15-Year-Old Rylee Erisman Drops 1:43.5 in the 200 Free at Florida Senior Champs

2025 Florida Swimming Spring Senior Champs

• March 13-16, 2025
• Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center, Orlando, Florida
• Short Course Yards (25 yards)
• Meet Site
• Psych Sheets
• Livestream
• Results Here (Post-Session) or Live on Meet Mobile: “2025 Florida Swimming Spring Senior Champs”
• Day 1 Recap

Ethan Ekk and Rylee Erisman won the boys’ and girls’ 200 freestyles on Friday at the Florida Swimming Spring Senior Championships in Orlando, both punching new best times and new national-leaders.

The 17-year-old Ekk, who swims for ATAC in Tallahassee, won the boys’ race in 1:33.49. That undercut the 1:33.64 he did on a relay leadoff on Thursday as a new best time, which in turn bettered his 1:33.92 from the Winter Junior Championships – East meet in December. In total this season, he’s cut more than two seconds off his previous best time.

He is now tied for 24th all-time in the 17-18 age group.

That was one of three events he swam on the day – he also touched in 47.51 on the opening leg of ATAC’s 5th place 400 medley relay and split 20.57 leading off ATAC’s 11th place 200 free relay.

In the girls’ equivalent, 15-year-old Rylee Erisman won in a personal best of her own: 1:43.51. That knocked 1.13 seconds off her own best time done in January.

Erisman was already the fastest 15-year-old in the country this season, and now extends that lead. She ranks 7th all-time in the 200 free among 15-16s, even in the younger end of the group, with five of the six swimmers ahead of her owning individual Olympic medals (McIntosh, Ledecky, Sims, Franklin, and Regan Smith, with Dagny Knutson being the exception).

She also helped lead a pair of Laker Swim relays to wins on Friday. She anchored the 200 free relay in 21.97 to take a win with Elizabeth Johnson, Carolina Daher, and Aidyn Reese (1:33.35 relay time); and swam a 52.47 in the 100 back to join with Addison Bitel, Lilliana Krstolic, and Carolina Daher for a win in 3:40.66.

Other fast splits on those relays included a 1:00.55 breaststroke from the Sarasota Sharks’ Madyson Hartway on their runner-up medley relay. Hartway also won the 200 breaststroke in 2:12.47, winning by .03 seconds and holding off Bitel from Laker Swim.

Hartway also won the 50 breaststroke in 28.35.

Other Day 2 Winners:

• 17-year-old Penelope Zarczynski won the girls’ 100 fly in 53.82, with another near-rundown, this time from Sarasota’s Angelina Lista (54.05). Lista’s swim cut half-a-second off her best time.
• 27-year-old Grant Sanders won the boys’ 200 breaststroke in 1:56.89, holding back a furious finish from Bolles 16-year-old Luke Zardavets. Zardavets finished in a split of 29.70 to touch in 1:56.96, which is a new best time for him and breaks Will Heck‘s Bolles and Florida Swimming LSC Records in the event (1:57.16 from 2021). Sanders later won the 400 IM in 3:48.41, with WFLA’s Joseph Campagnola was the top-finishing junior in 3:52.19.
• Roberto Zarate from the Southwest Stars won the boys’ 100 fly in 47.94. He and Bolles’ Antoine Destang were in a dead heat at the 50, but Zarate’s three-tenths advantage on the back half of the race made the difference. Zarate’s best time coming into the meet was 48.59 from November’s Florida High School State Championship meet, where he placed 3rd.
• Riley Leach from the Sarasota Sharks dominated the 400 IM, winning in 4:14.97. She split 36.70-36.54 on the breaststroke leg; that combined split of 1:13.24 was easily the best in the field and was the difference-maker in the win: Saint Petersburg’s Brinkleigh Hansen was only 1:19.65 there, and while she made back more than three seconds on freestyle, Leach had done enough to secure the win. Hansen won the 1000 free on Thursday.
• Bolles swept the boys’ relays. In the 200 free relay, they finished 1-2 with the A relay winning in 1:22.50. That team was Tristan Dorville, Charles Zuhoski, Antoine Destang, and Andrew Kravchenko. Kravchenko had the best split in 20.09. The B relay was 2nd in 1:22.94, including a 20.14 split from Carter Wright.
• Bolles finished 1-2 again in the 400 IM when Wright, Young, Destang, and Kravchenko combined for a 3:13.62. The B relay was 2nd in 3:16.76. Destang split 47.32 on the fly leg of the A relay. Other fast splits include a 53.05 breaststroke from FAST’s Ian Disoway on their 3rd place relay.
• Jack Mainville from Planet Swim won the boys’ 50 breaststroke in 25.31.