Texas 6A High School State
- Austin, Texas
- February 21-22
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Live Results (also available on Meet Mobile “20256A State Meet”)
Yes… you read that right. 18-year-old Maximus Williamson just went 1:30.46 in the 200 freestyle finals at the Texas 6A High School State Meet.
After breaking the National High School Record in yesterday’s prelims with his 1:32.63, Williamson came back even faster today setting a new National High School Record, 17-18 NAG record, Texas High School record, and becoming the 16th fastest performer ever.
He was out fast, flipping at 43.33 in the 100, and then he held on tight coming home in 47.13.
- Splits: 20.59/22.74/23.24/23.89
His opening 100 would have finished 2nd at the meet today, only behind himself.
Williamson will be attending UVA in the fall, and his time today is a second-and-a-half faster than the UVA team record time of 1:31.92 set by David King earlier this week. He was also less than a tenth of a second off the ACC record of 1:30.38 set by Chris Guiliano last year.
This also marks a new best time for Williamson, who came in at 1:31.37 from December of 2023, this was also the former NAG record in the event.
The next fastest 17-18 performer is Henry McFadden who went at 1:31.65 at last year’s NCAA Championships. McFadden, who is 19 now, currently swims in the ACC for Stanford, and actually won the event at ACCs a few days ago, swimming 1:31.30.
Not only would Williamson have won the event at this year’s ACC Championships, he also would have been fourth at last year’s NCAAs. As recently as 2017 he would have won the meet.
Williamson is not done yet today. He still has the 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay, and 400 freestyle relay remaining.
Was honestly a little worried about his progression after last years trials and this years winter juniors… Very happy how wrong I was.
Me thinks he probably revamped his training to the uva style he will be under over the last year and took a while to adjust
That’s the “game changer” time Townley haas went at at ncaas in 2016. Now it’s being done by high schoolers.
Video is up: https://youtu.be/nEm5U34bzpg?si=xMTPI3Ymd2Ixeh9a
When I was swimming, which doesn’t FEEL that long ago the yards 200 free was owned by Matt Biondi at 1:33.03 only to be shockingly broken by Simon Burnett at 1:32.22
both of these times stood for a long while before falling and were BOTH considered untouchable for years
damn those legendary swims are PEDESTRIAN AF these days wow
I despise Texas but he should go to Texas.
You misspelled Florida.
Not sure why. Check the last decade for NCAA titles across the board (even just for men), VA>>Texas. Baseball, Soccer, Basketball (I’ll give you football). Clearly, Charlottesville is doing something right with their athletic program. Heilman can see it across the street and Williamson experienced it internationally. The anti-Cavalier envy is just silly and uninformed.
(FWIW the Heilmans don’t actually live in Charlottesville, they live in Crozet, but this comment isn’t to be pedantic, just for posterity).
41.54 in the 100 free
He just went 41.54 new national hs record and pb just off the 17-18 NAG
19.67-21.87
Nearly broke his 50 record on the way out
Doesn’t matter that it was almost 10 years ago, the fact that someone is getting so close to Hoffer’s 41.23 NAG is bananzas to me
That swim was so ahead of it’s time, and the way he did the underwaters
There’s no way this kid is gonna stay at UVA, right?!?!
Kind of can’t believe he is not going to Texas
The 2025 version of why are those women not going to the Farm or the SEC? Worked out pretty well I would say. Feel free to check the comments they are still there.
lol!
How are your lovely VA men doing?
It’s fun to bash on UVA men, but no denying David King is having a heck of a meet. Spencer Nicholas, another freshman, is as well. It’s not all doom and gloom for the Cavalier men.
Gotta give it to Matt Heilman despite their breaststroke being wiped he still threw down a 51.2 breast split on their medley relay
I think it was Robert or Braden who provided a breakdown in the comments from a race video, but there was a touchpad issue and his split was much closer to his individual time of 53 low. Certainly not a 51 low. Regardless, they have been getting some respectable swims out of guys from the freshman class all the way up to seniors. I have no love for the University of Virginia, but a lot of the comments seem unwarranted given the trajectory they are on. At the end of the day, I hope all swimmers at the collegiate level find joy and success and can’t wait to see how this class turns out.
I had King at like 45.1 and Heilman around 52.2. Still a great split for Heilman given his flat start best is 53.3.
Thank you for the clarification. I agree that is a great split. That is just further evidence to me that the state of the men’s program has been exaggerated.
Good meet, thanks.
It’s not just the commits going, transfers too.