2026 Pro Swim Series – Westmont: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

2026 Pro Swim Series – Westmont

• Wednesday, March 4 – Saturday, March 7, 2026
• FMC Aquatic Center, Westmont, Illinois
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• Meet Central
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  • Prelims: Day 1
  • Finals: Day 1
• Day 2 Prelims Heat Sheet

The second day of action from the 2026 Pro Swim Series stop in Westmont features one event per distance, ranging from the 50 back all the way up to the 400 IM.

Things will kick off with the 100 breaststroke, where American star Kate Douglass comes in as the top seed in the women’s event after claiming the 200 breast title last night. Douglass, who won silver in the 100 breast at the 2025 World Championships, is followed in the entry lists by Ireland’s Mona McSharry, the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist in the event.

In the men’s race, Kyrgyzstan native Denis Petrashov heads up the psych sheets after winning bronze last summer at Worlds in a time of 58.88, while last night’s 200 breast and 200 back winner, Leon Marchand, holds the #2 seed at 59.06.

• Day 2 Prelims Heat Sheet

The women’s 200 fly is headlined by Summer McIntosh, the reigning Olympic and world champion in the event who owns six of the 12-fastest performances ever. In December, the 19-year-old broke the U.S. Open Record in 2:02.62, just 81 one-hundredths shy of the super-suited world record.

Last night, McIntosh was the runner-up to Katie Ledecky in the women’s 800 free, posting the fourth-fastest time of her career in 8:10.45.

The men’s 200 fly will feature the 2025 World Championship silver medalist, Australian Harrison Turner, along with Trenton Julian, who has perennially been one of the top Americans in the event and was 4th at last June’s U.S. Nationals.

The women’s 50 back is spearheaded by reigning world champion Katharine Berkoff, while the men’s race is looking wide open with Brazilian veteran Guilherme Basseto owning the top seed and Michael Andrew lurking in 4th.

Notably missing from both the women’s 200 fly and 50 back this morning is Regan Smith, who will instead contest the 400 IM, coming in ranked 3rd behind fellow American Emma Weyant and Argentine junior standout Agostina Hein.

In the men’s 400 IM, we won’t see Marchand, but there’s still a strong field with Carson Foster and Bobby Finke owning the top two seeds and Shaine Casas also in the lineup, seeded 18th after being entered with a SCY time. Casas has not raced the 400 IM in LCM since he was 13, but notably won the race in back-to-back legs of the 2025 World Cup series in SCM, clocking 3:56.13 at the Toronto stop to move into #3 all-time.

WOMEN’S 100 BREAST – PRELIMS

• World Record: 1:04.13, Lilly King (USA) – 2017
• American Record: 1:04.13, Lilly King – 2017
• U.S. Open Record: 1:04.45, Jessica Hardy (USA) – 2009
• Pro Swim Record: 1:05.32, Lilly King (USA) – 2022

Semi-Final Qualifiers:

1. Kate Douglass (NYAC), 1:06.69
2. Mona McSharry (TNAQ), 1:07.01
3. Sophie Angus (CAN), 1:08.93
4. Macarena Ceballos (ARG), 1:09.68
5. Skyler Smith (NYAC), 1:09.90
6. Maddie Moreth (VSC), 1:10.35
7. Breeja Larson (FAST), 1:10.43
8. Gabby Rose (BCA), 1:10.60
9. Melissa Rodriguez (MEX), 1:10.82
10. Skylar Zulegar (TYDE) / Kimberly Ruiz (WAVE), 1:11.82
11. –
12. Pinar Donmez (UBST), 1:12.35
13. Aliana Marakovic (NTRO), 1:12.69
14. Teya Nikolova (UN), 1:13.12
15. Isabelle Odgers (MVN), 1:13.26
16. Kamila Blanchard (CAN), 1:13.45

Kate Douglass put up a solid morning swim to lead the heats of the women’s 100 breaststroke into tonight’s semi-finals, with only Olympic medalist Mona McSharry within striking distance.

