Lisa Nystrand (NC State) – 4:45.02
- #13 Kate Hurst (Longhorn Aquatic) – 4:49.43
- #14 Daisy Collins (North Carolina) – 4:53.01
- #15 Paige Kowal (Academy Bullets) – 4:55.54
- #22 Yari Brock (North Carolina) – 4:58.81
- #24 Sammie Hamilton (Auburn) – 4:59.25
- M. 400 IM
- #5 Zsombor Bujdoso (West Virginia) – 4:20.91
- #7 Luke Waldrep (Auburn) – 4:23.39
- #12 William Mulgrew (Shawmut Aq) – 4:26.72
- #13 Luke Corey (Univ of Florida) – 4:27.28
- #18 Liam Aleman (West Virginia) – 4:31.03
Scratching a meet because of having final exams is a pretty poor excuse given that the schedule for exams is certainly known well ahead of time.
Those pesky final exams that suddenly pop-up out of the blue.
Wonder if there would have been as many scratches etc if this had been a PSS meet as well.