Douglass, fresh off winning the 200 breast last night, split 31.39/35.30 en route to a time of 1:06.69 this morning, coming just 14 one-hundredths off her season-best time of 1:06.55 that ranks her 5th in the world in 2025-26. That swim was done at the U.S. Open, where Douglass had nearly identical swims in the prelims (1:06.57) and final.

Canadian Sophie Angus finished 2nd behind Douglass in Heat 4, clocking 1:08.93 to comfortably 3rd overall into the semis.

McSharry, 25, put up a time of 1:07.01 from the penultimate heat (31.83/35.18) to come within two-tenths of her season-best of 1:06.81 set at the U.S. Open.

The first circle-seeded heat was topped by 31-year-old Argentine Macarena Ceballos, who clocked 1:09.68 to lead Valparaiso Swim Club’s Maddie Moreth (1:10.35).

A couple of veteran Olympians, 33-year-old Breeja Larson and 48-year-old Gabby Rose, hit a pair of 1:10-mids to earn the 7th and 8th seeds for the semis.

MEN’S 100 BREAST – PRELIMS

• World Record: 56.88, Adam Peaty (GBR) – 2019
• American Record: 58.14, Michael Andrew – 2021
• U.S. Open Record: 58.14, Michael Andrew (USA) – 2021
• Pro Swim Record: 58.67, Michael Andrew (USA) – 2021

Semi-Final Qualifiers: 

1. Jack Kelly (NYAC), 1:00.87
2. Josh Staples (UN), 1:01.37
3. Ian Call (NAC), 1:01.69
4. Michael Andrew (MASA), 1:01.78
5. Josh Matheny (ISC), 1:01.81
6. Luke Barr (TFA), 1:01.87
7. Denis Petrashov (CARD), 1:01.96
8. Michael Houlie (TNAQ), 1:01.98
9. Andres Puente Bustamante (MEX), 1:02.31
10. Garrett Clasen (FMC), 1:02.38
11. AJ Pouch (PRVT), 1:02.43
12. Apollo Hess (CAN), 1:02.52
13. Uros Zivanovic (AU), 1:02.64
14. Finlay Knox (CAN), 1:02.65
15. Tobin Uhl (MAAC) / Reef McMeeking (LAKR), 1:02.68
16. –

After showing some impressive speed in last night’s 200 breast final, NYAC’s Jack Kelly, who trains at Texas, put up the top time of the morning in the men’s 100 breast in a time of 1:00.87, putting him a half-second clear of the rest of the field.

Kelly, 22, split 28.46/32.41 en route to the time, which is faster than he was at the Austin Pro Swim in January (1:01.47). The former Brown University star set his lifetime best of 59.72 at the U.S. Open in December.

The rest of the men in the top eight were separated by less than six-tenths of a second and were all under 1:02. Northwestern sophomore and Australian native Josh Staples, who recently set a PB in the 200 breast in SCY at the Big Ten Championships, put up a time of 1:01.37 from one of the early heats, shattering his previous best of 1:04.42 set in 2022.

Nashville Aquatics’ Ian Call clocked 1:01.69 to top Josh Matheny (1:01.81) in the first circle-seeded heat, and then it was Kelly dominating Heat 4 after fellow Texas pro Leon Marchand DFS’ed the event.

The fifth and final heat saw American Record holder Michael Andrew split 28.89/32.89 to touch in 1:01.78 and hold off Luke Barr (1:01.87) and top seed coming in Denis Petrashov (1:01.96).

In addition to Kelly, Petrashov (59.55) and Matheny (59.73) have also broken 1:00 so far this season among semi-finalists.

Notably missing out on the semis was Indiana’s Brian Benzing, who finished one one-hundredth back of a tie for 15th in 1:02.69. Benzing was 5th at the Austin Pro Swim in a time of 1:01.08.

WOMEN’S 200 FLY – PRELIMS

• World Record: 2:01.81, Liu Zige (CHN) – 2009
• American Record: 2:03.84, Regan Smith – 2024
• U.S. Open Record: 2:02.62, Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 2025
• Pro Swim Record: 2:04.00, Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 2025

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Summer McIntosh (TXLA), 2:08.57
2. Lindsay Looney (TXLA), 2:11.07
3. Kelsey Zhang (UN), 2:13.47
4. Samantha Banos (LDB), 2:14.25
5. Maya Hetland (PASA), 2:15.92
6. Caroline Mallard (MAC), 2:17.11
7. Coco Croxford (AU), 2:17.88
8. Lauren Fanucchi (UN), 2:18.90

The reigning Olympic and world champion made it look easy in the heats of the women’s 200 fly, as Summer McIntosh cruised to the top time of the session by two and a half seconds in 2:08.57.

• McIntosh’s Splits: 28.18/32.43/33.87/34.09

The 19-year-old’s swim was a second and a half slower than she was in the prelims of the U.S. Open (2:07.04), where she went on to drop one of the fastest swims in history in the final in 2:02.62.

Longhorn Aquatics claimed the top two spots in the prelims with McIntosh joined by Lindsay Looney, the former Arizona State Sun Devil who put up a time of 2:11.07 to comfortably win Heat 2.

Cal commit Kelsey Zhang, 18, earned the 3rd seed for the final by posting a time of 2:13.47 from McIntosh’s heat, while the first circle-seeded heat was won by another 18-year-old, SwimMAC’s Caroline Mallard, in 2:17.11. Committed to Purdue, Mallard set a new personal best of 1:56.26 in the SCY 200 fly just last month.

UC Santa Barbara’s Samantha Banos, who won the Big West 200 fly title in February, was the only swimmer to improve on their seed time among the top eight qualifiers, touching in 2:14.25. The 21-year-old set a lifetime best of 2:12.43 at the Bolivarian Games this past November.

MEN’S 200 FLY – PRELIMS

• World Record: 1:50.34, Kristof Milak (HUN) – 2022
• American Record: 1:51.51, Michael Phelps – 2009
• U.S. Open Record: 1:52.20, Michael Phelps (USA) – 2008
• Pro Swim Record: 1:52.37, Luca Urlando (USA) – 2025

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Gabriel Jett (CAL), 1:57.45
2. Tuncer Berk Erturk (MAAC), 1:58.68
3. Trenton Julian (MVN), 1:58.85
4. Anton Semenyuk (CAN), 1:59.10
5. David Sammons (MAC), 1:59.47
6. Lucas Henveaux (CAL), 1:59.54
7. Jack Dahlgren (AQJT), 1:59.85
8. Luke Hobson (NYAC), 2:00.86

The biggest story of the men’s 200 fly heats might be who didn’t make the ‘A’ final, as two of the top seeds, Harrison Turner and Dare Rose, finished on the outside looking in.

Turner, the Aussie who broke out to win bronze in the event at the 2025 World Championships, was the top seed entering the meet but ended up falling to 10th this morning in a time of 2:01.88, with a costly 33.97 final 50 being his undoing.

Rose, who held the #5 seed entering the meet (but was just over half a second slower than Turner’s entry time), clocked 2:01.61 to place 9th overall, and like Turner, he faded on the closing 50 (33.29).

Leading the charge into tonight’s final is Rose’s former Cal teammate, Gabriel Jett, who delivered a strong swim out of Heat 1 in a time of 1:57.45, splitting 26.08/29.48/30.28/31.61.

Jett, 23, won the 200 fly at the Austin Pro Swim two months ago in a time of 1:56.44. He owns a season-best of 1:56.16 from the U.S. Open.

Current Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Tuncer Berk Erturk, representing the MAAC Swim Club, clocked 1:58.68 to take 2nd in Jett’s heat and advance in the same position for the final. The 18-year-old set a new PB of 1:42.78 in the SCY 200 fly to place 14th at the ACC Championships last month.

Canadian Anton Semenyuk won the first circle-seeded heat in a time of 1:59.10 to improve on his own Quebec Provincial Record for 17-year-olds of 1:59.48, moving him up to 3rd all-time among 17-year-old Canadians ever.

Mission Viejo’s Trenton Julian then claimed Heat 2 in a time of 1:58.85, holding things together relatively well down the second 100 to advance 3rd into the final.

Notably making the ‘A’ final and setting a new personal best time was freestyle phenom Luke Hobson, who clocked 2:00.86 (26.12/29.30/31.19/34.25) to place 8th and shatter his lifetime best of 2:07.41 set in 2021.

WOMEN’S 50 BACK – PRELIMS

• World Record: 26.86, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 2023
• American Record: 26.97, Katharine Berkoff – 2025
• U.S. Open Record: 26.97, Katharine Berkoff (USA) – 2025
• Pro Swim Record: 27.13, Kylie Masse (CAN) – 2025

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Isabelle Stadden (AQJT), 27.42
2. Katharine Berkoff (WOLF), 27.52
3. Ingrid Wilm (CAN), 28.19
4. Tessa Giele (BAMA), 28.41
5. Olivia Smoliga (UN), 28.42
6. Celia Pulido (MEX), 28.44
7. Rhyan White (WOLF), 28.46
8. Phoebe Bacon (WISC), 28.51

Isabelle Stadden followed up on her breakthrough performance in last night’s 200 back final with another standout swim this morning in the 50 back.

The 23-year-old, who recently made the move to join the University of Virginia pro group, fired off a time of 27.42 to knock more than two-tenths off her previous PB of 27.64 set in 2023, moving her up into a tie for 27th all-time in the event. She also moves to 3rd in the world this season.

Reigning world champion and American Record holder Katharine Berkoff was the only other swimmer in the field to break 28 seconds, clocking 27.52 to take the #2 seed into the final behind Stadden.

Berkoff currently sits atop the world rankings for the season after posting a time of 27.28 at the U.S. Open in December.

Canada’s Ingrid Wilm, who no-showed the 200 back on Wednesday, advanced 3rd into the final in 28.19, while Alabama freshman Tessa Giele, who narrowly missed second swims yesterday in the 50 fly (9th) and 100 free (18th), got one today by qualifying 4th overall in a time of 28.41.

Wilm owns a lifetime best of 27.37, set in 2023, while Giele’s career-best sits at 27.53 from last June.

Olivia Smoliga, the 2019 world champion in this event who recently announced she’s revitalizing her career and moving to train at Texas Ford Aquatics, clocked 28.42 to advance to the final in 5th. This was her first competitive swim since the 2025 World Cup in October.

MEN’S 50 BACK – PRELIMS

• World Record: 23.55, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS) – 2023
• American Record: 23.71, Hunter Armstrong – 2022
• U.S. Open Record: 23.71, Hunter Armstrong (USA) – 2022
• Pro Swim Record: 24.23, Shaine Casas (USA) – 2025

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Ivan Tarasov (AU), 25.19
2. Kalle Makinen (AU), 25.32
3. Jack Harvey (BER), 25.40
4. Michael Andrew (MASA) / Ruslan Gaziev (CAN), 25.41
5. –
6. Grant Bochenski (HSC), 25.56
7. Sam Lorenz (SSTY), 25.62
8. Blake Tierney (CAN), 25.76

Auburn teammates Ivan Tarasov and Kalle Makinen claimed the top two spots in the prelims of the men’s 50 back with the eight ‘A’ final qualifiers separated by just 57 one-hundredths of a second.

Tarasov, a Russian native who set a personal best of 24.86 in this event at the U.S. Open in December, topped the first circle-seeded heat in 25.19, which ended up standing as the fastest of the morning.

Makinen, a Finnish native, won the following heat in 25.32 to advance 2nd overall, coming in with some momentum after setting a best time in the SCY 100 back at the James E. Martin Invitational in late February (45.22).

Bermuda’s Jack Harvey was close behind Makinen in that heat to advance 3rd overall in 25.40, while American Michael Andrew completed a solid double by claiming the fourth and final heat and advancing into the final in a tie for 4th at 25.41.

Andrew sits in a tie with Canadian Ruslan Gaziev, who, racing the event for the first time since 2018, dropped nearly two seconds to clock 25.41 out of Heat 1, Lane 8 after being entered with a yards time.

WOMEN’S 400 IM – PRELIMS

• World Record: 4:23.65, Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 2025
• American Record: 4:31.12, Katie Hoff – 2008
• U.S. Open Record: 4:26.98, Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 2025
• Pro Swim Record: 4:26.98, Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 2025

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Emma Weyant (GSC), 4:43.19
2. Regan Smith (TXLA), 4:43.34
3. Agostina Hein (ARG), 4:46.46
4. Kayla Han (RMDA), 4:48.25
5. Sydney Hardy (SYS), 4:51.50
6. Lea Polonsky (CAL), 4:57.23
7. Stephanie Iannaccone (WCAB), 4:57.47
8. Isabelle Odgers (MVN), 4:58.10

Emma Weyant ran down Regan Smith to top the third and final heat of the women’s 400 IM as the pair advanced 1-2 into tonight’s session.

Weyant, trailing by nearly six seconds at the halfway mark, out-split Smith by almost five seconds on the breaststroke leg, pulling within eight-tenths of the lead, and then moved even with her on the freestyle leg before inching her out at the touch in 4:43.19.

The swim for Weyant is notably faster than she was in the prelims at either the U.S. Open (4:43.45) or the Austin Pro Swim (4:47.25). She went on set her season-best of 4:39.45 in the U.S. Open final, which ranks her 15th in the world in 2025-26.

Smith, swimming the event for just the fourth time in her career and first since the 2023 U.S. Open, produced the second-fastest swim of her career in 4:43.34, only shy of her lifetime best of 4:38.77. At that U.S. Open in December 2023, she went 4:43.93 in the prelims before dropping a big PB in the final.

Argentine teenager Agostina Hein, the reigning World Junior champion in this event, cruised to victory in the other seeded heat in a time of 4:46.46, setting up what could be an exciting showdown in the final. Hein’s season-best of 4:39.89 has her one spot behind Weyant in the seasonal rankings (16th).

Katie Ledecky originally entered the event but scratched prior to the session.

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 (USA) – 2008
• Pro Swim Record: 4:07.80, Leon Marchand (FRA) – 2023

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Carson Foster (TXLA), 4:20.07
2. Grant Sanders (UN), 4:24.08
3. Bobby Finke (SPA), 4:26.16
4. Max Matteazzi (PEAQ), 4:26.53
5. Shaine Casas (TXLA), 4:27.08
6. Stephan Steverink (BRA), 4:27.28
7. Anthony Dornoff (RMDA), 4:28.11
8. Santi Alzate (MAC), 4:28.54

Carson Foster put it on cruise control and comfortably claimed the top seed for tonight’s final of the men’s 400 IM, clocking 4:20.07 from the last heat of the session.

Foster currently sits atop the world rankings after he went 4:07.02 at the U.S. Open, which came after a 4:15.19 prelim swim.

Grant Sanders, 28, was chasing Foster throughout the heat and made it to the wall in a time of 4:24.08 to earn Lane 5 tonight, with his time more than two seconds clear of Bobby Finke, who won the first circle-seeded heat in 4:26.16.

Finke owns a season-best time of 4:18.35, set at the Austin Pro Swim, where he finished in the runner-up position behind Leon Marchand. Foster and Sanders were both competing in Austin, but did not race the 400 IM.

Shaine Casas, racing the long course 400 IM for the first time since he was 13 years old, clocked 4:27.08 to advance 5th into tonight’s final, splitting by the 100: 59.01/1:09.12/1:16.28/1:02.67.

Two swimmers were disqualified, Gabriel Pelinkovic and Jaques Harrison, while Jack Kelly declared a false start after taking the top seed in the 100 breast earlier in the session.